Guild Wars 2

I’m talking about HoT. The box that appears above your mini map that shows participation and map tier.

There are times when both bars are completely full…yet nothing happens.

I have done searches as to the meaning of this box and how it works, but found almost nothing.

Can someone point to a web page that explains this.

It’s timed, for Verdant Brink it finishes with day/night time: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Day_and_night

For Dragon Stand there should be a timer at all times.

For Auric Basin and Tangled Depths there seems to be a common hidden timer (across all map instances), though I don’t know the specifics. I would be interested in a website explaining this.

If it’s full up in, say Verdant Brink, that means you’ll be getting max rewards. You get to 200% participation and then keep doing events so that doesn’t bleed away, and your map gets to Tier 4 (by doing all the events and defending all the rallies and killing all the canopy bosses) and when the day or night ends (especially the night) then you should get a Bladed Coat Box. This is afaik the only way to get the bladed chest.

I haven’t done DS enough to know what the bars mean there, and have yet to experience Auric and Tangled metas. But I imagine there are similar bonuses there.

Thanks for replies.

So full bars does not mean its done. I guess there some kind of timer that we can’t see.

At least 2 times I waited till something happened, but had no ideal why or how long.

At least one time, I had 200%…..but didn’t get any Blade Coat box.

The 2 times I got something, it was pretty much junk for time I put in.

Oh well, just trying to understand what is worth doing….thanks again.

Just seen in another post. Here is a timer for the HoT meta events:

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/