Guild Wars 2

It’s no secret for anyone that at least in some servers the dragon events have become lagfests. Main reason for that is that the rewards are now too attractive, one (or more) guaranteed rare that can be salvaged into globs of ecto that sell for (as of last night) 29s, plus it’s very possible (and not too rare) to get 2 or 3 from a single salvage, which can mean up to 1g per rare, so anytime a dragon shows up everyone rushes to kill it (heck, it’s now normal to have overflows when dragons are active).

The overflow system is meant to alleviate it, but no server would be able to withstand almost all of the players needed for an overflow to be created being in the same spot and attacking the same mob.

I’m guessing that the limitation of chests being once per character for every daily reset is meant to alleviate it a little bit, but considering that each player can have up to 5 characters, and dragons are on a roughly 3 hours respawning time means that each player can show up to most, if not all, of the dragon events, taking out a few hours to sleep (5×3 means showing up to every dragon event within 15 to 18 hours every day).

Which is why I’d suggest to make it account bound instead of character bound. Most players will take the route of least resistance to get loot and money, if they only need to do each dragon once, the attendance should drop, maybe to pre-patch levels or so, making the fights actually enjoyable instead of the way they’re now, where you find out whether you were actually hitting it or not after it dies and you see your participation level, and make them actually fun for people that might be doing the fights for the first time(s) or just for other reasons (maybe to get that last group event for the daily)

Hi Locoman,

The team is currently aware of this issue, we have several threads about this that we are going to forward them

Please feel free to join them and give us your feedback. In the interest of keeping the forums organised we are going to close this thread.
Thanks for your understanding.