122975-concern-for-lack-of-population

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Not at all. End game population is more than fine for PvE. If you're having trouble queing for normal dungeons (not level 50), try getting an offset for tanking/healing and queing as one of those. I usually got pops on my alt after about 20-30 minutes in que.
 
But like I said, once you hit 50, there are many different raiding guilds out there recruiting. 	
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			I've been searching for an MMO recently and I'm currently on the second day of Wildstar trial. I've yet to hit quite a bit of the games core mechanisms, such as crafting or even dungeons... but before I even get to that, I'm already concerned for the lack of guilds/population. I'm mildly afraid of not being able to raid towards end game due to a lack of people. Is this fear justified?	
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			What server you running on?	
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			Yeah, I don't touch sub-50 queues because I have a guild, and everyone loves taking a few new players through normal STL and laying an epic smackdown on Stormtalon.  Those are easy to form premades for, which further deplete the queues (also that you can blitz level through those so fast; a group streamed their run from 1-50 in less than two days).  But once you're 50, you aren't lacking for people.  The PVP servers are kind of barren, but on the PVE servers there are a TON of raiding guilds running multiple groups.	
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lets be honest here. 1-50 will be a mostly solo experience unless you play at your server's primetime and use a LOT of zone,yell,lfg chat.
 
50+ you can find groups for "some stuff", but it will still be difficult to get reliable pops for a lot of the content (some adventures mainly, and maybe the last few dungeons) and pvp is basically dead aside from a few practice battlegrounds during primetime.
 
thing is...
raiding IS alive.
if that is your goal, you will find a guild and you will raid.
i can guarantee you that.
it is probably the only thing in the game working as intended at the moment.
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lets be honest here. 1-50 will be a mostly solo experience unless you play at your server's primetime and use a LOT of zone,yell,lfg chat.
 
50+ you can find groups for "some stuff", but it will still be difficult to get reliable pops for a lot of the content (adventures barely get played, but they are the main issue as shiphands are solo able and dungeons do get played) and pvp is basically dead aside from a few practice battlegrounds during primetime.
 
thing is...
raiding IS alive.
if that is your goal, you will find a guild and you will raid.
i can guarantee you that.
it is probably the only thing in the game working as intended at the moment.	
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Last week I leveled up an alt, and I was quite surprised by how many players I encountered. I probably did about 60% of the zones group content, just by finding people in /zone and grouping up with them. 
 
So while it may be a mostly solo experience, if you reach out, then it definitely doesn't have to be.	
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On Entity (and Jabbit), there isn't a lack of population at all. The Dominion's doing fine and I hear the Exiles are positively flooded at prime time. ^_^
 
However, most of the population is at 50, currently, and there seems to be a general lack of people rolling alts. This may be why leveling zones do not appear very populated.	
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I was leveling an alt last night an Algoroc saw a slew of people. Someone even randomly came up to me and gave me a 13 slot bag for my toon. I soon saw a bunch of other people saying "Wow, thanks!" in say chat. So, not only are the zones more populated but apparently Santa is running around Algorac as well.
 
It's definitely way more populated that when I left just after Defile. I see it in almost every zone I go to. Sure, it's just an eye test but I distinctly remember that I could say "Helllllo, anyone there? ~crickets~... damnit!" Now there seems to be chitter-chatter all over.	
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I was leveling an alt last night an Algoroc saw a slew of people. Someone even randomly came up to me and gave me a 13 slot bag for my toon. I soon saw a bunch of other people saying "Wow, thanks!" in say chat. So, not only are the zones more populated but apparently Santa is running around Algorac as well.
 
It's definitely way more populated that when I left just after Defile. I see it in almost every zone I go to. Sure, it's just an eye test but I distinctly remember that I could say "Helllllo, anyone there? ~crickets~... damnit!" Now there seems to be chitter-chatter all over.
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			I've been leveling my alts mid-range 35+ and I have my nearby players indicating that 1-2 people are around every couple of minutes, they're all unique players too. Hell, people were even taking mobs I wanted in wilderrun. :(But yeah, if you wanna raid and you can find people that want to raid with you this is a great game for raiding. I don't know how all raiding guilds are operating but a lot have multiple GA/DS groups and they all enjoy themselves (including myself) really.	
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			Like others have said if you want to raid you will find plenty of guilds willing to have you, as long as you play during the "right" hours raiding will not be a problem. If you play during odd hours,  outside primetime you may have an issue finding a guild that raids at times to suit you.	
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All MMOs are fairly barren pre-max level.
 
Look at WoW. Enormous playerbase. All the mid-level zones are practically wastelands compared to the high level places because nobody wants to level up. They just want to easymode to level 100 or whatever it is now in 3 days so they can start farming Looking for Raid.
 
A while after launch it's very common to see a large drop in activity pre-cap. Wildstar's low playerbase is an issue yes but you can't expect thriving mid-level zones in any game a year after launch. You wont find them.	
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All MMOs are fairly barren pre-max level.
 
Look at WoW. Enormous playerbase. All the mid-level zones are practically wastelands compared to the high level places because nobody wants to level up. They just want to easymode to level 100 or whatever it is now in 3 days so they can start farming Looking for Raid.
 
