Guild Wars 2

I am not getting the bonus rare item chest even if it is the first time I kill the world boss for the day (after the 8 pm reset).
I get to loot the regular chest but I am not getting the additional chest.
It should appear (wiggling) in the same where I get the chest for the daily or for completing a map, but I get nothing.

Is anybody else having this issue?

Thank you for your help.

AFAIK it is 24 hrs from the time you last killed it and not reset when dailies do.

The below is taken from a post I did a few hours ago. But there is a bug!!
I have done it 3 days now.. and I get the big chest, but no bonus chest..
So, for me, it’s not the 24 hour thing you are mentioning.

I have a question on doing world events. I just started playing this game about 3 weeks ago, and I had a lvl 15 elementalist. I was out running around when I saw this event for the Shadow Behemoth pop up. So I ran down to take a look. I thought wow.. I’m joining in. So off I went and started attacking. I was surprised when I got a gold medal and a big chest to open up. I was even more shocked when I found a rare in my chest. I thought great… When I hit 39 I will be wearing this! (the rare had an item level.)
So anyways.. now they do this patch, I have no 80’s, but I do have a 43 and everything else is 30 – 33. Now when I go down to do the Shadow Behemoth or even MAW.. All I get is the chest with no rares. I get no pop up chest that everyone is talking about. It has been 3 days now that I’ve tried this on just one character and still nothing. Just the big chest.
So what gives.. is there now a minimum level you have to be to get the pop up chest??

No level requirement was ever mentioned to be elegible to the new pop up chest.

I haven’t got any rare from bosses since the patch day because I too am not receiving the special bonus chest, only the physical one with greens and blues. You might have a point regardless as I am level 38 myself. Some clarification on that point would be nice.

Please, Jeffrey, have also a look here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/World-Boss-Bonus-Chests-Not-Always-Appearing/first#post1733689

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-March-26-2013/1709376

“We’ve limited rares in mega boss chests to require the player be level 40+ to receive them. This is to keep acquiring rares consistent throughout the game; this will also help close up an exploit with newly created characters. This was accidently left out of the original update notes.”

Can you elaborate on what the item level is in the drop then. Might be kinda stupid to have the item level 39 (which is what they were) when you have to be 40 to do them?

Sparky.1072:

Can you elaborate on what the item level is in the drop then. Might be kinda stupid to have the item level 39 (which is what they were) when you have to be 40 to do them?

“At-level” item drops are grouped in tiers. I’m not sure of the exact cutoffs, but it’s something like 1-16, 17-26, 27-36, and so on. If you are at level 40, then your “at-level” tier includes items L37-46 (give or take). So, it’s entirely consistent that you might be L40 getting an L39 drop.

Between an L39 and an L40 item, there’s little difference in stats and they fetch about the same price on the TP.

(Source: hundreds of JP chests, opened by characters at various levels. As with all things RNG, your mileage will vary considerably. Also: loot tables from JP chests might operate differently from those of world event chests and/or world event bonus chests.)

I’ve noticed that prior to the change, odds were that I would get 2 rares per chest. Not always but often. I’m not one to have every character do every chest, but I was trying to get final rest for my necro so my I would try and do SB on my 3 level 80’s as often as I could working towards that. Although I’ve not gotten final rest, I noticed that very often at least one person in the group there would get it.

Moving the the rare to once per day per account in a separate reward chest that pops up on the side is fine but…Now I get the one rare per day per chest on the little popup chest. I no longer get anything but blues and sometimes a green from the boss chests. I’ve not seen final rest drop for any of the groups I’ve done SB with since then. I’ve only seen people linking greens and mostly blues. No rares from boss chests, no exotics. No final rest.

The boss chests seem to be like they were before loot was made better. You can say it’s rng BUT the contrast before loot was made better compared to after loot was made better compared to moving the rare to one popup chest/boss/day/account is dramatic.

I had hope of getting final rest eventually. Now I fear that the drop rate of final rest is what it was before the loot improvement update. Basically, zero or near that. Am I wrong?

And….more on topic…..why shouldn’t someone at level fighting the shadow behemoth be able to get a rare? It isn’t like you can salvage ectos from a <40 rare. I don’t understand the rationale for that. I don’t know what the exploit was though so there is probably some good reason for it that I just don’t know.

I really hope that they switch this from being 24 hours to being “daily”, because “24 hours” means more like 48 hours, since if you do the same event roughly the same time each day, it won’t work half the time. The only way to get it to be truly 24 hours is to end each event (or start them, I’m not sure which counts) roughly a minute after you did it the night before, and even then you’re going to end up pushed back to sun-up eventually. With “daily” rewards that reset at 8PM, you can at least do it one day at 11pm, then the next at 10:30, and the next at 10:45, whenever.

Please Jeff don’t post things like that without actually reading the op’s points.

I have had the same problem. Today I did the Megadestroyer in mount maelstrom. I was on my lvl 80 thief and this was the very first time I’ve done this event since I first discovered that event when doing world completion (maybe 3 months ago). I still didn’t get a daily chest and the regular chest that drops on the ground didn’t contain anything above a green.

This is a very real issue so please don’t sweep this under the rug because you posted something about the player needing to be lvl 40+ to get the chest.