Guild Wars 2

I never thought i’d have to mention this, but the latest patch notes impel me to state the obvious.

People camp certain Bosses due to three factors:

1: Accessibility – How close can I get to the Event site by Waypoint? Having to run halfway across a mob-infested zone to engage (or re-engage if you died) is not fun.

2: Rewards – Does the Boss drop a chest? This one is obvious: without loot rewards, doing faraway DEs is pointless because the transit costs exceed the cash rewards at 80.

3: Consistency – Can I expect to be able to be there when the Boss appears? No one likes to camp a boss for the duration of the spawn window only to not have it appear. Again, wasted transit costs can add up.

Dragons and The Maw have always been vastly popular because they meet all 3 criteria. Those that meet 2 of these criteria are done infrequently unless you are part of an organized group, while those that meet only 1 are rarely done at all.

If ANet truly wishes “to encourage players to fight multiple bosses and spread out across the world”, then need to revamp the other major zone Bosses to meet the above 3 criteria.

P.S.: Zone Bosses need to announce themselves Zone-wide. No one enjoys being stuck waiting for a Boss to appear, knowing that if they leave the area, they may miss out. That considerate players announce them on Zone Chat is a band-aid to a glaring deficiency.

If players were confident that wherever they were in a zone they would know when a Boss event appears, then they would be more likely to do various DEs throughout the Zone.

well, you can open only a chest for the same event in a day, so it’s useless to kill tequatl twice. once the popular one are done, you’ll see the less popular done. or maybe people will actually do something else.

Amadan.9451:

well, you can open only a chest for the same event in a day, so it’s useless to kill tequatl twice. once the popular one are done, you’ll see the less popular done. or maybe people will actually do something else.

“One Chest per Boss per Toon per Day.” I and others actually are driven to farm the same bosses more than ever before before because we have alts. Anyone with multiple characters level 68 or above has a very strong incentive to do so.