Guild Wars 2

Hullujah! An angry thread.
About what?
specifically world bosses.

Had you ever finally contributed to the world boss fight, and watching as it health goes down? Then your computer freezes up, or the game crash abruptly. You would try to re-start it fanatically, in hysterical state. Those who were lucky, were able to get the reward on time. Others? Not so much.

While if you manage to stay there til the end, and the boss crash. You’ll also suffer a bit of consequences. For an instance, you cannot get the chest. Why? Because you already killed the world boss, but you didn’t get the ‘physical chest’. You may gotten the chest that’s hovering above your map. But you never got the physical chest provided by the world boss.

Then you just have to be patient, waiting for it’s next respawn. And you killed it off again, this time with some lag, or some almost near-freeze moment.

And the boss doesn’t drop the physical chest. Which is well, irritating for those who suffered these very moments, just staring at their monitor. Wondering how the world boss does not drop their own chest. It’s like you’re forced to wait until the reset if you never got the Physical chest. Making you feel helpless, as you have to waste more time waiting for the reset.

Considering that even if you manage to contribute good sum of damage to the world boss, and somehow just crashed near the end of the event. Do you somehow just wish Arenanet would just make it so that account-bound chests can respawn if you had not opened the current chest?

What do you think?

TL:DR – It’s mostly about the physical chest that won’t respawn until the reset timer. Not the shaking chest that pops above the mini-map, you’ll alway get it. Even if you froze, or crash.

Dlarnkk.1068:

Hullujah! An angry thread.
About what?
my crappy computer

…snip

There I fixed it for ya.

On a serious note, yes it sucks but it’s not truly a game mechanic problem. The chest never disappears, you just log into an instance of the map that you didn’t participate in.

I had issues like this when I first started playing and yes, it’s very frustrating (especially Tequatl). I made sure I joined a group so that way, if I dc’d, I can get back and claim the chest. If I notice a group member dc’d, I make sure I stick around for a bit to give them a path back to the correct instance.

This game tends to be a lot more forgiving than other games, where you dc during a boss fight and you have no recourse to getting credit, even after you reconnect and join the group. The above-mentioned method works, so until you can fix your computer issues (or replace your PC), make sure you join a group. Doesn’t hurt to mention that you have dc issues so hopefully someone sticks around at the end if you crash during the fight.