Guild Wars 2

I’m a dungeon master with 5 level 80 toons trying to dungeon level my 6th toon, but it is impossible at the moment.

30% of lfg tool posts look like this:
lfm or lfg level 80 only it i impossible to find a decent (keyword here) party to do certain dungeons.
most of these parties suck big time, as they are full of people that are merely level 80 but have no idea how to do dungeons properly.

10% looks like this:
lfg or lfm all levels welcome problem is these are mostly newbs and people that have never run a dungeon before, her you find the stubborn people that do not bother to read about how to better approach an encounter, and do not follow any given advice or directions, they just aggro everything in sight and get the party wiped, their excuse is this: i wanna do it the way the developer intended it to be done BS of course but whatever.

60% look like this:
lfg or lfm level 80 only and experienced same issue here they will not take a low level player at all.
at least in these parties, the players know what they are doing and how to run dungeons for the most part, shouldn’t I as an experienced dungeon player be allowed in as well ? my only way in is if i swap to one of my level 80 characters which sucks, my goal is to dungeon level.

I’ve seen some pretty bad level 80 runners in my day, how about a guardian that is down every 5 seconds while me the lowbie 50 never go down, that has to put some shame on imo, yet I have a hard time finding a decent party to run with on my lowbie character.

it’s gotten so bad that you are not allowed to swap to your lowbie at the end boss at all !

how about this

provide an extra little reward for using the lfg tool and including low level characters in the group

If you have a friend, they could hold the cutscene at the end. Then you get the boss reward for your lvl 80 and the dungeon reward for your alt.

problem of extra reward will be either: no enough to have an effect or: enough that people will start using it to farm more efficiently.

And yet pressing 1 on champions is perfectly ok

cmon wukunlin, us dungeon runners need a good income source too :p

I am all for good income for dungeon runners but I can’t say the same for anet.

“Oh look, dungeon runners found a way to make more gold” NERFNERFNERF

But a lot of lfg on gw2lfg are looking for lvl 80 people only. thats not a valid argument

And I can’t say much about the LFG tool. I hardly find parties, and the ones I found were pretty much “normal”. Some were so great that we runned lots of dungeons together, others were not that great, but we finished the run without problems
I found new people too, but at least they asked for tips

I don’t have dungeon master, havn’t done most of the dungeons past TA since that’s when my guild kindof died around me.

But I’ve done bits and pieces, and take direction very well. I can do AC in my sleep but I really hate switching. I don’t understand the logic of 80 only for a dungeon that can easily be completed by lv 35 characters including kholer and i’m getting kicked even at lv 65 and 75<_<

I dislike these people

Well OP noone stops you to make your own group.If you can’t join another you are always free to start your own with your bloody requirements.

I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a group that hasn’t allowed someone to switch when the boss is dead or near dead and then the rest of the party holds the cutscene for the leveler. If they don’t want to allow that then don’t run with them.

I understand wanting to level in dungeons, my guard and my mes I used crafting and map exploration to get to 35 and started running ac and then everything else I was appropriate for until crafting from 70-80. I liked leveling my lowbies in dungeons because it gave0 me time to learn the class and is more fun for me than map completion, wvw, or crafting. I always ran with at least 2 other friends in the group that I knew were good though and made the groups. Because of this I don’t really have a problem with low levels in a dungeon, but I don’t like seeing more than one and certain classes will make me check the ap of the person and hope it’s an alt leveling and not a first timer. I also always wear my dm title on lowbie’s when leveling in dungeons so that hopefully people will see that I know what I’m doing.

If it’s not your party or the party seems weak, just be ready to have an 80 rdy to go and switch at the end.

Most of the time to level in dungeons anymore I just run on an 80 and switch to the lowbie at the end of the run with the boss is near dead and usually only use ta up and ta f/f since those bosses are relatively easy to finish with 4 people, my load times are long, and I don’t miss any loot since the tree drops none.