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Casual PvE Grouping
Greywolf46
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There are some areas and game mechanics that hamper casual grouping. What I am talking about is when you decide to take a break from grinding and offer to help other folks out by grouping with them to handle a particularly nasty mob, teach a technique, or whatever floats your boat in being a Good Samaritan.
I know there are a lot of more important issues needing attention. I am just posting here to say again that some of the phasing mechanics in-game make casual grouping difficult and in some cases impossible.
On several occasions I had a fellow Tamrielite volunteer to help me out with a quest and then I try to help them afterwards to get them through a tough spot only to have game phasing block me from entering into the area with them.
Guilds and grouping with folks for a common quest, raid, or Craiglorn grind is one thing that works, but in a social based MMO I personally get a lot of satisfaction helping other folks out of the blue. A serendipitous assist from a complete stranger is, in my opinion, a basic foundation to establishing a sound gaming community.
This action is not completely impossible; it is just hampered a bit for the more excruciating areas where the mob is hard to kill.
I know there are a lot of more important issues needing attention. I am just posting here to say again that some of the phasing mechanics in-game make casual grouping difficult and in some cases impossible.
On several occasions I had a fellow Tamrielite volunteer to help me out with a quest and then I try to help them afterwards to get them through a tough spot only to have game phasing block me from entering into the area with them.
Guilds and grouping with folks for a common quest, raid, or Craiglorn grind is one thing that works, but in a social based MMO I personally get a lot of satisfaction helping other folks out of the blue. A serendipitous assist from a complete stranger is, in my opinion, a basic foundation to establishing a sound gaming community.
This action is not completely impossible; it is just hampered a bit for the more excruciating areas where the mob is hard to kill.
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✭✭✭✭✭Greywolf46 wrote: »I know there are a lot of more important issues needing attention. I am just posting here to say again that some of the phasing mechanics in-game make casual grouping difficult and in some cases impossible.
This is a huge issue. I have one friend that I try to group up with frequently. Only if either one of us has already done the quest, then it is just a waste of time to Group with them. At some point, one of use will be Phased out.
This leaves us standing around at a certain quest stage area spamming the ones who go by begging for a group with a stranger.
Basically, if we group with someone, and they are the leader, then we should be phased with their quest once they share it with us, no matter if we have done it already or not. I don't need the Exp or Loot again, I just want to help out and then be on my way.
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