Party Rushing as I Watch Cutscenes

[T2teddy]

There is one big problem with telling people to watch them if they want but the group continues on...you vets tend to avoid killing a lot of things and new people don't know where or how to avoid them. That happened to me in Castrum. The second cs started right in the middle of a damned fight [WTF!] and by the time I managed to get out of it everyone was gone and not even showing on my map. I stuck my head into the next room and promptly got killed by about 6 mobs. Someone finally realized and came back to show me the route.

[Niwashi]

There is one big problem with telling people to watch them if they want but the group continues on...you vets tend to avoid killing a lot of things and new people don't know where or how to avoid them. That happened to me in Castrum. The second cs started right in the middle of a damned fight [WTF!] and by the time I managed to get out of it everyone was gone and not even showing on my map. I stuck my head into the next room and promptly got killed by about 6 mobs. Someone finally realized and came back to show me the route.

The same thing happened to me at the beginning of the Praetorium. It was a Party Finder group that had "No cut-scene skipping" in the PF conditions. When I was asking in /shout for people to join my PF, I pointed out that it was for a full story run, with cutscenes. Once we had a full group, we discussed in party chat that it was to be a full story run and nobody should skip or run ahead. Everyone agreed to that. But by the time I completed the opening cutscene and entered the dungeon, everybody was gone. Well, everyone from my team, at least. All the mobs were still there. Apparently, if you know where you're going, you can just run past them to the exit, but of course, I didn't know where that was, and couldn't explore by myself to find it in a room filled with mobs designed for a full party to tackle.

I asked where everyone was, and eventually one person came back to find me, but by that point the rest of the team had finished the first boss, so one of those shortcut portals to the last finished area appeared by the entrance, and we just took that to catch up. (So I still have no idea where the actual exit from that first room is.) Through the whole run, the best I could occasionally manage was when I was able to keep the rest of the team in sight while I chased after them. I never got a chance to strike a single blow against anything, nor to see anything that happened through the whole dungeon, up until the final boss. At that point, they finally waited for me, and I did get to take part in the final boss fight. But after missing the entire rest of the dungeon, it seemed rather pointless to do that bit (which was, of course, completely out of context by that point).

And, as mentioned, this was on a "no cutscene skipping" PF run.