Dungeon Finder

[Nabiri]

For all the reasons giftforce said, I do not want a cross-server dungeon finder. D:

Same-server "party finder" only please. D: That makes us travel to our location.

I want to make friends on my server. I want to travel the world to get to my destination. I want it to feel like a world, not a lobby. I hate over-instanced games. Need more open-world.

[Zumi]

I do want the dungeon finder because its pain to find groups to do content with. If you don't like it you don't have to use it. I used dungeon and raid finder in WoW and 95% of the time its a good experience. I like the fact it can draw people from any server to get group faster. It did not ruin WoW at all. If you haven't played WoW recently then you can't really comment on this.

I had some not so great experiences with groups on my own server. So the accountability thing people keep harping on is out the window people in 14 just don't care as much as like people in 11 did. A couple people will usually leave a Ifrit or Mog fight after 1 wipe in a pick up group in 14, someone always ninja logs or leaves without saying anything. This pisses me off the most, I never leave a group in a nerd rage like so many people do. I would stick it out till the boss is downed. While in 11 if you wiped on something you stayed there till it was dead and got whatever it was your doing done, the majority of the playerbase is like this.

I would say people rage at wiping in 14 much harder then they do in WoW. Getting replacements is much harder in 14 due to the fact nobody wants to use their anima to warp back to uldah to recruit then use their anima again to port whoever they got back, while in WoW there is warlock summons or have group will travel summons.

As it is now Uldah is like a lobby you recruit people for instanced fights and raids. So I would welcome dungeon finder because it makes everything more streamlined and much easier to get replacements once someone leaves.

[Raistlin]

You dont like it? dont use it.

[Ptolemy]

If they want to implement this, give the option to use the stamina bar again :x

[Onidemon]

So I think it's time we tried to 'nip this problem in this bud' before it gets out of hand. Automatic dungeon finders are terrible systems. And yet it's something Yoshi mentioned he might implement sometime in the future. And you know Yoshi, when he gets a bad idea in his head, he usually just goes and implements it without warning anyone (e.g., mob size increase, autoattack, removal of mob behaviour, aggro icon, etc.).

So let's make sure he knows it's a bad idea this time before it's too late.

An automatic dungeon finder is at odds with the philosophy of a massively multiplayer game. It makes it so that all players essentially end up doing is queueing in town for a dungeon. It turns the whole gameworld into an entrance lobby for the real content (dungeons/raids), and we shouldn't allow that.

Plus I'm not really a fan of being teleported between content that has nothing really to do with eachother.

I'm sure there are people in Rift and WoW who don't even know where the dungeons are because they never had to explore or run there, they just got automatically teleported into it through the dungeon-finder mechanic.

And it's especially crap when it's a cross-server mechanic, allowing you to interact with people you will never see again. You can just imagine the type of etiquette involved between people who have no reputation at stake.

When did he say he "may"? i Thought it was a fact. Dungeon finders are great, you obviously haven't used this feature yet. The work to implement it is already under way or even done by now and it's not by making a thousand threads on the same subject that they will change their mind. The only time S-E care about our opinion is when they do polls, period. If they were to listen to everyone out here, they would spend their time removing and adding features left and right.

Don't be afraid of change, it's a good thing.

[Wincy]

Don't be afraid of change, it's a good thing.

lol ok Mr. Obama :/

[Krausus]

wow people are really grasping at straws when they necro an old thread made by gifthorse of all people

[Andrien]

3 more months and this thread will be 1 year old.

[Qeepel]

Hello everyone,

We're going to close this thread as there are currently multiple threads on the same topic. If you wish to continue your discussion, please refer to one of the more recent threads.

Thank you for your understanding.

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