Why are there so few people in eye?

Been trying to get into a party, to do a quest, for two days. Only 'group' was three people that took me outside and then left the game.

Really? Everywhere I go, there're load of people. Maybe you're playing it at off peak time? Where're you anyway?

Try this:

- Go with friends or Guildies
- Try moving to the American or Euro servers and trying you luck there
- Use party search
- Hench / heroes

Most people in the eye are chilling, WTS/WTB stuff or going to the Heart of the Shiverpeaks.

There's nothing that would require a human group in or around the eye, so nobody does.

This is true for almost everything else in GW:EN.

It's always peaktime in some disctrict.

Just because none of the quests or missions around the Eye don't *need* humans, doesn't mean that from time to time some people don't want to group with other humans, for the hit of the whole PuG experience, or just for fun.

HoS chest run groups always form in the eye. ive been doing them on and off for the past week now.

Most parties I saw are either doing Heart of Shiverpeak or Into the Depth

Parties for HoS or destruction are pretty common from the eye. If you're trying to get a party for the quest "defending the eye" it's a lot harder as most consider it easy and have done it with H/H. Not really many other parties I've seen being formed from the eye. Well, I've seen a few for Jalis as well I guess, but plenty have already H/H it as well.

sure antheus...you could h/h all of gwen, and most if not all dungeons.
have fun being a lonely loser...some of us play ONLINE games to play with other people.

back to the topic...i generally find at least 2-3 districts for any town i go to in GWEN...are you sure you're not on international districts by accident? just hop around the districts, i'm sure there are plenty of people. the only really dead time is probably around 3-6 (eastern time), too late for euro and too early for america.

if by "eye" you meant the actual outpost Eye of the North...I don't think i've ever seen less than 4 districts there at any given time...just go to american servers.

NONONOON!!! Lol, I demand you edit your post or ANET will find out HoS has been replacing Duncan for me lately, and I wouldn't want it gone

Buddy, this is a new expansion, wait till october-december so and there will be a lot of people. I'm hoping I can convince my mom to buy GWEN.

By that logic, one could argue that people who prefer grouping are needy co-dependents who aren't skilled enough or confident in their own abilities to play solo or micromanage NPC AI.

But since that's not good logic, let's discard it, shall we? Not everyone who likes grouping is needy, and not everyone who chooses to play alone is lonely.

Use party search and if need be, visit Europe/American zones. If you play in the middle of the morning in Am., you'll have better chance of getting in a full party in Euro districts.

Wait until October-December and there will be even less people playing.

The introduction of heroes was a fresh idea since NF, but in some way and its more noticeable in GWEN, ppl are going for quests and even dungeons with heroes and henchies so the fun of making a human party is fading.

Hard mode might have been a balance for this but most of the casual players only play normal mode and tend not to fall in the grind of doing everything again just because its harder.

yea but when there is no one in a town why come on a forum and ask why they cant find help?

me too man 40 yr old man hope mom will buy me GWEN too.

she said if i rub her cornrolls i can get it

The quest was search for ebon vanguard. The town, Longeye Ledge. Spent about 14 hours in there the first day, wearing out the lfg keys. Only a few hours, the second day. Third day, finally gave up and took the hench. There were many failed attempts. The person that invented firereigners shouldn't send me an membership application to his fan club. The successful trip through the quest took an hour and 45 minutes. From the quest decription I expected to go outside, find something, quest over. Not the ordeal that is this quest. This thing reminds me of Villainy Of Galrath. Someone should have paid me $40 to do this quest.
Day 4: Got a quest from Killroy Stoneskin. Wasted a couple hours trying to do the quest.
Day 5: Got a quest from Bison. Tried it once. Couldn't get past the first guy.
Also spent an hour in that town. No parties. Very few people. Even the armor guy won't talk to me.
I would compare eye to a lab animal going for bait and getting an electric shock. It takes a while for the memory of each unpleasant experience to fade.
What did I get for finishing ebon vanguard? Another quest, to keep looking. I'll be checking the mail for the $40.
I've tried different servers. I wouldn't inflict this quest on the few friends or guild members that haven't already quit playing guild wars.
One of my guildmates plays eye. She was attempting to get polymock pieces. The next day, I asked her how many pieces she got. She told me that she didn't get any. I don't know anything about polymock, but that sounds wrong.
Why should a person spend time in eye if they aren't getiing anything for their time and effort?
Heart Of Shiverpeaks, Into The Depth: haven't gotten that far. Don't know what those are.
The enjoyable part of eye has been being in town, doing nothing. That's what a lot of other people are doing. So I think I'll do that.
I'll be in Longeye Ledge. I won't try to talk anyone out of doing the quest. I'll go with them. I will attempt to explain to them what they are about to experience.
I haven't received anything for the time that I've been in eye. It hasn't been an enjoyable experience. That's why I'm not spending much time in eye.

