Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Each week I co-lead players on my server Stormbluff Isle in an attempt to capture all five of the temples in Orr in sequence.

Each week we get 80+ people participating throughout the entire event. It is quite popular.

With the improved rewards, everyone was very interested to see how the Champion drops would work out through the course of capturing all the temples.

To our disappointment some champions dropped nothing for anybody present, while other champions dropped chests for some people but not for others.

Champions who dropped nothing:

Event: “Defeat the Risen Priest of Balthazar before it can summon a horde of Risen”
Champion Risen Abomination

Event: “Kill the Corrupted High Priestess”
Champion Risen Plague Carrier
Champion Risen Villager
Champion Risen Acolyte
Champion Risen Farmer
Champion Risen Thrall
Champion Risen Brute

Champions who dropped a chest for some people but not others:

Event: “Defeat the possessed statue of Dwayna”
Statue of Dwayna

Event: “Destroy the Risen Priest of Melandru”
Legendary Risen Priest of Melandru

Event: “Defend the Pact interrupter device while it charges to cleanse the temple”
Champion Risen Spider

We were wondering if the large number of players in attendance is having an impact on the drops. We really hope this is a bug you can get fixed soon.

I was present for the full Storm Bluff Isle temple clear on my ranger running longbow and traps. I definately got inconsistent champion chest drops. Are legendary enemies outside the Crown Pavillion supposed to drop champion chests or just actual champion enemies?

Balthazaar: I did roughly equal dammage to the champion abomination and legendary preist but only received a chest drop from the champion abomination but not a chest drop from the legendary priest.

Dwayna: no champion chest drop from legendary statue.

Lyssa: No champion chest drop from anything and I did significant dammage to the legendary preistess and 4-5 champs of various types (Gorilla, Brute and Acolyte)

Melandru: Champion chest drop from Legendary Preist and 3 champion chests drops from 4 champion spiders.

Grenth: Champion chest from a champion risen spider but no chest from the champion risen wraith or legendary preist.

Did you get a gold level participation level each time?
This has only happen once for me but on my way to the Queensdale troll cave for weapon master stuff the troll was up so I hit it a couple of times. Got bronze for the event but no loot from the troll.

I’ve noticed the same behavior. The bigger the zerg, the more likely it is for me to see inconsistent behavior, even though I’m doing the same (or more) damage.

Perhaps a better control example is from Frostgorge. When I joined a zerg during off-peak hours, I was getting champ loot from each champ. When I tried again during peak hours, I usually got nothing unless I was first.

I saw this same behavior before the Queen’s Jubilee release. My mesmer typically did not get the guaranteed blue from the Champ Risen Spider during the Melandru interrupter defense, whereas my guardian always did. (The guardian also gets more loot from the trash mobs.)

I suspect it’s not a “bug” as much as it’s a limitation in the way the game assigns loot credit. Players who aren’t in a party and/or aren’t geared for near-maximum DPS are at a disadvantage. If foes die too quickly, as they do sometimes during the current champ-zergs, some people aren’t going to get credit. The shorter the fight, the more likely this happens.

I can confirm what Cheetah says is true, truly unfortunate for the handful amount of players that participated in this server event and did not get their promised rewards from champions. I am included. Although we are all glad you changed the champion loot system these problem must be fixed soon

The champions at lyssa’s event not dropping loot is probably on purpose. The reason should be fairly obvious if their spawn is only based on time rather than something like the priestess’ health. I don’t know if that is the case, never paid enough attention to observe how/when they get spawned. Culling certainly doesn’t help.

I find it interesting that the champion gorilla is not on that list. I’ve never gotten any reward from that thing and that is basically the number one reason to ignore the event(the fact that it is there not the lack of loot).

I think the Champion that spawns in that Balthazar Fighting ring near Glix also doesn’t drop anything (and basically 1 shots multiple people who attempts to melee him with the power of “SHAZZZAM!”).

This has been happening to me since long before the champ loot bags were added; some champs and legendaries just don’t drop anything for me sometimes, even though I was there for the whole fight, doing plenty of damage, got xp for the kill, and gold participation for the event. The fix they did a while back to make it easier to qualify for loot made it happen less, but didn’t get rid of it completely.

On the other hand, sometimes I’ll run in at the very end of the fight, only get a few hits in, get bronze event participation, yet still get loot from the champ. Qualifying for loot seems really inconsistent.

Hi, I am necro’ing this thread.
Just completed the Lyssa event on SBI, nearly from start to finish(captured the last point and then the entire fight against Lyssa herself). No chest.

One of the longer temple runs, and no chest. Disappointing. One year after launch and these types of bugs still exist? Could we please throw more dev time on polish and bug squashing?

Make that two.
Grenth.
Participated in taking down the risen priest, and then defending keeper jones. No big chest at the end.

Im just going to stop playing guild wars 2 today. Wasting my time.