Guild Wars 2

Anyone know which developer made a post or know the link to the post about spawning requirements for meta bosses?

I remember the developer stating that although certain bosses do not have Pre-Events, they do have prerequisites that must be fulfilled before spawning. My memory is a little hazy of the exact wording, but it goes something along the lines of :

Once the boss is available to spawn, the system does a check on certain events to see if they have been completed or not. If one event is marked as failed the boss will not spawn until this event is completed successfully. I think that Tequatl was one of the examples, but I could be mistaken.

This post was made approximately 3-4 months ago…

Isn’t that written on wiki pages regarding meta-bosses?

Thanks for pointing that out. I checked the link sources (at the bottom of the wiki) regarding that, but some of them are dead now.

I was trying to point out to someone in-game that certain bosses won’t trigger unless certain events are completed. Events that may seem unrelated and are not pre-events to the bosses but are still part of the meta “zone”. An example would be Sister Brenda’s event “Protect the brew shipment” in Queensdale.

I know about the post referring to the Shadow Behemoth spawn bug, but there was another one regarding these event checks and how some bosses may not be spawning within the timers because of it.

The pre-events for Fire Elemental in Thaumanova Reactor can’t start unless there are no other events running in the area. The “clean up chaotic materials” event always makes the escort pre-event available once finished, but can’t start unless there are no other events in the reactor (in this regard, every single event that runs in the area could be considered part of the pre-events for Fire Elemental, because it will never start if they’re left unfinished)

Right, that was part of what the developer was communicating. He also suggested that some events were not starting because these other events needed to be completed “successfully” at least once during the spawning period. I think that this was in response to a Tequatl not spawning post. I spent a while trying to look up developer posts, but can’t seem to find it.