PS4 - What should I expect from grouping?

randomkeyhits · October 2015

New player, trundling along and I get the undaunted spindleclutch 4 man dropped into my quest list. Ignored it at first and kept running around but my level approached the recommended so I tried to queue for it.

Took quite a long time but eventually the group was filled and ......... nothing. From what I can tell the group leader is the only one who can actually select the dungeon which surprised me as I thought I was only queueing for spindleclutch. No one was on headset or making any attempt at communicating. I waited about half an hour for the group to do something but in the end gave up.

Am I missing something or is this a common random queue situation.

PS
I know there are player guilds to join but for now I want to enjoy a really casual game.

PhxOldGamer68 · October 2015

@randomkeyhits Unfortunately, the Group matching function is very poorly designed as you discovered.

The easiest way, outside of knowing other players in a Guild, is using Area Chat in front of the dungeon and asking others or being asked by others to group up.

I've been asked to group up when I'm in a public dungeon or a complicated area for a quest.

Same goes in PvP campaigns. You can stand at a Transitus and you'll eventually hear someone in Area Chat asking if anyone wants to group up.

I've met some really cool players this way and joined good Guilds.

RAGUNAnoOne · October 2015

I've had some good times and I had some bad times as well with the grouping tool (I still do dungeons with the last group I got

). in my experience Spindleclutch (non vet) is not very difficult so you only need 3 players not 4 all you need is one healer and the rest DPS. it sucks how it is used though, it should teleport the group to the area at least 30 seconds after a group is formed.

randomkeyhits · October 2015

Thanks

I'll make my way over there then and see how it goes and continue to try and persevere with the group finder tool