Guild Wars 2

I have been hearing in-game that if you’re in a squad while doing a world boss event, your drops get screwed up.

I just would like to get a confirmation on whether if this is true or not.

Many thanks!

Barinthus.8347:

I have been hearing in-game that if you’re in a squad while doing a world boss event, your drops get screwed up.

I just would like to get a confirmation on whether if this is true or not.

Many thanks!

I think first you should get confirmation that there is any evidence that there’s even a potential issue. If your only source is map chat, I’d assume it’s just a rumor spread without validation.

There are three types of loot that people might be talking about:

• The bonus chest, which you get for completing the relevant event(s).
• The ground chest, which you get for killing the boss.
• Regular loot that the boss drops. (Not all world bosses do.)

To get credit for the first two, you need to do “enough damage” to event-related foes so that you get event credit. To get the last one (if applicable), you have to do “enough damage” to the boss, early enough in the fight.

Being in a party influences all of the above and that’s easily proven at the Karka Queen: if one member hits the KQ first, every party member will get the regular loot, as long as you do “some” damage during the event. If you aren’t in a party and you hit late, you’ll get the first two (bouncy/bonus + ground chest), but not the last.

I have yet to do any testing nor have I seen anyone publish results for what happens if you are in a squad instead. It’s possible that being in a squad doesn’t help any of the above or that it might help less. If that is so (and, again, there’s no evidence one way or another — that I know of), then you could end up with the same loot as if you weren’t in a squad. But, that worst case scenario is a lot different from having your loot “screwed up.”

tl;dr there’s no evidence whether being in squad has the same benefit on drops as being in a party (or whether it was designed to), neither is there evidence that it doesn’t. But at worst, you’d still get the same loot as if you were solo.