Guild Wars 2

So tequatl has been out for a while right now and it’s currently on a 70 minutes spawning windows.

Since release I’ve seen the numbers on my server go down from “impossible to get in” to “desert” but I like the fight and I’m still doing it every day with TKS/TSS/THS.

The BIGGEST issue I’m having with teq is its spawning window and I’d like to see it addressed.
The encounter requires you to be there and ready before the spawning window opens if you want to succeed, you’re not going to down him with a bunch of unorganized people that were there at the right time, ever.

So you organize, get ready, put expert people on the turrets, assign other people to defense squads, form the dps groups, start spawning the ice bows and wait. And then wait. And wait a bit more. And then you wait another 5 minutes. Then you fall asleep and after that you wait a bit more. Until he finally spawns and you can enjoy your 15 minutes of fun content. I’ve seen it spawn with FORTY SECONDS left a few days ago.
WHY?

Why does it even have a spawning window? What’s the reasoning behind it? Is it useful for something other than bore us to death and drive many players away from the event?

Please give teq a fixed timer (Or a pre event. But the pre event takes time to develop, the timer change does not). We need it and we need it now, not in 6 months, please.

yes, this needs to be addressed, its an old mechanic that needs a change. Why its there? cuz back in the day you needed no prep to take him down , just show up and zerg him till he died, the end. The window was so ppl don’t camp him and to give the feeling “of oh, it can show up any time, its always different” feel. Tech needs a better exact timer if your going to require coordination.

The Tequatl timer NEEDS to be shortened. For a world boss event of this size and difficulty, its spawning window should be only 10 to maybe 20 minutes at most, after the 30 or so minute pre-window (so that means a total time since last tequatl of 40 to 50 minutes). A 1 hour spawning window is just way too big, especially when it feels like it more often than not doesn’t start until the very end of the spawn window.

yea i agree. i ain’t waiting 1h in that zone for a 10mins fight

Teq site in Sparkfly Fen is a desert everywhere where people don’t go for an organised kill. It’s just not an event you accidentally stumble upon. So players who are doing it need something more than just a random timer. It would also encourage people on many servers to indeed go for some organisation. cause tam, all that waiting time is putting people off on less populated servers. Organisation would be easier if people now when it will happen.

Yeap, at the very least window should be shortened, but ideally the timer should be fixed, it takes a lot of time and effort from ppl to get there and organize and to make them wait needlessly ~90 mins. is just not nice.

Yeah this is so stupid.

What is the point with the random spawn thing? If they want it at an hour, why not just make him spawn every hour? This random 30 minute window on top of that is just asinine.

This is partly why I haven’t even attempted him since I got all my boss week achievements. I don’t have time to wait around for an hour just for a .5% chance or whatever it is for the cool weapons. When I do have the time for it, I would rather be doing something else that actually yields rewards.

From my point of view the spawning window is the single worst problem with Teq.

I mean, Teq does most things I want:
- rewards for partial completions
- requires coordination
- instills server cooperation
- not a guaranteed win

Sure, I’d love to reduce 10% of hitpoints from the reptile to give some margin of errors especially for players not on TS (or simply for ‘non-elite players’ – as it stands now, people not using Teamspeak or proper equipment are not being invited), but this is much, MUCH less important than the spawn window.

I have limited time in game. When I log on I want to do something, not stand and wait. I don’t mind something like 2h respawn, but spawn window above 15 minutes is something horrible – what am I to do during the current 60 minutes or so?

I am not talking about ‘farming’ or ‘rewards’. I am talking about simple quality of life. In other events I could hop to WvW, but Teq requires full coordination and you simply cannot come 2 minutes after event starts.

Teq is a very different event from all other World Bosses. Therefore, please, treat the spawn window differently. Because as it stands the waiting is simply soul-crushing if you want to DO stuff, not chit-chat…

I have participated in Teq event only 5 times, without success. I simply can’t often commit 1h of my time to WAIT, especially if I may have to go afk for ~10 minutes which could hurt the chances of everyone there.