Guild Wars 2

I don’t get it, are there certain pre-events that need to be done in order to spawn one of the big dragons or are they coming whether or not you did something?

I’m asking because while I was waiting for Tequatl (Dragontimer HP estimated the arrival) quite a few “Meta-Events” popped up. Did some of them and nothing changed. Started one of them and during the event Tequatl came. This is confusing. Wasn’t it supposed to be like: a few groups on different ends of the map fight for the same goal, to spawn the boss?

Tequatl is too cool to play by the same rules as other world bosses. He just shows up even when other ‘Danger at Fabled Djannor’ events are underway.

Tequatl has no pre-events like Jormag or Shaterer

As the others said, it’s different. I would google “GW2 Dragon Timers”, and select your appropriate server on the first link.

Some of them have pre-events, some of them have windows when they can spawn.

ah I see, so the other two dragons have those pre-events… nice to know

Yes, the Shatterer has two pre-events which happen someway to the south of the spawn point – an escort and a collections event. Once both of these are complete the dragon can spawn shortly after. The Claw has a long window in which he can spawn, and his pre-event is the appearance of a bunch of big dragon crystals and mobs around the spawn site which must be destroyed before he lands. After they are destroyed he lands almost immediately.

Teq just turns up anywhere within his 30min window – last night he turned up literally on the last second of the countdown!