Guild Wars 2

I’ve probably killed the Dredge over a hundred times since I started running WB’s on a nightly basist. I’ve parked my engineer at the Dredge site and have had occasional problems in recent months , getting worse about the time the holiday patch came in, and now it’s really bad.

I get into the fight early, fight continously, get the champion chest but NOT the event chest or the daily bonus chest, even though I’m well past the WB reset. I decided to troubleshoot it one week, and killed it 4 times one night, all after reset, got 4 champion chests and finally on the last kill got the event chest and bonus. That fight was the worst in terms of time of participation as I was coming off another fight and got there late, not really expecting even the champ chest.

He’s full exotic with a couple of pieces of ascended jewelry, so not undergeared. He’s rifle equipped, and 20/20/30/0/0 specced. When troubleshooting I made sure not to short cut any aspect of the fight and have damage numbers boiling off him. No joy. It’s almost if I’ve already killed it since reset. Thinking the reset might be 24 actual hours, I returned the next evening and got the kill the first try, well before the 24 hours, but about 15 mins after the nightly WB reset. For the rest of the week got the event chest with one kill, until last night when again it took 4 tries, all of which were quality efforts. I can’t guess a cause of this.

Any ideas?

Michael.9403:

I’ve probably killed the Dredge over a hundred times since I started running WB’s on a nightly basist. I’ve parked my engineer at the Dredge site and have had occasional problems in recent months , getting worse about the time the holiday patch came in, and now it’s really bad.

Almost missed that in your description but the problem is the bolded part. Parking a character at a world for too many runs(not sure one the exact count) will result in that kind of issue. It can be avoided by doing other events in between.

ANET counts the number of times you do the same event in a row? That’s to prohibit what hard to imagine exploit?

I have several characters, and tend to park some where a WB fight is short duration, and the run in from the zone in WP is long. That way if I am coming in hot from another fight, I shorten the lost time by avoiding the run in. The Dredge meets that criteria. However, I do others like that (i.e. Fire Shaman) without the same failure but on different toons.

Your explanation doesn’t cover the cases of the last week. 4 kills the same night, the last one resulting in the event and bonus chests. He never left the campsite between. I have multiple examples of that with the Eng/Dredge combo.

I know it’s something other than failure to compete in the fight the required time or energy, and it’s not D/C since I get the champ chest. Perhaps, since there’s no merchant nearby, I don’t even bring him out for days until bag overflow forces it, and perhaps it’s duration of the camp, not number of runs. I’ll pull him out nightly and clear his bags and see if that clears it up.

I have no idea what the exact algorithm is. That has never been mentioned and probably never will.

The restrictions were added when the bonus chests first introduced. At that time it was not per account but per character.

I believe its diminishing returns your talking about, and it should not affect daily event rewards as far as I am aware.