Guild Wars 2

I completed the Maw Meta event last night (got the chest) however I DID NOT receive the Bonus Chest. I have not done this event for weeks so the daily limit was not the issue.

Someone in Map Chat stated that the Bonus chest would only be awarded if you are lvl 40+. I have never heard this before. Any anyone Confirm/Deny that? The character I was using is currently lvl 37…

personal reward level (PRL) lvl 37 in a lvl30+ fractal will receive a lvl 30 chest.
Otherwise the PRL wouldn’t make any sense. Go into lvl30 with a PRL1 char and get a lvl 30 chest ? no.

Yes, that is true. You do not get the bonus chest with the guaranteed rare unless you are at least level 40. If you have another character that is > 40 you can still do the event again today before reset for the bonus chest.

DoRnbush.4986:

Yes, that is true. You do not get the bonus chest with the guaranteed rare unless you are at least level 40. If you have another character that is > 40 you can still do the event again today before reset for the bonus chest.

OK, thank you!

For those confused, he wasn’t talking about FotM.

Ayrilana.1396:

For those confused, he wasn’t talking about FotM.

:P correct. I was talking about the Maw event in Wayfayer Foothills.

It’s the same for all meta events. Due to people making new characters, and exploiting the guaranteed rare, ANet increased it where you have to be lvl 40 to get a bonus chest… on ALL meta events. Behemoth, Frozen Maw, Jungle Wurm, Fire Ele, etc.

And how could you exploit it by making new characters when it is only once per day per account?

WaxWorm.8574:

And how could you exploit it by making new characters when it is only once per day per account?

It is NOW, not when the lvl40 min was imposed. That mechanism is now redundant, but remains.

The issue is that the minimum level for a dropped gold item is level 39 (you can craft some golds for level 35, but they don’t drop from mobs/chests).

People with a level 10 char were earning level 39 gold items – which is significantly higher in level to what they should have been able to get from a chest for their own character level. It’s scaled for characters of higher levels (i.e. a level 60 character gets a gold item around level 57-62), but they couldn’t scale it down further for characters below about 40 because gold drops simply don’t exist that low.

The limit was added about the same time as they restricted it the chest to once per account per day…it was due to the difference reward level of the gold item rather than due to multiple characters hitting the chest each day.