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Am currently being impacted by this. I contacted support and they just referred me to this post....

How will that make any difference at all after the team who got permabanned for AT fixing were allowed to play unhindered with new accounts with Anet's full endorsement?

Jesus, when did this thread go from being about doing something nice and meaningful for someone in the old forums to "I want a legendary", asking for 3k+ items or posting a shopping list of expensive crap you want? This has really been ruined by greed from the original spirit of what it was meant to be.

On EU, this hasn't really been an issue, I see bounty trains going on all the time and there's always a few on each map in LFG, often stating "bounty train starting xx:45" or whatever time. The bounty doesn't start until a player with who took the bounty from the board gets within range of the bounty location, as long as people stay back, it won't pop and thus trigger the timer. It's also less of a problem if you're already in a bounty group or have made one. I don't think you'll get much success just by calling out a bounty target and expecting people to arrive en masse. 10 minutes really is enough when you're in a group. I've even done some with 4 people. Again, I think the issue you are having is in expecting the map or guild to rally to you when you want to get a bounty done rather than starting an LFG for a bounty group or joining one from the LFG - trust me, you'll have much greater success doing this. It would be nice if Legendary Bounties cycled faster, but I suspect they don't because of the Elegy Mosaic's gained from them are used to buy Funerary Weapons and Armor (once you've unlocked armor pieces via collections). What compounds the latter part currently is that often you can get a miserable amount of mosaics per legendary kill and currently two of the legendaries don't even give elegies. At the moment, I'd say people are mostly doing Champion bounties for the achievement tied to them for the 'Hunter For Hire' title and for specialisation collection achievements tied to certain bounties. After those have been completed, there's very little reason to keep doing champions because a lot of players are very unsatisfied with the rewards granted afterwards. Legendaries again are part of an achievement for 'Contract Killer' title and can also be farmed for Elegy Mosiacs to buy Funerary Weapons and Armor, but I've already covered that. I'm not sure if any others do, but Legendary Awakened Hoarder also has a (slim) chance to drop the Mini Awakened Abomination which is a pretty cool mini, but also worth quite a lot of gold right now. I feel like bounties are a great idea, but they need to be tweaked to give players an incentive to keep going back and doing them, as it stands, there's very little reason to do so. Once I've gotten enough elegies from Legendary bounties to buy the weapons I want for the skins, I probably won't touch them again because they don't feel worthwhile at the present time.