Dungeon Finder: I do not understand...

diogene1984 · August 2016

I do not understand; I do not understand how ZoS can overlook something as important as the Dungeon Finder. This is clearly broken: is the group a few times and above all NEVER DURING THE EVENING. I wonder how I'll play some dungeon when I'll be back soon busy in the morning and I can only play in the evening? What will I do? I'll wait until ZoS decides to settle the issue? I will not attend to any dungeon? Or maybe (against my will) I decide to leave TESO because its developers pay more attention to new contributions and not to fix the existing problems? I do not know...

incite · August 2016

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

ArchMikem · August 2016

incite wrote: »

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

The only way for me to do the Undaunted Pledges is literally asking my Guildmates to do it. I tried queuing the other day, stood around for 17 minutes before finally giving up and getting two Guildmates together. I used to be able to find groups through the Finder as a Healer in the past but now as a DPS it's impossible.

newtinmpls · August 2016

Asking in chat sometimes works

Duragon_Darko · August 2016

incite wrote: »

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

Ok, being social and having a guild still doesn't absolve the fact that the que activity finder does not work. I'm social, and have 3 guilds of all real life friends, but the fact remains that if I want to que for something while everyone else is busy, I can't. The que system was put in for a reason, and no one uses it because it's broken. Not to mention the fact that forcing guild mated to run stuff they've already run cause you just got back from work and the que system is broken is just ridiculous.

So yes, we're all social and we all have guilds. Still doesn't absolve the fact the que activity finder is broken.

incite · August 2016

Duragon_Darko wrote: »

incite wrote: »

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

Ok, being social and having a guild still doesn't absolve the fact that the que activity finder does not work. I'm social, and have 3 guilds of all real life friends, but the fact remains that if I want to que for something while everyone else is busy, I can't. The que system was put in for a reason, and no one uses it because it's broken. Not to mention the fact that forcing guild mated to run stuff they've already run cause you just got back from work and the que system is broken is just ridiculous.

So yes, we're all social and we all have guilds. Still doesn't absolve the fact the que activity finder is broken.

Obviously i know this, it was just a tip :-), no need to leave the game bc that mechanic doesnt work as it should

Synfaer · August 2016

incite wrote: »

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

And sometimes it doesn't...
Having limited playtime means guild mates are not always available to run a dungeon when I was, so the group finder was a valuable tool to me.
Spamming zone chat for 30-40 minutes to find a group is not much fun either.

dsalter · August 2016

ArchMikem wrote: »

incite wrote: »

Being social and joining a guild might help aswell

The only way for me to do the Undaunted Pledges is literally asking my Guildmates to do it. I tried queuing the other day, stood around for 17 minutes before finally giving up and getting two Guildmates together. I used to be able to find groups through the Finder as a Healer in the past but now as a DPS it's impossible.

only 17? how cute, there's a guy with screenies of 4 hours

Milvan · August 2016

I did use the dungeon finder sucessfuly in the last couple of days tho.

Jeremy · August 2016

Milvan wrote: »

I did use the dungeon finder sucessfuly in the last couple of days tho.

Same.

It's been useless lately. But ever since the maintenance Monday it's been working pretty decently for me. Maybe they fixed it.

acw37162 · August 2016

17 min.

I was in que for over two hours on my tank last week.

It's broken if you scroll through dev tracker you will see they are working on it. It's a lot more complicated then you think.

nick59349b14_ESO · August 2016

diogene1984 wrote: »

I do not understand; I do not understand how ZoS can overlook something as important as the Dungeon Finder..

Because they don't care. All they care about is income not the customer. It's pretty obvious too.

Bobby_V_Rockit · August 2016

Without group finder there's really nothing for me to do. Guess its time to find another game sadly

pecheckler · August 2016

It's just plain broken on ps4.

Stovahkiin · August 2016

People haven't figured it out yet eh? It's never gonna get fixed, ZOS evidently has no idea what's going on or how their game works in the first place, this has been around for months and months.

disintegr8 · August 2016

"Dungeon Finder: I do not understand..."

What a coincidence, neither o ZOS....

Stovahkiin · August 2016

disintegr8 wrote: »

"Dungeon Finder: I do not understand..."

What a coincidence, neither o ZOS....

Pretty much sums it up

ArchMikem · August 2016

All everyone does is complain and insult though. God I hope the actual Devs don't read this forum, with all this negativity I wouldn't blame them if they didn't want to work their best on this game. Who the Hell wants to put effort into serving people who give them crap all the time for their shortcomings?

Stovahkiin · August 2016

The fact of the matter is that they have far more shortcomings than multiple other MMOs. It's foolish to do things like making an online game and then expect to not be compared to other ones. But hey, get butthurt about it all you want.

disintegr8 · August 2016

ArchMikem wrote: »

All everyone does is complain and insult though. God I hope the actual Devs don't read this forum, with all this negativity I wouldn't blame them if they didn't want to work their best on this game. Who the Hell wants to put effort into serving people who give them crap all the time for their shortcomings?

