Guild Wars 2

My home world in game is Darkhaven. For the last few weeks, whenever Anet has posted new builds in game, it seems to occur during the dragon events…seemingly 95% or more of the time.

This has become very annoying and my guildies are talking abt leaving game because of these.

What happened to new builds occurring at midnight PST, like when the game first launched? It gets very disheartening when you get a dragon, for instance: today at 7:30 PM CST, down to less than 5% health, and the countdown for new build kicks you from the game. Why could the build restart begin after the chest from the event despawns? Or a countdown to new build at 60 min, 45 min, 30 min, 15 min, 5 min and less? At least a longer countdown would give players a chance to decide whether or not they should put the effort into that dragon spawn before the build restart.

Please do not think that I am hating on the Anet staff/devs in any way. I am really enjoying the game thus far.

seems the best place to ask this question…

what times during the day does the dragon spawn at the Splintered Coast?
GMT if possible :p

It seems rather extreme that your Guildies would leave the game for this, and I somewhat believe they’re trying to be purposely hyperbolic to make the point more serious, rather than actually being serious themselves…

However, 5 minutes seems a respectable request.

When ANet releases a new build early like that, they’re fixing something that blocks progress for a massive amount of players. This is an MMO and even though ‘this is your story’, not everything revolves around you.

@Kloaked: How much revolves around the thousands of people that are about to or in the process of killing a world boss that won’t respawn until ~3 hours after the restart?

You caught them. They are pushing patches during Darkhaven’s dragon events just to troll you guys.

That said, they really should give an hour warning that doesn’t go “60 minutes, 45 minutes, 2 minutes” because that one does piss me off.

A longer warning is a good idea. 30 minutes would be fine for me.

If they are talking about leaving the game because they can’t kill dragons I suggest that you send them to te Wiki, there are other things to do unless they only want to do something which can be beaten on auto-attack.

Dragon’s spawn on different times on each server. The reason is that there is a cooldown period that starts after defeating a dragon (and some servers do the shatterer and pre-events quicker then others), then there is a spawning window. in this window at a random moment the pre-events will start.

So in short, there is always atleast one dragon up on atleast one server and there is no way to prevent that. A 30 minute warning might sound great, but after an update the timers are reset. So you still have the same situation (dragon will spawn in 25 minutes, -plop- you get message of new build and reboot in 30 minutes, everone curses cause they won’t finish the dragon in 30 minutes.).

Updates are needed and even resetting timers and zones are needed. So take it as something that can’t be fixed. If it is gamebreaking for you, then consider not playing an mmo.

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@Kloaked: How much revolves around the thousands of people that are about to or in the process of killing a world boss that won’t respawn until ~3 hours after the restart?

All I know is, they made it where people in dungeons can complete the dungeon before they actually have to download the update. It’s more complicated and next to impossible to make that happen for open world bosses. It’s not like they do this all the time every day.