Guild Wars 2

The original schedule for world bosses set Tequatl at an already painfully late for North American prime 7pm server time, as well as 4:30am and 10am. Those times are also Pacific Time. For Eastern Time, the most populous time zone in North America. those are 10pm, 7:30am, and 1pm.

Now, according to the official list of updates the 7pm server event is now 8pm server, pushing the event to a ridiculous 11pm Eastern Time. These changes have effectively shattered months of effort to build a sense of community around the event.

I had hoped for the event to be moved earlier before release, even if only an hour. As someone who has to go to work in the morning, the 7pm time slot was going to be a stretch for me. The 8pm server slot is right out.

Our secondary plan of having guilds try to produce Tequatl even once a week in rotation is also almost unachievable.

I find this frustrating, and I know I’m not the only one. I’ve formed friendships through helping organize Tequatl and I’d hoped to help others to the same. But this change has almost destroyed that hope.

I agree 100%, I’ve been doing Tequatl nearly every single day since this “new Teq” event started last year. While helping to get Teq organized everyday at reset time I’ve seen how much JQ had grown as a community. The reset kill time worked so well for so many people because most were just getting off work, getting home from school, or it was early enough before they had to sleep because of work or school the next day.

We understand the purpose of Megaserver(whenever it starts up for higher zones) to get more ppl involved with others. Which is great, we’ve never turned people down from helping out/doing teq at reset kill, we always look to get new ppl involved and teach them defenses. But pushing the spawn time so late in the night means many of the veterans who have also attended teq nearly everyday, now can’t do it. Because most have to sleep or just can’t be online late. I’ve enjoyed hanging out with many friends during Teq, that I’ve made from being involved with this. But now I can’t, just like many others can’t.

It’s unfair to those who can’t make it so late, it’s unfair to the community who have worked so hard the past year to get it built as strong as it is now. Forcing guilds to have to do their own spawns doesn’t help much when there is no realistic way for everyone to be able to have the requirements to have it done daily.

This whole new schedule for all the big boss events really should have had more thought into it, without disregarding all the communities that work hard daily to help get it done for everyone.