Guild Wars 2

The overflow server is a completely different box that can have people from multiple servers at once, it’s impossible to have an ‘autospawn’ on the overflow server.

Honestly I quit doing Jormag a couple weeks ago for the most part, unless he’s spawning when I"m up there getting ori. With all the other meta events that give chests there’s no way I’m sitting around for an hour and 15 minute spawn window.

I don’t think you have thought this through.

Overflow servers are shared by all players in GW2.

If Yaks Bend is full, as well as Sea of Sorrows, then both players will join that server. And if 15 minutes later Dragonbrand becomes full, then players from DB will go to that server.

So then how should an event be ‘auto-spawned’

It’s impossible.

Technical and programming issues aside, this just begs for player exploitation. You are aware of the spawn window, be there early enough and wait a bit.

As much as everything now appears like it is supposed to be on-demand content due to 3rd party timer websites, that wasnt the intention and catering to it by Anet would be a bad move imo.

Note, it is possible for dragons to spawn in overflows, they just don’t follow the timers that everyone’s using lately. I’ve personally rocked up to do Jormag, been thrown in an overflow, and had Jormag appear in the overflow at the same time.

It was an awesome fight, because we were undermanned compared to how it usually pans out.

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Mastruq.2463:

Technical and programming issues aside, this just begs for player exploitation. You are aware of the spawn window, be there early enough and wait a bit.

As much as everything now appears like it is supposed to be on-demand content due to 3rd party timer websites, that wasnt the intention and catering to it by Anet would be a bad move imo.

Granted that is true, however it doesn’t change the fact that it is happening and because of that many players are having to forsake doing a META event because of the masses of people on the map.

So are we happy to say “Not gonna work” and accept that it’s going to be the case from now on… or shall we work on making a suggestion for AN to look into?

Well everyone can have their own opinion about it, mine is that “not gonna work” as you suggest is acceptable.

I am currently farming ectos and catch every bonus event I can get, and yea in the evenings I miss one to overflow here and there. That is ok, I’m not entitled to every bonus chest on every day. Nobody has to chase every bonus chest spawn (that is what brought this situation upon us, combined with websites metagaming the event timers). If you WANT to chose every bonus chest, be in the zone early enough, and accept the fact that miss one to overflow from time to time.

I’ve heard people grumbling about this issue, but I have not as of yet experienced this… anytime I want to do any of the meta events (Jormag included) I have never once been thrown into an overflow server. So maybe just unlucky? Or perhaps just the server you’re on… I’m on JQ and often times we just, JUST have enough people to even beat Jormag without having our kitten handed to us xD

I’m on GoM and when the guaranteed rares were put in I got stuck in overflow a few times…though it was for weird stuff like Maw. Since then the only times I’ve run into it is when I’m trying to get into Frostgorge when Jormag is actually up. Beyond that it’s not been a problem these last couple of weeks.

You are getting to the events too late. You should be there before they start and not try to WP in after a kind guildie or friend or whoever informs you that the boss is up. So it’s unfair that guests or your own server’s large population pushes you into overflow, but I don’t have much sympathy for you if you’re not willing to wait out during the spawning window as it’s not fair for the people who have sat in the map waiting for the boss.

I was running Jormag event and lagged out and got disconnected, I immediately logged back in and was put in overflow…luckily Jormag was up in overflow also, but what is weird it was in the exact same stage as it was in the main server.

So my question is, did Anet sync the events in the “Main Server” and Overflow? Or was this just a coincidence?

coincidence……15 chars

rizzo.1079:

Honestly I quit doing Jormag a couple weeks ago for the most part, unless he’s spawning when I"m up there getting ori. With all the other meta events that give chests there’s no way I’m sitting around for an hour and 15 minute spawn window.

This, and it’s the longest event aswell. While it is fun, after you’ve done the event like 50 times, it gets old. While i like daily chest rewards, the 1h 15m spawn window, followed by the crystal event chain, and 20-30 min to defeat jormag, is too time consuming for what’s usually 1 yellow.

The only time i fight him now is if a guild member announces he’s spawned, then i ask how much life he has, and if it’s above 25% ill wait a bit.