Guild Wars 2

So here’s what currently happens- pre event starts, 5 people start killing shards, get that done, maybe 15 people now milling around, whilst 40+ are in the champ train ignoring pre event completely.

Then about 25 or so are present breaking down the barriers and damaging Jormag down to less than 50% health so that he gets shot down for the final bit…

At which point the champ farming train magically appears, helps to kill the last few percent, grabs their full reward and chugs off back on their circuit.

My suggestion is simple: scale the rewards so that actually doing the pre event and first half of the event give decent rewards and better chances at exotics, ascended weapons and rewards additional dragonite. The late comers can still get their rewards but no bonus chest. If you did not take part in the killing at the first stage of the dragon then you don’t deserve and shouldn’t receive the full rewards or the same rewards as those that got the event to that stage.

Upvoted this idea. And to add, that doesnt happen to Jormag only, but every other world boss.

People just sit and wait until others do the pre-events, and they still get full reward from your hard work.
Actually, today I was doing SB pre event (or at least had to complete the event near monastery so the portals would appear), and it failed because I got there too late, and people were complaining like hell in map chat