Guild Wars 2

First of all there’s a lot of simply wrong information being given out on map chat that is making things harder to figure out. With that in mind here’s the way I understand it…

You can get the loot chest after getting a gold achievement/reward once per day per boss per account. In addition to that you can get the bonus chest once per day per account. Is that correct?

If so, and even if not, I have two other questions:
1.) Does the per day mean every 24 hours or per reset (currently 15:00 central time) period? Meaning if I get the loot chest from Maw at 19:00 can I get it the next day at 15:01 or do I need to wait until 24 hours plus 1 minute or 19:01?
2.) There may be a bug in the Tequati boss since I farmed it once for loot then waited over 30 hours to do it again and got no chest despite the gold achieve. Either it is bugged or I simply do not understand the system after all which is the reason for this nooby question. I can get other chests like the Shadow Behemoth each day but not Teq, maybe dragons work differently than the Maw/SB/FE, I have not tested that theory with Jojo or Shatt.

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

So nobody can explain the new timing of chest rewards for these group events?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Upcoming-mega-boss-chest-change/first#post1656442
2: The reset time is the 24 hr period.
3: Iave had no problem with Teq kittenJor.

Hi…
So first to make it clear for you. ( I hope) when you do a world boss, you will get 2 chests. the traditional one that appears that everyone loots from and then another one like you get when you complete the daily.
The chest you get like the daily comes with your 1 guaranteed Rare. The traditional chest may still have rares in them, but not guaranteed.
I have not done the same event more than once in a day so I do NOT know if you can keep getting the traditional chest. But, you will only get 1 Daily Chest for the event per day (Day = Server reset)

So, my server reset is at 8 in the evening. So. I can do MAW at 730, get the traditional chest and the Daily Chest. I can then do it at 830 and get the same. The 24 Hr clock starts at server reset.

I think you may have something on Teq. When the patch came out I fought him and got the Traditional Chest, but NO Daily chest. Yesterday I did it and got both. At first I thought maybe I didn’t do enough damage to rate the daily one. but, yesterday I know I did less damage than the previous time and still got both..so a bug is not out of the question for me.

Edbert.8471:

First of all there’s a lot of simply wrong information being given out on map chat that is making things harder to figure out. With that in mind here’s the way I understand it…

You can get the loot chest after getting a gold achievement/reward once per day per boss per account. In addition to that you can get the bonus chest once per day per account. Is that correct?

If so, and even if not, I have two other questions:
1.) Does the per day mean every 24 hours or per reset (currently 15:00 central time) period? Meaning if I get the loot chest from Maw at 19:00 can I get it the next day at 15:01 or do I need to wait until 24 hours plus 1 minute or 19:01?
2.) There may be a bug in the Tequati boss since I farmed it once for loot then waited over 30 hours to do it again and got no chest despite the gold achieve. Either it is bugged or I simply do not understand the system after all which is the reason for this nooby question. I can get other chests like the Shadow Behemoth each day but not Teq, maybe dragons work differently than the Maw/SB/FE, I have not tested that theory with Jojo or Shatt.

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

I’ll fix your assumptions:

“You can get the loot chest after getting a gold achievement/reward once per day per boss per account character. In addition to that you can get the bonus chest once per day per boss per account.”

My definitions:

Loot chest – the large chest that gives about 5 items
Bonus chest – the little bouncy chest that gives a guaranteed rare or better

1) Per day means between server resets. In your example, you’ll get misleading answers because of the timing you chose. The server actually resets at 19:00 central time, so if you do an event at 19:00, you can’t do it again until the following day at 19:00. However, you don’t normally have to wait 24 hours. If you did the event at 18:59 you would be eligible to do it again 1 minute later.

2) I haven’t had any strange issues with any of the events, including Teq, so I can’t help you here. All I can say is that all world events have worked normally for me.

It’s 8pm est (daily reset for me) I go do Shatterer and get 1 Guaranteed Rare in a bonus chest. This chest is in the right side and looks like a daily reward. On the ground is another chest. This one has no guarantee and RNG is there. So I loot that one too hoping ofr even more rares or better.

Ok so I’ve done shatterer on this character. Between now at 8pm Est tomorrow if I do shatter again on ANY character on THIS account, I will recieve nothing expcept xp karma.

8Pm rolls around again for me, now the reset occured. Gee shatterer happens to be up again after the reset, I do the event again, and get the bonus chest and the regular chest.

This is how it works. Apply this to every boss chest you do that were listed on the forums and its teh same result.

1 bonus per account per day per event.
1 regular chest per account per day per event.
1 day = 24hour server reset time.
Account= all characters pertaining to your entire GW2 account.
Event= any event that gives a chest and is included in the new system.

Additionally you now need to be level 40+ to receive the bonus chest.

Did something change from this statement then?

“In the next release we will adjust the way that world mega bosses award their loot. The current chests will stay lootable once per day per character, but each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.

Our intention with this change is to keep providing rewarding loot for world mega bosses while avoiding overwhelming participation in boss fights (and overwhelming the economy with rares) from players cycling through each character slot for each boss every day."

I mean, if both the regular chest AND the bonus chest are lootable once per day per account, what was the point of separating them??

Geotherma.2395:

It’s 8pm est (daily reset for me) I go do Shatterer and get 1 Guaranteed Rare in a bonus chest. This chest is in the right side and looks like a daily reward. On the ground is another chest. This one has no guarantee and RNG is there. So I loot that one too hoping ofr even more rares or better.

Ok so I’ve done shatterer on this character. Between now at 8pm Est tomorrow if I do shatter again on ANY character on THIS account, I will recieve nothing expcept xp karma.

8Pm rolls around again for me, now the reset occured. Gee shatterer happens to be up again after the reset, I do the event again, and get the bonus chest and the regular chest.

