Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I have recently returned to Guild Wars 2 and I find myself to be a bit at a loss. When HoT had first launched, I grinded spiders until level 110 or so and I burned myself out and ended up quitting shortly after. At the time, a great alternative to spiders was Dragons Stand meta events. However, I’ve come to realize that there are practically no active DS maps anymore? I try to open the LFG and I rarely see any kind of HoT meta taxis like I used to.

Is there a better way to get HoT xp now? I did VB t4 last night and earned around 600k xp or so with a 100% xp better, and I did Octovine right after without any boosters and earned around 300-400k xp in about half the time. But, is there anything better? I’m struggling to reach the 4m and 2.5m mark on my bars, and I seem to getting xp at a much, much much slower rate.

I have no idea how it is for EU servers, but from what I can tell on NA servers there’s one DS map going on at a time, and it tends to fill up. Try to show up to the DS map before the map resets (30 minutes past odd hours) and if you’re lucky, that map will start filling up with people and will become the map. Keep LFG open if it doesn’t seem promising, as another map might be forming. If you haven’t found anything by reset, post your own “LF DS Meta map” group and keep an eye out for other taxis. I play at crazy hours and I’ve not had any difficulty finding active, successful maps by using that method.

That being said, SAB is happening and it has done a number to all the meta events. It ends on the 19th (uh, tomorrow), and we’re supposedly getting a patch that will make HoT maps more appealing. So there could very well be an uptick in available maps.