I want to run a dungeon for the first time and ..

Saint-Ange · September 2022

I open the brand new Dungeon Interface, select the place and pick among many options: Questing, Exploring, RP Welcomed.

I precise my role, the size and composition of the team to modulate the difficulty. It can be for example:

3 members to make things harder (recommendation says 3 at least due to dungeon mechanics).
5 DPS despite the recommendation specifies it's better to have a tank and healer.
Adventurer Mode: random roulette decides of the composition respecting the team size I've specified thus giving an element of surprise .. it's cool to run a dungeon multiple times while it feeling different each time.

Last option:

Open group: anyone who picked at least one of the options I picked (Questing, Exploration, RP) can ask to join.
Private: only Friends or Guild mates can ask to join.
Closed: until I decide to open it.

Now I can wait for some like minded players to join or I can go with AI driven companions.

I decide to start straight away but leave the group open.
I'm a Healer/Range DPS and I've picked a Tank and Melee DPS companion, I've took the quest and we're going through some trash packs.
Suddenly a player wants to join (he saw I haven't killed a boss yet nor finished the quest), he's a Tank and has picked Questing + Exploring. I accept and he pops near me while the tank AI companions fades. Greetings have been exchanged, on we go:

All is fine? Cool! The guy is even making the effort to light RP a bit. 3-4 emotes, some short says in character. Once we're done with the dungeon we both add a name on our friends list.
The new comer can't bear me an my antics and decides to leave. He is teleported in a different instance of the same dungeon with the options, size and composition of the team he picked earlier just as I did. He can choose to reset or continue from the same point with same mobs and bosses killed .. nice safety in case you get kicked by a troll.

I'm alone with AI companions and a mechanism requires 2 or more members to be activated? No problemo I'm a pro, suffice to point the crosshair to a companion, press F and pick an option like Stand here/Go there and click on the ground or Activate the lever (at the same time an other lever will be activated, by me or an other companion).
"That new stuff is really well done, Kudos Zo .."

Suddenly an alarm rings, I fall off the bed. Five minutes later I'm searching for my glasses while filling a sock with hot coffee. Good point, the keys are on the door! Like Travis in Taxi Driver, I'm getting "Organizized".