[Guide] How to get into Random Veteran Group Finder parties quickly as a Damage Dealer!

Meld777 · June 2017

Two days ago, ZOS has reverted the group finder changes from Morrowind back to those of Homestead, the worst state the Group Finder has been in so far, instead of reverting them to pre-Homestead. With making this guide public, I hope to catch ZOS's attention to fix the Group Finder quicker. And at the same time, those who read it, may use it for faster queue times.

A big problem of the old state of GF is not only that it just doesn't work as intended. When a random Healer or Tank declines the pop, the whole party is thrown out of queue. DDs that waited for hours waited for nothing. It was not their fault the Tank or Healer, who had a queue time of 3 seconds, declined. Yet, they have to requeue. Also, if it still says "queued" after a Tank or Healer declined, it's a bug. The DDs are not in queue anymore and have entered an infinite state of "queued".

Step 1: Put both Healer and Tank role, remove DD.

Step 2: Queue for Random Veteran and decline the pop. Rinse and repeat. Do this until you stop getting instant pops. Usually, it takes about 15 - 20 queues during prime time.

By doing this, you're sending all DDs in queue into the "infinite queue" zone.

Step 3: Remove Tank and Healer role, put DD, queue for Random Veteran (or any other Veteran dungeon) and enjoy the <1 minute queue time.

I hope this helps!

Zenimax, revert the Group Finder changes back to pre-Homestead. It was the best state Group Finder has been in so far.

ArchMikem · June 2017

It's a dastardly evil way of bringing the issue to the Devs attention.

I hate it........but I kinda love it.

Meld777 · June 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

It's a dastardly evil way of bringing the issue to the Devs attention.

I hate it........but I kinda love it.

They actually fixed it with Morrowind. If someone declined, you were being put in the front of the queue. Also, they kinda fixed the "removing" bug with a double loading screen. But now they reverted that to how it was before. Yes, it was clunky, you had to spam "Queue" 20 times, but at least it worked.

If you wanna revert things, at least revert them to the best possible state and not the worst possible.

zaria · June 2017

Meld777 wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

It's a dastardly evil way of bringing the issue to the Devs attention.

I hate it........but I kinda love it.

They actually fixed it with Morrowind. If someone declined, you were being put in the front of the queue. Also, they kinda fixed the "removing" bug with a double loading screen. But now they reverted that to how it was before. Yes, it was clunky, you had to spam "Queue" 20 times, but at least it worked.

If you wanna revert things, at least revert them to the best possible state and not the worst possible.

After morrowind they gave an moving to front of queue message but still sent you to the infinite waiting.
Queued as healer, got invite, one DD refused after some time, probably afk or did not see message.
Moved to front of queue, 15 minutes later I concluded it was bugged, exited the queue and restarted it 2 minutes later I was in.
After the change it don't disband group if someone refuses, it keeps group and pick the next from list.
However trying to queue with an partial group is still broken.

I also find the message to accept or refuse easy to miss, you will not see it if in inventory or other full screen menus.

LadyLavina · June 2017

As a tank, I must say..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H07zYvkNYL8

f047ys3v3n · June 2017

ArchMikem wrote: »

It's a dastardly evil way of bringing the issue to the Devs attention.

I hate it........but I kinda love it.

O.P, the best way I have ever seen to get ZOS attention it to embarrass them. They are probably going to perma-ban you for this thread. The only players I have seen get perma-bans embarrassed ZOS and most of those players get the perma-ban. I'm sure the players who use the que thank you for your sacrifice.

While your at it, you might as well drop some meteors while flying in PVP using cheat engine to get some more attention on that. Nice knowing you.

Meld777 · June 2017

As of the current update, this method works again! However, it's the most broken update in the history of the group finder. So even if you get rid of all the "competing" DDs, the group finder will bug on you. It is unusably broken at the moment.

SilverWF · June 2017

Yeah, what can be better than kick each other from the queue - if every 2nd DD would use that.
But who cares, right?
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Sakiri · June 2017

Every time I used random with a partial group it's worked??

ZOS_Bill · June 2017

This thread appears to be baiting, as the advice given is both unhelpful and would impact many players negatively. For these reasons the discussion is being closed down. Please make sure to follow the forum rules and keep your post constructive if trying to setup a guide.