Guild Wars 2

Yesterday there were tons of people farming it. Groups of 25+ following commanders. Today it’s really difficult to find one and if there is a commander there’s only about 8 following. What’s up with that? Is suddenly no one doing it anymore?

Try using the LFG tool to find a taxi and get into a good instance

if you are just comparing yesterday to just now, remember, most of the US (I know those arent the only people that play) have headed out for/at work on the east coast and are just waking up on the west. I had to switch maps a few times last night as maps degraded (particularly when people wont listen and you end up in a jam at a purple boss), but I could usually stay in a relatively organized map. Just had to use the lfg tool.

EDIT: in fact, when I am in a decent map I usually try to fill my party for the sake of tagging mobs using the lfg tool as opposed to group with people already in. I am sure other will do the same.

There are always people there whenever I go in. /shrug

I have no idea how the map is designed.

But many times I entered a random map it is usually low on people.

I think anet should use the mega server technology on the maps and close those low population maps, and try to fill people on the same maps. That being said, I think they might lower the number of people that can fill a map.

I think they are using the same technology, it just has a couple scaling issues. My guess is that in the mega server (and I could be wrong) they do not completely fill 1 map before opening a new one, there is probably a threshold. For sake of argument lets say 60%. Now, from what I have noticed, lab maps seem to be capped at 20 or so. if the threshold is 60%, that means joining a random map will likely put you in a map with 12 or less, which, while sort of ok for doors, but makes bosses take a bit long, especially the lich. Thats why you really need to taxi people in to fill those last spots. This method will work in larger maps where 60% may be 60+ players (think when you stop seeing the stream of people at the waypoint for teq but can still taxi) with a higher cap, but doesnt scale down well.

The labyrinth died really fast last year.

I don’t think it will die so fast this year due to better rewards and LFG, but I would advise you to finish up in the lab sooner rather than later.

If u find yourself in an almost empty map, that probably means u are in an “overflow” even if it’s mega servers. The main maps are already capped with players. Usually big organized guilds.

I don’t see it dieing just because of the amount of gold u make & fun u have in big groups.

nekretaal.6485:

The labyrinth died really fast last year.

I don’t think it will die so fast this year due to better rewards and LFG, but I would advise you to finish up in the lab sooner rather than later.

hope it doesnt, with a good group you can get ALOT of bags. I got almost 300 regular bags (including the ones I got out of the champ bags) in just over 2 hours last night….no rare drops unfortunately, but its a decent number of bags, besides all the t5 bones and other mats from salvaging i will be forging greatswords with.

Also, already got enough skulls and teeth for the 2 minis you can buy with those and enough for the outfit. Now I will be gathering for the cat and 20 slot bags…enough to keep me busy for the duration really.

Heck, I tried numerous times last evening during prime time to enter the Labyrinth only to find empty maps. After a dozen or so attempts, I just quit trying.

Even the overflows last year were populated. I don’t know what is going on this year.

It appears that there might be an issue with the way players are loading into this map.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/300-empty-labyrinth-maps

Also, I made a post on the bug forum:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Labyrinth-map-not-loading-players-correctly/first#post4507626

For now I recommend using the LFG to taxi into an active map.

… And the bags are worth something this year. Not only do they give better loot and less junk, but lottery tickets for the mst expensive items in the game.

The trash mobs that dropped nothing now drop these great bags.

The labyrinth is recycled content but it was always fun and I’m glad the rewards are up to par.

Yeah, I’m running into a lot of dead maps on Lab. I have to taxi into an organized map. I need more bags because of the charged quartz crystals that can drop. I need 3 more to finish making Mawdrey.

circuitnerd.5863:

Yesterday there were tons of people farming it. Groups of 25+ following commanders. Today it’s really difficult to find one and if there is a commander there’s only about 8 following. What’s up with that? Is suddenly no one doing it anymore?

it seems that labyrinth maps have about 10-15 soft player caps only, and not much higher hardcaps (i have seen map getting fully capped witn no taxi possible anymore at about 20 ppl main farming zerg, and almost noone in other places, so i assume the hardcap must be somewhere around 25-30). We don’t know currently if it is a bug, or intended change (since, as always, Anet is refusing to supply any clarification on the issue).

The way the Labyrinth maps fill seems to be a bit wonky, but yeah, all you need to do is open up the LFG tool and look for taxis to active Labyrinths. There’s almost certainly going to be a couple that are open.

Pro-tip: If you can’t seem to find one, activate your Commander tag (or ask if anyone in the map has one). The moment people see a Commander in the map, they are more likely to stay and help it fill.

Zaxares.5419:

Pro-tip: If you can’t seem to find one, activate your Commander tag (or ask if anyone in the map has one). The moment people see a Commander in the map, they are more likely to stay and help it fill.

True. The zerg I was with yesterday evening was more or less created that way (not by me). Except for the Lich King, the content is easy enough that you don’t need a lot of actual leadership if your group isn’t super small. Apart from the 2nd Lich King pull – the first one actually worked reasonably well – things only got hairy when the Candy Corn champ and the Labyrinth Horror ganged up on us.

I normally get a party going with my guild, and if more people want in, we split into 2-3 groups and taxi everyone in. Usually in there for a few hours at a time during the daytime/afternoon hours. If I’m alone, I leave the map and re-enter through Lion’s arch – if there’s a commander, there’ll be a reasonably sized zerg already. If there’s no commander, I try a different map.

Wednesday night it felt pretty empty to me, couldn’t find more than 6-7 ppl in a map (and 3 of them were guildmates), even with a tag.

Last night I led a 20+ zerg for a good hour around midnight (CEST).

Yea, just tag up or ask someone to tag up. It takes me about 30 seconds to start seeing people gather. About less than 5 minutes to have 12-15. If that doesn’t work then have a friend or guildy come in and tag up for 10 minutes or so to gather people. Like a previous poster said, I have not seen more than 15 people in any of my zergy zergs. So once you have that many people one of them is bound to have a tag and can tag up to replace your friend so things can keep going.

I think there’s something wrong with the Labyrinth and mega servers. Today I was in the Labyrinth with my guild. Other guildies were in other maps. They were all full. But then people started getting into empty maps as well.

We had at least four full maps going and it was pretty late in the US evening (though I didn’t take note of the exact time).

I haven’t been having any problems finding maps to taxi into and I’m in the Hong Kong timezone, so it’s about as slow as you can get.

I hope not… i still need some candy for that costume that costs 3… thingies.

It’s always empty whenever I log-in. Can’t get the majority of the achievements because of this.

Tag up and do it until you gather enough people to tackle doors.

The maps are always “empty” until I turn on my commander tag.

Maps that don’t have commanders tend to have people spread all over the place, so it can seem empty. As others have said, it would be best to join a group to ‘taxi’ you in to a better instance.

If it seems empty, it may be a new map. You can ask in map chat if there is a group or wait a few minutes for other people to enter your map. I’ve never needed to wait more than a few minutes. If you have a commander tag, you can pop it and people will come to you.