Guild Wars 2

The Secrets of the swamp meta event is one of the meta events I would like to experience. I was not able to in the beta. Problem is every time I want to play it the swamp is dormant.

The wiki says it is on a 3 hour timer but nothing about when the event starts. Or when the timer starts. I was wondering if anyone would provide insight on this.

Well its kinda random. The timer will start when the previous event has ended. So one time it may take 30 mins, another is 40 mins, another 20, etc. So it is really hard to time it unless you have had someone there to tell you when the previous one died. It is this way so its not as easy to zerg it at once. If it was timed, you’d have half the server there getting ready to kill it.

I see the point in having it timed. I was just hoping it would be a bit more predictable I would like to participate in the event for once. Was fighting in the area for about a hour once just because I wanted to esperance it.

anzenketh.3759:

The Secrets of the swamp meta event is one of the meta events I would like to experience. I was not able to in the beta. Problem is every time I want to play it the swamp is dormant.

The wiki says it is on a 3 hour timer but nothing about when the event starts. Or when the timer starts. I was wondering if anyone would provide insight on this.

I also seem to recall there’s a Necromancer in a small hut near the location of the initial event with a book. He’s afraid to read it, but you can do so.

If you go read that, it’ll trigger a demon to appear, and from that point it seems that the portal appearances escalate and the events ramp up until they start appearing outside the swamp. Once you finish the event chain associated with that, the Colossus will spawn.

I’m not sure if that was a Beta only thing though, as that’s the only time I did the event so far, but if that main trigger is still in place, you may want to go and try it out.

Nope I did find that NPC it does not start off the chain of events. Any other tips to see if the event is running without waypointing all the way down there and being disappointed. The broadcasting area for this event is also rather small.

This might be useful?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/How-exactly-does-Secret-in-the-Swamp-trigger