For the love of the skywhale, take off respawn time during these events!
There's no real need to worry about balance during them anyway, but it's so, so SOOO annoying when you miss the Skywhale's descent because of a 14 second respawn time.
Also, have it on Traingrid and you spend more time respawning than playing.
I've brought this up in server before, but nothing permanent has happened, so now I'm mentioning it here.