Guild Wars 2

I’ve been increasing my participation in open world group events, specifically the ones with chest rewards, in hopes of increasing my chances for rare and exotic drops. I’m not a terribly good player, but I can generally hold my own for the most part. Events like Jormag tend to smash me to pieces, though, and I get downed often enough to find myself getting rezzed by many helpful other players. (Thank you all, by the way.)

It seems when I do very poorly — getting downed at least twice — I tend to get blues and greens from the big chest at the end. If I do fairly well and protect myself effectively downing only once or not at all, I seem to get at least one rare from the chest. Exotics are always elusive for me, though, and I’ve only gotten maybe 3 from any chest since I started GW2 in August.

So does getting downed or defeated affect chest rewards? Anyone else seem to notice this trend?

If you get the chest, your chance of getting rare/exotic are the same as everyone else’s.

There was a bug I reported a while ago about events and chests in dungeons, and how if you died anywhere before 10 seconds before the event succeeded, you would get zero credit for that event and no chest for you. I haven’t checked if this is still the case as I haven’t died in a dungeon event in a while, and I’m nearly positive this is not the case in open world events, but I thought I’d bring it up because it was sorta relevant.

AFAIK, as long as you get a bronze participation reward, you get full chest rewards. The fact that most of the times you get green and blues, and haven’t gotten an exotic is basically RNG working as intended… and actually if you’ve gotten 3 in chests since release you’re already ahead of the curve (I’ve gotten a grand total of 1 since release).

I think I have only gotten one exotic from an event chest; so, yes, I agree, you do seem luckier than many. =)