Guild Wars 2

Been away for some months, and I can’t figure out why half the playerbase is jumping from event to event like a swarm of locusts in level 1 areas. These areas used to be dead some months ago.
Also why is everyone is so obsessed with these meta bosses now? I figured they do provide a daily boss reward now, but that’s only once a day. Why are so many people camping these event as if their lives depend on it?

Gatherings and easy event completions, thats the main reason. To knock off dailies and monthlies. Once people start completing them more, you’ll see a drop off again.

The reason meta bosses are so popular is the guaranteed rare drop from the daily chests for each boss, but also the chance of getting an exotic or precursor from it. And since they are easy to do, it just becomes a waiting game before they move on to the next.

Daily and monthly indeed.
Montly event participator: Queensdale gets you out an event every 5 minutes.
Veteran killer: a veteran in a low level area takes 10 seconds to kill in a high level area bout 1 minute or more.

So basicly the rewards (laurels and jugs of karma) are the same, but the effort to put into it is much lower. Off course there also others who do high level area’s just for the better drops that come with it.

it’s better than the zones being dead, right?

That what the guys here told you and as well world completion, waiting for a dungeon run etc. There is more reason in this MMO than in others. I even got a lvl70+ rare drop from a lvl 12 mob.

Right now its probably people getting those kitten sonic recorders for the monthly, at least that’s why I am in those areas right now.

If I’m short on time i can go to the low level areas and get the daily done fast. In the Norn noob area I know where the events are, they are close together and they run frequently. It’s also a good spot to get dodges done. If I need heals, Metrica has the Reactor filled with constantly dying NPCs. Caledon has a mini dungeon filled with veterans, good for both the daily and monthly. Queensdale has a lot of ambients. They are just a good place to go when time is limited, or just to finish up what you need at the end of a play period.

There are all the reasons people listed above and …. the starter zones are much better to look at than some of the high level zones.

I had all the monthly events and vets done in an hour or 2 running pent/shelter/jofast, plus the drops are better than doing this in a starter map.

Collecting all those audio logs is a right pain, at 73% now …

Astral Projections.7320:

If I’m short on time i can go to the low level areas and get the daily done fast. In the Norn noob area I know where the events are, they are close together and they run frequently. It’s also a good spot to get dodges done. If I need heals, Metrica has the Reactor filled with constantly dying NPCs. Caledon has a mini dungeon filled with veterans, good for both the daily and monthly. Queensdale has a lot of ambients. They are just a good place to go when time is limited, or just to finish up what you need at the end of a play period.

the reactor in Metrica is also a great spot for the daily kill variety achievement, since you have lots of different kind of mobs spawning in the same place.

Methinks Anet was trying to have the low level or starting areas have more usage / population and one way to accomplish this was through the ‘Dailies’. (This is not a bad thing from ANet nor complaint on my part).

I know that my higher level character(s) go to those lower level areas, partly, as a way to do dailies sometimes. Though I do pop in there now and again to get vengeance on the vets and champs occasionally!

other than vet killer monthly and meta events like Maw and SB? well you have the sonic periscope monthy this month and of course you have daylies such as shiverpeak killer that tend to go by faster in lower level zones .

I just started the game as I was waiting for the price to drop. I just assumed there would be lots of new players because of this.