Guild Wars 2

How do you feel about the meta event frequency?

Personally I feel some are way to infrequent, such as the swamp behemoth in Queensdale. I did that on my first character my first time through the zone, but since then I’ve helped three friends 100% the zone at different times on alts (one of which I kept checking the swamp after every other heart) and never have seen it again. Which is a horrible shame because none of my friends have seen it at all.

Compare that with the defeat Ulgoth the Modniir and his minions one in the Hinterlands and it gets pretty silly. On one character while playing through that zone I did the aforementioned event at least 5 times if not more. Maybe it isn’t as big an event or something but there is still a chest during that event and the boss is pretty big.

There are others but these two are probably the least frequent and most frequent given relative times in the zone for as far as I’ve got in the game.

The thing is, the MEs are supposedly triggered by DEs, but its finding just the combo to trigger it (unless theres a timer also)

Yeah, I know about the swamp event being triggered by talking to the woman in the camp, but it is also on a 3 hour timer according to the wiki, although I’d be willing to bet it is more like 6-8 hours.

Not sure about the centaur one in the hinterlands. It went so often I never even bothered to look it up.

I think it’s great some events are hard to find, keeps the game fresh and encourages players to go back to zones they already ran through.

CassSmith.2639:

The thing is, the MEs are supposedly triggered by DEs, but its finding just the combo to trigger it (unless theres a timer also)

supposedly is right.

Take the shatterer, there is practically a time table for his appearances, and the same with tequatl.

More randomness is needed please.

I feel like the frequencies are about right, anything longer and it would restrict some players from ever being able to do the events. Not everyone can play the game 8 hours a day or at certain times.

That being said, I do agree that a greater randomness should be inserted into the recurrence of these events. Jornang’s fang, or Shaterrer (to name just a couple) show up on a pretty predictable schedule, so shaking up that predictability would be nice.

Having not managed to see the shatterer event yet, what exactly is this schedule that everyone else seems to know?

Ive been exploring the meta events system. Often, i take more than 40 minutes of my gameplay exploring and speaking with NPC’s, trying to make those meta-events possible for people on the same map. I usuallycall for help by the map chat too, but they are really hard to trigger and i cant understand pretty well the system: sometimes the NPC’s aren’t there and sometimes they are but wont trigger anything about the events.

Can anyone enlighten me on this topic? I really love the meta-events, but i dont want to waste much more of my time if those thigns are completly random or take hours and hours to trigger.