Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I recently started playing the game (again, I tried it more than a year ago and stopped after few weeks) and so far find it really enjoyable. There is only one thing spoiling my fun (actually there are more, but the rest are design decisions which I’m not comfortable with): whenever I join a Champion event, usually the one for daily, 90% of time the game crashes before the event is complete.

Now, I’m pretty sure the culprit is my computer which is quite old now, so I’m not looking for an advice how to try and prevent the crashes (although such advice won’t be dismissed, of course). Instead, I have following question:

1) Is there a way how to “save my progress”, so when I log back in I get at least a credit for the event completion, if not the loot reward?

2) Related to 1), is there a way how I can return on the same map I was on before the crash? (maybe being in a group?)

3) Is there anything unique which can only be obtained by doing Champion events? (unique = no other way how to get it, e.g. not tradeable on TP for example). I know I don’t need the Champion for daily – I can do gathering, Vista and “minor” events instead.

1) No. If you crash before the event ends then you will not get event credit and reward.
2) Yes. Being in a party helps. Or if you recall people in chat and join up on them. If you’re in a party with someone on the original map shard – just right click on their party window and join their map. Taxi service can help if you don’t land back in automatically.
3) There are unique items that drop for many of the World Bosses…. but I believe most can be purchased from the TP. However some of the collection items in particular are so expensive that a new player would most likely not be able to purchase them anytime soon. Other “champs” like Tequatl and Vinewrath have items that you can only get from them and are account-bound.

If you haven’t already – turn your graphic settings down. Helps most people.