Guild Wars 2

The point wasn’t that it’s hard to check outside sources, it’s that the spawn schedule is not truly random (since the windows for Teq and Claw and the pre-events for Shatterer start at regular intervals) nor is it in any way a mystery. So why not have an in-game timer? The timer itself already exists (else the dragons wouldn’t spawn the way they do), so I can’t imagine it would be terribly difficult to create a command for each dragon that reads the appropriate existing timer?

Since the community has figured out the spawn schedule for the “big 3” dragons (Claw of Jormag, Shatterer, Tequatl the Sunless) with multiple sources available both in-game and out to find the state of the schedules at a given time, could we get official timers in game? For example, one could type /shatterer into the chat box and get the time until the pre-events are up or /tequatl to get the time until the beginning of his spawn window.

In-game timers wouldn’t eliminate the waiting around completely as the spawn window would still exist (and events that need to be completed), however, it would free up a little time for many players to spend doing WvWvW, dungeons, crafting, or whatever else they desire.

I believe the dailies reset at 0:00 UTC. Are you in a time zone that is -6 UTC?