Guild Wars 2

Decided it was time to start looking at the API for GW2, as I like that sorta thing.
Then they done gone and wrecked it with this instanced WB schedule ;D

This is my learn GW2 stuff project, for fun. My aim is to make something I like and I find useful, thought I’d share in case any have similar tastes as myself. It’s just one of many timers, but I hope to do funky stuff with it as a project as time goes and hopefully it’ll grow into a cool thing to use.

http://gw2webthing.com/

The UI looks nice and especially for new peeps it’s good that the boss shows on the map… and the countdown is much easier to follow than the normal timeline-based schedule, but for me the bosses aren’t quite on time. Currently it shows the next boss is “Modniir”, while the next boss for me is Golem Mark II.

Thanks for the reply

I’ve been working on the interface, as I’m a techie, that side of things sometimes lacks!

Hmm I’ve been worried about time zone differences, and what that might do?

What time zone are you in ? Does it always happen? When you refresh the screen?

Timer appears to be up to date for me. Pretty good ui, some parts a little confusing like color-coating of the text(what does the red text mean?).

Maybe for the current ongoing events have a green arrow pointing at the event, have “ongoing” in green, or have a highlight/trim around the box. Personally, the timer counting up for the current events confused me at first.

Could also change the text color(e.q. red means super hc bosses like teq, karka and triple wurm).

Also I’d suggest hiding the TBD events

Thanks for the feed back

Green is what is currently up, orange what will be up next and red, that which has been up before, what has passed or that which has been missed! Perhaps it’s not too obvious, maybe it needs a key.

Hmm I could group world bosses by importance, but I think too many things going on might get a little confusing.

I know what you mean about the TBD events, they are confusing … mind they do also serve to inform people why nothing is up when something is usually up every 15 minutes, it serves to show there is a slot there , but it’s not being used. Perhaps a message at the bottom to that effect is needed!

I intend to add event alarms so that people can choose to be reminded that certain events are up

Oh I’ve been looking for a new timer since GW2stuff timer no longer counts.

Ooo event alarms would be interesting. Maybe there’s a widget to add them to a Goggle calendar. I think TTS has that on their website, to add their raid times to a calendar and then from there the user can modify the remind alarms to their own timing or ringtones or whatever. Like the player at the top said, I like the UI. It’s simple, but smart. Also, I love how you added a feature that clicking on the tag you can see the whole list of times for that event. That’s so cool.

If you don’t mind, I would like to share your timer with my guild(we’re small guild,TDME) and get their thoughts. We have people playing on different time zones and maybe that would be good for you to see what’s in time and what’s not to better evaluate the timer.

:edit:
Oh I just realized this when I was playing with the map portion of your timer, I think it would be helpful that if you clicked on the wp icon you can read the wp name. Just a thought for something in the future.

Hey thanks for the feedback

That would be aces
This is not a big project, it’s just for my own fun , but it’s also kind of for the community in a “hey if you like it use it” kind of way, it’ll be nice if it was used

I’m working on it today, iI’ll add simple “done” markers, perhaps a greyed out tick that can be toggled on and/or off.

The thing about cal events, is that well, I know exactly how to do them but raids are different to worldbosses and daily occurring events, sure by adding them into google cal it would allow all sorts of cal alarm features, but it would also just fill the cal up with so much junk that it might compromise the usage of a cal in the first place!

I could look into the api however it would be a cool thing to do! Site alarms will be coming first, that isn’t all that hard to put in place

Nifty. Oh just fyi. I’m on Darkhaven and checked out timer for Shatterer and it was off by 2 hours. Forgot to note the time and day. I think the timer had it marked for 6pm server time but didn’t show up until 8pm server time, yesterday I think.

About the cal, I can understand, that would fill up a usser’s cal. lol.

Hmm, times are local times, looking at the schedules, for shatterer to come up at 8pm , that would have had to be US Eastern time.

How this works is that it takes central european time and then adjusts it to your time zone. It does this once when the times are loaded into the system.Does this always happen? what time do you have when its 8pm server time? The site should take into account the time difference… what time zone are you in?

Hey again.
Refreshing or using opera instead of chrome doesn’t fix the problem. Currently I think it sets me up about +3 hours ahead of schedule (it’s 20:30 here and it claims the next world bosses are Golem Mark, Shadow Behe, Jormag, Svanir Shaman, Taidha covington, fire ele, etc).
I live in Europe and I’m currently at +3gmt, because of daylight saving time. Normally I’m at +2gmt.

Hey there,

Thanks for coming back to me

Now I’m at CET -1, so that would be GMT, being in england.

Now it’s kind of good in a way that refreshing doesn’t change the results, at least they are consistent.

By checking , all my times are at GMT , or CET -1, so you being GMT +3 , would be CET (central European time, as per official schedule) +2, so what it would do is add that +2*60 minutes to your schedule, so for instance.

At 8.30pm CET time it would be Claw of Jormag up , on my end (CET-1)
Golem Mark II, Shadow Behemoth which is what you are seeing , it SHOULD give you a +2 hrs so it should say
The Shatterer, Fire Elemental, Modniir Ulgoth.

Would that be correct?

If that is the case it could be getting your time zones mixed up, that bit, while kind of fundamental to the whole thing is just done on a simple javascript call to get it via a simple date object, which might not be always good, i’ll do some research and get back to you. If I can’t find anything, i’ll switch to a more comprehensive way to that I’ve got and see if that helps