Can we not use 2/8 hour event timers please?

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See, thing is, these will pop at the same time of day every day, so if it’s a bad time for you on monday, it’s probably a bad time tues-friday as well, and quite possibly at the weekends on top.

I have a hard time getting to any of the Sieges, for example, and now primal events are up saying they’re for 2 hours every 8? Well for one of those I’ll be asleep because I’m human. The other two may or may not be accessible. And these are things I will want to do on more than one character, so being able to say there’s one chance per week is a bit naff.

2.5 and 5 hours are excellent timers since neither of them will recur at the same time every day and it’s ages until they sync up with the week. 3.5 and 7 hours I believe will sync up every 7 days, which is less desirable but still better than 2, 3, or 8.

In fact, wasn’t original Wintergrasp 2.5 hours? I feel like we used to need a calendar to track when it would be, but at least nobody was left feeling they could never get there because of their particular work/life schedule.

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They aren’t up every 8. They’re spawning every couple of hours. There were -three- storms up earlier. Might be a bug or a change.

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I mean, that is good to know :smile_cat: But Siege is still landing on even numbered hours for me, every day, and it turns out that’s when every scheduled event in my life happens. None of them are good fits and some days I won’t be able to make any of them :pensive:

Which is why a 2.5 hour rotation would be nice! :smiley:

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I mean don’t quote me exactly on “couple of hours” I wasn’t tracking them but when I logged on this morning about 8:30 (UK time) there were 2 up that finishd in 15 minutes. Oh well, will do it in 8 hours I thought. Nope, more popped up within the hour and then some time after that a third one. So you might make it!

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I haven’t managed to do any scheduled quest anyway in DF.

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Yeah fun, What a surprise, they put a siege at the same time as earth event and now I missed captain lancer XD

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So two just popped up now on the hour (15 server time) and are on for an hour.

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I mean if they’re going to go with every 2 hours, do them at 30 minutes past the hours, so they aren’t in sync with other things… :confused:

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They’ve appeared again, so I guess it’s every 2 hours for 1 hour.

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The one hour window will help I guess. Priority is gonna be Siege, then go do the primal event.

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These ones are apparently 2 hours. I am epically confused :rofl:

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So are Blizz by the sound of it. Tbf, they probably haven’t run this many community events simultaneously over an expansion, but with a room full of game devs brightest and finest, you’d have hoped that at least one of them would have noticed the scheduling clash :joy_cat:

Although apparently WotLK Classic puts Wintergrasp on a 3 hour timer… I’m sure it used to be 2.5, for the exact reason in my opening post. It is possible that nobody remembers/understands why that was done and just said “that’s stupid, make it 3”, thus locking out the same people day after day.

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