Guild Wars 2

I used to pug alot. It was a good place for me to improve my dodging and avoidance skills since certain pug actions can make bosses harder(random kiting).

LordByron.8369:

Esplen.3940:

I pug dungeons and fractals anytime I do them (my speedrun group doesn’t really run Mesmer anymore

IF they fix iwarden this time, it will change.
Nobody wants a profession with good chances to reflect and some chances to cause a party wipe.

I think it’s moreso the fgs nerf that will bring me back if I’m ever on when they are. I’ve been getting home really late, after they do their runs and I think that won’t change next semester either. I also prefer doing dungeons they don’t include in their schedule, namely Arah and Fractals.

I pug almost everything. Worked my way to fotm 50 with pugs. I completed my Dungeon Master title with pugs, which is why I still show the title on my main dungeon/fotm character.
Doing all Arah paths with a pug was tedious, but I’m patient by nature, so it was all good fun. I think for path 1-3 we had at least one person who knew the way and what to do, for path 4 we were all noobs. One of us would watch the skips on youtube or read up on the upcoming boss fight and explain it, the rest listened and tried to follow. All without voice com. I may have been lucky, but I only experienced one full wipe at Lupi where we had to restart the fight. The other times, we might have missed a grub or 2 and it took a lot of time, but we killed him first try.

The days of such runs are probably over, as more people focus on speeding things and it becomes harder to muster the confidence to join groups, if you’re unfamiliar with dungeons.

Nowadays I regularly pug CoF p1, HotW p1, SE p1/3, CoE all paths, and occasionally TA (not the aetherpath, even though I got my achievements there by pugging as well^^ ). These paths hardly cause trouble, even for pugs.

Even though I’m an avid pugger, I do admit that I lost a bit of faith when only 2 of 5 members knew how Mai Trin’s attacks work on a lvl 49 fractal. You can imagine that the fractals before the boss fractal also didn’t go as fast as they usually go. As it so happens that was my last run and I haven’t returned there in weeks.

tl;dr
For the most popular dungeon paths, pugs will do just fine…. otherwise it’s a lottery, since obviously you don’t know who you’ll get.