Guild Wars 2

As the title says, i just completed Shadow Behemont event on my new ranger and no guaranteed chest! Is this available only to high lvl players? I mean she’s lvl 34 so not so low, but really disappointed as i was hoping she’d get something she could use.

And no, I haven’t done this even for at least 1 week, maybe 2.

You always get the normal chest reward for active participation, but the bonus chest with the guaranteed rare (or exotic) item starts dropping at level 40.

That’s happened to me on Shatterer a few times on my level 80. Pretty annoying.

zenleto.6179:

That’s happened to me on Shatterer a few times on my level 80. Pretty annoying.

‘Once’ per day.

The bonus chest always contains a rare of your own level. Since rares are levels 40+, if you’re lower level you don’t get a bonus chest, only the regular one.

Zenleto, you might wnat to read my findings here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Chest-After-Shadow-Behemoth-Event/first#post2063832
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/page/2#post2188923

Have you done anything similar like described there?

Charak.9761:

zenleto.6179:

That’s happened to me on Shatterer a few times on my level 80. Pretty annoying.

‘Once’ per day.

Omg really!!?

The required level for the guaranteed rare is 40, although I have been grouped with guildies many times for dragon events and several who had not done it yet(right after reset) and did not get the guaranteed rare chest, so, there is definitely a random bug in this area.

@Pixelpumpkin.4608

Oh ic lvl 40, i didn’t know that, that also explains why i haven’t been getting my Maw guaranteed chest either.
Lame lol a low lvl zone but u don’t get rewarded same as higher lvls who smashes the boss b4 you can get a hit on it. Weird setup to say the least.

Navi.7142:

Zenleto, you might wnat to read my findings here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Chest-After-Shadow-Behemoth-Event/first#post2063832
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/page/2#post2188923

Have you done anything similar like described there?

Very, very possible Navi. Thanks for that. I have parked that particular character and done nothing with him between events. Even weeks apart.

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Third Of Five.8923:

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Should have just been kept the old way. Why complicate the game up with all these extra rules that make no sense here and there?

zenleto.6179:

Very, very possible Navi. Thanks for that. I have parked that particular character and done nothing with him between events. Even weeks apart.

You’re welcome.
I would be interested if the solutions will work for you, so maybe you want to tell us if you encounter the same thing again despite keeping these things in mind.

It’s not worth it to do unless your character is lv 80. At that point, you open up the loot table for the best gear. And since it’s only once per account, do it on your main lv 80 first. Then you can go back and do it again for the basic chest drops.

They aren’t even worth doing at 80 anymore..

I think they are worth doing, but I’m not going to sit around and wait for them to happen. Instead, if I see one about to pop and I’m not doing anything else pressing at the time I might WP over and join in. Yesterday I got Final Rest from SB, and it took all of 5 minutes to complete. That’s the 3rd Final Rest that SB has dropped for me, so I find the reward/effort to be quite worth the time, and its not as if its ruining the other things I’d rather be doing since it only takes a few minutes.

Agh i don’t know if it’s my bad luck or what, but my new ranger is over lvl 40 now, did that event again in Harathi, got the guaranteed chest and the regular one, then did the event again, and this time nothing, no chest of any kind at all.

I know the guaranteed chest is once per day but i thought the regular event chest spawned every time u do the event, or has this changed recently?

Edit: i know i was originally referring to SB event and i haven’t done it since then so don’t know if same problem would happen with that as well. I just thought there was no limit on the regular chest, but if i’m wrong some 1 please correct me.

Ashanor.5319:

Third Of Five.8923:

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Should have just been kept the old way. Why complicate the game up with all these extra rules that make no sense here and there?

Because people kept making new characters to get level 80 rares/exotics. Is that fair?

I believe you can get the ground chest again in a reset if you do the event on a different character. You might want to test that though.

Karizee.8076:

I believe you can get the ground chest again in a reset if you do the event on a different character. You might want to test that though.

