Guild Wars 2

I need some help enjoying the game and am kinda looking for a suggestion on a map to make money.

Firstly I want to say I LOVED the Silverwastes. However recently at times I’m having a hard time finding a map that’s active in lfg.

Why I liked SW so much is because it was player driven not on a timer.
It was easy to understand the objective
The loot was wonderful and provided a very nice income
The simplicity of defend a base, kill champion, get into a lane and kill other champion and get nice loot at the end
It didn’t take a huge huge amount of time say like dragons stand taking over an hour plus being on a timer.

I do not know a huge amount of the new maps in all honestly from the living story and I was curious if there is something kinda similar to the SW where I could just kinda jump in and play a big meta over and over making some nice gold?

Please keep in mind I can not tolerate the first 4 maps in hot that are all layered in the jungle. Just curious what may be a good map to activity start playing? Any suggestions would be amazing!

Bloodstone Fen, Ember Bay and Bitterfrost Frontier throw loot at players like it’s going out of style. I seem to get more rares on BSF, for what it’s worth.

BSF has mini metas. The first is a periodic cycle where players close 8 rifts, then a Champion Bloodstone Elemental appears. There’s also a cycle of 5 events. The first four involve fighting Jade Construct Champions which appear and try to destroy Bloodstone Stalagmites. The fifth event involves defeating a leyline Legendary. Then there are a series of Champion Spirits which appear at night, followed by an escort of the spirit of a character who appeared in the original game. Finally, there’s a standalone boss spirit also from the original game, and his pre-event. BSF does require gliding and mushroom jumping is a plus, but navigation there is significantly easier than any of the HoT maps.

EB and BFF don’t really have map metas. EB has several repeatable (daily) hearts, each of which has a pre-event/boss event attached. BFF also has repeatable hearts, and a day/night cycle with Champs appearing at night. Players in BFF can also chest run (solo or not) using a torch taken from one of a series of shrines. The chests mostly contain a currency or two, and a couple of green/blue salvage bait. Rares drop with reasonable frequency as event rewards in both zones. Again, gliding and mushroom jumping are a plus.

The trick to these maps for me has been to jump from one to the other. They aren’t as involved as the SW (to me), so avoiding over-play means I have not yet tired of them. I rarely play more than an hour or two at a time, and there are few occasions on any of these three in which I don’t have full bags before I’m done.

Finally, each map has a currency that one can gather (Blood Rubies, Petrified Wood and Winterberries). Those, plus Unbound Magic can be exchanged for Ascended Trinkets with access to the HoT stats as well as core stats. The vendor in BFF also sells, for the same two currencies, Ascended Breathers with selectable stats.

Hope this helps. I didn’t speak of the other 3 zones because I don’t know them well. Maybe someone else will.

Good luck.