Guild Wars 2

When people are playing this game to get to ‘end game’, it is extremely difficult to solo your way through all the content.
As you quest hearts or whatever related to your personal story, you often come across those fantastic random events or quest chains that make the game fun.

Unfortunately, since the large majority of the playerbase is now 80, there are very few people playing on lower level maps.

Now Arenanet have done a fantastic job at level scaling, but there are so few incentives to come back to these lower level maps and help out lowbies do their quest chains or random events.

It’s a big problem because as soon as you get in the game, you feel like you’re the only one, no one can help and it’s very easy to give up.

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An idea one of my mates had was to implement a type of ‘zerg’ event where everyone had to chase a special NPC through certain lowbie zones. This NPC would require everyone hit it, but simply by running through areas where lowbies are struggling to kill stuff they’ll get helped by collateral damage.
Furthermore, the mass of players rushing through lowbie zones would make any low level player excited and give them a bit of a speed levelling boost.

The NPC itself could be on a certain program to reward all players based on how much damage got dealt to it after the run. And by running through areas where there are likely questors then champions or elites could also be killed at the same time along the journey. So low level players can also get in on some of the rewards that they can’t solo normally.

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Anyways, that’s just one idea on how to get high level players helping lowbies. More of an indirect game event which helps lowbies by proximity rather than directly helping.

Do you have any ideas for getting the lowbie zones populated again?

Have you been to Queensdale lately? I agree it is a bit of a oddity but ….. Plenty of level 80s in Queensdale. I wonder why that is the case. Perhaps if ArenaNet identified why that is the case they can start spreading the love to other zones. (As long as it is not a bunch of people do things because it is easy over there.)

anzenketh.3759:

Have you been to Queensdale lately?

Some easy champion events around Queensdale.. The lonely part is all the way from 20 to 60something, until you get to Orr. I did that trip on my necro, and gave up around 65 because it felt like I was playing a singleplayer game. I decided to craft my way to 80 instead.

And I’m on Desolation, a server concidered to be full.

Crescendoll.7612:

anzenketh.3759:

Have you been to Queensdale lately?

Some easy champion events around Queensdale.. The lonely part is all the way from 20 to 60something, until you get to Orr. I did that trip on my necro, and gave up around 65 because it felt like I was playing a singleplayer game. I decided to craft my way to 80 instead.

And I’m on Desolation, a server concidered to be full.

I know the state in the other levels. As I said it is a bit of a oddity. I think the champion changes will help in this regard.

anzenketh.3759:

I think the champion changes will help in this regard.

I sincerely hope so mate!

Not sure which server you are on but I have not encountered what you describe personally.

I just recently leveled a Guardian from scratch and there was no shortage of people in the low level zones, or any of the zones that I completed while leveling for that matter.

Any time I encounted an event that I could not solo I just called for help on map chat. With out fail multiple people would answer that call and the event was easily compeleted.

CryxTryx.9208:

Not sure which server you are on but I have not encountered what you describe personally.

I just recently leveled a Guardian from scratch and there was no shortage of people in the low level zones, or any of the zones that I completed while leveling for that matter.

Any time I encounted an event that I could not solo I just called for help on map chat. With out fail multiple people would answer that call and the event was easily compeleted.

Same. I’ve even seen people in Caledon in the way offpeak on mine. Different servers, different populations, even different habits probably.

And it’s free to guest to another server. If your server isn’t busy find one that is. It’s simple.