The boss encounter rate has dropped significantly after the first week of the event, to a degree where players who didn't complete the seasonal quests during that time are at a significant disadvantage to those who did.

We're over halfway through the Murkwood event with no word on the encounter rates, leaving players unsure about whether or not it's intentional.

Some players have been holding off grinding for the seasonal quests due to this, as it's noticeably slower to get through the seasonal tasks with these decreased rates, hoping that the rates will be brought back, or at least get confirmation that it's an intentional change.

I think it's only fair to give us an event extension due to this

Support some kind of dev comment on what the encounter rate is intended to be -- whether the higher rate was a bug, a catch-up mechanism for when the encounters weren't spawning at all, or the intended rate & the current lower rate is the bug.

i wouldnt mind extention due to the lack of communication- would also be nice to know when we are getting the other promised apparel with the event over half done and not seen them yet. C O M M U N I C A T I O N again lack of any.

Not to mention - they haven't said diddly about... anything.

Maybe it wouldn't be necessary if we had better communication from the devs, and that they acknowledged whether it was a bug or intentional, whether they were even aware of it or not... Because of that failure, I do support some kind of extension for the people who stopped playing early with the hope that the bug would be addressed and fixed the next week. :/

I don't think it's particularly fair to compare my pre-nerf ticket amount with post-nerf players, especially ones that stopped while they were waiting for what seems like a very obvious bug to get fixed; it's not their faults for not wanting to grind hugely nerfed encounter rates and waste a bunch of food just for it to get fixed a week later if it was indeed a bug.

If they announced it was a bug or an intentional change, that would be one thing. But they didn't, so... I can't blame new folks that aren't used to the lack of communication for thinking that they'd get any news about it.

@kytkat