Guild Wars 2

A few days ago I saw many people zerging around the Mad King Labyrinth. Now it’s nearly impossible to find someone to zerg this place anymore. I need to get the achievements so that I can access the permanent Candy Corn node. But for some reason, everytime I try to log in, I virtually see no one doing this anymore. What’s going on here?

BTW my server is Sea of Sorrows.

Burn out, probably. I’ve noticed the population has died off as well on my server. Probably get about ten to twenty people now.

Your best bet is probably just to guest to another server with a higher population.

I guess people are just burnt out/tired/doing other bosses/champ farming that is much more productive.

My server has also been dead in the Labyrinth all week even at peak times. So you are not alone.

The same thing that happens every time. Lack of risk/reward.

Chest is once a day, there’s dead time in between events, no repair npc, no easy way to get in without banging on 5+ random doors in a zone… half the events are veterans which don’t drop anything, and the other events are swarms which give you diminishing returns in 30 minutes or less.

People got their achievements, so they have better things to do. You probably still have time to finish the event meta if you just do the daily Halloween achievements though…

Yeah mine is pretty dead too. It wouldn’t be so bad if there weren’t too many mobs in the labyrinth.

I think what GW 2 needs is an underflow server in addition to an overflow server.

guest to tarnished coast or blackgate. those two servers always have a sizeable zerg going. You’ll probably get thrown into overflow, which ironically, has more players than many full servers.

I’m sick of zerging a new zone every two weeks. I don’t care what it rewards, it’s time to stop chasing ‘round Anet’s carrot-on-a-stick.

Elbegast.6970:

I’m sick of zerging a new zone every two weeks. I don’t care what it rewards, it’s time to stop chasing ‘round Anet’s carrot-on-a-stick.

This.

It’s dead here too mostly. I go there now just to farm the nodes with alts, and nothing more.

Do you remember when Halloween farming was fun?

Guild Wars 1 remembers.

KSQK.3485:

A few days ago I saw many people zerging around the Mad King Labyrinth. Now it’s nearly impossible to find someone to zerg this place anymore. I need to get the achievements so that I can access the permanent Candy Corn node. But for some reason, everytime I try to log in, I virtually see no one doing this anymore. What’s going on here?

BTW my server is Sea of Sorrows.

From Tequatl all went to labyrinth, then all went to WvW.
ANet should fix this problem, Teq is dead, labyrinth is dead (and this is not a problem).

I’m surprised, too. Last year Labyrinth was full to the end of the season. On Maguuma this year it’s just 5-10 people killing mobs for daily minion slayer. Can’t even kill the Horror.

It’s not worth doing if you’ve already got the Meta, unless you’re levelling an alt like I am, although there’s usually a decent zerg at peak time on my server (Aurora Glade)

Leablo.2651:

Do you remember when Halloween farming was fun?

Guild Wars 1 remembers.

I do indeed. Good memories not of farming but just actually getting holiday drops. In GW2 even killing the 1-10 monsters that come out of the doors is more likely to get you bone junk than a Halloween item so I’ve stopped bothering with them. Playing normally the game is also stingy as hell with holiday drops and my personal best is 5 levels (69-74) without a single ToT bag.

Wonder if they’ll Ebineezer Scroogify Wintersday too?

Also, the server I’m on in LA has people asking the same thing as the OP. Maybe there’ll be a labyrinth equivalent of the TTS Guild you can join when the tumbleweeds start rolling on more servers

I have been farming that stupid labrynth as much as possible in an “attempt” to collect the candy corn needed to create one of the halloween gifts. I can definitely confirm that people are seriously burnt out. I am on TC so we still get decent zergs, but it’s often the same core group of us all farming for the same reason. And we are burnt… Mindlessly running the loop, chatting in map chap just trying to pass the time while we spam liche and viscount for the bazillionth time…
The worst part is, I LOVED halloween last year. I was so sad to see it go. But this year? Even the thought of having to go back into that labrynth to farm more candy corn makes me want to pull my hair out.

