Guild Wars 2

Rumor has it that DnT likes killing people in the EB JP.

Anyone else notice that before this, the chat code would display as [] but now it displays as [Final Rest]? Interesting.

I was right about Shadow Behemoth

#yolo

I believe Jeffrey is mistaken, as my guild and I kill Shadow Behemoth anywhere from 10-20 times (each of us individually) in a single day across different servers, and we each get the chest each time. There have been instances early on where we missed one chest, but the chest not spawning seems to be related to only damaging the boss during the event and not hitting any of the portals or doing the pre-event at all. We all make sure we kill portals and mobs, as well as attack Shadow Behemoth. If the chest isn’t supposed to be obtainable that frequently, could it be bugged?

I spoke to some guildies of mine, and we will hopefully be recording a speed clear of the Zho’qafa event chain tonight along with a commentary of each of the events to hopefully help people out that are wanting to farm it. When it’s up on Youtube, I’ll post a link here.

@Pennry
A lot of us are about to do daily dungeons etc after reset hits, but I’ll probably be farming it all through the night (I’m CST time zone) starting at around 9 or 10 PM this evening. My in game name is Brazil The Hue if you want to contact me that way.

@homonavn
I guess you missed that part about us clearing it across multiple servers, multiple times a day. Not to mention other people do it as well. We also clear Shadow Behemoth whenever he is up on Jade Quarry, Yak’s Bend, and Blackgate. We’ve got a pretty solid farm group going for these events (and I’m sure other people do too).

I’ve been clearing Zhoqafa all day with my guild (And Shadow Behemoth in the Zhoqafa down times) across Blackgate, Jade Quarry, and Yak’s Bend. For the most part, it’s just been a group of us 5, sometimes just a pair of us, and we can clear the event chain fairly quickly. A big thing I would like to mention, is that a lot of randoms that show up don’t seem to have a clue how to fight the abominations. When they swing their club, you can step behind them and avoid getting hit. When they charge up their jump attack, you will need to evade, same as when they do their rush move. Hopefully that helps anyone out that may be having trouble with the abominations, and I may see if I can record a video of how to 2 man or run the event with a small group as efficiently as possible, as we’ve gotten quite good at this event after farming it for some time. That being said, we’ve all farmed it quite a bit, and none of us have seen Final Rest yet.

Just killed Shadow Behemoth on Blackgate and a guy looted a Dusk from it. i’ve got a screenshot of him posting it in map chat, but I’m not sure I want to post it unless I blur the names out or something, but at least we know named exotics etc are possible. I looted The Punisher from it a few days back, and a few guildies of mine have gotten other random non-named exotics, so I wouldn’t rule Shadow Behemoth out quite yet.

@Diviner
haters make me famous YOLO. Now leave us, troll.

@Malediktus
Yes there is, but it doesn’t give a chest. And according to the (quotes of the) Dev posts in this thread, the event is in the open world. It’s just an extra event like the torch in AC and the Ooze king and queen in CoF.

I’m still not sure why everyone is so busy getting hung up on lore. If you go around trying to do every single event that has anything to do with the slightest mention of anything related to a gargoyle, the staff is never going to be found. Instead of wasting time speculating about finding the tiniest event chain in the darkest corner of the map (like what most of you have probably been doing for months already, as the staff has yet to be found), get a guild group and farm events like Megadestroyer, Shadow Behemoth, and other similar bosses that have unique chests. Taking that route is simple, can be done easily by a large number of people, and will probably lead to the staff being found (or not being found, in which case you can go back to scavenging for events that are related to a gargoyle’s mom’s pet dog). Focus on the big and easy ones first, then move on if the staff isn’t found after a month or so.

That event has been farmed, and quite a lot. The chest at the end is also a Glorious Chest, which shares the same loot table with every other Glorious Chest in the game. So not only has it been farmed, but it’s not really possible that Final Rest would drop from it in the first place.

@bomber
That event has been farmed, and quite a lot. The chest at the end is also a Glorious Chest, which shares the same loot table with every other Glorious Chest in the game. So not only has it been farmed, but it’s not really possible that Final Rest would drop from it in the first place.

So after reading loads of posts about Zho’qafa Catacombs, I’m just going to go ahead and build my case for Shadow Behemoth.

