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There needs to be mandatory proving grounds every 10 level people do not know how to do their job in dungeons which results in the group getting killed by the trash mobs. And it needs to be specific to class and actually difficult so people stop getting their whole team slaughtered and making the game terrible for others. End rant.
That kinda sounds fun actually.
They give you a full party of AI, that fight a scripted boss. You're objective is based on what your job is.
Have grades based on performance, and give you tidbits of what you could do to improve.
Basically what you want is a Guildhest that is compulsory - not a bad idea, but then, that's technically what the first three dungeons are supposed to do anyway. They're easy enough for new players to learn how to actually run a dungeon and learn their roles. But of course, too many just ignore the story after level 15 and just FATE grind. Even if it was made compulsory, it wouldn't help - just like driving tests too many people will just either ignore it completely and leave the game, or do what they need to do to just pass that part and then continue to mess around in 'normal' parties/dungeons.
You can't stop human stupidity and ignorance sadly no matter how hard you try.
That's why it's every 10 levels and mandatory the difficulty increases and forces them to do it this giving them a better understanding of what they should be doing, how they should do it and in what situations.
Bump........
Don't the first three dungeons or even every story quest dungeon bring party/group mechanics into focus for people? Some people are just bad at games and/or don't care, it's going to be inevitable.
They could easily do this by boosting the incentives for first-time completion of guildhest, speed of completion (hamlet style grading, anybody?), while increasing the degree of difficulties and variety of lessons taught.
Could even be done with hard modes of older guildhests.
All they would have to do is tie the appropriate level of guildhest into a prerequisite for dungeon entry. Problem solved ^^
Sounds like a good idea. That friggin malboro guildhest was no joke. Ppl be derpin that up left and right.
Thanks for the support keep it coming plz
I've played games where in order to earn abilities or advance to the next level, you had to go to a school or trainer where you had to perform some feat before being able to advance. And this would require some repetition to get it right. rather than a simple "do this, then get that" quest, the player actually had to develop the skill to advance. Not a bad idea. I think SE does something like that with the guild quests. But from 1 to 50 there really isn't enough party content compared to solo content. So everyone goes through the story mainly learning to solo dps through everything. Then they get to end game and have to learn their role for real.
This is my first MMO, and I've definitely taken quite a beating learning the roles. I started off with DPS, learning what to do and what not to do. I'm not perfect, but I'm learning. Lately I've been working on tanking. A few of my FC members have really been helping out there. I might be the exception and not the rule, but when people play a social game socially, learning from each other, they can learn a lot more. I know I still have quite a few areas to work on, that's why I've just reached The Stone Vigil. I think the ranking system they've talked about (MVP of a dungeon, etc) could help this out.
Bumpity bump