Guild Wars 2

Are there any tricks to finding a Gold or Silver BB map? Is there a certain time of day when the maps are better?

I’d rather not pay to be transported over there, so if I can avoid that I will as I feel like it’s a last resort. I was hoping to get an invite to TTS as I heard they were fairly successful (and I want to do some successful Triple Trouble/Teq runs anyway) but I haven’t heard back from them – which, no biggie since I imagine they are full up on people wanting in.

Any suggestions for how to find a good map? Have any other guilds been successful at doing these big events?

TTS maps can be a pain in the butt to get into.

You can try looking at the LFG in-game, at the Open World section. There are usually posts for either Taxis to Gold BB maps or people asking for taxis to them.

You don’t need an invite to TTS to take advantage of it. Hop on to the teamspeak server and look for taxi’s.

Honestly, there is no advantage to being in a TTS guild. TTS members don’t even get priority when doing teq/wurm.

Good luck with finding gold runs. When the festival first started, I had no trouble finding them and getting into them. Now, with only 1 week left, gold runs are extremely difficult to find. Granted, I can only play in the evening hours on weekdays, but even on weekends they’re very tough to find.

You’ll find people trying to organize gold runs, but they almost always devolve into a zergfest, afk’ers, and players killing vets to fill out their achievement bar…..and they almost always turn into 30-45 minute bronze runs with a bunch of players who have absolutely no clue how to do the pavillion(even when you try to help them out on mapchat). It is not a bad place to get xp for an alt lowbie(if you can’t stand EotM)….but that’s about it, anymore.

Best of luck!

Download Teamspeak, join ts2.ttsgamers.com, go into Boss Blitz 1/2/3/4/5/6 and look for usernames in Teamspeak with ‘TAXI’ next to their names. You don’t need a microphone but you do need speakers/earphones.

80% of us are not TTS. We are just PuGs willing to use our microphones and organise gold maps for everyone else. I have spent the whole month staying up until 4~5am nearly every night to help map hunt/taxi/organise/call HP%s/ERTs/you-name-it and just this morning I was in a map that got 8 gold chests in an hour.

Gold maps are not dead, you just have to be willing to listen.

Nothing stopping you from looking for gold/silver taxis in LFG, open-world content shouldn’t have to rely on voice comms, but the Boss Blitz channels on Teamspeak are the easiest, fastest, most efficient 6~14 hour farms I’ve done.

Like others have already said, just join the blitz channels in teamspeak, TTS was awesome enough to make it available to the community with no requirements beyond (basically) “don’t be a jerk”, so make use of it.

lcpdragonslayer.7895:

Download Teamspeak, join ts2.ttsgamers.com, go into Boss Blitz 1/2/3/4/5/6 and look for usernames in Teamspeak with ‘TAXI’ next to their names. You don’t need a microphone but you do need speakers/earphones.

80% of us are not TTS. We are just PuGs willing to use our microphones and organise gold maps for everyone else. I have spent the whole month staying up until 4~5am nearly every night to help map hunt/taxi/organise/call HP%s/ERTs/you-name-it and just this morning I was in a map that got 8 gold chests in an hour.

Gold maps are not dead, you just have to be willing to listen.

Nothing stopping you from looking for gold/silver taxis in LFG, open-world content shouldn’t have to rely on voice comms, but the Boss Blitz channels on Teamspeak are the easiest, fastest, most efficient 6~14 hour farms I’ve done.

Good to know….thanks for posting this.

Vol.7601:

Honestly, there is no advantage to being in a TTS guild. TTS members don’t even get priority when doing teq/wurm.

Not true at all. Members get preference and are notified of maps open first and foremost before non-members. Not so much for Teq, but let’s face it, if you arrive early enough you are almost assured to get a Teq kill on a random map. Not if you show up 5 min before.