Guild Wars 2

First of all: take a look at all the available world bosses / events which spawn chests with a guaranteed rare:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/19kvqk/list_of_world_bosses_events_with_the_new_chests/?sort=confidence

Do you know all of those? I count 28.

Do you also think it’s frustrating not to know when most of them happen? Yes we have dragon-timer websites, but those only cover a few of that huge list.

If yes, then read on…

so here’s the idea:

• add a crier to the main cities. This NPC has it’s own event-UI on the top right side of your screen.
• this UI shows us a countdown to the next upcoming world boss event (not more than 3minutes)
• he doesn’t announce which event – it’s a surprise expedition
• the NPC would open a portal to the entrance of the zone where the event happens.
• Now he would start running through the portal and from the border of the map to the location of the boss. (similar to the break-out events in the WvW homelands)
• Once he’s there the boss-event would start guaranteed – no time-window anymore, waiting for half an hour for a boss-spawn is tedious

So it’s like going on a random adventure. The event is up for 2-3 minutes before the portal goes up. The portal stays open for 1 minute. Because of the huge number of big events in the world, such expeditions would spawn quite often.

My idea would have a few impacts:

• racial cities would have much more traffic
• people would learn to know all of the world bosses, not only the “main ones”
• this would also revive a few zones where not much is going on… some people would stay for a while in that zone, doing a few events near the defeated boss

a further suggestion:

• add events to the city, so that you can spend some time doing something while you wait for the countdown to finish. Events like the ones in Ebonhawke, for example.
• each city would have it’s own unique events
• add a minigame to each main city, for the same reason.
• the timer would always be visible while you’re in the city, if you want to.

you may ask: why do we need this?, there are dragon timers!

• to show people that there are many more opportunities to get guaranteed rare loot.
• to revive empty zones where there’s still very good content
• to make main-cities relevant again

I hope you like the idea. What do you think?

Edit: improved the topic by a different idea

I find this a great idea, I was thinking of something like; the greater the event the farther you’ll get notifications on your mini-map if you are in the designated areas or even in neighbouring areas. And like you said for the really big (meta) events a globally displayed notification/subtle timer when close to starting.

I really hope they’ll do something with your idea it would make the PvE a hell of a lot more interesting and action pact =]