Guild Wars 2

I am a little surprised that despite years of innovation in this field in other MMOs we have an LFG system in GW 2 that’s actually inferior to GW 1. This lack of a good LFG system will start to have an impact as the population “matures”. Already its become and issue to find groups to do story mode dungeons.

However, across all the servers, there would be more people with common needs for dungeons. So I think it would be great if we could have a cross server “dungeon LFG” that allowed parties to be formed cross server. I mean, with no tank and healer, GW 2 is one game were random match-up actually work!

I’m not a fan of dungeon finder. I feel it trivializes the content to some extent and causes mixed emotions from many players. With so much innovation, it would almost feel as if GW2 sold out if they created a LFG queue.

With that said, I would like to see a lobby area in or around Lion’s Arch that would allow people to gather and look for groups. This area would have a gate to each of the dungeons and could be cross-server.

Making groups needs to be easier but I would prefer we still LFG and created groups ourselves.

Mojo.2691:

I’m not a fan of dungeon finder. I feel it trivializes the content to some extent and causes mixed emotions from many players. With so much innovation, it would almost feel as if GW2 sold out if they created a LFG queue.

With that said, I would like to see a lobby area in or around Lion’s Arch that would allow people to gather and look for groups. This area would have a gate to each of the dungeons and could be cross-server.

Making groups needs to be easier but I would prefer we still LFG and created groups ourselves.

Very good point and very good idea with the lobby! But even without random match-up if we just had are more “sophisticated” status setting option, that too would be useful. I mean, all I can do now is change my status to “looking for group” but what am I looking for group for? If I could just say “looking for Citadel of Flames: Story” AND have my status visible to every body currently online when they open social dialogue, that alone would go a long way I think. Would also avoid getting caught in the SPAM filter and wouldn’t be intrusive either.

So cross-server lobby would be very nice! But in the short run, anything is better then sitting around spamming in Lion’s Arch IMO.

They have a lfg tab, but it’s hidden and you can’t specify what ur lfg for…. GW1 had this so people could find folks, see what they were looking to do, message them and then make a group or not. You don’t necessarily need to slap folks together randomly, but at least make it easier to formulate groups.

It really is lame having to wait in the specific zone or Lion’s Arch just so you can be in the correct map chat to find folks who are trying to form parties for a specific dungeon. I don’t think a global chat would help, but something so that I can be anywhere on the map and be able to look for groups that wanna do any particular dungeons; regardless of whether they’re in the zone or not. I should be free to play in Malchor’s Leap and be able to formulate a party using a GW1-type LFG system in order to setup a party for CoE or CoF or whatever.

I second cross-server search, however it’s implemented. Just some sort of cross-server LFG chat channel would work. As it is currently you can only communicate with people from other servers if they’re in your party or guild.