Guild Wars 2

Hiho guys & girls.

After playing some time with the new tool there are some things that I wanted to point out.

1. Differentiation between Explorable and Story Mode.
Why doesn’t it exist? There are some groups that don’t write anything into the description. How am I supposed to know what Mode (or Path) they want to take?

2. Any Punishments?
a) When I tried to get into a dungeon many players joined and left some seconds after that and we had so search again – every kitten time. Thats pretty annoying for the teamleader so I wanted to know if this is at least punished (in some sort of way that is actually meaningful.)
b) Everything went smooth and then one person made a mistake and we wiped at the last boss. No problem. We respawned and were on our way back when somebody said something along the lines of “Is this your first time?!” and left the group. After that 2 more people left – including the one that opened the group and went into the dungeon.
Thats idiotic and childish. Is there any punishment for that?

3. More Categories
Farm-Groups? Level-Groups? Quest-Groups? Anything along those lines?
It would be really awesome if there were an additional Category for Level and Area. So that I can search for an partner if I don’t want to clear the Cursed Shore alone. (For example.)
Oh and WvWvW. Please.

4. Language or Server-Settings
I found no way to say “I only want to play with people from my country.” or “Only people that can speak the language X.” and thats kind of bad or disappointing.
I know many people that can’t speak English for example. How are they supposed to work with their group? They simply can’t.

5. The last one is a Question: Can people that I ignored join my or at least see my group? Because I personally think that would be… not good.

Greetings
~Phenix Of Rage

I only gained access to this tool this morning.

Would like to see Open World as OP suggested for general Open World adventuring, leveling, questing, mapping, etc.

Would be nice to have a section for new people, carebear newbie helpers like myself. etc.

I’d like to explain my experience on the tool.

As always I was searching a party for my daily AC p1 and p3 runs. Instead of using gw2lfg.com I tried the new tool. When advertising my party I enter my usual text: AC p1 and p3, experienced lvl 80’s. What do I get? lvl 35-60 players. I have no problem with it normally, but when I want to do my daily runs I want to do it effective and fast. After a good 30 minutes I managed to get a party together with lvl 80 players. The conclusion of this was me explaining the tacts and stacking places(not my definition of experienced :x).

To prevent this is it possible to add an option with a minimal lvl requirement? And other options to make it more clear that I want to have experieced players for a speed run(Similar to the options @ gw2lfg.com)?

Usability is decent, but I don’t understand why people can merge my party without me accepting it or anything. It happened several times that my party(for AC p1, p3) got merged with a party that went p2.

Overall the idea of the tool is great, but I stick to gw2lfg.com for now.

Oh and another thing to add: Why can’t I at least see the level of the people that are in a group I want to join?

Phenix Of Rage.8495:

Hiho guys & girls.

After playing some time with the new tool there are some things that I wanted to point out.

1. Differentiation between Explorable and Story Mode.
Why doesn’t it exist? There are some groups that don’t write anything into the description. How am I supposed to know what Mode (or Path) they want to take?

2. Any Punishments?
a) When I tried to get into a dungeon many players joined and left some seconds after that and we had so search again – every kitten time. Thats pretty annoying for the teamleader so I wanted to know if this is at least punished (in some sort of way that is actually meaningful.)
b) Everything went smooth and then one person made a mistake and we wiped at the last boss. No problem. We respawned and were on our way back when somebody said something along the lines of “Is this your first time?!” and left the group. After that 2 more people left – including the one that opened the group and went into the dungeon.
Thats idiotic and childish. Is there any punishment for that?

3. More Categories
Farm-Groups? Level-Groups? Quest-Groups? Anything along those lines?
It would be really awesome if there were an additional Category for Level and Area. So that I can search for an partner if I don’t want to clear the Cursed Shore alone. (For example.)
Oh and WvWvW. Please.

4. Language or Server-Settings
I found no way to say “I only want to play with people from my country.” or “Only people that can speak the language X.” and thats kind of bad or disappointing.
I know many people that can’t speak English for example. How are they supposed to work with their group? They simply can’t.

5. The last one is a Question: Can people that I ignored join my or at least see my group? Because I personally think that would be… not good.

Greetings
~Phenix Of Rage

1/ Yes, a mandatory distinction between story and explorable definitely needs to happen. While you can just type it a lot of people don’t which leads to confusion over which mode they are actually running.

2/ I don’t think there should be any punishments as such, maybe a cool down period like a limit to how many times you can use the group finder in an hour or something.

3/ Although this is not for WvW there is a tab for open world content such as farming/levelling groups in the living story section. Same for personal story, you can pretty much make any group you want.

4/ Language preference is needed, although I’ve not had much trouble with this LFG I have had some issues with groups previously. But a major problem I’ve had with language in the past with gw2lfg is people who type their LFG’s out in English only to speak German all the way through the dungeon.

5/ I would like to know this, but it can be good or bad. Swtor’s group finder has a similar system but because the population is so low and server tied you kind of have everyone ignoring everybody else and queue times end up being slower as a result. With this game there wouldn’t be any issue because of cross server and role less queueing, although elitists are likely to abuse this.

If you can’t use the LFG-Tool for some time then that in itself is a punishment.

For example: If somebody leaves a group he/she joined through the tool within ~20 seconds then he/she shouldn’t be able to use the Tool for a little bit of time. (For example 2 Minutes.)
By doing it a second time within ~30 Minutes the punishment is extended to 10 Minutes.
By the third time within 1 hour it gets to 30 Minutes or something along those lines.

Of course this sounds heavy, but… have you ever played League of Legends? Guess what happens there.

It would be nice for the leader of the group (The lister) to have some control over people joining the group. That way people who are obviously NOT level 80 could be denied, if that is not what the group lead wants.

Phenix Of Rage.8495:

If you can’t use the LFG-Tool for some time then that in itself is a punishment.

For example: If somebody leaves a group he/she joined through the tool within ~20 seconds then he/she shouldn’t be able to use the Tool for a little bit of time. (For example 2 Minutes.)
By doing it a second time within ~30 Minutes the punishment is extended to 10 Minutes.
By the third time within 1 hour it gets to 30 Minutes or something along those lines.

Of course this sounds heavy, but… have you ever played League of Legends? Guess what happens there.

This is exactly how it works. If you join and leave, you get a timeout that gets longer every time you do it.

Unfortunately, it also gives you a timeout if you get kicked from groups repeatedly.

When I looked at it I didn’t even see anyone looking for groups. I gave up and hung out in infinite overflow for Tequatl. I’m loving this latest update.