Duty finder is a disaster

[RavenL]

Yea I'm only level 38. The worse experience I had was a tank and heal quitting before the first pull. Otherwise people seem to be very civil. Much more than the forums in fact.

Hah.. the worst experience I had was when the tank and healer were doing opposite of what they were supposed to be doing. The healer was taking all the aggro and the tank was doing nothing tank like.

[Gucci_Charms]

The Duty Finder needs many fixes and enhancements aside from general matchmaking purposes across servers.

[Itchyness]

Mandatory implementation required: Vote to kick

[Bossycow]

I'd hardly say the Duty Finder is a "complete disaster." Seems a bit exaggerated...

[Zeille]

Strangely enough, I've had nothing but good runs using the duty finder. Titan took my group something like 8 tries, but everyone was civil and tried their best to work together. It ended up being quite exciting when we finally pulled out the win. Had a few wipes in the lower level dungeons, usually because someone was new and didn't understand a mechanic, but we worked it out and all was well.

I've been going in as DD or tank and haven't had a bad experience yet, which makes me wary of doing the lvl 50 dungeons with all the craziness and ragers I see posted around.

[Frothylager]

Welcome to every single team game that ever existed. This has nothing to do with duty finder... Aside from last night it's been perfect.

[Voqar]

I tried it about 10ish times, I always had perfect runs. I'm only level 30 though...

He's 50. You're not. Low level instances in this game haven't been all that challenging yet. Higher level/max level content tends to be more challenging and players in that tier tend to be less forgiving and more demanding. They figure that by 50 you should know how to play and know content. The know content thing is kind of silly since you need to DO content to know it. The know how to play thing is a reasonable expectation.


Pugs are pugs - you're gonna get a variety. For best results - don't pug. Make friends or group with LS/FC. Good groups don't just get handed to you. Be a good player (both in terms of ability and likeability) and find some regulars to do things with. (the OP says this is how they usually roll).

[EdwinLi]

Mandatory implementation required: Vote to kick

As much as this may sound helpful there is also the issue people will abuse this kick system to kick out people playing certain class/jobs because they think the class/Job sucks.

Currently Summoners are facing strong stereotypical beliefs that they are the weakest DD class/Jobs in the game and only noobs and newbies play this class thus resulting in constant insult and slang towards them to play as the other DD class or quit the game because players who play summoner are too Nooby.

On other topic:

Being geared up is nice and will require first a understanding on which gear you need to cover first.

Currently AF1 only covers the body, head, legs, hands, and shoes gear but does not cover the Belt gear which is why it is important to take the small time to gather Tier 1 tomes for the Darklight belt.

Currently the difference between AF1 and Darklight set is by 7 defense per piece (head and body for Mage type characters are covered by two-piece body gear) and a more focus stat gear.

[Ryuukishi]

I'm only level 28 so I guess I haven't done any of the "hard" dungeons yet, but I've used the duty finder a lot and only ran into people who were friendly and tried their best. Maybe you need to lighten up a bit.

[Yoko_Kurama]

I mentioned this in my thread I posted last night, this duty finder completely and utterly portrays the faults of our cultural differences. In japan it is completely fine to have a system forcing a bunch of random strangers to play without having to get to know each other beforehand because there is a standard common courtesy among fellow human beings in that country. In North America the average person you see walking down the street would look at you like a weirdo if you said "good afternoon" in passing. We go by a screw strangers policy and this duty finder makes that completely visible. The only way for the North American base to group properly is to implement mechanics that cause us to desire or NEED to get to know each other first and decide we have common interests and goals before throwing us into a serious dungeon party with them.