Guild Wars 2

Hello All!

I am sure this has been asked before but I could not find it easily. How do the “new” map rewards work?
Do they drop on events only in that map or mob kills?
Is there a limit to how many you can get on a map in a certain amount of time?
When do they reset for a new reward on that map?

I assume that the reward is randomly chosen each map reward reset.

Just curious as to see if it would be worth trying to farm or the best way to farm some of those map rewards as a couple of them currently have rare tier 6 mats available and shovels are a possibility for SW (at some point).

Thanks for your assistance and feedback!

Map Bonus Rewards are like PvP Reward Tracks. Each map has a weekly rotating set of 40 rewards, in order, for you to earn. Completing events, jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons within the map will all progress you along the track. Event completion is worth slightly more than a PvP Reward Potion gives you for a PvP Reward Track. Normally, two PvP Reward Potions is exactly enough to give you a single reward, so because events are worth more for Map Rewards, you’ll usually get a Map Reward each two events, but will sometimes get rewarded for back to back events due to the slight overflow.

The first item you’re rewarded with is the most common reward for the reward cycle. It’s what you’ll see most often. This does include rare T6 materials like Powerful Blood. Furthermore, the 20th and 40th reward in the track will be 10x that common reward. So if you stick it out in whatever map is currently giving Vial of Powerful Blood as the common reward, you’ll get ten at a time at the halfway point and the end of the track.

The uncommon rewards, like Charged Lodestones or Giant Eyes, fall less often on the track. Over the whole 40 reward track, you’ll typically get them between 4-6 times. It depends on the specific track.

Thanks for the feedback. That is very helpful. Can you give me an example of a mini-dungoen? Also, do you know if there is anyway to see your current “Map Reward Track” progress?

Again, thanks for the feedback.

A mini-dungeon is a location where you need to traverse through enemies and/or puzzles to get a treasure chest in the end. They all have Explorer achievements attached to them. When you complete a mini-dungeon or a Jumping Puzzle now, in zones that have Map Rewards, you’ll get a popup saying “Event Succeeded” and a gold medal which will give you your Map Reward credit, whereas previously (aside from achievement notification on your first completion) you’d get no notification. You can only get credit from a JP/mini-dungeon once per character per day, of course.

There is no way in the UI to see your current progress through the track, no.