Guild Wars 2

Ok so I took a break right before the finale so I didn’t catch all the rush in SW so now I’ve been trying to get the achievements and the collections but it seems just a few people actually give a crap about the events there anymore.
I mean yeah they all zerg at the final event to get the loot, but most of the time 90% of the players are clueless about what to do and fail. Been trying to get the Silver&Gold and everytime failed because we didn’t have enough players, were like 6-7 at most. Not to mention getting any legendary champs since the forts are lost at every mordrem attack most of the time, again due to lack of players.
Been looking through LFG all the time and seems no one has any interest in SW anymore.
My question is, are there any communities or guilds there that are still having any interest in doing SW the proper way and not just farming chests? EU btw.

Majority of people hop maps. Until a map progresses to around 70%, there will not be many people on it. Use the LFG tool to join maps in progress.

I’m basing this for NA and during NA times so it may be different for you.

Hopping maps is probably not considered doing it the proper way. :p

I would suggest forming a party with friends or guildies and wreack havoc. I’m planning to do so in the future at the very least. This map hopping nonsense is exactly why world bosses are on a schedule, which sadly is because of the nature of most gamers. :/

edit: It happens on EU all the same Ayrilana =)

How about getting a region change? NA is almost never empty in any of maps. Think of it as people from Australia, Philipines, Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, US, and many EUs are playing in there. So the time is covered 24/7 while EU has only european players and they mostly play in prime-time.

Last few nights in EU ive seen a few successful runs at Silverwastes. Generally silver and gold is passing through w/o issue, but red has been struggling.

There’s certainly still interest and presence out there (although Dry Top is showing a greater resurgence atm), it’s just luck if you get the right megaserver shard

VaLee.5102:

Been trying to get the Silver&Gold and everytime failed because we didn’t have enough players, were like 6-7 at most.

fyi, 2 is enough. They’re all actually best done with less than 5 people, assuming offensive builds. For example, I’ve seen the teragriffs die in nearly a single bubble with only 3 people, taking maybe 2 minutes total.

You have to monitor LFG for people filling partially completed maps. Usually at the 50% mark there will be a taxi phase, then again at 70% until it’s full.

That’s been my experience.

Keep in mind, the majority of players have now earned their luminous armor and achievements for that zone. So . . . yes, you’ll see something of a decrease in population . . . outside those still farming the gear for gold.

It is what it is.

In Guild Wars 1 there was this great feature where you could select your overflow so that you never got stuck on an empty map.

You dont have to map hop. Just grab a smallish group of players and take the four fortresses. Once you have 3 or more (or even 2), start using the LFG tool to fill the map you are on. A simple LFG reading “Silverwastes. Please taxi and leave party.” will fill a map very fast with people just looking to have fun and do the events on the map.

If you end up staying on the same map, just rinse and repeat when the next cycle starts (and you get to keep your cool zone specific magic find boost.

I find this alot more fun and rewarding than jumping to 70% full maps.

The one thing I wish Anet would do is improve the LFG tool for map wide events like this one.

empty?
then i was lucky yesterday, i entered, completed an even and killed the big boss event with allot of players.
got 2 chest-wear armor chests out of it (lucky me) and a full stack of 2 account bound materials, i played only for an hour or so but i got my daily fill with that alone.

i can’t say it’s empty, far from it.

Xillllix.3485:

In Guild Wars 1 there was this great feature where you could select your overflow so that you never got stuck on an empty map.

Sucks for you because this isn’t guild wars 1.

Finally got my achievs after 2 days of grinding. And speaking of megaservers, there’s a huge issue with it, was starting the breach, suddenly got disconnected cause gremlins or god knows what, logged back 5 secs later and was in a different instance with 0/4. FML. I don’t know why they don’t implement a time-out period before removing a player from a megaserver, like 30-60 secs, it’s very easy to do that programming wise.

Silverwastes is far, far from empty at least on US servers. I can easily find ones to join from 40% to 90% even at really weird hours like 4 am. Just use the LFG tool to hop into zones with people or if you can’t find one unlock a couple forts and taxi people in starting around 30%. I unlocked all the achievements and amassed over 2000 loot bags and 8000 crests in 3 and a half days.