Oh ic, it has to be on a different char? That’s probably right. Oh well i usually don’t repeat events unless i need to for dailies or whatever, but especially not that Harathi one as it has the worst culling i’ve ever seen, at least in that first part of the chain. You literally cannot see the enemies during the entire event and ppl just spam their AoE;s in hope they’ll hit something, which only makes the culling even worse.

But after killing the boss, i decided to complete one of the hearts in the area and the event started again so i joined in, as it does give good exp for a lvling char.

And btw, tnx for the info.

Stone.6751:

I think they are worth doing, but I’m not going to sit around and wait for them to happen. Instead, if I see one about to pop and I’m not doing anything else pressing at the time I might WP over and join in. Yesterday I got Final Rest from SB, and it took all of 5 minutes to complete. That’s the 3rd Final Rest that SB has dropped for me, so I find the reward/effort to be quite worth the time, and its not as if its ruining the other things I’d rather be doing since it only takes a few minutes.

Who waits? You just leave one of the websites that have the event timers for all the major events open and tab out and check em.

I do em all. If I don’t get something worth more then an ecto, I rip it up for ectos. Till I ascended my sclerite shell, and skinned to the Wind Catcher skin, I had over half a stack. Lots for my standards, but am not a farmer or intense dungeon runner, so low by others, I guess. So I’d say they worth doing too, not just at 80. Like some say. Gear up the alts with em. Can get costly doing that when you have one of each profession ;]

Im Mudbone.1437:

The required level for the guaranteed rare is 40, although I have been grouped with guildies many times for dragon events and several who had not done it yet(right after reset) and did not get the guaranteed rare chest, so, there is definitely a random bug in this area.

Its a swamp, its full of bugs

Ashanor.5319:

Third Of Five.8923:

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Should have just been kept the old way. Why complicate the game up with all these extra rules that make no sense here and there?

The old way where if you were lucky you got 1 rare every 5 bosses? Cause that way was aweful and the bosses felt completely unrewarding.

Or do you mean the way where you oculd kill the same boss as many times as you have level 80 characters/day and you got a rare every time that drastically reduced the value of ectos for a time? Cause I was fine then but it was too rewarding to do nothing but kill the bosses which is silly.

So while it is more complex I think it is better this way.

Ashanor.5319:

Third Of Five.8923:

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Should have just been kept the old way. Why complicate the game up with all these extra rules that make no sense here and there?

Because at first they did it the old way, the rares were in the regular chest and were once per character, and turned out to be way too popular for its own good. If you weren’t in the area when the spawning window started, you could forget about it, you’d be sent to overflow, and since the engine couldn’t cope with the whole population cap of an area being attacking a single mob, most fights were lagfests where you would be happy if you could even see your abilities firing. The once-per-account bonus chest was implemented to take the participation on boss events to a more manageable level, and I think it worked.

Esplen.3940:

Ashanor.5319:

Third Of Five.8923:

to clarify…

the bonus chest is once per day, per ACCOUNT (lvl 40 and up)
the regular chest is once per day per character

Should have just been kept the old way. Why complicate the game up with all these extra rules that make no sense here and there?

Because people kept making new characters to get level 80 rares/exotics. Is that fair?

If they leveled another character to 80. Why isn’t it fair?

The reason for the change was likely due to people guesting server to server farming them on every character they had. Thus it was always overflow every time a Meta boss appeared. People complained they were missing out and thus this change came about.

I must say I do like the once per account. As it ate up a lot of time doing 8 of the same bosses each day with 8 80s.

locoman.1974:

The bonus chest always contains a rare of your own level. Since rares are levels 40+, if you’re lower level you don’t get a bonus chest, only the regular one.

I thought rares start at 35 (at least for crafting anyways). But the guaranteed chest does start at lvl 40 though.
It also once per day per account for the rare/exo chest, per world boss (those that support it anyways), isn’t it?