I read in the patch notes that the pre-event that will spawn maw will start less frequently therefore making maw spawn less frequently. Yesterday maw took about 1 hour to spawn. Today maw hasn’t spawned on for over 2 hours one server and 1.5 hours on another. I’m still waiting right now as I’m typing.
I was just wondering if the maw timer was increased again since the major patch yesterday, or if the maw is currently bugged?
The final boss event is at the end of a 4 event chain, so when you say “it hasn’t started” it might simply mean that one of the earlier events hasn’t been completed yet. Camping at the final boss location and waiting for the event to start won’t do anything unless other players are running the other events.
The event was set to be on par with other “large” events, it’s less than 2 hours but the first event (the grawl attack) will not restart if another event in the chain is still running. So the worst case I can think of is that when the grawl attack recycled it saw that another event in the chain was running, and started the timer again.
I don’t want to reveal “what goes in the sausage” but there are several variables that affect how often some of the meta-events run. The sole change that was made to this event in this update was increasing the restart time for the event to make it comparable to other “boss” style meta events.
