Guild Wars 2

Update to my previous post.
I took my guardian (missing Shatterer chest victim) over to Queensdale for an hour or two. I did some events there, some farming.. but mostly afk.. then hopped over to Shatterer. Got gold medal again, only 3600 experience (better than the 100 from last time) but chest did appear. I’m guessing if the experience is too low, no chest. There is some DR thing that is limiting the experience. If it gets too low, no chest.

I’m AFK at shatterer now. Not sure if you have to leave maps, of if you can just afk anywhere. Doesn’t seem like a good idea for Anet to encourage people to afk and burden their servers needlessly. I don’t play the game 24 hour a day. I play a bit, then take a break. I usually logout but I will leave it on while I’m afk if it gets rid of whatever this DR thing is.

I have this issue as well.

My ranger is my main character so I use him most of the time. I bounce around doing the daily and when a dragon pops up, I portal over there and do that event. I’ve never missed out on a chest. I even got a rare drop from the Jornag chest once despite the fact I only joined in the final minute of the event.

Unfortunately that is my only level 80 character at the moment. I keep earning a ton of experience on these dragon events for a guy that really doesn’t need experience. So I decided to get one of my junior characters over to the Shatterer, which is a level 50 area. My guardian was around level 44 or so, and I managed to get him to the Shatterer even though he’s not quite ready for that area. The Shatterer event is pretty easy though. I did that event with that guy several times and everything went well. I really only use this guy to fight the shatterer and nothing else. Most other things I have to switch over to my ranger. So this guy does nothing but fight the same dragon over and over again.

I noticed one time he got 3k experience and the chest did spawn as it should. The next time he got 2200 experience and no chest. The time after that, 1000 experience and no chest. I started to wonder if there was some DR type thing, so instead of switching to another character immediately I wandered around for a while gathering and killing a few things. I stayed in the same map though. So the event comes around again, and I get 100 experience and no chest.

I’m pretty sure the timers are account specific. If you get a magic find boost that lasts 30 minutes, then sign off and come back a day later, you will still have 29 minutes remaining on that boost. I think time essentially stands still for each character when you aren’t actively using them. I can see how this DR thing would kick in if you essentially did the same event 10 times in the last 30 minutes of your characters perceived lifespan. To you that may be a week, but for that specific guy it’s less than an hour.

Still, I would like to have some feedback that indicates I have DR affecting me. Perhaps a timer so I can see when it goes away. I may fight the shatterer with this guy, and then switch to my ranger for the next 5 hours of playing time. It seems like the DR timer could at least apply to your entire account instead of just counting the time spent on that particular character. I am farming the event for experience with my lower level guy, but I’m not bot farming it or anything like that. I’m also doing a lot more in the game than just shatterer, it’s just that I’m using another character. I’ve got a slot for each character type. That’s going to be hard to manage and keep track of DR for each one of them.

I’m going to experiment by taking my guardian to another map, idling and doing some random events. Then I’ll switch back to Shatterer and see if I fare any better with the rewards. It may be that you can’t have certain characters specialize in certain areas and you have to make sure that you rotate their usage around the map.

Doing a large scale event only to get cheated on the experience, karma, and chest reward does take the fun out of the game.