Please don’t move this post to suggestions, as I feel this belong in the dugeons thread. If you do so anyway, ah well. Then most people that I want to see feedback from will probably not read this. I never read the suggestions forum and neither do any of the people on my friends list. So please keep this in the dungeon forum.
You may feel that the post belongs here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Merged-Your-opinions-of-the-LFG-tool
I think the thread is too bloated and un-specific and is not specific to dungeoneers, especially speed runners.
== PROBLEMS
The worst problem is that anybody can merge with your party, and in effect become the leader of your party. So, if you have spend time on finding the swamp in fractals, and are looking for 4 warriors, some ranger merges with your team, and when you kick him, then YOU get kicked out of the dungeon that you created. What a joke.
I wont re-iterate more problems with the lfg for dungeons. Some of them are already discussed. Here are some threads:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/In-game-LFG-needs-fixes-features
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/LFG-low-lv-toons-and-rewards
Instead, I will move on to suggest how the LFG should work, in order to cause less grief to the people using lfg. Let the noobs play with noobs, let the elitists that want to teach noobs how to play mix, let the elitists that want to play with elitists do so.
Here are some suggestions.
==SUGGESTIONS
0) Make it possible to deny others to merge with your party. People can join, but not merge.
1) Make it possible to deny people with less than X achievement points to join your party.
2) Make it possible to deny people to join your party, if they are not level 80.
3) Make it possible to deny people (to join your party) that have not run the path at least X times. Fx 50 times. This is VERY important.
4) Make it possible to specify that it is a speed run. This is connected to point 3 above. You need both, because even if you specify that it is a speed run, people will join, that don’t know what to do OR they think they know what to do, but they don’t.
5) Make it possible to deny certain classes to join your party. If you are looking for 4 warriors, you only delay and irritate the people involved when a ranger joins.
6) When you see an LFG, before you join it, make it possible (on mouse hoover) to see how many times the party member have done the path, what level he is and how many achievement points he has. Currently you have to join the party in order to see his level and AP (and then maybe leave the party). And you have no way of knowing the level of experience he/they has/have with the path in question.
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I hope the readers of the forum have more suggestions as to how to improve the in-game lfg tool, so it actually becomes useful. If you want to discuss elitism vs noobs, run a dungeon slowly or fast, kill all mobs or skip, then this is not the thread for you.
(edited by sorenrye.7238)