Guild Wars 2

Hey folks! Sorry if you’ve already seen this thread a hundred times, but I couldn’t find one with these particular questions. I took a break from the game after the first living story ended and summer was creeping up. I recently came back and I’m having a great time but I’m still a little lost on the world events.

I saw a thread with timers and checked those out, so nice to know I can use that… but I am noticing a lack of fire shaman, foulbear, commisar, etc. I used to start the foulbear chain all the time, and could always count and seeing loads of people when I got so far into it thanks to the gw2stuff timer. So how do these events work now? I may be wrong but it seemed like the gw2stuff timer is a little wonky now. If I was to start one up one of the chains on my own, would other people even know I was doing it unless I manually typed it out in map chat or something? (I am currently guildless as well)

And what the heck with the temples as well?

Thanks!

Temples are the hardest bit. You just have to go to the zone and wait for events to spawn and try to push the events to the end.

The rest of the stuff all works on the timer. Generally people follow around the trail of events. Just go to where the timer says an event is going to be, and it’s going to start, assuming all the preevents are being done.

People do usually frequent all the events on the timer.

Are you talking about the gw2stuff timer, for those “other” events like foulbear and fire shaman and whatnot? I ask because the new timers I’m seeing now don’t even include those events.

If they’re not included on the timer, they’re not world events anymore. Only world events are included on the timer. The thing is, because the world events are synchronized they happen on every mega server at the same time.

Other events aren’t synchronized and start at different times on different servers.

Ah, alright thanks. So I take it those events don’t give the rewards they used to as well?

I haven’t tried them in ages, but I assume not. There’s plenty of events going on. But if it’s rewards you’re really interested in, you might very well be better off in Dry Top instead of farming world events.

I’m not particularly interested in farming them, I have waaaay more gold and items than I’ll ever need any more and I just can’t stand farming, but I always found it just genuinely fun, so I’m kind of bummed if this isn’t the case any more. But thanks for the answers!

I think some of the new events are a lot of fun as well. It’s particularly fun to try to get up to Tier 4 before the Sandstorm hits to get the discounts on new recipes and such, though admittedly a lot more fun with a guild.