Guild Wars 2

We have already seen that it has gotten increasingly harder to find groups for Story Mode dungeons, and the recently released FOTM dungeon (with its levels) is only going to exacerbate the problem. It is insufficient to rely on “new” players coming into the game to fill the gap of lower tiers of dungeons, and hence I propose these suggestions:

1) Remove Story Mode requirements for doing Explorables. (To some extent you can already skip this just by having 1 person who has unlocked Exp, but this forces you to be reliant on others having done it.)

2) Incentivise Story Mode: Make Story Mode give double the current Exp rewards for the very first time you run it, and make it give the same rewards as Exp for the first time you run it in a day/week.

3) Relax the FOTM level system. Allow a group to start a Fractal on the highest level of any player in the group, but each player still advances at his own individual level. eg. Level1 joining a Level10 Fractal, completes 3 rounds, and advances to Level2, not Level11.

3) I’m sorry that you can’t hide your true level. Having higher level people removes the need of worrying about that individual. The fact that you worked to get that x level means you know what you’re doing, and you want to get better. This will also give a wake up call to those who think full berserker is the way to go. Also, what’s wrong with advancing normally.

Anet could do what other games have- provide a ‘mentoring bonus’ for those who have already completed the instance to run it again with others who haven’t.

Pick something every week… XP, karma, magic find boost, etc.

I’ve pretty much given up on the Monthly already; because it’s so difficult to find a group to do the whole thing that won’t expect me to be 100% exotics, etc. Imagine its just going to get worse.

I see what you mean. During the quiet times when there is no overflow in Lions Arch, it is quite difficult to find a party for specific levels of FotM. People just want to keep advancing and do not participate in the lower Fractals. At least we know Fractals levels are per character, so if they play as another character, they need start at level 1 again.