How do I join a public Convergence with friends?

[ccrazool.2905]

I know I can open my own private 50-man squad, but I'm not really interested in that.  I have 3 good friends that I play with regularly, and we'd like to play Convergences together. But when we party/squad up, and join the public Convergence, we always get put into different instances.  And doing the "join in Convergences" right-click isn't a sure thing - sometimes we end up in different full  instances.

Is there a trick to getting into these with my friends?

[TheQuickFox.3826]

Join public as party. Join at the same time. If you get in separate instances, select the friend, right click and choose join instance. It may take a few minutes of queue but you usually get together.

[Remus Darkblight.1673]

There is no trick, what you're already doing is all you really can do.

The best way to maximise your chances/shorten the queue, is to make sure you're in a party together before the public convergence opens and join it immediately. If you're not in the same instance try to join on each other right away, it usually takes about a minute for an instance to fill anyway.

[Bladestrom.6425]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers may help some.

[Cyninja.2954]

You can increase your chance of getting into the same instance or being able to swap instances by waiting for the first wave of players to enter, then join one of the later maps.