Ruining game experience

[Assassin01]

As a new player I'd like to complete the mission with other characters of my level, not those of level 50 who have already completed the game and have legendary gear, I was enjoying the game up to this point but I've found that this invasion of more experienced players to be very disheartening and I don't want to complete the game now as they have ruined it for me. Surely I can't be the only new player that feels like this?

[aerolol]

Are you complaining about dungeons?

If so, imagine that if it weren't for those people who are "level 50 who have already completed the game and have legendary gear", your DF queues would be over 1-2h for each dungeon.

Careful with what you wish

[Kerwin]

Sometimes people have to rerun old content out of their level range for quests.

[ExiledOne]

Another suggestion would be to form your own party through Party Finder or if you belong to a FC then asking your fellow FCs to run with you at a more civilized pace.

[Its_Elodie]

Time marches on and someday you will probably be one of those people running a dungeon for your zeta drops with pre level 50's in your own legendary gear. Some of us have been playing this for a year plus now and the gear grind is a great deal of what post game is like as it readies you for the coils and heavier mechanic wise content. Please don't turn your nose up at us when we que for some low levels for various reasons. We aren't all bad. We help your que times and some of us are patient enough and willing to help newbies.

[Risvertasashi]

As a new player I'd like to complete the mission with other characters of my level, not those of level 50 who have already completed the game and have legendary gear, I was enjoying the game up to this point but I've found that this invasion of more experienced players to be very disheartening and I don't want to complete the game now as they have ruined it for me. Surely I can't be the only new player that feels like this?

Well, here's the problem. MMOs get "top heavy". Most players at this point in the game are not new and not leveling. Barring the release of new jobs, it will always be this way.

So SE gives them incentive to go back and play with newer players. The alternative is you would have to wait even longer than now to get into anything. Potentially a very very long time. Waiting for up to hours would probably be even more demotivating.

The only way to really get the experience you want is to play the MMO during its initial release...

[BellaEyria]

Hi, the best advice is to not use the Duty Finder.
Create your own party, ask people in /shout to join your party or create one in the Party Finder, ... or join an FC with a lot of new players in it, make friends to play with.
If you don't want to talk with others players, if you don't want to bother to create a party nor wait for people to join it, you should go Duty Finder => but this means that you will probably be with high level players because that is the reason why queues in DF are faster.

[Niwashi]

As with any game that's been out for a while, there are simply more players available at the level cap than there are at any particular level range below that. So to ensure that there would be enough players to fill groups so you wouldn't be waiting forever, SE keeps trying to encourage (or sometimes force) high level players to keep going back to low-level content. It does have the downside, however, that some of those players get frustrated and turn obnoxious or even downright mean to the low level players they're supposed to be helping. There are certainly plenty of other high-level players who are friendly and helpful, but that's a limited consolation when you just got stuck with the wrong sort.

You can put together a party yourself when you want to be less subject to pure luck regarding who you end up in a group with. Ask people in your Free Company or Linkshells to join you, set up a Party Finder listing that specifies your playstyle preferences, or you could even just try giving a /shout in a populated area like any of the main cities asking for like-minded players who want to join you.

[Assassin01]

I was not only talking about the dungeons but the MAIN QUEST, how as a new player am I supposed to learn the necessary attacks to kill monsters, gain experience, get items from drop, and watch cut scenes if a bunch of level 50 players takes it away and does all the work. You may been on the game for a year but have a care for those who actually want to play the game and are so new to the game don't have enough friends at the same level to form a party. I just want to enjoy the experience of playing and learning about the game for myself, not have a level 50 player "take over" the quest just because they know what to do, and run off and leave you behind anyway with no clear idea of what is going on. How is that helping me?

[Dererk]

(walks right out gets a comfy chair takes out popcorn and waits)

Ok so I'm really having a hard time understanding what your talking about uh so your mad about that level 50 people can go bk and do pre level 50 stuff in higher gear???

So wer all just supposed to lower our level of experience in the game to yours?

Wer supposed to be the same level as you?

(bangs head on wall to try and decode original post)