Guild Wars 2

Can we use the Dynamic Events API to find out which of the Orr Temples are currently uncontested and in which server that is happening?

I believe that if you look up the temple events string and copy and find the even in the main web page you can look to the far right for the event status. If its to say something like “success” would mean the temple should be uncontested.

I tried that before but the information wasn’t useful. Take the Temple of Balthazar for example. The final event is:

{"id":“2555EFCB-2927-4589-AB61-1957D9CC70C8”,“name”:“Defeat the Risen Priest of Balthazar before it can summon a horde of Risen.”},

You can query the status for this event using:

https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/events.json?event_id=2555EFCB-2927-4589-AB61-1957D9CC70C8

Most of the servers show the status to be “success” but in most servers, the temple of balthazar is contested. Without datetime information, we do not know when that event was last run.

You’ll have to look at the status of all the DE’s in the MetaEvent.
After the “Defeat the Risen Priest….” event, you’ll have to look for the “Defend…” events that happen later in which the risen reclaim the temple.

rodadams.5963:

You’ll have to look at the status of all the DE’s in the MetaEvent.
After the “Defeat the Risen Priest….” event, you’ll have to look for the “Defend…” events that happen later in which the risen reclaim the temple.

Again taking the Balthazar temple as an example, do you mean this?

{"id":“D1A02D5B-20A4-4923-A7A1-91852FE786E8”,“name”:“Defend the Pact trebuchets from the undead.”},

You can query the current status on the wiki now. For example Defeat the Risen Priest of Balthazar before it can summon a horde of Risen.

For information about when the event last run, somebody will have to make a database for such stuff (I saw some people already working on it).

poke.3712:

For information about when the event last run, somebody will have to make a database for such stuff (I saw some people already working on it).

Yeah you can create a daemon to ping the event status every once in a while and store them in a database, similar to how gw2spidy is doing this for the TP information.

Each website would have its own daemon which multiplies network traffic to arenanet. Don’t really like that, but if we can’t get datetime information from arenanet then I suppose we have to do that.

See my post here

I already found the relevant defense events, but not all servers are present in the results…

Leighwyn McClendon.9346:

See my post here

I already found the relevant defense events, but not all servers are present in the results…

Just a wild guess on my part but perhaps the reason why you are getting different array sizes is because of what is explained here?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/names-json-static/first#post2064502

Some events may not have been “discovered” by players yet on certain servers?

DarkSpirit.7046:

Leighwyn McClendon.9346:

See my post here

I already found the relevant defense events, but not all servers are present in the results…

Just a wild guess on my part but perhaps the reason why you are getting different array sizes is because of what is explained here?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/names-json-static/first#post2064502

Some events may not have been “discovered” by players yet on certain servers?

Or put a more depressing way, 35 servers have never succeeded on Grenth?

Leighwyn McClendon.9346:

Or put a more depressing way, 35 servers have never succeeded on Grenth?

Yeah that probably doesn’t make sense unless the servers have low population. I would be surprised if Grenth has never been discovered in Jade Quarry.

Maybe it is just a bug.

Their status don’t seem to update all that much over time for me either, weird.