Verdant Brink dead?
Just bad timing. Wait until the weekend, it should fill up again.
Also most people go to Dragon stand for better exp.
Lately? If you don’t jump on the LFG train? Yes, very much dead at times.
It seems that way. Frankly not surprising. It’s the dullest of the new maps with a tedious and unenjoyable meta that doesn’t really culminate in anything interesting.
Surprising. I figured out of all the new maps, that one would be the one that stayed somewhat populated.
So, this map is only full on weekends now? Already? That was fast…
It’s Wintersday, a lot of people are farming that (especially kitten much farming is required for Winter’s Presence and that farming is so profitable).
It is full on weekdays no worries i just ran it today and i am on an obscure timezone compared to most people.
The thing you gotta understand is that these metas run on a timer think of it like teq you wouldn’t show up onto a map 6mins after its started and expect to be in a good map. The same thing applies to most of the HoT maps you can’t zone into VB mid way through night and expect to be put into a map that is organized and pushing t4 .
For VB start of day and around 10 or so mins before night is the best time to start looking in LFG or taxing people into your own map. Sure it would be cool if you could just zone straight into any random map and have and organized successful group but due to the way these maps work you have to put in a bit of prep before hand to make sure you get a successful map.
It happens so often when i am in random map harvesting flax or whatever not interested in doing events someone will zone in with 10 mins left on night and start complaining that they always get fail maps . I really really gotta stress that it is all about timing . Check lfg see what stage the maps are at take a taxi at the appropriate time or start organizing your map well before the meta starts and you will save yourself a lot of troubles.
The thing you gotta understand is that these metas run on a timer think of it like teq you wouldn’t show up onto a map 6mins after its started and expect to be in a good map. The same thing applies to most of the HoT maps you can’t zone into VB mid way through night and expect to be put into a map that is organized and pushing t4 .
And that’s the key issue I have with all new maps.
Teq is 15 minutes top.
Dry Top’s Sandstorm is 20 minutes.
New maps have 2 hour metas. I’d prefer to be able to drop in and play whenever I want, not watch the clock for the optimal time to hop-in (and if you miss that window, wait another 2 hours).
Yea i agree with you and while i enjoy the new maps some variety in how they work would have been appreciated . For dragon stand i really like the idea of the huge meta and it fits in with the theme of that zone but some of the others could have functioned differently without losing much.
Going forward i hope some new maps are more unpredictable and spontaneous.
Here is a timer someone else posted on another thread. It has the event stages of the expansion maps and dry top.
My favorite timer site is http://gw2timer.com .