Guild Wars 2

I am unsure if I am just now becoming aware of this due to me playing a lot more lately, but I happened to be traversing through a low level area and noticed that it seemed to be much more busy than I am used to.

Apparently there is a large amount of people that use timers to jump between meta events for guaranteed rare/exotics? By a large amount, I mean enough that all the people were not showing.

Is this something new or has this been going on for a while now?

Been going on since they first started to guarantee a rare drop. It use to be once per character per day over level 40 but now it’s once per player per day. So it’s been like a couple of months now.

Edit: end of February.

I feel like the timers were there before that. at least just the dragons. they added timers for other events when they added guaranteed rares to them. still not all of the rare chest events are listed. some are just unpopular, and not all are even predictable (like the pre-events are too long)