Guild Wars 2

Just got into my first chest event in a week, and it only took me over an hour of sitting around doing nothing waiting for Jormag to spawn. Second the boss starts up, game crashes. Log in, OVERFLOW.

Thank you ANET for this wonderful waste of time. I’m done with this trash heap.

Panda Shepard.1248:

Make the chest account based instead of character based. Then all your home server campers won’t be taking up your spot either

I still say the best solution(if it’s even possible to do) may be to make the timer universal or totally random.

If by ‘universal’ you mean Overflows as well, then I agree. However, at this point it’s getting completely out of hand and something needs to change. Fact is, people can’t do the events at all because they’re getting dropped into the overflow at all hours of the day, between guesting, improved loot, and slashed population limits, it’s a train wreck. Change is needed and fast. Random big events would SUCK, since they’re all already semi-random and getting stuck waiting for over an hour for Jormag is already boring and dumb(happened 2 days ago, he didn’t spawn until the last 3 or so minutes of his window). All it would mean is people would park characters/guildies in zones and nothing would change except that people not humping the dragon spawns would completely lose out on dragon events. You wanna see a dead world? Unless every zone in the game got a random dragon chest event stapled to it, no level 80’s would leave the 3 dragon event zones again.

Also, MrInfinit.1864, if given the choice, I’d much rather punish the people who play on the servers that aren’t their home than constantly punishing everyone just trying to get into events on their HOME SERVER. While guesting isn’t the only cause, ‘unwanted people’ from other servers hogging our event spots because they don’t want to wait for their own server events(where in they’d then get kicked to the overflow because guests are hogging their spots, because those guests likely had their spots taken by people who’s spots were taken by people who’s spots were taken… see where I’m going with this?) certainly aren’t helping. I don’t care if guesters don’t want to wait 3 hours for their dragon spawn, because them cutting in line now means I can’t do my dragon fight because I’m stuck in an empty overflow instead and won’t get to fight the dragon AT ALL for the rest of the day due to work. If it’s not YOUR server, you should play with your friends in the OVERFLOW, not hogging space in other peoples home worlds, especially not when those spaces are as extremely limited as they are now.

1 chest per character per event per day. So if you get a chest from the Shatterer event on a character, you can’t get a second chest on that character from the Shatterer again until the daily reset. You should still get a chest from the other dragon events though, if you haven’t done them already that day.

I have seen a bunch of people on my server complaining about not getting any chests at all, so there may be an issue outside of the daily limit if you’re not getting any chests, even for the first kill of the day, but I don’t know any specifics on that issue

The whole game has been running like poop crackers for a while now. I spent all of January off work with a knee injury and farmed Maw/dragons without a problem. Being back at work my GW2 playtime is rather… limited… so getting overflowed and missing an event even once means I don’t get to do it at all that day. I was running the game on high visual settings for the events and had zero problems with my framerate never dipping below 30. Now I can’t get above 10fps when the boss is alive(and that’s if I’m lucky, most of the time I’m sitting at 1-3fps) with the settings set as low as they’ll go with fewer people present for the events.

The second the boss dies and the chest spawns my fps goes back to normal but so long as they’re alive, it’s a total slide-show. So not only do I get overflow’d constantly, should I manage to get into an event my game now runs like garbage too. It’s seriously depressing(and, at its worst, severely headache inducing) and I hope they fix it soon, because they’ve effectively killed any will I had to run the events or even play the game until they do :\

The least they could do is tell you that “this waypoint is full, and you will be placed in the overflow” BEFORE you teleport so I can stop wasting gold getting cheated out of events.