Guild Wars 2

Now that there is the ability to select items to track in the top right corner of the UI, I would like to see a selectable world boss reset timer that shows the amount of time until I can kill a specific world boss again and get the chest. I was with a buddy at Jormag last night and he was likely 30 min short of his 24 hour reset but wasn’t sure when his reset would happen. We both did the event and he didn’t get a chest. We wouldn’t have done that event if we knew he wouldn’t have got the chest. As far as we can tell, the world boss chests are on a 24 hour character timer like the ori nodes and don’t reset when the dailies reset.

This timer would really help to plan the short amount of time we have to play together each evening after the kids are in bed.

Definitely. Either make it reset with daily reset or provide a timer.

I really don’t want to update a spreadsheet with all of my characters and events that I last completed

All world event chests already do reset when the server does; 7 pm eastern. I’d like to see a tracker for each character I have but there doesn’t need to be a timer.

Cherokeewill.7504:

All world event chests already do reset when the server does; 7 pm eastern. I’d like to see a tracker for each character I have but there doesn’t need to be a timer.

Bruiser said it doesn’t reset at the 7pm est daily reset, and I have heard other people say similar. I honestly don’t know as I haven’t verified this

I haven’t verified it either, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t reset when everything else in the game resets. It seems rather strange that they would have a different set up for event chests like that, when all other chests do.

Ok, so I did some testing this week. Last night I fought the fire elemental about an hour before the dailies reset. Then I did it again about 2 hours after the daily reset. I was able to get the chest both times on the same character. I have not tested the dragon chests as I am working on leveling a new character that cannot do those battles yet.
So the issue with not getting the chest may be more tied to the extreme lag that is occuring during these fights now are not allowing some people to get credit for defeating the boss even if the chest could be available for their character.

I will likely post one more time once I verify if the dragon fights are on a 24 hour timer or linked to daily resets

Defeated Temple of Dwayna on Monday night at 6:58 pm Eastern. The new dailies popped as soon as I spoke to the karma vendor. We were racing the clock in zone chat and patting ourselves on the back for the quick burn down. Two hours later we took it on again and I looted the chest both times.

I have yet to be able to test this on the dragons because overflow issues on my server have locked me out of every second try, if not the first and the third.

I also haven’t tested this on dragons, but I did it with the fire ele as well. I killed it before and after reset and got the chest both times.

On a side note people were saying that you could guest and still get the chest, after you got it in your home-server. I did tequatl on SoS and got the chest, I immediately guested to IOJ (where I have a friend) and did not get the chest, even though I got gold for the event

I don’t think Anet wants people to use timers at all.

Before a event boss can spawn on time. The last parts of the event chain have to be completed within the window.

Anet wants you out doing events to get the event boss to spawn.

Onshidesigns.1069:

I don’t think Anet wants people to use timers at all.

Before a event boss can spawn on time. The last parts of the event chain have to be completed within the window.

Anet wants you out doing events to get the event boss to spawn.

Shatter pre-event goes fastest with 1-2 people, the more people the slower it becomes (They increase amount of siege needed, but not mobs or siege dropped)

Tequatl doesn’t have a pre event. Just a timer with a window.

I don’t think either of the two things you said are true