Guild Wars 2

Why doesn’t GW2 even have a basic LFG tool?

All you can do is simply list yourself as LFG and a little blue icon appears next to your name and you appear under the social tab that no one looks at.

We need a LFG tool, something with at least the basic features that EQ1 had 10 years ago http://tinyurl.com/d52r8jd where you could specify what you were looking for from a group and group leaders could search for specific things, and not see results for players they had blocked etc.

And something like Rift’s dungeon finder / group creating tool that matched players together and made sure the group was filled with Tank – Healer – Support – DPS.

We don’t have the trinity in GW2 but we could still list ourselves as DPS – Support or Control.

This sort of tool would make a lot of sense in PvP as well, assisting players to form a group of people around their same ability, creating groups based around DPS/Support/Bunker/Control. And allowing them to form before they submit to join a match.

Or in WvW, assisting players to create small groups together to go off and roam, there are so many soloers around in all different parts of the game and we don’t want to have to spam LFG across mapchats to try and find players to group with.

GW2 might not need a group to be formed for a lot of it’s content, but that doesn’t meant that people don’t want to be able to form groups more like they do in other games and be more social in general, meet new people, add the people you meet to friends for the future.

Because there has never been another thread about this topic. Anet is working on an LFG tool, it’s in progress now, when it’s done it will be in the game.

Another thread about it won’t make it come any faster.

Vayne.8563:

Because there has never been another thread about this topic. Anet is working on an LFG tool, it’s in progress now, when it’s done it will be in the game.

Another thread about it won’t make it come any faster.

Coming from a person who has made a thread speculating if GW2 is doing well or not without any real evidence. Because those threads haven’t been done before.

As for the topic, a LFG tool is on the way, as of now, you’ll get told to just use GW2LFG.com

while waiting get some friends or:
http://gw2lfg.com/

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. That site is great…though obviously an in game tool would be better. At least, for the time being, there’s something to use though.

It needs one, yes they say they are working on it, but they also said any new mmo should launch with one….

So a bit of prodding to push it up the priority list is not out of line.

Cameirus.8407:

It needs one, yes they say they are working on it, but they also said any new mmo should launch with one….

So a bit of prodding to push it up the priority list is not out of line.

The prodding won’t push it up the list, though. At least, I don’t think so.

People have been asking/posting about an LFG tool since day 1, seven months ago. The including tool obviously doesn’t work. Half the people don’t even know there’s an LFG tool in the game.

The game obviously launched early, probably to get out ahead of MoP. It should have launched now, instead of then. It would be a better game.

But if you really think Anet’s list of priorities will change from yet another thread…especially when they’re now already talking about, meaning it’s imminent, isn’t very realistic.

Obviously if it was ready, it would be released already. It’s not. But I would expect it soonish.

I wish we’d get an LFG channel, or custom chat channels.

City of Heroes had a similar lack in terms of built-in features, yet you could get a group as quickly, thanks to those.

Brutaly.6257:

while waiting get some friends or:
http://gw2lfg.com/

Do you still need to be in overflow for that to work or can you just /join from anywhere?

You can join from anywhere