Guild Wars 2

Get rid of the need to say “LFG” by having dungeon queue’s.

People select the dungeon and join a queue.
As more people join the queue, the slots for groups get filled up and once a group is full the dungeon begins. Win win.

no no, no auto que. Maybe I don’t want to run a dungeon…maybe I want tom play it. Maybe I want to play with someone tanky (I’m a squishy elementalist)… Don’t just randomly line people up. I would not like that idea.

In a way yes, in a way no.

I’d rather not see one because I can just picture the verbal assaults and over all flaming of the people who are going through dungeons the first time, and people leaving because there is a lower level player in the group (I’m already starting to see this behavior appearing slowly in to the game)

This will not work because of several reasons.
1) Some people do speed runs and some do like money runs.
2) I don’t want a 35 in my party.
3) Sometimes I prefer to choose a specific class to invite to my party.

However, the dungeon queue would work if we got an option to be with a party of all 80’s and choose what classes we want in our specific party. Call me a elite kitten but exotics are better than rares.

David.4821:

This will not work because of several reasons.
1) Some people do speed runs and some do like money runs.
2) I don’t want a 35 in my party.
3) Sometimes I prefer to choose a specific class to invite to my party.

However, the dungeon queue would work if we got an option to be with a party of all 80’s and choose what classes we want in our specific party. Call me a elite kitten but exotics are better than rares.

If you don’t want 35’s, go to Arah :P

All joking aside 35’s are allowed to do AC explorer, but I think the down scaling needs to be a harsher so everyone is on a level playing field.

Please don’t.

Implementing an improved LFG system will suffice.

An auto-queue system would be good for only a narrow set of players. It doesn’t help people who want to speed clear, who have a crew of four regulars (and need just one more person), people who are new and looking for help, people looking for a group to run multiple paths, and so on.

I’m not against seeing it in the game as an option, but I wouldn’t like it if the game didn’t allow me to choose my own groups or restricted LFG in other ways.

jason.9217:

Get rid of the need to say “LFG” by having dungeon queue’s.

People select the dungeon and join a queue.
As more people join the queue, the slots for groups get filled up and once a group is full the dungeon begins. Win win.

No thank you, this system brought out the worst of the worst in wow. I’d like to keep the riff-raff out of my groups.

I love the idea just modify it a little bit. Make it so players can queue up for a specific dungeon/path AND allow the LFG Tool for premade parties. They already have the queue tool as is apparent with free tourneys and Tixx’s Toypacolypse. Shouldn’t be too hard to implement. The only problem I forsee is contested dungeon entrance mechanic.

I’d really love to see an ‘Anyone-Welcome’ mode, which enables a flexible grouping(Arenanet you really did great work with flexible grouping & events now pls implement that to dungeons!).

I’m finding I greatly miss the ability to find random people to go with me on a dungeon raid. I play very casually and because of my RL lifestyle puging is simply the best option. I’ve tried scheduling dungeon raids with guilds and as fun as that is puging is still the way I get it done 90% of the time. The problem is there are a number of dungeons on my server that just aren’t popular enough to pug through sometimes. I wish I could leverage the “join” feature to find a group somewhere on some server so I could make it through the dungeon.
It’d be really great if GW2 would have a tool to allow players to queue up for dungeon parties across servers and leverage the “join” feature more intuitively. Seeing as dungeons are instanced for only party members anyhow it seems logical to enable this kind of participation more intuitively. Also it’s a win-win. The tool could select a server that players would join to that is the least utilized thus acting as a sort of load-balancing tool as well. Meanwhile the players never have to know or care that they were running a dungeon on another shard. In the case of a contested dungeon, simply “grey” or make those dungeons unavailable to select on the servers where they’re currently contested. A player (if the dungeon was uncontested) would be allowed to seek a group across servers and then go on their merry way questing while they wait. The server would roll groups every 5-10 minutes to allow the queue of waiting players to grow large enough for balancing etc. Have the tool notify players when a group is found so that they can run around and do things in the world while they’re waiting. In the case of contested dungeons require the player to stay within a certain range of the dungeon to be allowed to use the tool. (Forcing them to keep the area clear and participate in the events that prevent it from becoming contested)
If this is a good suggestion here are a few more:
-Allow it to Optionally prefer guildmates even if you don’t currently “represent” those guilds. Thus preserving guildie participation over a pug. A point of contention among many guilds. Perhaps even allow a player to optionally REQUIRE guildmates.
-Allow players to indicate their proposed role(s) (support, dmg, etc) and allow them to elect a leader. Adding an interface to standardize this process is nice as it suggests that the party create a hierarchy.
-Create an Option to balance the party in a way that encourages success. Max ttl party xp/stats/ preferably divided into bins. Perhaps give a find bonus or something to encourage experienced players to fight alongside dungeon novices.
-Allow anonymous and random player rating survey at the end of a dungeon. Do not drop this survey at every dungeon completion but randomly. Filling out the survey gives a small karma bonus to the participating player, while receiving an overall good rating from your peers adds to an achievement line as well as a bigger karma bonus. Thus encouraging good sportsmanship among players in the dungeon scene.
-Allow players to use this tool as a part of a pre-existing party. A party leader would have the ability to pug additional party members using the same tool.
-Allow guildmates to see which other guildmates are in a queue for a dungeon. This could be part of the status feature. Just a way to indicate what guildie is in line for which dungeon.

-Also adhere to the blocklist. If a player has another player blocked it will never be selected that the two group with one another.

-Finally, Joining a group is optional the notification the player sees would list the other players in the proposed party as well as their suggested roles. A declining player would go back to the queue, the remaining party would immediately roll for a new member until someone accepted the join.

not that this is a fix but it should be a help to those that don’t know about it
http://www.gw2lfg.com/