Guild Wars 2

With the advent of megaserver, one would expect to find the lfg full of people looking to do raids, fractals etc, but more often than not, I am seeing very sparse listings.

Last night, I was trying to assemble a group for wing 3 raid and it took us an hour to get the team together. Surely with the amount of people that play this game, the groups should fill up instantly? It’s also not because of harsh requirements to join either. It was a simple lfg exp with the required classes/roles. So I’m wondering is lfg still server based or do your adverts go out to literally everyone playing online atm?

If they do, then I worry about the playerbase of this game because sheer mathematical probability means our groups should almost be insta filled. It is taking far too long to get people together to do the content.

People still have to see the listing and want to join.

Of my time spent in game less than maybe 3 minutes a week is spent looking at or using LFG and i’m sure i’m not alone in this.

I, very rarely, use the LFG. Yet, I always see other players, no matter where I go. /shrug

I use looking for group all the time. I’m not convinced a huge percentage of the playerbase raids, and I"m fairly certain most who raid don’t pug.

The message goes out to everyone in your region – EU or NA. But not all of them will see it.

Why?

Because they have to be online and looking at the LFG tool and looking at the right section. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people spend the majority of their time offline (because they’re sleeping, working, eating, doing other hobbies, etc.) and the majority of their time online with the LFG tool closed because they’re not looking for a group at that precise moment.

Even so I’ve never had trouble finding a group when I wanted one, whether it’s for dungeons, Fractals, story missions (admittedly only ones lots of people have trouble with, like the Mordremoth fight).

But even as someone who quite likes PUGs I don’t know I’d go to the LFG tool to find a raid group. Two of my guilds offer to teach raiding, and that way I could get a regular group to raid with which seems to be an actual benefit for raids, so I’d go to them.

Although I have been thinking of putting an advert in LFG saying something like “Never raided before, feel like giving it a go, anyone want to come?” literally just to go in and see what happens, because I’d like to do that.

Less people playing this content and less people playing GW2 anyway. If we can take the earnings and the forum posts as an indication of declining popularity, it is no big surprise it takes a long time to find people.

Bug Fix:
Fixed a bug in which the Looking for Group tool would not display all postings.

Uvirith.9573:

Bug Fix:
Fixed a bug in which the Looking for Group tool would not display all postings.

That bug fix was 4 days ago the OP was talking about yesterday so I’m not sure I understand the relevance.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Less people playing this content and less people playing GW2 anyway. If we can take the earnings and the forum posts as an indication of declining popularity, it is no big surprise it takes a long time to find people.

Except it doesn’t take a long time to find groups for fractal dailies, or even the leather farm. Raiding is simply done by the smallest percentage of the populous.

And lower earnings isn’t necessarily an indication of less players. I still play but I spend less than I used to.

Vayne.8563:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Less people playing this content and less people playing GW2 anyway. If we can take the earnings and the forum posts as an indication of declining popularity, it is no big surprise it takes a long time to find people.

Except it doesn’t take a long time to find groups for fractal dailies, or even the leather farm. Raiding is simply done by the smallest percentage of the populous.

And lower earnings isn’t necessarily an indication of less players. I still play but I spend less than I used to.

I suspect that’s true of a lot of people, since a lot of what appears “new” on the gem store is old stuff being re-released. The longer you’re playing the less truly new stuff there is to buy. And of course long-term players who are clued into how Anet does things are more likely to make sure they log in to get the Living Story chapters free, so they won’t need to buy them.

Although circumstances can change. I didn’t get the black feather wings when they first came out because they didn’t suit any of my characters, but I’ve got new ones since then so when they came back a while ago I bought them immediately.

The groups fill in like 5 seconds. Then they disappear.

Raids are not something that most people are willing to do with people they meet on LFG. Using LFG for nearly any other kind of content will almost always get you very quick results.

For raiding, you are going to want to join a guild dedicated to it (or one dedicated to training for them, if you aren’t experienced).