Guild Wars 2

I just got my character to level 45 and I’ve been looking for areas that have chain events. I looked up some guides online and they all send me to the same place, such as Harathi Hinterlands, Blood Tide Coast, FireHeart Rise, etc.. those are supposedly the main places where people go for chain events. I play on SoS server and there is a bug in Hinterlands chain event, the events are just not showing up. So I went to Blood Tide Coast, this place was so dead, almost no one was there and no one was at the chain event area. Then i ran to FireHeart Rise, and again no one was there. This is my first character, I bought GW2 a week ago. Is the PVE dying? or is this game just dead?

From my experience, Bloodtide coast was popular for a while, but as everyone levelled it became less frequented. Id say Sparkfly fen is more populated these days because of Teq and the large amount of events in the area.

Herathi is a good area. The main chain event is one of the best in the game IMO. But I don’t think people go there alot because of a few reasons… its not a level 80 area so you acquire less 80 mats/gear, its somewhat away from all the other major areas etc etc.

FireHeart Rise is a bit random. I don’t like the area because it is just too big. People like it for the volcano boss event with the chest at the end and alot of people can turn up for that one, but IDK people didn’t come to GW2 to play run simulator AFAIK.

The most frequented area right now seems to be Orr. After the patch it just seems to be a reasonable place to play and there are a few farm events there (looking at Plinx even with nerf).

I don’t think PvE is dieing overall. There are alot of areas people like to farm. But for players like myself who have no reason to farm, we are off playing WvW rather than doing the same thing over and over again for that carrot.

The game isn’t doing too well, but not that bad either. I’m not usually running around the world , but the few zones I’ve visited while leveling my alt (Queensdale, Kessek Hills, Gendarran Fields ) were quite active. I’ve also been in all of the starting zones and oftentimes in high level zones such as Cursed Shore, Frostgorge Sound and Southsun Cove and I’ve always found 20+ players per zone at peak hours. I play on Seafarer’s Rest by the way.

I suggest you to try and guest (it’s free) in other servers ’till you find one with enough players. Tarnished Coast is quite packed, I hear.