Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to grind out my two new pieces of luminescent gear, but since Seeds of Truth launched, Silverwastes has seemed to have died off :-( Any reason for this? How am I supposed to get all those mordrem pieces when no one does the meta anymore…

Welcome to the living story. lol Every two weeks, a new story is born, and the one before it dies in an epic tragedy.

Umm that doesn’t make any sense…

I think the correct answer is everyone is currently doing the story and jp. Give it a couple days and the crest farming will resume.

Oh, on a side note: turns out you can get the pants with alt characters just like the shoulder pieces were

The Silverwastes will pick up again after people do the story, story achievements, and jumping puzzle. Remember that a lot of other players want crests as well. If you want to focus on getting the boss parts,use the LFG tool to find someone taxing into Silverwaste maps that are near breach.

Psientist.6437:

The Silverwastes will pick up again after people do the story, story achievements, and jumping puzzle. Remember that a lot of other players want crests as well. If you want to focus on getting the boss parts,use the LFG tool to find someone taxing into Silverwaste maps that are near breach.

too bad, we can’t reset the achievements so restarting is taking forever.
O yea and the LFG is bugged to crap

so theres that

It definitely didn’t look dead an hour ago… At least where I was

Even the people denying it can see the grind for what it is now. The newest episode with its ‘half a bladder’ nonsense all but proves it.

Yet, in time, I still expect it to pick up once the disgust wears. They’re still trying to get the achievements in the story done, the jumping puzzle, and the newest lost badges.

Once they’re out of the way, they should return … maybe.

I agree that it’s a grindfest. When I first saw a “piece” that said it needs to be “combined” I was like "seriously, what’s next? next episode we will need 4 pieces and so on? THAT is the new content?

The thing is, I don’t grind for the new skins. For several reasons (of which the look that is meh is just one). The most important reason is that see, I am an adult (and not even a young adult). Sometime along my adult years I got this piece of annoying habit, if I perform any kind of work, I expect to be paid for it. As in money. I play the game to relax, not to work. I even did play the Silverwastes lately quite a bit, just for the quantity of drops that I can salvage (still have 3 professions to bring to 500 and some collections to finish) but that is about it.

In the past there have been numerous instances where, when I saw all the things that must be done in order to obtain something I said “oh cool, guess I’ll never get that.” Last time it happened with the Mawdrey vine.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind a little work and I’m not whining. Not saying that they should make things easier because wawawa QQ I can’t do it. Not at all. I can, but I will not. I prefer to take a stroll in some beautiful spot of Tyria instead of spending hours on end to acquire something that – in truth, isn’t even that exceptional. Most of the chars are play are Sylvari, and I like to dress them in Sylvari armors. I might put a non-Sylvari piece on them (piece, mind you) in case I don’t like any of the Sylvari varians (see the cultural medium boots, that are all exceptionally bulky and don’t fit with the rest of the armors), but otherwise, thanks but no, thanks.

Silverwaste definitely isn’t dead. There just is many maps going on all the time so you often waypoint into a fresh or old map with half of the population doing for example the JP.

Use the LFG tool (Open world content) to get into better maps. There is always someone taxing to maps if they are close to breach or are starting with commanders.

webtoehobbit.4201:

I’m trying to grind out my two new pieces of luminescent gear, but since Seeds of Truth launched, Silverwastes has seemed to have died off :-( Any reason for this? How am I supposed to get all those mordrem pieces when no one does the meta anymore…

Because people are using the LFG system to taxi to maps that are close to breach. nobody likes doing the repetetive escort and defense events over and over for an hour anymore, they’re sick of it.

Anet looks at a problem of “well this zone is dead, how do we keep people here longer?”

and their solution thus far has been “make farming for the luminescent collections take longer, because people get their stuff and leave”

They never think to address the underlying cause that maybe somehow in their design of the zone, they made some things that aren’t fun or are tedious.

