Talk:Defeat Rhendak the Crazed

Glorious Chest Spawning

Anyone else not able to get the chest if your character was parked in the chest room from the day before? I have to zone out then back to get the chest. Ikarus (talk) 05:03, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

No trouble getting it today, parked there yesterday. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 05:38, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Did you do that on more than one character? I think I get it fine on my first character (would have to check next time though) and then the toons I have parked there after that will not get it unless I zone out. Ikarus (talk) 05:41, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Only tried it on one. And that was an accident from logging out shortly after. I completely forgot I was parked there until I started up the toon in the middle of the fight. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 05:53, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for the input! Hopefully someone else will notice this that does it on multiple toons. Ikarus (talk) 05:56, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

My guildmate and I have been parked at Rhendak for several days, and there are days when we both get the reward, others when neither does, and others when one has it and the other doesn't... -- Crazy (talk) 06:09, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

(Reset indent) I've seen people suggest that Diminishing returns is the cause for this unpredictability. They advise people to leave the map and return (or swap toons). Suggestions include:

• Swap toons. Claims are there is never any trouble doing this.
• With original character, move to another map for an hour or so before returning.
• With original character, move to EotM long enough to do 5 events (some suggest a single event is sufficient). This has the advantage of avoiding the need to renavigate back to Rhendak's room.

So far, I haven't been affected, but then I don't typically spend much time on any single character, so I only rarely see evidence of DR. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 17:39, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

I will have to do the EotM idea, I don't know why I didn't think of this before. However, strangely enough, I have this issue on all of my toons. Sometimes even when I switch characters; I'm now going to hope that staying out of the zone in EotM long enough will solve this. Ikarus (talk) 09:00, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Ok finally experienced the issue for myself: after reset, got champ bag and no bonus nor ground chest. Tested the DR hypothesis by spending over an hour in EotM, getting credit for (obviously) far more than "a few" events. Swapped toons a few times and returned to participate in the original character's third Rhendak fight of the day. Same results: champ bag, but otherwise none of the primary rewards. Brought in a second character to the tomb through the regular way (no port) and that character got credit immediately. Summary:

• It's not Diminishing Returns; in all other situations (at least prior to the last major update), going to WvW counted as "leaving the map" and an hour was almost always more than enough time for the DR to expire. Similarly, playing for long periods on other toons helped. (Of course, this might have changed.)
• It's not directly related to porting in versus doing the puzzle "legit," since both my toons had gotten in following the originally intended route.
• It's not directly related to time spent or number of Rhendak fights, since not everyone is affected after equal number of battles.
• Whatever is going on is, so far, resolved by swapping toons.
• Remaining work-around thought: it might be related to the the map /ip, which I hadn't bothered checking. For example 2x within 25 hrs in the same instance might bork while 3x within 49 hrs in different instances would succeed, giving the appearance of a random issue.

If I think of anything else to try, I'll post here. In the meantime, I am resigning myself to swapping toons whenever one stops getting the reward. With the popularity of the puzzle, it's easy enough to make it through to the basic chest and have someone open the gate from Rhendak's side, i.e. it doesn't take that long unless the portal is gone. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 20:28, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

I've done some of my own investigation on this by cycling through a variety of alts parked at Rhendak. I found that each character could claim two Glorious Chests before they stopped appearing. Zoning into a WvW map, entering the Heart of the Mists, or logging onto a different character does not make the chest start appearing again. The only method I can confirm successfully resets the Grand Chest is taking each character to a different zone and completing at least one event. That always resets the chest for me. Shisa (talk) 03:28, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Two follow-up questions: (1) does "[t]aking each character to a different zone" mean any zone PvE zone? Or were you successfully resetting using a WvW map? (2) Similarly, does "completing at least one event" work even if you only spent a few minutes in the other zone? I ask the second question because I haven't found DR resets that simply in terms of loot from dead foes. Of course, this isn't the same type of thing (it's about event rewards, not loot per se).

I did have at least one character that received the rewards at least 3 (possibly 4 or 5 times; I wasn't counting at the time, because I wasn't aware (then) that there was an issue). – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 00:45, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

I meant PvE zones. I've also done an event in another area of Diessa and successfully reset it, so maybe changing maps isn't required? I can confirm that simply visiting a capital city for a while didn't reset it for me. Shisa (talk) 01:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure a dev answered a similar question in the forums quite a while ago, when people had issues getting their reward at the shatterer. It turned out that people had a character parked there and only completed the one final event, like here. The fix was to "do another event", from what I recall. I am also killing rhendak a lot these days and usualy leave my mesmer down there. Up to now, I was able to fix the reward issue by completing an event in WvW, however I can not say for certain how long it took (guessing not longer than 10 min) or if it might have been 2 or 3 events (because of killing one or two dolyaks while capping a camp etc.). --aRTy 03:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

I have one toon that's gone 5 days in a row without glitching, so I'm now wondering if it's one of those resets that depends both on the official Reset (midnight UTC) and sufficient time (e.g. at least 5-20 hours since the last attempt). Some rich veins work this way (and iirc, node farms do, too). On the other hand, it could just be glitchy.

I do know that I couldn't fix it by going into EotM for an hour. So maybe it has to be a traditional WvW map or any other open world one. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 00:57, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Is it drops glorious chest at all? it drops me grand chest every day

Grand Chest Daily per Character

After farming him once, daily, for months I helped out a friend killing Rhendak with a second character... and I got rewards. I have been testing it for a couple days now. It appears the reward chest can be looted multiple times a day. I am unsure when this was changed, but am editing the page with this information. Wolf Sabian (talk) 14:19, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

XP for the event

The table gives an XP value of 1037 for level 25 characters. But, it also notes that it is higher if the character is higher level.

Is there a table somewhere that tells how much it is (for a level 80)? It seems to be the only way to know for sure if DR is active on a character, but I don't know what the default is. Daddicus (talk) 22:30, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Latest change incorrect?

Someone changed the bonus chest entry to once a day. However, I think it's the grand chest that's once per day. Can anybody confirm? Daddicus (talk) 21:12, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

The Grand chest is once per day per character. This is the chest that spawns in the open world after killing the boss. Wolf Sabian (talk) 21:54, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Bouncy bonus chest is once per day per account (it is a "world boss chest"), grand chest is once per day per character. I changed only the wording a bit to be same as for other boss events; the info has been stated in the article already. ~SimeTalk 21:59, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

So, do we know why the chest with worse loot is once per account, but the one with the expensive drops is per character? Daddicus (talk) 00:16, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

I think we should quietly delete this information :) SarielV 08:12, 23 February 2020 (UTC)