Guild Wars 2

So, its a pita to find a group for fotm. Yes, I know about the lfg website.

Here’s my question: Why not use the fotm level of the highest group member in the party?

In other words, say your group has someone that has lvl 20 fractals, but not everyone is that far. Why not allow your group to go to the level 20 fractal?

So, say I’m level 2 and my teammates are 6,14,17, and 20. We all do the level 20 fractal. If we succeed, we all advance, to 3,7,15,18, and 21. This would only work if the fractal you completed was greater than or equal to your current fractal level. That way the difficulty of acquiring the next fractal level is equal to or greater than whatever level you are currently on.

As it stands, if your level is too low or too high, it is a serious pita to find a group, which is simply un-fun. Just seems like common sense to me.

I think it’s right. I don’t want to be at high ranks, and then still have a very high chance of getting very bad players in my group with 0 agony resist and don’t know what to do. People would skip straight to LFG lvl 30’s and no one would bother leveling up. Not a good idea.
I love being in the 20’s and 99% of the time getting a full group that knows exactly what to do and are very good players who have earned that scale by playing well.

Your friends may play with you if you are the lowest. Everyone gains from playing a fotm run earning tokens and nice drops no matter what they level.

The two main problems with FotM is that it is virtually impossible to find a group for the lower levels, especially level 1. Thus, I can’t play with my other toons which is a BAD DESIGN SYSTEM. Together with the RNG of the dailies.

Sorry, ANet but it’s true.

Just though about almost the same idea but with a limit.
1-9
10-19
20-29

etc
due to already mentioned agony resistance.
Also you would need to make sure that you need 3 runs for an uneven level and 4 runs for an even level.

So lets say we have a group of lv 12,14,15,16,18
doing frac lv16:
12→13
14→15
15→16 (because he did 4 runs and not only 3)
16→17
18 (because it was lower than his real level)

doing frac 15:
12
14
15 → 16
16
18

something like this.

I think that this adjustment would be neccesary in near future esp for lower lvls otherwise it would be almost impossible to find a lower lvl groups.
Ingame queue system would help as well..

Mandrew.2853:

I think it’s right. I don’t want to be at high ranks, and then still have a very high chance of getting very bad players in my group with 0 agony resist and don’t know what to do. People would skip straight to LFG lvl 30’s and no one would bother leveling up. Not a good idea.
I love being in the 20’s and 99% of the time getting a full group that knows exactly what to do and are very good players who have earned that scale by playing well.

Your friends may play with you if you are the lowest. Everyone gains from playing a fotm run earning tokens and nice drops no matter what they level.

Your argument has several flaws. First, agony resist (infusion) doesn’t require that specific character to be a high level. If I have two characters, a level 20 mesmer and a level 2 engineer, I can use shards gotten on the mesmer to get infused equipment for the engineer.

Even if we consider infusion to be a valid argument (which as I’ve pointed out, it isn’t. Shards are account, not character bound), using my earlier model what’s wrong with my level 2 engineer joining a level 4 group? My level 20 mesmer joining a level 22 group?

The second major flaw is alts. Your argument fails to hold any water once we consider that players have multiple characters. I could have a level 20 mesmer and a level 2 engineer. Do i magically forget everything i know about fotm when I play my engineer? Why should my entire guild have to play at a lower level to accommodate my engineer character? Is that really good game design?