There needs to be more event types/variety to advance breach progress so the events aren’t repetetive. They need to fix teragriff hitboxes so that you can expect where they’ll hit more reliably, being 600 units away off to the side and still being bowled over is just not okay, maybe a visual telegraph of the area they will hit with their charge or something, and we need some NPE like idiotproof tutorial for the bosses since many players don’t read forums or even map chat or says or whispers when you tell them not to aoe at copper because it heals them and they continue it anyway. That sucks the fun out of the zone playing with really bad players who throw a monkey wrench in the entire map’s effort in completing the event successfully.

The skritt holes help a lot with the other major problem with the zone though.

a fix will be a less of a grind but it wont happened:
- First because they thing you need something to do (and is good that they think that) but problem is in order to do that you are depending on others << that sucks bad for everyone whos playing solo. They wont remove this style, never, coz they have this “getting ppl together at any costs”, hence open lining story(not personal story)/grinding/megaservers/whatever
-Second: GW2 China, they need grind… a lot. Yea, yea, yea, they said gw2 china have nothing to do with our gw2 but the residual things will keep on creep in. They cant make complete two separate games on one game budget.

so get to terms and accept the facts, you want that item then you walk on the path. like a small disclaimer :P

Give it a few days for people to clear the story, story achievements, zone exploration, and such, and it’ll pick back up again. People tend to knock those things out first before they return to the “regularly scheduled grind” as it were.

Electro.4173:

Give it a few days for people to clear the story, story achievements, zone exploration, and such, and it’ll pick back up again. People tend to knock those things out first before they return to the “regularly scheduled grind” as it were.

The zone is still going fine, it’s just that people are taxiing in from breach to breach rather than hanging out on 1 map and completing foothold events.

OP probably was in a map where people were abandoning like a sinking ship since it wasn’t making progress, taxiing over to other maps that were almost done instead.

Devildoc.6721:

The zone is still going fine, it’s just that people are taxiing in from breach to breach rather than hanging out on 1 map and completing foothold events.

OP probably was in a map where people were abandoning like a sinking ship since it wasn’t making progress, taxiing over to other maps that were almost done instead.

This. People have learned to use the LFG to find areas near Breach instead of waiting one out. It makes the grind for the organs and crest more palatable.

I’ve been consistently getting 5/5 maps on every instance I’ve been on for the last two days. It was less active only on Tuesday since people were exploring the new areas (JP) and doing the story mode, but after that, activity picked up. Certain maps also dropped in activity after a new build hit, which is to be expected of people updating their clients.

And yes, certain maps are less active if it’s not as organized, trading forts back and forth. There are almost always maps advertised in LFG that are more organized and closer to breach. I’ve advertised those maps myself when I know it’ll breach soon (usually 4/4 forts held at 60-70% pact assault).

Yesterday I was the only commander on my map defending the red fort. We made 3/4 of the preparations holding max 2 forts, then when we went close to the breach lots of people began to appear and we went up to 4. During the breach we killed the 5 bosses, which only happened to me once.

So don’t lose hope, people are still playing but don’t participate to defense very actively. That said, just run one or two defense, if possible with a tag, and people will join you (the loot is too gewd).

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Devildoc.6721:

The zone is still going fine, it’s just that people are taxiing in from breach to breach rather than hanging out on 1 map and completing foothold events.

OP probably was in a map where people were abandoning like a sinking ship since it wasn’t making progress, taxiing over to other maps that were almost done instead.

This. People have learned to use the LFG to find areas near Breach instead of waiting one out. It makes the grind for the organs and crest more palatable.

With the LFG tool almost giving me a seizure right now due to the refresh animation frequency I wouldn’t call it palatable.

Devildoc.6721:

With the LFG tool almost giving me a seizure right now due to the refresh animation frequency I wouldn’t call it palatable.

(laugh) The grind, not the LFG tool. Though, I will admit, it seems like it’s having a fit lately.