It seems console players are unable to post in this section (is that so?), so console player @Hadalon asked me to post here to see whether pc players might be affected by similar problems. I adapted and abbreviated his text, the original can be found in the console bug section. World Boss Issues
He is from the German forums and has issues with the World Bosses, so he made a summary hoping they will be fixed soon.
So, here is Hadalons text, I spell-checked, so blame content on him and spelling mistakes on me
Hello there,
1st issue: At spawn times the World Bosses are often not shown on the ingame map. There is no countdown for the spawn and no symbol for the World Boss, either solo or in combination with a tree whisper. People simply don’t see the location and miss the opportunity to get a kill.
2nd issue: Seasonal Kills. For the Season Journey there is a goal to kill 15 World Bosses. Lots of people state that they already killed many World Bosses, but only a few seem to count. Players are having problems achieving this goal if kills don’t count.
3rd issue: Ingame notifications for upcoming World Bosses. There is almost no notification for an upcoming World Boss spawn. Yes, there is a countdown, but people can only see it when finding the spawn location on the map and only then, with cursor on the Boss Icon, it is possibe to see the actual countdown.
It’d be great if there were more prominent notifications, maybe in a corner of the HUD while playing, something that doesn’t disappear after a few seconds and will also be visible during dungeon runs. This way people will get information about an upcoming World Boss without using external websites.
4th issue: Lots of people in the German forums, and I’m sure also in other European countries, are complaining about the spawn time rotation of the world bosses. Currently the rotation is about 6 hours + - a few minutes. For German players bosses will spawn at 1 am, 7 am, 1 pm and 7 pm. Many people either sleep (at night) or are on their way to or at work then, so they never even see a World Boss.
In combination with the aforementioned count issue for the Season Journey some players’ chances to achieve this season goal are dramatically reduced, so a change in spawn time/rotation would be appreciated. Maybe it’d be possible to reduce the rotation to 4 or 5 hrs - Bosses would appear more often = more chances of encountering and killing them.
Another solution might be a completely random spawn time for World Bosses. But as in this case the issue about spawn times during work- and sleep times for European players might still exist, so I recommend the previous option. (Note by LadyBlueray: I strongly disagree on completely random spawn times for World Bosses.)
5th issue: World Bosses often don’t spawn even if players are at the right location and before the countdown runs out. The Countdown simply runs out and no Boss is spawning.
Thank you for reading and I hope for feedback.