Guild Wars 2

Same as the title, which of the worlds has the most populated outer zones? I’d like to go on a map completion spreed for HoT since I missed out on that expansion but it’s a bit of a hassle to do alone. (especially without ascended gear). I’m currently on Yak’s Bend and I see a person here and there but I’m thinking it may have just been the dead time of the expansion.

Worlds don’t matter for PvE because GW2 uses a megaserver system that merges players from all servers in the same region, NA or EU, in PvE. Server now only matters for WvW.

As Trogdor says it doesn’t matter which world you’re on because PvE maps are shared.

What might help though is using the LFG tool to find squads (or parties, but it’s more likely to be squads) advertising HoT map completion runs. You’re most likely to find them at peak times (evenings and weekends US time) but they can come up at any time.

Alternatively any map where people are doing the meta events will work. You may still have trouble with some things, like the Balthazar Hero Point in Auric Basin, but a lot of things are much easier to do on meta-event maps because the events unlock access to the areas you need and there will be more people around.

Just like what said above, PVE is megaserver, so every world is connected.

But.. just in case you still want to join populated world, you can check it here:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World

Be aware, the above list of World populations only pertains to activity in WvW. It has nothing to do with PvE World populations.

In other words, there can be a Server with 2000 players of which only 200 actively play in WvW, and it would be lower on the World population list than a Server with 600 players, of which 500 actively play in WvW.

Thanks guys. =D