Guild Wars 2

So, last time I saw Shadow Behemoth was during headstart access. Decided he was one of the funnest fights in this game for me – so I went back to Queensdale with my character and did stuff…

I did stuff for 8 hours.

I destroyed at least 100 portals (not to include anything anyone else did at the time), was there for the death of that Harpy warrior you spawn with the necromancy book at least a dozen times throughout, helped all the level 15 tortured souls find their peace (as the level 14 ones only cowered for me and weren’t interactable)…

I went to the ‘help the Ettins’ renown heart since I know that portals to the underworld for the pre-event pop up there and while 2 other people were there every centaur was dead…

If it’s on a timer – I think that 8 hours is quite a bit too long as the Dragon Champions don’t seem to be over 5 hours… and if it’s a trigger the only thing I can say I didn’t do was have every portal down at the same time, or do events at whatever other two places the portals spawn during the pre-event.

Does anyone have any idea what the deal is with this event?

would love to know too.
I always thought the Beeltetun escort event was part of it somehow and the corrupted Oakheart event.
You sound like you have a better idea how it all fits together. It was so long ago for me that it is all a bit hazy.

Morrigan.2809:

would love to know too.
I always thought the Beeltetun escort event was part of it somehow and the corrupted Oakheart event.
You sound like you have a better idea how it all fits together. It was so long ago for me that it is all a bit hazy.

Well I didn’t stay close to the escort path the entire time, however I can say that over the course of 8 hours I did that twice too.

This might be helpful: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Secrets_in_the_Swamp

Naw I wasn’t critisizing you at all
I would also really like to get that event going again since I love the Shadow Behemoth- once he spawned right on top of me, the first time I came into the swamp (lvl9 or so), I almost had a heart attack!
I would love to go pay him a visit now- evil grin

Thanks Candlelight, next time I’ve got hours to spend I’ll do a bunch of DE around the Heartwoods and the monastery as well… perhaps getting all those locations to peak chain is what triggers this event.

If anyone is on Jade Quarry and is interested in helping me try to get every portal in the swamp down at the same time send me a message and we’ll give that a go.

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Thanks Candlelight! I think I will give it a go and see if I can pull it off.
Pity I’m on Gunnar’s Hold Bvhjdbkjf.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Even if that timer is 6 hours with a 2 hour window for the pre-event and I just barely missed it due to needing sleep, it’s horrible that such a good fight (when all the dragon champions are forever lagging like hell) is set at such a high timer. Really hope that if it’s timed Anet rethinks the timing on it a bit so it can be fun.

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Even if that timer is 6 hours with a 2 hour window for the pre-event and I just barely missed it due to needing sleep, it’s horrible that such a good fight (when all the dragon champions are forever lagging like hell) is set at such a high timer. Really hope that if it’s timed Anet rethinks the timing on it a bit so it can be fun.

. . . you’re lagging and culling on the dragon champions too? So it’s not just me then. Awesome, no upgrade for me!

I think the timer is so long because they’re supposed to be somewhat special to do. It’s supposed to be the “wow that was cool” kind of thing the first time you encounter it.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Even if that timer is 6 hours with a 2 hour window for the pre-event and I just barely missed it due to needing sleep, it’s horrible that such a good fight (when all the dragon champions are forever lagging like hell) is set at such a high timer. Really hope that if it’s timed Anet rethinks the timing on it a bit so it can be fun.

. . . you’re lagging and culling on the dragon champions too? So it’s not just me then. Awesome, no upgrade for me!

I think the timer is so long because they’re supposed to be somewhat special to do. It’s supposed to be the “wow that was cool” kind of thing the first time you encounter it.

I’ve got no problem with this, I came from a game where mobs could respawn between 17 and 32 hours after last ToD…

But why make the dragon champions farmable when they’re not even near as much fun as this one we don’t get to do but once a week if we’re lucky? I think Anet needs to balance it out a bit.

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Even if that timer is 6 hours with a 2 hour window for the pre-event and I just barely missed it due to needing sleep, it’s horrible that such a good fight (when all the dragon champions are forever lagging like hell) is set at such a high timer. Really hope that if it’s timed Anet rethinks the timing on it a bit so it can be fun.

. . . you’re lagging and culling on the dragon champions too? So it’s not just me then. Awesome, no upgrade for me!

I think the timer is so long because they’re supposed to be somewhat special to do. It’s supposed to be the “wow that was cool” kind of thing the first time you encounter it.

I’ve got no problem with this, I came from a game where mobs could respawn between 17 and 32 hours after last ToD…

But why make the dragon champions farmable when they’re not even near as much fun as this one we don’t get to do but once a week if we’re lucky? I think Anet needs to balance it out a bit.

This reminds me, I wonder how often the Fire Elemental is up. I need to go take care of that thing.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Far as I can tell . . . it’s on a cycling timer. I’ve never sat and timed it (I don’t have that kind of time) but I’m fairly sure. The three different trigger events are, I think, randomized so that one of them is the trigger leading into the next two legs of it.

Even if that timer is 6 hours with a 2 hour window for the pre-event and I just barely missed it due to needing sleep, it’s horrible that such a good fight (when all the dragon champions are forever lagging like hell) is set at such a high timer. Really hope that if it’s timed Anet rethinks the timing on it a bit so it can be fun.

. . . you’re lagging and culling on the dragon champions too? So it’s not just me then. Awesome, no upgrade for me!

I think the timer is so long because they’re supposed to be somewhat special to do. It’s supposed to be the “wow that was cool” kind of thing the first time you encounter it.

I’ve got no problem with this, I came from a game where mobs could respawn between 17 and 32 hours after last ToD…

But why make the dragon champions farmable when they’re not even near as much fun as this one we don’t get to do but once a week if we’re lucky? I think Anet needs to balance it out a bit.

This reminds me, I wonder how often the Fire Elemental is up. I need to go take care of that thing.

Fire Elemental is actually triggered, though I dunno how often the trigger quest pops. If you go to the entrance of the reactor (I dunno if there’s more than one) an asura with a cleaning golem will be waiting for an escort. Help them through the mess, golem explodes into elemental – viola.