Most of them I have done with pre-formed groups so far.

We queued with a group of 3 for a random tank on one of them. (This is all for normal dungeons btw).

We said Hi, got no response.

Tank charged off, skipped all the bosses they could, we just kind of shrugged our shoulders and carried on as we were (all of the rest of us in there have soloed the dungeon, it was Fungal I, we only picked up a random group member due to the event and didn't need a tank) and once we'd finished the tank left without saying a word.

I expect that tank is cussing us somewhere due to our dawdling and wanting to do all the bosses, but I don't really care too much - I managed to get 11 randoms done despite not racing through and still taking time to talk to people.

On the whole, I'd rather do normals with people who wanted to do the quest/all the bosses/find all the readables/admire the scenery/say hello, but I know that isn't everyone's cup of tea though.

sudaki_eso wrote: »

First one yesterday was City of Ashes 1, went surprisingly good with two low levels. I always say hello and good job and good bye, in my experience about 50% will also at least communicate this way.

Yeah I've had some really good experiences with randoms previously, and made some friends in game from doing them.

I've been having a blast. Got through 7 dungeons today and all were good experiences including the ones where we had pugs.
My favorite was the level 20 something who came in with "don't worry guys, I gotcha! You won't die!" (the rest of us were max CP) and true to his word, none of us died!

TheDarkShadow wrote: »

First day of the event was quite good for me, beside the *** loot from the box.

tl;dr: you don't need high dps or a real tank to do normal dungeon, but a healer is quite important.

On my crafter that only do around 15k dps, a good dpser blasted us thru normal Direforst.

Then I stripped my crafter naked and transfered the gear to my roleplay character. This normal Darkshade II group had no carry. The other dps did about the same dps as me. It's slower, but 15k dps is enough for a normal dungeon. Till last boss. Turn out our warden healer can't actually heal at all, and we die miserably at poison phrase. She quit after 3 times. We queued for another healer. Just in case, I slotted Vigor too. This NB was actually a dps, but since NB can heal with funnel and only that tiny heal was enough to pull us thru. That tell a lots about our 1st healer.

Then I rolled my main. Got Falkreath. I was like "oh ***". I took a break from the game over a year ago, so all dungeons after Imperial City are new to me, and I know nothing about the mechanic (I don't even remember all the mechanics of the old dungeons). We did fine till 3 bosses that summon the colossus. We thought it was bugged first because we couldn't kill the summoners. 1 guy just quit after 2 tries. Finally the 3 of us figured out you have to step into the yellow circle under the summoners' feet, then run into the glowing circle at the edge. We killed the boss with just 3 of us, then queued for another dps just to speed things up. Last boss, due to not knowing mechanic, 1-2 of us die a couple times, but managed to res and recover from it. We finished it with no wipe.

Then I stripped my main naked and transfer gear to my last RP character. Queue as heal. Got simple Wayrest I. Group has 2 level 20, probably alts of a CP. Non of us has good dps so it was slow, but since the dungeon is simple, we finished with no wipe.

Falkreath does have some different mechanics compared to the base game normal dungeons, it's one that is likely to be tricky if no-one in the group has done it before or knows what they are doing. Once you have understood what to do though, it is not so hard on normal - you'll do better if you find yourself in that one again - take a couple of minutes to explain it to any newcomers to the dungeon, that will help it to go more smoothly if you find yourself back there

I ran 1 pug and got Mazzatun. Everything actually went smooth except for someone not doing the mechanics on the turtle fight. The othet 7 I ran were with guild members. So all in all it was great except for my few disconnects.

Tried this on three characters last night.

1) Argonian StamDK tank. Queued as tank for random normal dungeon, can't remember which one I got. Not much talking going on, but had a blast and got my mystery box of goodies.

2) Altmer MagSorc DPS. Had Undaunted quest for Fungal Grotto 1, so formed a group outside the dungeon. Forgot to queue via the dungeon finder. One of the guys had real trouble with his internet, so we ended up doing this as a three person group. Seems that people are much more talkative when grouped outside the dungeon finder and again had a blast. No mystery pack this time as I forgot to queue.

3) Nord (don't ask, this was my original character) StamNB DPS. Got Undaunted quest for Selene's web. Didn't realize until halfway through that I had queued for the veteran version not the normal. Was wondering why things had suddenly got harder. One guy in the group knew what he was doing, but was a real ass and after wiping out on Selene the rest of us voted to kick him. Then we disbanded the group as we weren't going to get it done anyway.

Ufretin wrote: »

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

There was no conversation whatsoever, not even "Hello". Perhaps, since I was playing around 1 pm Eastern, I was grouped with non-English speakers.]

I guess we'll be seeing even more misanthropes than usual during this event. Just had a group chat like this:

Me: "Hi"
<no response>
Me: "Shall we skip this boss?"
< no response>
[ I skip the boss ]
Random#1: "Don't skip"
Me: "So you do talk after all "
Random#1: "Less talk, more dps"
( I was the tank btw)
...

DISREGARD! Apparently they changed it!

Skipping the bosses doesn't give you the reward box, according to the announcement. Just a heads up.

I managed to run four random dungeons last night, all through the group finder.

First one on my healer, super over geared for EH I. Probably should have gone half dps for a faster run, but got through fast enough. Crown didn't get a box, I had to explain to him about the 20 hour col down.

Second run, my off tank, normal CoS. This is the big one. Bad luck to get to get a DLC dungeon, but I've done this one on before as a healer on Vet. So even though I was the only maxed character, a non-vet in the 40s, CP 70 and one in the CP 400s, I decided to carry on. Healer and I also grabbed the quest.

