Casturm Merdidiam/The preatorium need to change or go.

[Lelila38]

Changes are coming in 4.2

Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XL

Wait for those dungeons to be dead again. Noones gonna run a dungeon with 30+ mins cutscenes attached to it.
Personally, I don't mind having newbies watch them, I even join premade unsync groups sometimes to let new players watch, but I'm in the minority of doing that.
What Yoshi says sounds strongly like unskipable cutscenes and if they do that, I'm 99% sure those dungeons will remain empty.

[RylaBee]

Changes are coming in 4.2

Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XL

Unless they attach something like 2x cracked cluster for daily participation on MSQ roulette, i dont see any 70 willingly spending 30+ minutes in Meridianum/Preatorium.
And even if they did, people might do it, but they will surely hate it. Thou I suppose you can watch some TV series during the whole tedium..

[Lelila38]

Unless they attach something like 2x cracked cluster for daily participation on MSQ roulette, i dont see any 70 willingly spending 30+ minutes in Meridianum/Preatorium.
And even if they did, people might do it, but they will surely hate it. Thou I suppose you can watch some TV series during the whole tedium..

I'd be tempted to run for clusters, but they're surely gonna be tied to adventurer in need again, so stuck on tank most of the time. Even now, I only run these dungeons if I'm helping someone or it's rare healer for bonus XP.

[Beardo04]

I get the frustration. I did those two dungeons yesterday for the first time and I got left behind. After that I skipped all the cut scenes to make sure I could keep up. Dunno really what happened during those dungeons tbh

[Lelila38]

I get the frustration. I did those two dungeons yesterday for the first time and I got left behind. After that I skipped all the cut scenes to make sure I could keep up. Dunno really what happened during those dungeons tbh

What server you on (on phone, doesn't show)? I'll run them with you, if you want and if we happen to be on the same data center.

[Saix027]

In my opininion they sohuld split them in shorter dungeons, puttign other obstacles in, so lets say split 2 dungeons into 4-8 parts, would be also give a atleast wider option of dungeons in the dugneon finder for that random dungeon option.

[Avatre]

What server you on (on phone, doesn't show)? I'll run them with you, if you want and if we happen to be on the same data center.

They are on the same data center(them being Sargatanas).

[Frizze]

I get the frustration. I did those two dungeons yesterday for the first time and I got left behind. After that I skipped all the cut scenes to make sure I could keep up. Dunno really what happened during those dungeons tbh

What happened - short version(super minor spoilers).

Some people were there. You fought them. You won. Then you fought more people. Then Gaius showed up with his big weapon. You broke it. There was a final confrontation. You won that too. There was some talking along the way. Thats about it.

FYI, you can re-watch most cutscenes(dungeon and storyline) from the Unending Journey item in your Inn room/possibly FC house. You can also re-run the dungeon and watch them again in-context. Easiest way is to get 1 or 2 level 60-70 friends to tag along and wait while the scenes play out.

[Brill_]

If they force people to sit through cutscenes, we'll see how few are actually willing to help new people. Given that situation, they should probably do what LOTRO did with old group story quest. They give you an option to complete with a group or solo. If you go with a group, it's just like normal. If you go solo, they give you an echo type of buff that makes you strong enough to solo the dungeon.