Guild Wars 2

This week my guild got the Oasis Collection 3 for a wvw challenge. We hung out in wvw for approx an hour and never saw the event spawn. Is there some timer as to when the event starts or a way to trigger it for guild missions.

I looked on wiki and it says" This meta event occurs every 3 hours in each Desert Borderlands map."

I mean it seems kind of silly to give a guild mission that there is no way to activate and just do it. But maybe I’m missing something as we don’t do a huge amount of WvW with our guild.

The event is on a 3 hour rotation, meaning it will occur every hour on one BL before it comes back to say your home BL.

Is there a specific time of the hour? Say half past, Quarter past etc?

Wiki is mistaking, its not happening every hour at all. I have seen it going on in different maps same time. The best theory I have atm is this – in each map next oasis event starts 2 hours after last oasis event on that map was finished. If nobody ever does the oasis events, then they continue to activate in 3 hour interval, last for 1 hour and end again. However, if anyone actually does the event, and gives the cores within 10 minutes, this map now starts next oasis 50 minutes earlier, again 2 hours from last finish time.

Best I can advice is to have guild members just waiting is each of the 3 maps. There will usually be oasis event in one of the maps within hour. But if you really unlucky, it will take over 2 hours to start in any of the maps.