Many people just take heroes and hench to do things. Finding other people to group with is almost becoming non existant unless you are going with guildies.

I dunno where you've been playing, but ive found loads of parties asking for members in and around GWEN locations!

Have you actually got further into the game?

Besides most of the GWEN content is henchable, so its not like your crippled!

The hench will stand under firestorm and die. I don't deserve that.

Ughh.... are you talking about the firestorm from the char?

My hench dont seem to have any issues dieing when I go up against the char and their firecharmers (or what ever they call them). Ever considered using 3 monks?

I bet he is trying to move backwards, away from the enemy, which unless you do a 180 first doesn't seem to work well to influence the henches. I kinda noticed that if you run directly left or right, or even straight up into the face of the enemy casters, the hench will move closer to you and get out of the firestorm/meteor shower/eruption/whatever. For some reason if you just try to move backwards without doing a 180, instead of moving, the hench will usually just stand there and keep attacking, it's like they think you're the only one who needs to retreat and they'll keep standing there fighting stuff because they're special. Any other direction you move, or moving away while having your back to the enemy, makes the henches move out of AOE better.

To the OP: Zho and the vanguard assassin summon really help with stopping damage from the charr eles (daze from Zho) and then killing the charr a couple seconds later (death by summoned assassin). If you don't have the vanguard assassin summon skill, you can get it at the Eye doing the "Practice, Dummy" quest which is pretty easy. I have too have noticed that there aren't many people grouping from Longeye's, so if you bring Zho and the assassin summon, it should help make the vanguard quests a little easier to do when you can't find a group.

If it's any consolation, groups are much more plentiful for Dwarf and Norn quests, and for Asura too, but Asura quest groups don't seem to be that much more frequent than Vanguard quest groups. One vanguard activity you can always find groups for is vanguard point farming, if that helps.

Members of my guild used to get together frequently to do AB or various missions in the expansions.

With GWEN most are now pursuing their own interests with AI, most likely chasing after the titles. Very little AB'ing going on.

However most recently we partied 8 guild and alliance members to do HoS chest runs. Pretty fun.

In general, GWEN definitely does not promote partying.

Lots of players there when I go there west coast North America.

so far every pug I've joined in eotn is quiet. I want a chatty pug to spice things up, to crack lame jokes throughout the quest and all.

try the american-europe distrit or the internainal distrit...

Hm, in European English 1 it's always crowded. But of course, not everyone will come with you because they might be preferring hero/hench or just busy with wtb/wts-ing

I think you dont only have Party Problem but also Build Problem.
Well you said you can't even finnish the first stage of Bison.
Next you seem to die easy with just Firestorms.
Do you have any hero?, Got any good build as in real good not just some crippling firestrm warrior or a ranger with some SoF?
You sure theur are no one even in Amercan or Euro?

I use 2 Channel and Restore(Hybrid) Gwen and Xandra and Warder Vekk.
And I bring Herta, Cynn, Mhenlo and Lina.
Sometimes I would bring some 2 WoRs, Zenmai, Silverwing, Devona, Mhenlo and Lina.
So we have 4 Frontliners and 4 Support, WoR is good when enemies hit us.
Oh, also including me I am a Sin.
But the first build is better^^.

/agree

I use www.pvxwiki.com to start any new hero build. If you copy builds like this, keep in mind that you do need to watch what they do in battle. Sometimes the build may look great but the heroes AI will just use 3 skills until energy is exhausted and stop fighting.

Call me a noob, but i find eye of the north a pain. And cant get myself to play tru it, its not that i cant finish the missions or quest.Just that every little thing takes ages to finish. And like the OP said nobody is intrested to help or PUG, well not wenn im around anyways.

Ive had it since day 1, but i barely play it(got to gunars hold). Then i found myself making a char in profecies(for the first time) and i find it more fun to get to grips with a new profesion/skills and people are/seem far more sociable in prohecies(specially the beginers area s)

Must be me......

mzzls