Guild Wars 2

Hi All,

So I recently made a Revenant using the Level 80 Boost and am working on the collections to get the Mistward Armor set but I can never find a map with enough people to actually complete the Meta. I usually play nights during the week(AST) and normally can’t play weekends. Would I have better luck finding a full map on weekends?

Well, it’s megaserver. And while that system doesn’t work perfectly for various reasons, it’s unlikely any map/meta is “dead”. However, TD does have a fairly obvious mismatch between effort/difficulty and reward. The meta requires more coordination than most and the rewards are the worst of any HoT meta by far. Still, I haven’t noticed it being “dead”.

What I have noticed is that the event cycle on this map does not require anything close to the 2 hours between the boss meta. This usually results in a lull period where it appears the map is dead.

The chak gerent shows up every 2 hours on the half-hour. I find if you show up 20 minutes ahead of time and/or begin checking LFG about that time you can usually find a meta map.

Perhaps?

Something to point out, Bloodstone Fen might be dragging lv80 players from other zones at the moment.

Unfortunately, the best advice I can give is to use the LFG panel ( https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Looking_For_Group ) and check Open World events for Tangled Depths squads. Can’t promise anything, but unless you can drag a sizable guild out there to cover the lanes, it’s the most likely way you’ll find players doing it.

Sometimes there are maps doing it, sometimes there aren’t. It’s not dead, though. I’ve caught it in the last few days, in the middle of the night. So people still do it.

You don’t need a full server to do it, either. Just coordination.

But you really do need to use LFG tool to find the server that’s organizing. Without organization, it’ll fail.

You need to use LFG to join the active meta map about 20 minutes before. Any later and you’re probably not getting in.

Like others above have mentioned, TD is far from dead, you just need to know when to be there. I generally will head to TD at the top of the hour and open the LFG → Open World → Tangled Depths. There’s usually 2 or 3 up and you need to taxi over right away. I play late NA/Early OCE and afaik it’s still fairly easy to get into an active boss map.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I’m of the opinion if you’re asking this question. . . ? You already know the answer. But I’m not getting into the debate about LFG, taxiing, and those other excuses.

No, Sir, not again, thank you.

I’m afraid I don’t understand this post.

WhiteKnight.6759:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I’m of the opinion if you’re asking this question. . . ? You already know the answer. But I’m not getting into the debate about LFG, taxiing, and those other excuses.

No, Sir, not again, thank you.

I’m afraid I don’t understand this post.

I’ll bite: GW2 has a system where multiple maps are available for the same zone. Yet you can often wander a zone and not see a single other character. I have also been in a zone and had a request pop up that I depart the map because it has too few players and the same request in that zone 15 minute later, etc. The point being that while it is possible to find an instance through LFG that has enough people to do the meta, the fact that you can’t find enough people organically by just being in the zone means that there IS a lack of people in the zone.

Djinn.9245:

WhiteKnight.6759:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

I’m of the opinion if you’re asking this question. . . ? You already know the answer. But I’m not getting into the debate about LFG, taxiing, and those other excuses.

No, Sir, not again, thank you.

I’m afraid I don’t understand this post.

I’ll bite: GW2 has a system where multiple maps are available for the same zone. Yet you can often wander a zone and not see a single other character. I have also been in a zone and had a request pop up that I depart the map because it has too few players and the same request in that zone 15 minute later, etc. The point being that while it is possible to find an instance through LFG that has enough people to do the meta, the fact that you can’t find enough people organically by just being in the zone means that there IS a lack of people in the zone.

Oh, okay thanks.

This hasn’t really been my experience, but thanks for clearing it up.

Out of all the metas, TD seems to be the one completed the least though. This is mostly due to lack of organization. You need probably 40 people to complete TD. You have to get 10 people in each lane, and they have to know what to do.

Since AB has the multiloot though, its so profitable by comparison than people never leave. Pretty much the same with DS. It’s pretty profitable.

I’ve always found the TD map currency the hardest to come by.

Taxi Wars sucks.

But, if you’re willing to play Taxi Wars, you can find maps doing the TD meta still.

Just finished the meta yesterday. Its not completely dead but be sure to keep an eye on the LFG to get to a map doing the meta

Thank you all for your feedback.

Since I posted I was able to find a map that did the Meta Event, and was able to successfully complete it. I just monitored the LFG tool, and stayed on the map for a good while doing events until the map was coordinated enough and had enough players to successfully complete it. We have so many different different events and things to do in GW2 that can’t really expect everyone to be on the same page at the same time. Just a matter of finding that moment.

P.S. Almost done with the Revenant Mistward gear collections, yay!!

Glad you got it done. I’ve spent a lot of time in TD lately finishing my last HoT collection, the chak weapons and I’ve completed the meta about 50% of the times I attemped it, so about 3 out of 6.

There were people trying the other 3 times, but one lane always failed.

The game needs to message better what needs to be done, I think.