The positives:
Oh thank you, my game was not complete until I could change my hairstyle.
And a new mount for me to ride around on while I wait for group finder to be fixed, thank you very much.
Don't forget text chat, I didn't realize how much I didn't need it until I had it... thanks.

In the interim I have not been able to do an undaunted pledge in 2 months and will not be able to do the new dungeons in the latest DLC until they fix group finder.....

S'yn · August 2016

I'll probably regret saying this, but... I think they actually fixed it!?!!!!?!

I managed to get into groups for specific dungeons and randoms as DPS and heals the last 2 nights after the most recent update. I am cautiously optimistic, hoping that some new update/hotfix won't break it again.... but for now it seem to be working. And to ZOS- THANK YOU!

Stovahkiin · August 2016

S'yn wrote: »

I'll probably regret saying this, but... I think they actually fixed it!?!!!!?!

I managed to get into groups for specific dungeons and randoms as DPS and heals the last 2 nights after the most recent update. I am cautiously optimistic, hoping that some new update/hotfix won't break it again.... but for now it seem to be working. And to ZOS- THANK YOU!

I seriously doubt it, it's pretty much been like that off and on for a while. Sometimes it works fast, other times not at all, aka still broken.

Lord_Eomer · August 2016

Its totally broken on PS4

koralr33fer · June 2017

This post originated in august 2016....its now june of 2017 and the dungeon finder is still broken...10 months later. This is embarassing you ZOS! you made a patch recently to fix some issues but you didnt address many others. And since the update new issues have arrised, game freezes constantly while in queue and ready checks constantly fail. 10 months going on a full year still broken, I'm losing hope for this game...

BlackPhillip · June 2017

Make a tank.

Join friendly dungeon runners.

josiahva · June 2017

Being a tank doesn't help much. This was me yesterday as a tank...queue up...wait 5 mins, queue fires, I accept, other people decline/in a fight/busy, whatever...kicks back to queue. Sit around another 20 minutes waiting for it to fire..never does. Re-queue. Queue fires immediately, I accept, other people reject...kicked back to queue, immediately drop queue and re-queue, queue fires immediately, I accept and FINALLY someone doesn't reject and break it and I get into a dungeon. If I want some dungeon that ISN'T a pledge its the same headache multiplied by 10.

Tan9oSuccka · June 2017

My buddy and I have a system that works at least on PS4. We wait usually less than 1 minute if at all.

We mix our roles where we have 1 damage dealer and 1 tank or healer.

Don't grab a buddy and queue as 2 DPS. You'll sit there forever.

zaria · June 2017

acw37162 wrote: »

17 min.

I was in que for over two hours on my tank last week.

It's broken if you scroll through dev tracker you will see they are working on it. It's a lot more complicated then you think.

Its two separate issues, one is the DD queue as its far more DD than healers and tanks. This is hard to fix.

Second is all the bugs, one is that you sometimes is not queued, 2 hour on tank is an obviously this.
If you get an trying to form group message and it fail and you are in queue as tank or healer for an long time, drop out and queue again. This appears to work better now.

NordSwordnBoard · June 2017

Tank #1, Healer #2 if you need to get keys or helmets for better que times. I know, you have to work the system of error messages, but I usually don't wait more than about 5 minutes to que solo even in primetime on PS4. Dailies dungeons work instantly on my tank, vet or not.

Zone asks and Guilds can help. Check all three alliance undaunted areas for people with no chat window open who may have missed the zone offer.

Battlegrounds suffers from the same failure, but is worse because you can at least manually group and travel to the dungeons; no such option for BGs.

Based on my experience:
Solo que works best, a full group of 4 que in sometimes, groups of 2 or 3 seem to be the worst - I haven't qued into a partially finished dungeon in a month, nor have I gotten a replacement anytime we needed one. A tank, healer, and dps group couldn't even get another dps for the daily last night which is just wrong.

josiahva · June 2017

NordSwordnBoard wrote: »

Tank #1, Healer #2 if you need to get keys or helmets for better que times. I know, you have to work the system of error messages, but I usually don't wait more than about 5 minutes to que solo even in primetime on PS4. Dailies dungeons work instantly on my tank, vet or not.

Zone asks and Guilds can help. Check all three alliance undaunted areas for people with no chat window open who may have missed the zone offer.

Battlegrounds suffers from the same failure, but is worse because you can at least manually group and travel to the dungeons; no such option for BGs.

Based on my experience:
Solo que works best, a full group of 4 que in sometimes, groups of 2 or 3 seem to be the worst - I haven't qued into a partially finished dungeon in a month, nor have I gotten a replacement anytime we needed one. A tank, healer, and dps group couldn't even get another dps for the daily last night which is just wrong.

Actually(on PC at least) the replacement feature is now working almost perfectly. Right after One Tamriel dropped, it would take 40+ minutes to replace a DPS if it did at all, now its back to being instant. Right before One Tamriel is when the dungeon finder worked perfectly...no issues whatsoever...ever since its been broken to some degree.

SilverWF · June 2017

diogene1984 wrote: »

Dungeon Finder: I do not understand...

ZOS too