Guild Wars 2

World Bosses occur at specific times each day. If a specific world boss spawns in the middle of my regular playing time, that means that if I want to fight that world boss I have to choose between:
– Bailing on whatever I’m doing at the time.
– Plan what I’m doing to finish with spare time at the end. Time which I spend around doing nothing waiting for the boss because there isn’t time to do anything else.

Before HoT that wasn’t really a problem as I could just choose to not do the world bosses. There wasn’t anything they provided that I couldn’t get elsewhere except a few skins.

Now if I don’t do the boss achievements, I’m going to miss out on mastery points. Which means missing out on mechanical benefits to my character that can not be obtained elsewhere. Which means that ANET is forcing me to spend time sitting around with nothing to do waiting for the boss to spawn.

Currently, it looks like Central Tyria masteries require 48 mastery points.

I have 47 points, and there are a ton of mastery points I don’t have, so there appears to be plenty of flexibility with which points you get.

I assume they’ll add more masteries down the line, but you shouldn’t need to do Tequatl, Triple Trouble, or Karka Queen if you don’t want to.

Cue the drama eh? Did you had your hand on your forehead like you’re about to faint while writing this?

Or you can, you know, take your time and not rush into content? There are several world boss timers online that let you keep track of them. And all of them are placed nicely one after another. While you wait for boss to spawn, you can, you know, gather stuff for literaly 5 min that takes the boss to spawn, of even less if you help with preevents (but that’s just too much work eh?) , earn some extra gold.

All of the world bosses can be done in under 4 hours. All of them.

Nothing to do while waiting? Run around in the area and harvest stuff. Pay for your waypoint and make some gold as well.

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Or you can, you know, take your time and not rush into content?

Doing them now or doing them 6 months from now still has the same problem of having nothing to do while waiting for the boss to start.

There are several world boss timers online that let you keep track of them.

If tracking the start times was the problem I would have said that it was the problem. But I didn’t, because it isn’t.

And all of them are placed nicely one after another. While you wait for boss to spawn, you can, you know, gather stuff for literaly 5 min that takes the boss to spawn, of even less if you help with preevents (but that’s just too much work eh?) , earn some extra gold.

All of the world bosses can be done in under 4 hours. All of them.

Sure, if you want to do them all. But once you have only one or two bosses left, the ones where you can’t get all the achievements in one go, then that’s a different story.
What should I do in the 10-15 minutes between the end of whatever else I was doing and the start of the preevents for the boss ?

As I suggested above, why not just do some of the other mastery points? There are more than enough available for all of the current masteries without doing world bosses.

I’m not sure I understand the problem, what specific achievements do you get masteries from? Cause if it’s not like “kill teq five days in a row” you should be able to spare the time out of your playtime (especially with a six month time table as mentioned earlier) just once or twice for the points.

Atm i have 42 mastery points and there are 26 available to unlock (and probably more i cant see). Subtract the 8 that came from world bosses and thats 34 of the 48 to finish all the tracks. So more than enough available to skip them.

XP is going to be a lot harder to get, thats what you should be complaining about if you have to complain about something.

So to sum all up, you want something, but you are too lazy to be at a certain time on a certain place for 10 min of your time ingame?