Me and a group of friends started up guild wars all together. we explored and had a very good time together in the early noob stages. A few other friends from work we found out also played guildwars and told us how amazing and fun dungeons are. We of course wanted to try it all, dungeons, pvp, wvw, exploration, story.
We played a few dungeons together in our group, and had a good time even though we didnt have the equipment to complete the dungeon we set out to get better gear for them. As time went on, we werent all able to play on at the same time, and we had to fill empty slots in our 5 man dungeon stack with LFG people.
This is where our experience started to go downhill. We first encountered troll players who would refuse to help clear the dungeons and just run past enemies. These extra players would often start a vote kick, in an attempt to remove one of us from the party and fail.
At a particular point when we needed 3 other people to fill our slots for running a dungeon we put out a LFG saying ‘full clear dungeon, no speed running’ or something to that effect. We started clearing the dungeon and soon enough our public players got impatient and started to run to the next sections leaving 2 of us to fight off the whole dungeon.
After they waited a prompt 4 minutes for us to clear the next section, (we were about half way through this dungeon) We proceeded to fight one of the champion bosses in order to advance to the next section. All was going well, the boss was dying team work was there.
Right as the boss was dipping into probably less than 10% health, these 3 pubs initiated a vote kick, on both me and my friend and succeed. We both sat on teamspeak completely kittened off. We created our own group, got halfway through it, and kicked because of impatience people right before we all took down a boss. We didnt get a single piece of loot that we literally worked for. It took us an hour to get to this half way point in one of the dungeons.
Me and my friends we all work for a living and dont have the time to neckbeard for suits of armor, we just want to run dungeons in the way we DEEM fun and to us that was running it like a normal player vs computer. No running through sections (we view that is cheating)
After a long few months haitus from those of us that were involved in being kicked from our OWN PARTY. We have finally came back to guildwars looking for people who wanna do what we wanna do. In order to not completely ruin the noobs experience in this game by a few TROLLS i suggest that something be done about this. You shouldnt be able to be kicked from your own party that you create. Our intentions were clear in LFG.
I’m pretty sure no action was taken on these trolls. my faith in the guildwars 2 punishment system is quiet lacking especially after that.
My thing here is don’t let an incredibly negative experience like this happen to your new players EVER. Let the speed runners run the dungeons by running through the whole thing in their own search section. let traditional dungeon runners have their piece.
I wont be responding to any posts from this thread, unless its to a dev of the game. and my 10+ years of gaming experience tells me you wont be responding to this. I hope you get this story arenanet, and share it with your coworkers about how incredible negative this kind of game play is to some of us. If you a player and you wanna run dungeons the way we do, feel free to shoot me a mail in game.
And it looks like for some reason hiatus work is censored idk why its not even profanity. so some of this text is a bit garbled or intentionally misspelled.