I used to be on board with the idea of it dropping from the catacombs, the lore aspect of a hint is definitely strong there: Dead stuff, coffins, etc. However, some things caused me to question that hypothesis, and I no longer think it is viable.

• Zho’qafa has been farmed: A few guildies of mine, with a group of 20 (sometimes more) people consistently farmed the catacombs on a daily basis for 2 months. These players were, for the most part, level 80, and often did the event multiple times a day, and never once saw Final Rest. I would provide names of players, in case anyone is skeptical, but I feel that would be unethical to do. I will, however, say that it was on the Darkhaven server.

• Shadow Behemoth is underfarmed: Today alone, about 9 guildies of mine (me included) killed Shadow Behemoth across Yak’s Bend, Jade Quarry, and Blackgate. Unless anyone in our group killed him without me being aware, we killed him 12 times each, making 108 total kills today alone. as far as the loot is concerned, 1 person got a level 80 exotic trident, unnamed, and several people got rares over the different attempts. The main point here, is that even though we killed him 108 times just today, there were never more than 20 or so people, maybe only 3 to 5 of those people being level 80 (not including us). I know that Shadow Behemoth was farmed a lot when the game first came out, but how many of those players were level 80? Did they consistently farm it? On top of that, from the reading I’ve done, Shadow Behemoth was bugged for about 2 months across many servers, if not all, and never spawned. That would go a long way towards leading to him being underfarmed.

• Shadow Behemoth is not known to have a unique exotic associated with it: As far as I know, all other world bosses that have achievements associated with their names also drop a level 80 exotic that is unique to them, save the Steam Ogre. The Giant Jungle Wurm in Caledon Forest drops Wisteria, an exotic focus exclusive to that area, and at the time of typing this, there are only 13 Wisterias listed on the trading post. If you can only get Wisteria by being level 80 and doing the event, I would assume that the same requirement would be true for Final Rest if it were to drop from Shadow Behemoth.

• The chest: The chest that Shadow Behemoth spawns, is, as far as I know, unique. It is a Demonic Chest, and it would make sense for it to have its own unique loot table. According to what I’ve read about the Glorious Chests (like the one in the Catacombs) is that they all share a loot table. Another point I’d like to make about the chest is that it is as tall as my max height Norn, and taller than my max height Human (I’ll attach a picture). On top of this, the chest for Shadow Behemoth seems to have some sort of diminishing return associated with it. There were instances where my guildies and I got no chest after killing him, so we waited a few hours and continued to farm it again.

• In general: I’m not making any claim here to be right, I’m only stating why I am personally betting on Shadow Behemoth at this point. It’s obscure, it’s underfarmed, it’s an event chain, its a gigantic boss with a massive chest, and the level of the zone has nothing to do with the loot you get from the chest. I’m willing to at least put in 2 months of steady and consistent farming to see where that takes me, because I’ve wanted this staff for quite some time. As this is only a hypothesis, feel free to criticize it, test it, and read posts from other people that have the same idea. But hopefully we see Final Rest drop from somewhere soon, wherever it may be.

I don’t even like girls yet

I did Arah path 4 again today, hoping to explore a bit post-Simin, and before getting to the Bloodstone Shard, there is a Champion Risen Knight (before the area where you drop into the water and swim past the champion shark). I didn’t kill it with my group, and I didn’t have much time to explore after we killed the final boss due to the part leader exiting the instance, but there is a lot of space to explore in path 4, and I’d really like to try it with a group. The reason I mention the Risen Knight is because it’s obviously a gargoyle-like creature (and of boss status), and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s gone unkilled since release. There is so much to do in path 4, but I just need a group to explore it with in depth.

Not sure if anyone would be down for exploring Arah path 4 post-Simin, but it’s something that interests me. I’ve achieved Dungeon Master and completed path 4 multiple times, so if any of you would like to invite me to a group to do some exploring, feel free to add me. My main is “Brazil The Hue.”

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I’ve attempted to buy gems, but have gotten errors when trying both the Paypal and credit card options. I’d like to be able to purchase gems so that I can continue leveling crafting professions. I’m not sure what’s causing the error, but hopefully it can be resolved soon.