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Wow. I’ve been really lucky, I guess. I’ve only been in dungeons a few times, for various reasons.
But lately, I decided to really give them a try. What I found was that people are generally very nice and don’t mind telling you what you need to do. (At least, they don’t mind much.)
2 of the dungeons, we repeatedly wiped on various parts and there was no name calling. I even offered to quit one of them and let someone with more experience join, and they said I didn’t have to. I ended up quitting both because of real life constraints.
The 3 dungeons I completed, 2 were speed runs and 1 was story mode. The speed runs were good about telling what to do, though the second one said “I can only assume the 2 people who didn’t run haven’t done this dungeon before.” A bit curt, but at least we now knew what to do. The other was nice the whole time.
Of course, I’ve been mindful of the groups I’m joining. If they say ‘experienced only’, I just don’t bother, of course.
In general, I’ve avoided any groups that really seem to be intense, from their party description. I was worried that this would put me in a group with nothing but noobs and we’d repeatedly wipe because they couldn’t work together, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised each time. When we were wiping, I didn’t feel like the group was dysfunctional, just that we didn’t know what we were doing.
In the end, I’ve been quite pleased with my experiences in dungeons so far. Since I was a pre-order customer, you can imagine that I didn’t expect to really like dungeons, and simply avoided them. I only switched recently because I finally hit level 80 (I didn’t play for many months) and got some decent equipment.