Guild Wars 2

I need help understanding how to join others to run dungeons. Part of my problem is I don’t know how to use the chat cmds very well. I know about cw2lfg.com but that as far as I have gotten.

Many of the entries say to self invite, I have tried to use the /invite ‘user name’ as well as /join but it doesn’t work. Either nothing happens or I get a msg saying the party is full. I don’t think it is because refreshing gw2lfg shows that party is still looking. I also don’t know if I should type /s or /m before trying to invite.

When I select the party icon on the upper right, I get an error msg about the login server not working.

I have searched for web help about this with no success, any comments or direction would be appreciated.

Copy and paste the person’s name, then type /join name

It works on account names and character names. For example, my account name is Khairos.3890 and I’m online with my character name Heliapolis.

You can either:

/join Khairos.3890
OR
/join Heliapolis

Both work. The reason why it doesn’t work for you, is probably because the person who posted the ad put their name in wrong, or because others beat you to it.

To combat that, filter ads posted to “most recent” and try to quickly join a group with a recently posted ad.

gw2lfg.com has gained a lot of popularity- on some nights, it can be a race to see who’s the fastest to join the group before it gets full- this is especially true for Ascalonian Catacombs EXP groups.

Marcarus.5012:

I don’t think it is because refreshing gw2lfg shows that party is still looking.

People will often forget (or not care) to go back and delete their listings when the group fills up.

Thanks for the quick response. After I am accepted in the group do I go to the dungeon entrancce in Lions Arch? Or do I enter the instance?

You need to go to the zone where the dungeon is located. So if you are doing AC get yourself to Plains of Ashford. If your party is already inside you will get a popup asking if you want to join them. Otherwise you can go inside first and they will join you when they get there.

Ok, my last question is confusing because I was referring to Fractals but that is good to know about Dungeons. What about Fractals, same thing?

Yea fractals act the same way. When one of your group members walk in you will get a popup asking you to join.

Good. Last question for now. Since I am just starting should I only try to get in a Level 1 fractal or is it ok to start with a slightly higher level?

With Fractals and the recent change, you can join any group. I would recommend NOT joining any group that goes past L10. At L10 agony starts to happen, but L10 is where you can start getting ascended rings which give agony resistance. Anything past L10 you’re asking for a lot of pain if you can’t dodge the agony attacks.

Joining a lvl 8 fractal and then saying you’ve never been in them before will get you kicked more often than not I imagine. Start with 1 or 2 and then work up.