Guild Wars 2

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Is it VB, AB? TD or DS? No idea, i’d like to grind gold too, but that’s secondary. Basically, what map has the highest event uptime

For pure XP, DS is the highest if you join from the start of the meta. It’s basically non-stop event for around 1 hour with a linear path.

You’d need to join early, though. Use map timers and be on the lookout for LFG at least 5 mins before the start of meta. Over 10 minutes in, the first map is usually full.

Does DS give a decent amount of gold?

Like zakuruchi said, pure XP, DS. I cannot comment as to the amount of gold that you’ll get from it. Personally I would suggest AB, you are almost guaranteed a meta every 2 hrs, 27 chests to loot on the successful meta, plus you can multi loot on this map – i.e. you can jump between successfully completed meta maps and loot even more – and around 350K XP from the meta if my maths does not fail me

I’d say AB. Doesn’t take forever like DS, gives good loot on it’s own, even better if you join a multi-loot. Plenty of events prior to the meta which give XP. DS does give a lot of XP BUT you have to do the whole thing otherwise it’s a waste of time cause you don’t get the end chest and I don’t exactly like running in circles in 15minutes if the map snowballs at the towers.

If you’re asking about Hot xp, I assume you haven’t unlocked all the masteries yet.
If that’s true, I’d concentrate on earning xp and unlocking way points. Ignore gold farming for the time being. Once the movement masteries are unlocked you’ll have a much easier time with whichever farm you choose to do.

Raguel.9402:

I’d say AB. Doesn’t take forever like DS, gives good loot on it’s own, even better if you join a multi-loot. Plenty of events prior to the meta which give XP. DS does give a lot of XP BUT you have to do the whole thing otherwise it’s a waste of time cause you don’t get the end chest and I don’t exactly like running in circles in 15minutes if the map snowballs at the towers.

You get like 99% of the XP prior to the towers.

Dragonfeu.4356:

Does DS give a decent amount of gold?

DS gives a decent amount of gold from the Noxious Pod drops. Not as big a chunk as AB, but still decent, especially if you’re lucky enough to get a commander’s recipe book or a Berserker Mordrem weapon. The armor recipes go from 40-100 gold, while the Mordrem Saber can go for around 400 gold. Even without the rare drops, it’s a decent drop rate of items and containers.

Although it has been mentioned that if the map fails, you dont get the big chest at the end, the big chunk of XP is on the escort phase before the towers. This is almost always completed. Since the spring update, the Nox Pods neat the waypoints are also spawned after each escort side event is completed, so even maps that fail at towers/boss also give a decent amount of drops and XP.

For gold, it’s AB, but the drops are concentrated on the loot phase only.

If you just need XP and you cant find a good DS/AB map due to play time, VB day event chain or night defense with killstreak booster is also a good source of XP. These are less time dependent than DS/AB.