What to do on a Dead Dragonstand map? How to farm pods? - [Merged]

[Gorani.7205]

Even if the map isn't "dead", it is a very inconvenient (and kind of long) meta event that only encourages you to play when everyone else is playing. It would be nice, if doing only one lane would work out fine, when you only have a small amount of people on the map, because the Pods only spawn at the camps after you have progressed towards the "towers".And of course a Pod in the home instance would be nice too.

[Linken.6345]

He/she just want a break Sobx

[Ayrilana.1396]

@"Gorani.7205" said:Even if the map isn't "dead", it is a very inconvenient (and kind of long) meta event that only encourages you to play when everyone else is playing. It would be nice, if doing only one lane would work out fine, when you only have a small amount of people on the map, because the Pods only spawn at the camps after you have progressed towards the "towers".And of course a Pod in the home instance would be nice too.

It’s about an hour or so and there are enough pods for you to average 100 ore. This is also primarily for a legendary weapon as well so I don’t see the issue.

[Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.294]

@Khisanth.2948 said:

@Knighthonor.4061 said:

@"Rasimir.6239" said:There are a few pods scattered across the lanes that are there all the time, regardless of event status, so you can take a character (or a few) through the contested map, hunting out those pods. Of course it's slower than opening pods on a full map, but if you can't find an active map in lfg this is the way to go.

are they unique per character?

Yes. So you can open them on each of your characters. With mounts this goes pretty quickly. You will generally end up in the same instance so you should keep track of the pod locations so you can go faster on your second and later characters.

There are three pods in each lane on a "dead" map. I used to run down one lane cross over to mid, run back up it, then cross over to the third and run all the way down it. Grab the pods and all the strongboxes along the way, plus whatever other nodes I needed or wanted. Got to the point that I would run it on my necro without even bothering to pop my healing minion - you can get all 9 without ever aggroing anything if you do it right.

Funny story, I was doing this one night and someone called out in map chat asking for help getting to Tigers so they could train one for their ranger - they really liked cats and wanted to play through the story with a tiger at their side. I was already down there and voluntered to help and a couple people were at the start and said they'd help and started towards me while I headed back up to them - and this was pre-PoF, so no mounts. Met up with them about halfway down the wrong lane and the person we're helping is an anet employee on like a level 20 or 30 something ranger. So the 4 of us escorted him down to get his tiger, just laying waste to everything that got in our way. Escorting him was almost like escorting a NPC through there. It was an absolute blast!

[Hesione.9412]

Is there a map with the 3 pods per lane marked? The most I have found in a dead map was 1 in 1 lane.

[Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.294]

@Hesione.9412 said:Is there a map with the 3 pods per lane marked? The most I have found in a dead map was 1 in 1 lane.

Not that I'm aware of. Generally they are spread out one per camp/waypoint and then one near the end of the lane. For example, the north lane, I've found the first one on the elevated rock near where the first events happen, to the ledge just below the frog camp east of the first waypoint, to down near the waypoint, to up at the ruin above the first waypoint. My advice is just run around keeping your eye open for the whitish glow that will show through terrain and obstacles. But there are 3 in each lane.