As other have stated, burnout, once per day chests, low (material) drop rates, too much health (on lich/corn). Also people moved on to the WvW season achievements I think as well. Maybe they’ll come back at some point…

I still go to the labyrinth once or twice a day to farm candycorn (I’m saving up for the mini Bloody Prince) and there’s usually plenty of people around, both on my server (Desolation) and on the overflow.

The zerg tends to come and go though. A door will appear and everyone clusters on it, if another one comes up they’ll go to that, but when there’s a break everyone spreads out more.

Yeah I started guesting to a more populated server. I either get in with the server people or get into an overflow which has enough for a zerg going.

The Labyrinth is boring for farming, but it’s a great place to level characters!

Two words…

Porous Bones.

Leablo.2651:

Do you remember when Halloween farming was fun?

Guild Wars 1 remembers.

SO NOSTALGIC. Dangit. Now I’ll need to reinstall GW on my new computer and go do the Halloween events there too.

I would actually love to see the two games merged a little more. (I love GW2, but I’d pay my left arm to also play Charr in GW.)

Anyway, I’ve noticed the deadness too. Its a real bummer. And with the one boss roaming, he just comes in and butchers the two people in there twelve times until we all leave again. Its sad because I really actually enjoyed it when running by myself occasionally. Sounds like I can guest to solve that though. Sounds good to me.

I burnt out on the Labyrinth after like 2 days. It’s not nearly as fun as the Pavilion or Southsun Inquisitors to farm and the zone is full of amazingly annoying mobs.

I noticed the FG train on GoM was back to full strength last night so I figure our Labyrinth is probably getting empty too.

BoogerSammich.7189:

I have been farming that stupid labrynth as much as possible in an “attempt” to collect the candy corn needed to create one of the halloween gifts. I can definitely confirm that people are seriously burnt out. I am on TC so we still get decent zergs, but it’s often the same core group of us all farming for the same reason. And we are burnt… Mindlessly running the loop, chatting in map chap just trying to pass the time while we spam liche and viscount for the bazillionth time…
The worst part is, I LOVED halloween last year. I was so sad to see it go. But this year? Even the thought of having to go back into that labrynth to farm more candy corn makes me want to pull my hair out.

why on earth are you attempting to collect candy corn to make the gift recipe? Just sell all the candy corn you get and buy the finished weapon. It’ll be WAY cheaper. And for that matter, leave the labyrinth and go to frostgorge sound.

Psycho Robot.7835:

BoogerSammich.7189:

I have been farming that stupid labrynth as much as possible in an “attempt” to collect the candy corn needed to create one of the halloween gifts. I can definitely confirm that people are seriously burnt out. I am on TC so we still get decent zergs, but it’s often the same core group of us all farming for the same reason. And we are burnt… Mindlessly running the loop, chatting in map chap just trying to pass the time while we spam liche and viscount for the bazillionth time…
The worst part is, I LOVED halloween last year. I was so sad to see it go. But this year? Even the thought of having to go back into that labrynth to farm more candy corn makes me want to pull my hair out.

why on earth are you attempting to collect candy corn to make the gift recipe? Just sell all the candy corn you get and buy the finished weapon. It’ll be WAY cheaper. And for that matter, leave the labyrinth and go to frostgorge sound.

You are definitely correct about that. BUT, that’s not really how i wanted to acquire the weapon. I don’t mind picking up the last of the mats on the TP but outright buying the weapon just completely takes the fun out of it for me. I mean, if i were to just buy everything that i wanted, then what would i be working towards you know? It may seem a bit weird, but these are the kinds of things that just generally give me a goal and something to work towards. They make the game fun for me. I do the little role play in my head or whatever, do my little fantasy questing, forge my weapon, feel like a general kitten, show it off to my guildies, run around LA flaunting it, and just generally feel good about it LOL. Maybe it’s corny, i dunno.

candy corny……

i see what you did there

What is in the Labyrinth worth zerging for? IME the mobs drop garbage compared to champ farming in Orr or Frostgorge and Queensdale seems to be more champs at better risk/reward.