This is how it works. Apply this to every boss chest you do that were listed on the forums and its teh same result.

1 bonus per account per day per event.
1 regular chest per account per day per event.
1 day = 24hour server reset time.
Account= all characters pertaining to your entire GW2 account.
Event= any event that gives a chest and is included in the new system.

Additionally you now need to be level 40+ to receive the bonus chest.

Regular chest is per character, not account. I verified this last night doing Behemoth several times.

You can loot the chest that appears on the ground once per day with each of your characters for each event. You get the ‘bonus’ chest once a day on your entire account for each event. The ‘day’ starts over at server reset.

Boss Chest
The normal chest that spawns on the ground.
A minimum of bronze contribution required.
Can be looted once per character per event each day.
Resets with the daily.

Bonus Chest
The recently added chest that appears on the UI, similar to the daily reward chest.
A minimum of bronze contribution required.
Can be looted once per event each day.
Resets with the daily.

Daily Reset
24:00 UTC / 0:00 UTC / 5 PM PDT

Icepick.5210:

Geotherma.2395:

It’s 8pm est (daily reset for me) I go do Shatterer and get 1 Guaranteed Rare in a bonus chest. This chest is in the right side and looks like a daily reward. On the ground is another chest. This one has no guarantee and RNG is there. So I loot that one too hoping ofr even more rares or better.

Ok so I’ve done shatterer on this character. Between now at 8pm Est tomorrow if I do shatter again on ANY character on THIS account, I will recieve nothing expcept xp karma.

8Pm rolls around again for me, now the reset occured. Gee shatterer happens to be up again after the reset, I do the event again, and get the bonus chest and the regular chest.

This is how it works. Apply this to every boss chest you do that were listed on the forums and its teh same result.

1 bonus per account per day per event.
1 regular chest per account per day per event.
1 day = 24hour server reset time.
Account= all characters pertaining to your entire GW2 account.
Event= any event that gives a chest and is included in the new system.

Additionally you now need to be level 40+ to receive the bonus chest.

Regular chest is per character, not account. I verified this last night doing Behemoth several times.

I did this as well, and did not work acrossed characters. Wondering if this is a glitch, maybe a dev can clarify. As far as I knew both chests are account wide. I could be wrong though, I’m not one of the people who spammed 8 alts for loot. ^^

Boss chest = 1 time per character, per day, per boss.

Bonus chest (dancing one over your minimap) = 1 time per day, per boss.

I have a roommate who is also experiencing the lack of a chest at the Teqatl event. It is clearly a bug that is not affecting everyone. He had been at work all afternoon and evening, and this was the first and only time he’d done Teq since the daily reset. He’s getting gold for the event, getting the one rare in the UI chest, but no in-zone chest. It is not on his screen, and there is nothing for him to interact with. I did the event with im and got both the UI and in-zone chests as expected, so it is only affecting some people.

SneakyErvin.3056:

Boss chest = 1 time per character, per day, per boss.

Bonus chest (dancing one over your minimap) = 1 time per day, per boss.

No, boss chest, big one everyone loots from is 1 time per character per day, per boss.

Bonus chest is 1 time per day per account, regardless of which boss you do or what character you use. You’ll only get the bonus chest (that shakes like the daily in the bottom right corner) once per day per account not per boss.

I did the tequatl event as well with a guild mate and didn’t get the chest either. I had to ask him where the chest spawned and it wasn’t there…

or at least that’s how I “perceived” it.

@Halanna…I am afraid you are mistaken. An account gets one bonus chest per event (boss) daily. Do 5 different bosses, get 5 bonus chests. Do the same boss on another character, get only the event chest, but not the bonus chest.

Halanna.3927:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Boss chest = 1 time per character, per day, per boss.

Bonus chest (dancing one over your minimap) = 1 time per day, per boss.

No, boss chest, big one everyone loots from is 1 time per character per day, per boss.

Bonus chest is 1 time per day per account, regardless of which boss you do or what character you use. You’ll only get the bonus chest (that shakes like the daily in the bottom right corner) once per day per account not per boss.

No I know what I’m talking about regarding this and what I said is how it works. It’s just that simple.

“In the next release we will adjust the way that world mega bosses award their loot. The current chests will stay lootable once per day per character, but each boss’s guaranteed rare item drop will be moved to a separate chest (visually similar to daily achievement reward chests) that can only be acquired once per day across an account.
Our intention with this change is to keep providing rewarding loot for world mega bosses while avoiding overwhelming participation in boss fights (and overwhelming the economy with rares) from players cycling through each character slot for each boss every day.”

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Upcoming-mega-boss-chest-change/first#post1656442

Thank you so much for the well written responses. What a great community we have here!

edit to add: I did get the big chest from Teq twice since posting the initial message, still don’t know what was going on initially but just don;t care anymore :-)

SneakyErvin.3056:

Halanna.3927:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Boss chest = 1 time per character, per day, per boss.

Bonus chest (dancing one over your minimap) = 1 time per day, per boss.

No, boss chest, big one everyone loots from is 1 time per character per day, per boss.

Bonus chest is 1 time per day per account, regardless of which boss you do or what character you use. You’ll only get the bonus chest (that shakes like the daily in the bottom right corner) once per day per account not per boss.

No I know what I’m talking about regarding this and what I said is how it works. It’s just that simple.

SneakyErvin is correct.

Bonus Chest(Daily Chest above mini map) = Per boss, per account: You get the chest for each DIFFERENT boss on the same character. If you do the same boss again before server reset you will only receive the Ground Chest.

Ground Chest (Giant chest for everyone)= Per character per boss: Do all the bosses with one character and you get a Ground Chest, do all the bosses again with the same character you will get nothing. If you do the bosses again with a different character you will get the Ground Chest.