Guild Wars 2

This has become a problem of the late. I see all over the forums people saying “We don’t need a dungeon finder, it ruins the community”. This is just a stupid statement. The only interaction in not having a dungeon finder is spending 1 hour spamming “LF2M AC Explore” or something along that line. We are still spending a lot of time looking for groups when there could be people on another server looking for the same thing but don’t know who they are. We need a dungeon finder.

That “ruins the community” statement doesn’t hold a lot of water here in Guild Wars 2 and that’s because many of the features in the game are global such as our friends list, the trading post, and even the overflow servers; whereas in most MMOs those kind of features are often bound to a specific server. The only exceptions we have GW2 would be that we can’t do dungeons cross-region (meaning mixed NA and EU players), and our friends have to be on the same server if we want to do WvW together instead of against each other. Aside from that, everything else is pretty wide open.

For me, I find that I learn more about my community the best when I’m actually in the group and knocking each others heads when it comes to finding the best strategy to overcome the content. Sure there are those who want to be a bit more selective when finding group members, but for me, I like surprises and like to see what kind of crazy people I end up with in my party. If I end up in a group full of Engineers (or a full group of any profession for that matter), then I’ll stick around just to get the feeling for it. It might actually be interesting.

Over time, I tend to find some consistencies amongst certain players so at the very moment party chat triggers one of my warning flags, I would eventually stick around for what could be a very interesting run to say the least.

GW2 feels like such a lonely place. Just came back to the game after playing beta and the initial release and the lower levels are just empty, so the chance of me making any friends on it are slim now. As a result, there isn’t much chance of me being able to do dungeons because I have no interest in spamming chat to get into them.

I believe that I make up a very large number of their casual players and I suspect they all feel the way I do. I play many other games, such as DOTA2 like a “hardcore gamer” and GW2 is the only game I play casually because the structure of it lends its self to it well and when you have no RL friends who play the game, it’s hard to play it for many hours a time.

They really do need to change this. I hope that at Christmas there will be more people in the lower levels having just got the game.

We need a looking for group badly. For example, I hadn’t been playing for one month now. The most players had leveled up in Fractals and I was still at level 1. It was harder for me to find a group to pass level 1, thank God after a few hours I got a group. I wish there where a LFG feature to make my gaming life easier. Thanks.