I zerg it for a bit each day to kill the two legendary bosses and get their chests on a couple of my characters. Other than that there’s nothing worth zerging for in there. You might even argue the chests aren’t worth it either.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Two words…

Porous Bones.

The biggest problem at hand and why I personally can’t play the game more than 30 minutes at a time (thanks DR!).

Magic find doesn’t push grey loot/no loot off the loot table.

I can’t find any groups for it. At all.

Even went to Tarnished Coast and the overflow has 3 people (that includes me). Can’t leave overflow as I just get a connection error whenever the game offers to switch me over.

labyrinth was never fun to begin with. Last year it was bugged and people did it for loot. This year, loot is limited, nerfed and events take way too long to respawn so people just went to do something with more money in it.

bravoart.5308:

Tommyknocker.6089:

Two words…

Porous Bones.

The biggest problem at hand and why I personally can’t play the game more than 30 minutes at a time (thanks DR!).

Magic find doesn’t push grey loot/no loot off the loot table.

I have 110% magic find and I now get 2 porous bones from enemies in Orr instead of just 1 so that’s something I suppose?

It isn’t burn out but rather that the place lacks what people want. It doesn’t net you very much money compared to dungeon runs and the Frostgorge champion farm is also much better in getting money/champion bags. Then to top it off because they wanted to keep the new Halloween skins -rare- they made the Hallowen drops ridiculously low. Not just the special ones either but the candy corn as well is really low because of how much entered the system last year. Anet didn’t want a repeat of people opening 1,000 plus trick or treat bags to get the mats or endless halloween tonic. Even more so now that they linked the mats to getting last years cool weapons and that bloody 20 slot bag. Which by the way it’s so bad it is cheaper to make one the normal one then bother getting candy at all.

Personally it drives me batty because I loved giving the kids in LA the candy in mass each time I saw them. Sure they are fictional but it gave me a laugh and they were so cute. This year however I haven’t given a single one any candy at all because it is such a pain to get and I’m trying to save for the bloody prince mini before the event ends. There isn’t even any temporary skins for Halloween mats either.

Not going to lie even though I know it was all brand new last year so that helped but… last years Halloween had me excited the entire way through and I enjoyed it greatly. This years however as a holiday event seems to fall flat on it’s face. Unlike the normal living story stuff holiday events across all MMORPG’s and in the past for GW have been something that encouraged you to do things through the event itself and were something everyone could do reasonably. They were fun because they were not made grindy because they are linked to a HOLIDAY. This years without the scavenger hunt amongst many other things just seemed boring.

I weep for the Christmas even if this is how they are going to handle it as well. Course that one already has me bitter after the RNG mini’s bit last year. Bet we will still be forced to play tower defense with strangers instead of our friends again. Joy.

Psycho Robot.7835:

guest to tarnished coast or blackgate. those two servers always have a sizeable zerg going. You’ll probably get thrown into overflow, which ironically, has more players than many full servers.

A few days ago I would have agreed with you. However, now even those servers are dead. If you only have a few hours to play you may never catch the zerg at all.

Paul.4081:

bravoart.5308:

Tommyknocker.6089:

Two words…

Porous Bones.

The biggest problem at hand and why I personally can’t play the game more than 30 minutes at a time (thanks DR!).

Magic find doesn’t push grey loot/no loot off the loot table.

I have 110% magic find and I now get 2 porous bones from enemies in Orr instead of just 1 so that’s something I suppose?

THIS Can someone explain why DR is hitting so hard in temporary holiday content? Isn’t this reward content? This is supposed to be a THANK-you not a kitten-you

MisterEction.9382:

What is in the Labyrinth worth zerging for? IME the mobs drop garbage compared to champ farming in Orr or Frostgorge and Queensdale seems to be more champs at better risk/reward.

Those champs drop mostly garbage too (at least that’s been my experience)