Guild Wars 2

What the title says. The commissar can be killed so fast that whoever completes the pre-event has a zero chance of reaching it in time if the players camping the commissar’s spawn location do not intentionally delay.

And the majority of them do not care about the people who procced the boss for them to kill in the first place.

This is a problem unique to the commissar since all other bosses that are activated by a pre-event (Shatterer, Karka Queen etc) either have copious amounts of health, or have a short delay before activation, or their pre-events end at the boss itself, or some combination of the three.

A minor variant to this is that the people who kill the vines in the Jungle Wurm pre-event has a zero chance of killing the first Avatar of Blight.

Recommended fix: Add a 15 second delay between the pre-event completion and next event phase.

Same can be said about the fire elemental. Its the only world boss that I know of that dies in 5-10 seconds.

Foulbear is a problem, too. He usually dies in less than 10 seconds.

But you’re already there if you participated in the pres for ele/foulbear. For the commissar, you have to run quite a piece (+ waypoint sometimes)…

Just be thankful you can actually complete the event and get the trait…

There are plenty trait unlocks that you can’t even complete due to bugs…

not everyone hunts the commissar for the trait.

That’s why I stopped doing commissar. I did pre-events (90% cases solo) just to come to dead boss. If there would be some timeout before he appears or such portal like for Behemoth, I would probably try it again.

Carlin Sanders.3587:

not everyone hunts the commissar for the trait.

He drops a 120 gold item. =P

Be thankful even more :P

The trick is to warp to the SE WP the instant you finish an event. Yes, you will wind up having to warp back for another event most times, but it pays off when you can actually make it there in time.

And yes, they do need to put his spawn on a delay, or make another event at his gate that needs to be done first. Something to give the people who put in the effort a chance at actually getting the reward.

Ooh someone who knows the pre events! Can you tell me what they are? Last I checked the wiki didn’t have the info. I try asking the people hovering around his spawn point but they didn’t know.

And yes, if he spawns and you aren’t already at the gate you can easily miss the kill.

Fire ele isn’t a good comparison because it is on the world boss timer. Add foulbear and dredge to the world boss timer please, Anet!

rhapsody.3615:

Ooh someone who knows the pre events! Can you tell me what they are? Last I checked the wiki didn’t have the info. I try asking the people hovering around his spawn point but they didn’t know.

And yes, if he spawns and you aren’t already at the gate you can easily miss the kill.

Fire ele isn’t a good comparison because it is on the world boss timer. Add foulbear and dredge to the world boss timer please, Anet!

The two “center camps” to the east of the Commissar’s area have a series of events (take/hold). They must both be held by the Priory for the Commissar to be able to spawn. If he is not in window, then they will be assaulted by dredge again and must be held.