Failing The Guild Wars 2 Drakkar Encounter Automatically Activates Open-World PvP

ArenaNet recently released an update that made the Drakkar World Boss event in Guild Wars 2 just a little bit harder to beat. Apparently, the devs also secretly updated the encounter to automatically activate open-world PvP for a short time after failed fights with the ancient dragon.

According to a thread on the game’s subreddit, open-world PvP will remain active for 10 seconds and will affect all players in the Drakkar arena. A tweet by ArenaNet Team Lead and Senior Designer Clayton Kisko confirms that this is intentional. As if failing to take down Drakkar isn’t bad enough, now you have to stay alive while your teammates take out their frustration on whoever is closest.

@ConnorEFallon someone found the thing.

— Clayton Kisko (@ClayKisko) February 11, 2020