Guild Wars 2

Healix.5819:

There has always been a limit to how often you could loot the chests. Back at the start, it was common to be able hop overflows and end up in an in progress “dragon” event, which would not yield a chest.

Yes this seems to be what’s going on. Just did Teq, 3 Shatterers, and another Teq all in a row in a 40 minute window to see what would happen. Chest on the first Teq, no chest on any of the Shatterers (each with obvious DR on the exp/karma), and no chest on the 2nd Teq, also with DR (though the DR didn’t keep scaling down from the 3 Shatterer kills, which had gotten very low).

Edited for typo.

Jason King.2647:

Did any of you do another event prior to fighting dragon? It’s possible you’re hitting the DR if you completed another event beforehand.

I’ve had 7 chests not spawn for me in the past 2 days (those 7 all at Teq and Shatterer). I’ve been guesting around to get extra dragon events so any DR wouldn’t surprise me, however the first chest I missed out on yesterday was a Teq on my own server before I even thought about guesting at all. I regularly catch most of the dragons in a wide window (5-8 hours) and it was the first chest I have ever had not spawn.

I just did 3 consecutive Claws of Jormag a bit ago (literally back to back to back) and got all of the chests, full karma, including all pre-events (missed all crystals on the 3rd due to it popping during the 2nd kill). This was today using guesting, if that wasn’t clear.

I also did 3 Shatterers in a row today all back to back. Got chest on first two, but not the third. Didn’t check the karma on that third attempt, but yesterday I did have the severely reduced karma (edit: and exp) on some of my kills without chests.

Skipped Teq most of today since yesterday I went 1 for 5 getting chests on him, for the sake of full disclosure.

2nd edit, since I didn’t entirely answer you question:
I only do dragon events, pre-events for Claw and Shatterer, and sometimes the Krait invading the lab event near Teq.