Guild Wars 2

Since the September 3rd patch I’ve been doing the World Boss Events which give a daily reward chest aswell as a (daily) boss chest daily, utilizing API sites aswell guesting on 2 servers.

To safe myself some cash in traveling, i placed some of my alt on boss spawns (fire shaman, shatterer, mark II, etc.). And this is where i started to noticed the Bug over the last few days:

If you log on to the boss event with a char, who has been standing there already and hasn’t left the area since completing the event the previous day, your account will not get the Daily Reward Chest aswell as the Daily Boss Chest. You will get Exp, Cash and karma for the Event though.

I can reproduce this Bug by simply finishing and not moving the character till doing the same boss event the next day.

tltr: if you don’t leave the map of a world boss event, you won’t get your daily reward the next day.

I’ve noticed this as well, thank you for posting it very clearly.

This has actually been occurring since Diminishing Returns was introduced. Since diminishing returns is character specific, you’re logged as simply doing the event twice in a row, so it kicks in and blocks the reward. This may be intended so I’m not sure it’s really a bug in the traditional sense.

Easiest workaround is to have alts hop between two boss events that are nearby each other so that they don’t get hit with DR.

Would make sense if it’s intended.

This was confirmed by a Dev as intended DR behavior a while back. You can not just park a character at a world boss. DR will kick in.

Working as intended. Gonna have to pay those WP costs.

We figured this out long time ago, you might want to read more about it here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/No-Chest-After-Shadow-Behemoth-Event/first#post2063832
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/page/2#post2188923

Can’t really remember that a dev said something about it, because since we encountered it there have been so many threads about it and not one reply. I guess, I must have missed the thread, Mad Rasputin mentioned. ^^

However, since they never acknowlegded it clearly as a bug or not working as intended, I thought that we shall assume it is indeed working as intended.
In my opinion it is a little bit strange, because if you do the event the first time each day, it should give you the chest (if you parked your character there or not.. DR should never affect your first turn).

Well, it is not that fatal as soon as you know it and you can prevent it from happening, but it’s not a good design that you are not told you cannot do it twice in a row (and sometimes it works doing it with the same character without changing the map or doing any event in between.. it’s not very consistent -.-).

But there is a lack of a few things that could prevent player to do such mistakes, hopefully one day they implement other/ better information.
(Another example is that you cannot wear two of the same ascended rings.. if you don’t know exactly what unique means, you are screwed. ^^ Yeah, you can contact support and in that particular case they will help you, but it already happened so many times that I cannot understand why they did not improve the description about it yet..)

thx a lot for the info and links rasputin and navi. it really sounds like it is more of an DR issue than a bug. a bit unconvenient, but nothing that can’t be worked around.