Guild Wars 2

I wonder if it might be possible to install a little break between pre-events and the start of the main event for some of the low level meta events.

Specifically the Shadow Behemoth and the shaman during the “The Maw” events.

In case of the Shadow Behemoth, if you do the pre-event part southeast of the swamp, even if you cross the full distance under swiftness, the Behemoth will be down to 40-60% Health. And that isn’t even during primetime. Yes, you can still bring enough dmage to bear usually to be eligilbe for the reward. Usually.

With the shaman at The Maw it’s even worse. If you participate in the “close the portals” pre-event you better have some sort of increased movement speed and a decent ranged weapon option. Otherwise you actually might not make it back in time to tag the shaman. Luckily enough a single hit usually suffices to be eligible for the reward.

With the Mark II Golem on the other hand, there is a small break implemented between the pre-event and the actual fight against the golem, giving all players enough time to get back to the platform.
Something like that would be nice to see for the Shadow Behemoth and the shaman at The Maw as well.

I usually port to the wp by SB, no way you can run from one of the preevent sites in time.

Even porting to a WP, I’d say I only ever make it to SB in time maybe 70% of the time. As a result, I’ve resorted to not doing the three portal events spread out anymore, or just doing one and hoping it’s not the last one done.

I’ve never noticed any issues with Maw. The Shaman seems to last pretty long to me, I usually even have time to loot the ice elemental corpses around the portals. Maybe an event scaling issue?

Oh yeah I only do one of the portal events for the pre, don’t try to do more than one.

I always do the one at the Tamini portal site(since no one ever wants to) and I’ve never had a problem running back for SB even in prime time.

And yeah, there’s no point in trying to do all of them. Those go down faster than SB as long as someone’s there.

I don’t do maw so I can’t comment on that.