Guild Wars 2

There are not enough events to complete daily achievements in a reasonable time.

It is (almost) impossible to find 5 events in two hours by either staying near renown hearts or running between them. Is this intended or am I making something wrong?

Thats impossible….why is it everywhere i look theres a DE?

Why don’t you try WvW? You’ll finish your daily in 15min.

Also: when a DE finishes, stick around a few seconds, another one in the chain may start. You might be able to do 2-3 fairly quickly.

Try hanging outside the Black Citadel next to the Village of Smokestead – you have Flame Legion attacking the armory and junkyard and hanging out in a cave and stealing BBQ and causing mayhem at the lake (5 events that happen fairly often from what I have seen).

There are some low/mid and mid level zones that are relatively DE sparse. Or the DEs they do have don’t fire up often.
I find that I finish my Daily requirements in about an hour or less if I just port to the lower level areas. The starting zones have something like 5 IF they don’t chain.

Glad that i read this thread. I just learned something.

go wvw and u ll get within minutes

I’m sorry but the OP’s statement is so far from the truth… trust me I hold Anet’s feet to the fire on a ton of issues, but this isn’t one of them.

Of the few things that take time to get done on the daily this isn’t one of them.

I actually find killing 15 different types of mobs to be slower to fill often. I am not in anyway shape or form saying that’s tough and needs to be adjusted…. simply saying that one usually takes me longer to fill than the dynamic.

This is whether I am in the world pve’ing or in WvWvW.

If finishing your dailies quickly are very important to you, then you should stick to an area you know well. If you wander around an area you aren’t familiar with, it can take a while to figure out the event patterns.

Triggered events are also especially good for the daily. Look for the orange star bursts!

Personally, I tend to use Lake Feritas in the Plains of Ashford (newbie char zone right outside the black citadel). There’s two chaining events nearby that trigger quite frequently. There’s a rampaging skale event that’s nearly always up in the little stream that feeds into the lake. There are a couple other events relatively nearby and a couple along the path from black citadel to this area.

If I don’t have this by the time the tar elementals at the lake and their chaining events are complete, then I wander over to Victor’s Presidium, where I can trigger a multi-step chain of events.

I understand that due to the dynamic nature of events everyone has a different view on their occurrence. That’s only my observation.

Sparkie.3465:

figure out the event patterns.

What most of you say is I find events in WvWvW or at well known locations (e.g. in low level zones). I know that! But what if I want to play PvE and don’t want to stay in low level zones for ever (waypoint cost would be higher than the daily achivment reward)?

Drunken Mad King.8193:

I actually find killing 15 different types of mobs to be slower to fill

I find this easy, There are approximately 3 different types per “area” (each area contains a heart). So you can either run far enough in one zone or travel to 5 different zones (which is extremly easy if you have multiple characters.) So maybe getting fast to different types and staying long enough to find events contradict each other.

I don’t think hearts count as events for the daily. Why do you need to complete them in 2 hours? Or do you mean you only have 2 hours to play?

I’d suggest getting used to an area. You’ll then know which events spawn there and in which chains. Wiki should be a help with this.
Example, Cursed shore has the grenth event which is 7-8 events chained together.

Don Zardeone.8730:

do you mean you only have 2 hours to play?

Yes.

Ran through straits of devastation and did about 10-15 events in around 1-1/2 hours. Quicker if you are in a group tho. Surely any of the starting areas are good enough if you just want to complete your daily.

The dailies are quite fun as a thing to do, but anytime you start feeling you have to do them every time you play, you make the game into a job – and that’s not going to be fun in the long run. Besides, the rewards are hardly necessary – 5s and and an item worth another couple.

Some zones this is true, the events don’t pop or you must talk to a npc to trigger the event.
Right now many events and npc’s are bugged and not working so depending on your server and which zone you’re in you can see what the OP is saying happen.

kessex hills and here you are…
– defend the bridge from centaurs (5 min event)
– slay the 3 centaurs liutenants (immediatly after the 1st one, 5 min event too)
– slay the centaurs boss (immediatly after the 2nd one, 5 min event too)

3 events in like 15 min, and when the 3rd one is done, after 5 min the 1st starts again.
total time for 5 events ~ 25-30 minutes

What? You can’t finish 5 events in 2 hrs? Go to Bloodtide Coast SW waypoint and you’ll finish the 5 events in less than 40 mins:
1. Repell Risen attack.
2. Escort a Hylek to kill griphons.
One after the other in quick succession.

Harathi Hinterlands has a bunch of DEs that spawn one after another. You can easily hit 4-5 in a row killing the centaur people/warbeasts. Plus you get a chest at the end to boot. I have seen this whole series trigger within 5 minutes of completing it. Another place is the snowy camps in Gendarran fields. There are nearly nonstop events going back and forth from north to south.