A while after launch it's very common to see a large drop in activity pre-cap. Wildstar's low playerbase is an issue yes but you can't expect thriving mid-level zones in any game a year after launch. You wont find them.
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aside from  gw2.
because it is gw2.
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True, but if level scaling happened here I would be pretty heart broken. It's the reason I loved GW2 and also the reason I left it. I was a refreshing change of pace but I personally need a carrot on a stick. I need that gear progression. What can I say? I like running into a newb zone and *one shot* *one shot* *one shot* they all fall down muhahaha
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True, but if level scaling happened here I would be pretty heart broken. It's the reason I loved GW2 and also the reason I left it. I was a refreshing change of pace but I personally need a carrot on a stick. I need that gear progression. What can I say? I like running into a newb zone and *one shot* *one shot* *one shot* they all fall down muhahaha
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			I disliked GW2 because the questing system was horrendous. "Oh I'm just going to farm these events for ten hours to level up!" Nah. No ty. No progression at all.	
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I've been searching for an MMO recently and I'm currently on the second day of Wildstar trial. I've yet to hit quite a bit of the games core mechanisms, such as crafting or even dungeons... but before I even get to that, I'm already concerned for the lack of guilds/population. I'm mildly afraid of not being able to raid towards end game due to a lack of people. Is this fear justified?
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You won't find any population much leveling.  Everything here is end game based.  As for guilds I don't know.  I have yet to see any advertisement for one but then again I am out leveling and not sitting in the city.  So depending on what you want in the end, not really sure how many active guilds are looking for that also.
 
You won't find it anywhere near like WoW's guilds and raiding guilds and how much more competitive it is.  Look at wowprogress.com at all the guilds who raid and those who shoot for the hardest mode content.  So for raiding guilds here, again I wish I could be more help but not sure how many raid guilds are actively recruiting or how many guilds have cleared content.
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You won't find any population much leveling.  Everything here is end game based.  As for guilds I don't know.  I have yet to see any advertisement for one but then again I am out leveling and not sitting in the city.  So depending on what you want in the end, not really sure how many active guilds are looking for that also.
 
You won't find it anywhere near like WoW's guilds and raiding guilds and how much more competitive it is.  Look at wowprogress.com at all the guilds who raid and those who shoot for the hardest mode content.  So for raiding guilds here, again I wish I could be more help but not sure how many raid guilds are actively recruiting or how many guilds have cleared content.
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Not at all. End game population is more than fine for PvE. If you're having trouble queing for normal dungeons (not level 50), try getting an offset for tanking/healing and queing as one of those. I usually got pops on my alt after about 20-30 minutes in que.
 
But like I said, once you hit 50, there are many different raiding guilds out there recruiting. 
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 That's funny. Raids are 40 man, right? He's right he's right. There is a population enough for 40 man raiding
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So for raiding guilds here, again I wish I could be more help but not sure how many raid guilds are actively recruiting or how many guilds have cleared content.
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It shouldn't be that hard to find people; they're everywhere right now.
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Lol Entity is a wasteland when I try to play my dominion on Australian times. the group finder queue has never popped even once, but I see that the shiphand missions are possibly the only thing running; and possibly might get old really fast ?
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			I am happy that things are rosier at level cap, but there's no small amount of disappointment in how I've been queued the past two days now for 3+ hours at a time as a tank for Hycrest and... nothing has ever popped. ;.;	
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Lol Entity is a wasteland when I try to play my dominion on Australian times. the group finder queue has never popped even once, but I see that the shiphand missions are possibly the only thing running; and possibly might get old really fast ?
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I am happy that things are rosier at level cap, but there's no small amount of disappointment in how I've been queued the past two days now for 3+ hours at a time as a tank for Hycrest and... nothing has ever popped. ;.;
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no matter what faction. who runs Hycrest....
 
your best bet here is to make the group yourself using zone chat. probably.	
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no matter what faction. who runs Hycrest....
 
your best bet here is to make the group yourself using zone chat. probably.
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hmm yeah, levelling up group content is problematic a bit.
i wonder if it really hurts the new player's experience...	
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I imagine it does. I enjoyed the game right up until level 20 . . .
 
hen I hit Stormtalon and I fell in love.	
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If I was Carbine, I'd try to figure out what the cost would be to hire four people to sit at level 20 and just queue for Stormtalon and KV all day long.
 
I'm sure those people would go crazy after a few days, though- haha	
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no matter what faction. who runs Hycrest....
 
your best bet here is to make the group yourself using zone chat. probably.
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no matter what faction. who runs Hycrest....
 
your best bet here is to make the group yourself using zone chat. probably.
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hmm yeah, levelling up group content is problematic a bit.
i wonder if it really hurts the new player's experience...
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I just levelled a new alt to 50 and I did all the instances multiple times. Longest I ever sat waiting for a group was 10 minutes. 
 
If you're the type of player that queues with the dungeon Finder and expects the game to do all the work for you, then expect to wait hours.
 
If you played MMOs before dungeon finder was a thing then finding groups is no problem and takes only minutes	
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