Guild Wars 2

A lot of people seem to struggle to find a good dragon stand map, A lot of the time you find yourself in one with a reasonable population but the timer is too low to start to start the events. Wouldn’t it make far more sense to start the map timer once the initial events have been triggerred?

This is the most logical solution that has been posted time and time again and it should’ve been like that from the start.

maps resets every 2hour. And that’s when people fill and taxi people in for a fresh event(?)

“A lot of people seem to struggle to find a good dragon stand map”

I don’t notice that. Use the LFG tool. LFG has a lot of room for improvement, but if you use it you’re certainly not going to be struggling to find a DS map. Every time I want to do DS I find a full map.

The only problems I have ran into is the LFG window itself, especially around the hour before tequatl. GW2 vanilla and HoT should have separate lfg tabs.

Your idea of the countdown starting when the event is activated would be pretty great though.

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/

Wahaha.7938:

“A lot of people seem to struggle to find a good dragon stand map”

I don’t notice that. Use the LFG tool. LFG has a lot of room for improvement, but if you use it you’re certainly not going to be struggling to find a DS map. Every time I want to do DS I find a full map.

Well – you’re either playing a different game than me or are VERY lucky. My experience is:

Have luck with a fresh map (i.e. get lucky with WHEN you enter it) – get a taxi – action rolls. Arrive 10 minutes later and that map is full and I have yet to see 2 maps with taxis. So, set a timer, play somewhere else for 2h and try again.

3 tries today – never got a taxi and the maps I ended up are empty – meta not even started. Great fun … not. I also love that … “Map is empty … want to move to a fuller map” which lands in you another map that is just as empty as the one you left.

they should just let ppl choose the instance like Aion did. U get 1-9 instances to pick and hop around till u find one u like.

Taxidriver.2043:

they should just let ppl choose the instance like Aion did. U get 1-9 instances to pick and hop around till u find one u like.

Whut? Choice? Begone, foul fiend …

Edit: I mean … most “patches” seem to take away freedom of choice and seem to be aimed at funneling you into an “approved by ANet” playstyle … so I’d realyl be surprised to see elements of choice added …

Taxidriver.2043:

they should just let ppl choose the instance like Aion did. U get 1-9 instances to pick and hop around till u find one u like.

The original Guild Wars has that festure but obviously for the sequel ANet knew “better”. It took them two years to actually drop the idea of having separate maps for every server and get back to something that looks like the system used in GW1, although it still doesn’t allow people to choose manually in which instance they are going to land (a feature available in the original game).

holodoc.5748:

Taxidriver.2043:

they should just let ppl choose the instance like Aion did. U get 1-9 instances to pick and hop around till u find one u like.

The original Guild Wars has that festure but obviously for the sequel ANet knew “better”. It took them two years to actually drop the idea of having separate maps for every server and get back to something that looks like the system used in GW1, although it still doesn’t allow people to choose manually in which instance they are going to land (a feature available in the original game).

Sighs with the sweet memories … AND … if you had to play at an ungodly hour (shifts, you know) you could hop from EU to US to play with people Latency, of course, was less important in GW 1 unless you played PvP and, say, a Mesmer.

Darkstar.7839:

A lot of people seem to struggle to find a good dragon stand map, A lot of the time you find yourself in one with a reasonable population but the timer is too low to start to start the events. Wouldn’t it make far more sense to start the map timer once the initial events have been triggerred?

i think the problem might be that Dragon Stand is a cross server event and every server is time excatly the same, by changing that foundamentality, it might invite hackers because instead of each server being together, it then is instance based hence hacker will have a field day!