Revenge of the Newb: Dungeon Crawl Help

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Thanks for your replies!

I never really thought it was about the gear, or my gear in particular. Afterall, half of it is i50 due to having finish the 45 Bard quest. It was more that a person might gauge a player's skill based on what equipment they were wearing. I did at the time object to the idea though. One of the party members who suggested it was decked out in Serpent Sergeant gear, which I was too during my first and only run through SV.

As far as the favor of speed runs, or of wanting to play with friends, that mentality strikes me as counter-intuitive given that you get a 30 minute penalty cooldown if you leave. And let's say you wait that 30, it's still going to take you 10 - 20 minutes to finish whatever you actually wanted to do. Most dungeons can be cleared well and truly within 50 minutes. :S

It's a shame there is no way to penalise players who do this. But oh well, I guess. I'm a bit surprised there isn't a minimum wait time of 15 minutes to leave, as there is with vote to abandon.

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It's a shame there is no way to penalise players who do this. But oh well, I guess. I'm a bit surprised there isn't a minimum wait time of 15 minutes to leave, as there is with vote to abandon.

Players actually do get penalized for leaving a dungeon without voting to abandon, being in a full pre-formed party, or being vote kicked. They have to wait 30 minutes to queue in Duty Finder for *anything*. Some players are doing their daily roulettes and don't want to run certain content, but in my opinion, it would be faster to just run the dungeon than to quit and get yourself locked out for 30 minutes simply to queue again (and possibly get the exact same dungeon.)

I don't understand leaving because you don't want to run certain content. These people are Level 50s, the stuff should be basically a breeze for them. Heck, I got Stone Vigil on Roulette once and I'm USELESS in the final boss fight because I'm colorblind and can't see the final boss's dive AoEs. That said, I told the party, they said it'd be cool and we ran it regardless, and it was a totally smooth run aside from one wipe during the second boss.

Did it take a while? Yeah. Did I care? No. Because I don't queue for Duty Finder Roulettes unless I know I have the time to spend at least 90 minutes in them.

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I got Stone Vigil on Roulette once and I'm USELESS in the final boss fight because I'm colorblind and can't see the final boss's dive AoEs. That said, I told the party, they said it'd be cool and we ran it regardless, and it was a totally smooth run aside from one wipe during the second boss.

A lot of people who are colour blind have this same gripe (though they have a gripe with the AOE colours regardless most of the time). It's really a bit stupid that SE haven't considered that. But outside of colour-blindness? As a person who has taken tests and had a high indicator of colour detection, even I have difficulty. The multiple ice AOEs + the dragon AOE is ridiculous and very difficult to see. I thought people were talking it up, but when I got there I was amazed at how it's almost impossible to detect the AOE against the ice-white.