Guild Wars 2

I read the notes regarding the instance/dungeon/w.e you wanna call them changes and still wondered when or why isn’t there going to be an better way of finding groups. now I’m personally, I’m not in a massive guild or know a whole bunch of people but when I was attempting to do pugs it not only took about 0.5-1 hours to find a group but also took about 1-2 hours to finish the dungeon for my first time with a group (this was A.C if anyone cares…) . Now the concern I have with that logic is:

1. rewards are not worth the time as i could do a global event and get the same amount of reward. (or at least i could back then)
2. people would leave before that.
3. it costs a boat load of money in repairs sooner or later.
4. its legitimately hard if you don’t have at least all yellows (even greens would be pushing it i bet).
5. it takes either watching a lot of video guides and a ton of practice & trail/error to get consistently good and that needs to be done with all 5 members for it to work efficiently. (I would guess that from what they’re trying to improve.)

To be fair this was when the game was around 4-5 months after launch so maybe its better now. But to me, the untrained eye and the fact that I don’t see a way of getting a group outside of spamming chat or being in a guild, I see almost no reason to do pugs unless you cant take the effort to grind mats and forge the oranges yourself. This is just my opinion but I would seriously look into a way to make groups faster.(They’re already trying to make it easier/smoother?) Otherwise, I myself would seriously rather take the time, money, and mats to get to 400 in crafting and get exotic gear that way as you would technically get some nice exp (irrelevant considering the explore-able mode would be technically faster in theory.) along with a minor profit for people farming ectoplasm.

buddy, use gw2lfg.com. spread it around, the more people using it the better.

Can you elaborate how exactly you use gw2lfg.com please?

On their instructions page, they say you /join a group, so if you post a message on that site that you are LFG, you do /join ingame and create a group on your home server and others on that site message you for the group name/id or whatever?

If you can’t tell I started playing 2 weeks ago

gw2lfg.com is all fine and dandy, but in MMORPGs these days, we probably shouldn’t have to resort to an external means,and most people won’t even take the time to. It should already be implemented into the game itself. Sitting there spamming chat in the middle of town or in front of a dungeon or farm area was fun…back when I played FF11, EQ or some other older MMO…But let’s go ahead flash forward to 2013 and get a nice Full featured (in-game) LFGtool/Matchmaking system. Not everyone has an hour to spend lfg and 1-2+ hrs running the dungeon, for some that’s all we get to play is 1 or 2 hours, should at least be able to go do other things (in-game,etc.) while a party is forming up for you.

there’s a lfg in the works, stop asking every day.

No you are wrong, a tool like gw2lfg its fine (we can get something like this ingame), but an autofinder group no just no.

Now how to use gw2lfg:
You need a group for lets say AC story (30lvl), you go there and look for your region if there is any listed, when you spot one just type /join “name” (the name of the party leader listing the lfg). If theres not any group, list your own LFG (its very easy), with your ingame name, then you wait for guys to /join you, it wont take too long.?
It doesn’t matter the server, cause joining instance is crosserver.

This sums it up. enjoy.

I didn’t know? And you don’t have to be a jerk about it wtf.

in reply to fony.

thanks to Vissarion for beating me to explain how to use it.
copy and pasting names also work in game if you do find someone with troublesome name.
also although Vissarion said its cross-server doesnt mean American servers can join european servers and vice versa. you can but you wont be able to enter dungeons.

Thanks a lot for explaining it. I shall use it from now on.

The owner of the gw2lfg.com website is earning golden balls from all the page hits and ads delivered. Well done, Mr. J. S. from Utah ;-)

Imagine ANet would provide an ingame dungeon matching system …

An automatic group finder should have been added, cause it’s really not fun at all waiting for hours and spamming Lion’s Arch chat in search of a group.

They just need to make what gw2lfg.com does innate in the client. You should be able to post ads for and accept invites from anyone on any server, not just whoever’s hanging around your instance of Lion’s Arch.