We did alright picking up the mechanics until the second to last boss. One DPS was very assertive pointing out the mechanics of bashing and the shadow orb phase. After a few deaths the other DPS quit group. The other two weren't sorry to see him go, saying he was just standing in the red. The healer also sent me a couple tells, complaining the DPS weren't going after adds, which is sort of true. Almost always had one other player hitting the boss when he was invincible, course the healer could also bash when they were standing next to the shadow.

After the first DPS quit, we picked up a werewolf. The second original DPS also quit after a few more deaths. The second new DPS had done this dungeon before long time ago like me. I stopped and did a rundown of the mechanics. It wasn't a perfect run, but we finally won.

Those of us who had been here before tried to share what we remembered of the final boss. Not too tough except the boss's going above attack would wipe us. After two wipes, the healer finally quit. Group finder found us a new member, and while we waited for them, I looked up some guides and learned you needed to stand still for the final attack. I let group know, but was the only one to remember. I managed rez a dps, but they started on the boss instead of rezing the others. So I let him have agro and rezed the other DPS. The boss died before we could get the healer up. Only original member left, after over 2 hours, I thanked my new group.

Thrid run, DPS, BC I. I was group three level 10-11s. We just stood in the final boss's fire, my sorc providing additional heals with my dps.

Fourth run, DPS, DSC I. I picked up the quest, and even though we didn't wait for one quest step, I was still able to turn it in at the end. Last two runs, including the group queue were under a half hour.

DiePainPain wrote: »

do u want to talk when you see this?

That's an average nFG I group.

"Hi. Let me know if you're on the quest and I'll wait at the end"

Did two runs this morning with two DD who got to 50 during the witch mother event. Runs itself was uneventful, Has little experience on them so low dps but normal dungeon. Think it was darkshade 1 and BC 1.
However no queue as DD, that is far below one minute, I had to pick up some stuff in bank so I queued in bank thinking to go to elden root for pledge, has not able to reach rawl-kwa wayshrine from bank before dungeon was ready.
One tank was very fake but had healer in both dungeons

Mazbt wrote: »

Hah in my experience most pugs are super quiet until something bad happens. Then they are suddenly quite talkative....

You're in luck. When something bad happens in my group, they just quit without saying a word even though wipe/death was their fault as they didn't know dungeon mechanics and didn't bother to read my instructions. Honestly, I don't think I ever grouped with any randoms that communicated in any way.

LadyAstrum wrote: »

Yesterday was my first day experiencing random dungeon group finder, and what I learnt was that it's best to queue as a healer.

I like when people at least say hello, and a friendly tank is also a plus. Quiet pugs are a bit disconcerting, just a "hi" would be nice. I let people know upfront if I'm a newbie in any way, and that seems to be appreciated.

To CP 160+ folk, please be patient with us newer / lower level players during this event. Thank you.

I agree

It was my first ever dungeon run yesterday as well . I was truly lucky to go with "Friendly Dungeon Runners" so they were understanding of me being an..........archer and new.There were many reasons why I chose a bow...but it's not a thread to talk about it here.
I am sticking with this guild.. because I know I will learn with their help to be an effective group member ..and well, practice makes a master...

Anyway, my observation...

1. I think there are a few things "oldies" -dungeon raiders should understand about newer players and get overthemselves already..ESPECIALLY if the grouping is done via Random Dungeon Finder...for which anyone has the right to queue regardless of level or experience! In other words, if you queue via RDF, don't whine or be nasty to a newbie..it IS a little like gambling, you may get experienced group members but you may not..if you don't like it.. form your own perfect group...simple as that.

2. Most newbies DO NOT know, by heart, every move of every creature in a dungeon....unlike players who do such a dungeon for like 99999999999999999th time or more. So, don't get pissed off right away because your inexperienced group member does not do things they way you want them..if they make a mistake it's not because they want to ruin your perfect raid on purpose..it's because they HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE SAID DUNGEON... or it's their first ever dungeon run anyway.

3. I very much doubt there are many newbies who go for dungeon to conquer it on their own.. most people with common sense realise it's a team work. Hell, when I started playing ESO I knew little to nothing about lore or mechanics (this game was a gift)..BUT I knew that while playing in a group.. there's someone who distracts a boss and takes most hits..while other players deal most damage to kill it while avoiding, if possible, getting hit..while someone else makes sure everyone stay alive. I understood the roles, in other words.

I am sure there are no. 4 and more... but I can't think of them now.

I am speaking for myself now.. but the reason I avoided RDF all this time was to avoid whining and frustrated players who get all pissed off and blah blah because RDF did not group them with dream team AND they assume that everyone knows dungeon by heart and all fighting mechanics of every mob within a dungeon (all bosses included, of course)..so they either kick you out of the group of they're just nasty...and you just get stressed the entire time.. I don't play this game to get stressed.. just to be excited and have fun.

And this is Random Dungeon Finder...if you don't like it form your own dream team and enjoy your awesomely smooth awesome run in an awesome dungeon to get an awesome reward (if ZOS gods favour you, that is)

Anyway.. enough of....rant.

I learned that in Darkshade II the tank isn't supposed to run in and aggro everything in that giant mob room before the final boss.

#tankablemoments

Oh, right, also that time I accidentally committed suicide in Spindle 1 by derping up my Warden's rotation. RIP: Fake Healer.