Groupfinder 1st time in ages

Glamdring · October 2016

I usually just run pledges with guildies and friends, but yesterday i was on late and everyone had already done em so i swallowed and queued up for pledges. Reading about all the horror storys here on the forum i expected the worst. Im not an experienced pve player since i pvp mostly, but i know my rotations, have golded my pve gear and max cp. The first Group all where around 100-300 cp and we cleared veteran spindle without wiping. Sure the bosses took a while to dps down but everyone carried their weight and it was a fun run. Then i queued up for Direfrost veteran. The Group also this time consisted of on average 200cp players. But everyone knew their role and again we where taking down the bosses one at a time without wiping until we came to final boss. None of us new mechanics so after we wiped first time we looked em up and tried 2 more times wiping again. Then the healer complained about low dps and left :P Some just dont have patience and some also Think too highly of themselfs. Anyway we searched for a new healer and full cp healer came in. We told him we wiped 3 times and where a little unsure about mechanics. He explained the 2 big mechanics to look out for. Get out of Boss reach when he teleport and AOE and to break the sap asap. We cleared it at first try

All in all i must say that this experience way exceeded my expectations. I know theese dungeons arent the hardest ones but it went smooth and that max cp is in no way needed as long as groupmemebers actually do the role they assign too. And it is funny that the player leaving, Crying about how others dont perform good enough are the one actually dragging the Group down. Anyway just wanted to post a positive experience of groupfinder to balance things out a bit.

cya in groupfinder

Fischblut · October 2016

I started dungeons first time when I was over 300 CPs, because I was very afraid and didn't have any confidence. And I didn't have guild or friends back then, so my only choice was group finder... First day it was a blast - I was getting groups immediately as tank, were running dungeon after dungeon whole day, it was so awesome! Once there was weird group when one of dds left right after we ported to dungeon, and we couldn't get any other dd using tool, but it was the only negative thing which I experienced that day. So thanks to group finder, some luck and nice sane people I lost my fear and started to love dungeons

Then there were many good days and bad days with this tool (weird bugs and weird people), with zone chat groups, with some guild members... Then I found good friends and good guild so I had neither time nor reason to search for pug groups anymore, but after great days One Tamriel came, and now I almost don't join for dungeons. But I think group finder is really a thing people should use more instead of spamming zone chat with LFG. It's simple tool and people who use it are just the same people as those who can write in zone chat, not some "mysterious monsters"

...And never look at amount of CPs other people have, these don't guarantee anything, and low levels/low CPs are not valid reason to leave pug group.

vyndral13preub18_ESO · October 2016

Glamdring wrote: »

I usually just run pledges with guildies and friends, but yesterday i was on late and everyone had already done em so i swallowed and queued up for pledges. Reading about all the horror storys here on the forum i expected the worst. Im not an experienced pve player since i pvp mostly, but i know my rotations, have golded my pve gear and max cp. The first Group all where around 100-300 cp and we cleared veteran spindle without wiping. Sure the bosses took a while to dps down but everyone carried their weight and it was a fun run. Then i queued up for Direfrost veteran. The Group also this time consisted of on average 200cp players. But everyone knew their role and again we where taking down the bosses one at a time without wiping until we came to final boss. None of us new mechanics so after we wiped first time we looked em up and tried 2 more times wiping again. Then the healer complained about low dps and left :P Some just dont have patience and some also Think too highly of themselfs. Anyway we searched for a new healer and full cp healer came in. We told him we wiped 3 times and where a little unsure about mechanics. He explained the 2 big mechanics to look out for. Get out of Boss reach when he teleport and AOE and to break the sap asap. We cleared it at first try

All in all i must say that this experience way exceeded my expectations. I know theese dungeons arent the hardest ones but it went smooth and that max cp is in no way needed as long as groupmemebers actually do the role they assign too. And it is funny that the player leaving, Crying about how others dont perform good enough are the one actually dragging the Group down. Anyway just wanted to post a positive experience of groupfinder to balance things out a bit.

cya in groupfinder

Honestly I think people get carried away at times. Does everyone have bad group finder experiences? Sure. But i would say for me it is around 40-50 completed dungeons for every horror story I have.

But you must admit it is more fun writing about the silly things people do. Then posting, I got in a group and everything went smoothly. The end.

FloppyTouch · October 2016

I do nothing but pugs bc I play early morning I finished every daily every time I'm way over the max cp with a great dps rotation I get groups with lvl 20's and cp500+ all in all I have a ton of fun we get the job done every time. I would like to add when I do get in a pug with all cp561 we just plow through everything is a few mins

Ozstryker · October 2016

Well this post is a breath of fresh air... I've found dungeons to be no where near as bad as the forums suggest!
Mostly, the runs I have are quite smooth, dunno if its because I don't expect everyone to be epeen, or I use a little empathy when things go bad, either way the forums are a poor reflection of a game... This seems to be true of all MMO's