PF works pretty well for this, and if you get a nice DF match that you can communicate with, I try to speed run the first 40 after looking at everyone's Aetherpool levels, then wiping and starting over if 41-50 give nothing useful.
I just got my first weapon and the mount today, I got pretty lucky overall with my first set up upgrades. When you get to the later floors, always at least try and announce your intentions with the group. I'm tempted to make a macro later to save myself the effort because I'd rather do DD with friends and get easily capped tomes and chances at Potsherds and better 235 weapons than the select Nidhogg weapons I already have.
Usually my message is like: "Hey, will be doing big pulls whenever possible, if the group majority wants to we can wipe after clearing 49 if we didn't get good upgrades, I'll delegate what Poms should be used when and determine how we clear." I usually go as Tank so I try and just take charge and determine how we run the last few floors, I have gotten one or two really good parties that followed my lead, cooperated, and responded and a lot were thankful that someone was about being efficient and smart(not opening chests mid-pull and letting tank be furthest ahead to eat any traps instead of healer or SMN eating one then dying and us wiping). Sometimes you get Pacify traps or Frog traps and DPS has to tank one or two mobs, but I'd rather just I die and get raised and we clean up and keep going then the whole group die because we grouped too close together.
While my first run in was pretty boring because I used to play a ton of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games and even those had more depth and difficulty than DD does, It's gotten a little bit more fun just doing insane pulls and then Wtiching them or going through and getting tons of chest with Fortune/Affluence up, I still don't think it was worth the wait though. It's far too simple and RNG based to be worth how long we waited for this, it should have came out with Nidhogg and everything else so it wasn't the only thing everyone is doing. Because it is because this wasn't even a patch, 3.35 was more of a hotfix than an actual patch when DD was literally the only piece of added content, the rest was QoL fixes and PvP adjustments. This was not something that should have came out on it's own nearly two months later.


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