Guild Wars 2

I tried searching for this on the forums, but could find anyone already ranting about this. Maybe because these forums aren’t as robust as others

For most of these collection items, I’m more than happy to do. If some only happen at a certain time, there is usually an API that offers me a chance to prepare for a time for me to set aside later in my day/week to sit down complete the event to get the item. But when it comes to completing a meta event in Orr (which may or may not spawn—depending if the location was defended or not), is a bit much.

I’ve been told that the API for Orr events have been turned off. So now I have to gamble my time away and hope that I get on a map that either let the event fail to restart the original chain, or sit around and wait for 2 hours for another event to occur and hope that people will let it fail—-all for one collection item—Ancient Charting Device.

I get why ANET is making this part of the collection, but this seems like a bit of an oversight. I’m sure a small percentage have time to blow two hours just sitting at a temple. But I take issue with the fact that it might end of being 4, 6, or 8—-all because a few players could keep the temple from closing.

I’d be really interested to hear what the devs have to say about it (although I’m sure it’s going to be “sorry, just wait it out”)

I thought they fixed all the collections so that you wouldn’t require failure just to continue them? I remember they commented on that a while ago.

I just looked on the wiki. Why do you have to hope it fails? It just mentions that item is in the box when the chain is successful.

MashMash.1645:

I just looked on the wiki. Why do you have to hope it fails? It just mentions that item is in the box when the chain is successful.

For the chain to start the defense event has to fail.

I did the collection mid/late January and got the item from a successful defense event.
Should still work this way.

Miellyn.6847:

I did the collection mid/late January and got the item from a successful defense event.
Should still work this way.

I was trying to find the patch notes for that but only saw the ones for other weapons.

I totally agree with you, I’ve been standing around for what seems like hours waiting for anything to happen at Dwayna as well. Like you, I can’t find anything to confirm that the defend event will grant the item either.

Its beyond me why these temples are on such extremely long timers as it would be much more entertaining for the map as a whole to have these events come up much more often.

They may not be on a completely fixed timer because of the mega servers, but maybe it can be built in that Historian Vermoth can tell you for that specific map (by talking to him)?
At least then I don’t have to stand around for two hours looking pretty, not knowing when or if anything is going to happen… thus completely rooting me there for all that time.

I think I did this one with help from 2 guildies. In two different map instances.

So I can’t say if I was lucky or not but I definitely got it right away that way.

The API is down exactly for the reason this method works.(covering multiple map instances/opening a new one) Since map instances aren’t hard locked to servers anymore there’s no easy way of determining what the API is showing. At least not until the API works per server IP.