Guild Wars 2

This has been bugging me for awhile, but the if you participate in the SB pre event and run back to the SB boss area you sometime miss the boss because he gets downed so fast. Of all the pre event for world bosses, SB is the only one I try to avoid because of this. Even when playing on off hours he hits below 50%, when running from the pre event area to the boss area.

It’s been worse.I remember getting event near the bunch of Ettins and run back to SB to barely catching up.But now I can catch up when Sb is around 70%.
I think SB already buffed once along with the Jungle wurm update.

You do the pre-event then wp to him. You’ll be directly under sb by the time he starts to spawn. If you run then i see how you might miss him.

Lol, so the people that do the pres have to pay… doesn’t make much sense for me.
I did SB a few minutes ago as engineer and I was doing the monastery pre event, as I came back to SB his life points already had been dropped to 50% as I was in his range to see it. I think it was 30% as I was able to do damage to him.. ^^

I agree it never made sense which is why most people would rather camp the swamp than do the pre.

I always do the Escort event because people will just stand in the swamp saying “is BeHe late again”- while Brenda is just standing there or worse the tamini ran away with the kegs.
You have to waypoint or you will never make it in time- especially the Tamini -pre, it is out of the way and not near anything

Zoldyck.6241:

I agree it never made sense which is why most people would rather camp the swamp than do the pre.

Is THAT why all the filthy slackers are always hanging out there and never lifting a finger …
One time I actually had to do all 3 of the pre events. There was a large group waiting at the spawn point. In the time it took me to run to each of the events nobody there bothered doing anything.

I’ve never had a problem getting back to SB but I use my elementalist for that event.

Khisanth.2948:

Zoldyck.6241:

I agree it never made sense which is why most people would rather camp the swamp than do the pre.

Is THAT why all the filthy slackers are always hanging out there and never lifting a finger …
One time I actually had to do all 3 of the pre events. There was a large group waiting at the spawn point. In the time it took me to run to each of the events nobody there bothered doing anything.

I’ve never had a problem getting back to SB but I use my elementalist for that event.

Exactly. If it were nearer I am sure everyone will help out. But to run that far or have to wp back…. most of them would rather /dance, /sleep or /complainwhysbislateagain

I usually do the monastery pre-event and will often head to the centaur area to help out there if needed. I sometimes have to use a couple of skills that grant quickness to get back in time to get some hits on SB before it’s killed, but I’ve never missed out on credit or paid WP fees as a result of helping with the pre-events.

I will just keep in mind doing these pres only with my characters that are quick enough to run. That means ele, necro and ranger (and later thief) willingly will help, whereas my mesmer, guardian, warrior and engi will stay and throw a party. ^^

Navi.7142:

I will just keep in mind doing these pres only with my characters that are quick enough to run. That means ele, necro and ranger (and later thief) willingly will help, whereas my mesmer, guardian, warrior and engi will stay and throw a party. ^^

Guardian has 2 shouts that grant quickness (“Retreat” and “Save Yourselves”). They are what I use on my guardian to run from the pre-events back to the boss.

perhaps they should buff shadow behemoth’s health a bit so the ones doing the 3 events can make it back in time.

either that. or buff the portals health a bit.

Astraea.6075:

Guardian has 2 shouts that grant quickness (“Retreat” and “Save Yourselves”). They are what I use on my guardian to run from the pre-events back to the boss.

Yeah, I know. Sometimes I use “Retreat”, however not always. She feels slow as soon as the buff ends and it needs some time to recharge. ^^

What they could do is put some more time between the last event and when the SB spawns. Just make it about 2 to 3 minutes, enough time to get from the last event to the spawn site. I’ve tried to do the pre-events before and barely make it back in time to tag the boss. A slow connection means it takes a bit to waypoint. Enough time that getting back is a problem.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

perhaps they should buff shadow behemoth’s health a bit so the ones doing the 3 events can make it back in time.

either that. or buff the portals health a bit.

They should make this fight challenging.

They should make it so that anyone tagged as having done one of the three pres gets better loot. That’ll wake the slackers up.

im always watching the monastery for the pre-event and if no one does it ill do the ettin portal also (on my server no one does the ettins portals) then run back to sb even on my slowest char (my mesmer) has plenty of time to get back

The people swamp watching or in shatters case turret polishing (collection part) are new and dont know theres pre-events or just cant be bothered and just want the yellow

if its the cant be bothered i shout out the events or ask for help if no one comes and theres lots in the swamp/turrets ill let the charr escort die and watch the kegs get stolen

then watch chat as they complain that no one ever does the events but still stand there doing nothing they know some idiot will do it for them so why bother themselves

one time i watched a huge swamp appreciation group moan till the timer ran out then complained bout the website timer

if a part needed buffing (if) id say the portals that open at SBs base (feet) given a bit more hp as the minions dont get time to live long enough to do anything fore the portals are closed

i always try to do one part either the escort mission or retrieve kegs if needed or one of the portal thingies. i always have a speed equiped sop i make it back. i think instead of buffing sb why not put a pause in between the pres and when sb arrives of 2 minutes. then there would be enough time for everyone to get back

This is one of the reasons the portals in Taminn take forever to go down since no one wants to do them and run the risk of missing SB. When I do them, I always WP back or I’d otherwise miss it. And between loading time and running to SB, he’s usually at 1/2 health by then too.

If they’d add a 30 sec-1min delay to his spawn similarly to how Golem Mark II is, it’d fix this problem and no longer be an issue to anyone. It’s not like waiting one minute is a huge deal. Missing the event because you did the pre-event is rather frustrating.

I didn’t even know the monastery thing was a pre-event until I randomly ran into it quite recently and bam, missed the main thing.

zenleto.6179:

They should make it so that anyone tagged as having done one of the three pres gets better loot. That’ll wake the slackers up.

That would make other pre-events go a lot longer though (collecting siege weapons prior to Shatterer fight – this is also a mechanic that needs to be addressed…)

If I had my way,

• Yes, some world bosses would scale up more (SB being one of the worst offenders right now)
• Yes, there would be a delay between pre-events and boss fight where necessary
• People already get a reward for doing the pre-events (namely karma and xp) but if we’d find a way to make it even more worthwhile, I’d be all for it – leeching should be discouraged a bit
• AND the siege weapon collecting event (probably all collection events) need to have their mechanics changed so they don’t become harder with more participants.

Morbious.5832:

The people swamp watching or in shatters case turret polishing (collection part) are new and dont know theres pre-events or just cant be bothered and just want the yellow

In the case of the shatterer’s pre it is just a badly designed/implemented event. Having more than one person do the event is just going to slow it down. The number of parts that needs to be collected increases with more people but the amount of parts available to collect doesn’t.

Khisanth.2948:

Morbious.5832:

The people swamp watching or in shatters case turret polishing (collection part) are new and dont know theres pre-events or just cant be bothered and just want the yellow

In the case of the shatterer’s pre it is just a badly designed/implemented event. Having more than one person do the event is just going to slow it down. The number of parts that needs to be collected increases with more people but the amount of parts available to collect doesn’t.

You can usually get them by slaughtering ghosts to make up for it – also they appear further along than would seem logical, so some often seem to be forgotten.

Navi.7142:

I will just keep in mind doing these pres only with my characters that are quick enough to run. That means ele, necro and ranger (and later thief) willingly will help, whereas my mesmer, guardian, warrior and engi will stay and throw a party. ^^

You have a slow warrior…?

Slow enough. ^^