Guild Wars 2

So there was this big dragon that came out of the sky, shatter i think it was, did a ton a damage with my morter as an engineer, was very sad to not get any loot or anything for it. Im pretty sure im supposed to get stuff since most other players were talking about the loot they got, i felt pretty sick afterwards.

Did you see a big treasure chest at the end, go up to it and press the interact key?

I saw it go up and shatter, then i looked around for something to loot, didnt see anything

After the fight, if you get an alert that you got bronze/silver/gold credit for the event to kill the Shatterer or whatever dragon you are battling (assuming that it succeeded), you will also see a chest spawn which you can interact with for loot. If you don’t get the event alert after the fight is over, you won’t be qualified for loot and you won’t see the chest.

I’m sorry you had a bad experience with this, they are meant to be epic in both scale and fun factor, but sometimes they really fail to deliver I believe this to be a bug, because I’ve had a similar experience with the Behemoth event in the Queensdale swamp. I’ve been there for the whole duration of the fight, revived people, did damage, but got no chest and no contribution reward.

bummer .. btw where was this event. it looks cool. The event I have been doing are pirate and spider queens and such.

This happened to me before too, think it’s a bug.

Happened to me to, completly discouraged me from even bothering with any of those dragons or chains, 100%’ing the zones is probably the most ill do and skip all those useless events.

There are a few theories ..

1) its based on amount of contribution, and only a certain # of top contributors get the reward. Contribution equates to damage and healing.

2) perhaps only the first x amount of players to tag it can get an award

frOst.2198:

There are a few theories ..

1) its based on amount of contribution, and only a certain # of top contributors get the reward. Contribution equates to damage and healing.

2) perhaps only the first x amount of players to tag it can get an award

The second point makes since in many ways, i feel there is a bit of over optimization becouse sometimes i see a group of centuars attacking and after a while they spawn and instantly fall over dead before i even saw them, strange.

it’s a bug.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Event-Participation-Problems-In-Large-Groups/

Happened to me too with the Sparkfly Swamp dragon. I don’t care if I got a green or a blue from it, heck!, even a piece of portabello mushroom would do. I was a sad panda when I didn’t get anything…

I hope ANet fixes it soon.

It happened to me too.
Was there waiting before the event, ran in, did damage and got nothing.

generally these large scale DEs give rewards based on damage that you deal during its duration, especially for large boss events like shadow behemoth, shatterer, and the other dragons. If the “first x number of players to tag the boss” were true… that x number would have to be quite large, since i have ran in on maybe the last 35%-40% of a boss fight and still managed to get a gold or silver contribution reward.
…that being said, there were many moments when starting out in areas above my level where i wouldnt get any medals… but the medals i got would greatly increase as my damage output and level continued to rise.