Currently there’s no real reason to do any dynamic event that isn’t centered around “several waves of mobs come, kill them all”
You just AOE a ton of mobs and run around picking up constant crafting mats that can go from anywhere to 80 copper to 3 silver each. Tons of salvage items, whites and blues that sell for around 1 silver to a vendor, greens that sell for 2 silver +, and rares that can be salvaged for 0-3 ectos that can be sold for ~17 silver each and are used to make exotic gear. The rewards are pretty kitten good. They got nerfed a bit recently but they’re still pretty good.
Why would you ever do any bosses? They’re long, they actually require thinking that’s more than just SPAM EVERY AOE. And the rewards suck. You kill a boss and get the normal amount of karma, a little under 2 silver, and if you’re lucky the boss might drop 1 item that’s the same as what normal mobs drop. The rewards are pretty crappy.
And the chests. I’m talking about reward chests that you get after a long meta event. Such as the ones you get for clearing a temple in Orr. They give like 4 items on average. Usually it’s all blues. If you’re lucky you’ll get a green. That’s pretty much it.
Lets take Lyssa in Melchor’s Leap for example.
It’s one of the more difficult events. It takes a decent amount of people to accomplish. And it takes a bit of coordination. It’s not explorer mode challenging (though explorer mode hasn’t been that hard for me, at least not in CoF.)
For those who don’t know. It starts out with 3 areas you have to control. Risen hold these 3 points and you have to go in and clear all the risen and hold it for an amount of time. After you do that you control that area, but you have to leave a couple of defends to hold it, because the risen try to take it back. Now when you control all 3 points you’re able to drop the shields around Lyssa. Then you go in and fight Lyssa which is actually one of the more challenging boss fights in the game. She has one move in particular that dazes anyone that looks at her, and spawns a bunch of mobs. All this time you have to maintain control over the 3 points or the shield goes back up. Eventually you kill Lyssa which takes control of the temple and all that entitles (deactivating those annoying statues, karma vendor spawns, etc.) and a chest spawns. You go to the chest and get like 3 blues.
The most rewarding part of that? The very first part where you AOE down mobs on the point. That’s the most rewarding part of the entire event. And it doesn’t even have that many mobs spawn.
It’s completely backward. I should feel rewarded for taking the temple. Finishing it and ending the last part should be the best part in every way, including rewards.
Take the plinx event in Cursed Shore. It’s one of the more popular events in that area since it gives great rewards and isn’t infested with bots.
You basically defend a guy from waves of mobs as he repairs his suit. You then follow him to a drop zone while fighting waves of mobs. You then hold an area while fighting, you guessed it, waves of mobs. You then run to a nearby area where you fight a TON of mobs.
It gives great rewards. You get like 8 silver alone from the DE reward. You also get like 60-80 silver from drops. If you salvage a rare and get lucky with 3 ectos that’s more than 1 gold from one chain. And it can be done in under 5 minutes!
The area you finish at. There’s a boss that spawns nearby. Champion Risen Abomination if I recall correctly. No one ever does it.
When you do it’s kind of dumb. Depending on how many are there you can do it in about 5 to 10 minutes. Also it’s prone to bugging out where it runs to an area which makes it become invincible and walk, slowly, to it’s original position.
So you complete this boss. He’s not exactly difficult but it takes a while and you do actually have to pay attention (if you get caught not paying attention and he aggros you can die)
And in the same time as the plinx event, or longer you get… pretty much nothing. You get the standard 2 silver and some exp/karma but you got 4 times that from the rewards alone in the plinx chain. You get no drops. Or if you’re really lucky you can get a random 18 copper junk item.
They really need to increase rewards from bosses and chests. Bosses usually give nothing and when they do give something it’s usually just crap. Chests usually just give around 3 blues.