Guild Wars 2

In order to ease the pressure on lion’s arch overflows and to streamline the game, I want to make the following proposal:

Introduce a dungeon-finder that’s accessible from the character-select screen.

Let’s be honest, a good part of the playerbase is currently in Lion’s Arch looking for a group on their respective level of FotM. As a result, the Lion’s Arch chat is barely bearable and consists of nothing but LFG / LFM posts. There’s culling of player-avatars all around. Graphics cards are churning and using up electricity needlessly (sustainability nightmare).

All that most players do is:

• Try to find a FotM-group and
• chat with their guild.

So let’s just give everyone a guild-chat-box and a “looking for FotM” tool on the character-select screen. Once your group is assembled, you get transported directly to the dungeon. Unless you step through the lions arch portal from the hub, you exit to the character-select screen once you leave the dungeon.

To those who say “but that would eliminate the open world and reduce GW2 to a grindy dungeon crawler like diablo 3” I can only say that noone forces you to use this feature. Furthermore, there’s stil lots of things you can’t do in FotM, so you’re still forced to visit the rest of the world from time to time.

on that note I would like to say no one forces you to have map chat on either….
I will agree that something needs to be done for grouping. I’d really like to see them bring back the lfg method they had in gw1 where you could just type it in once, and add people from it as you wished.