I only did the event with guildies, so that part was fun and easy. The rewards were lackluster for those of us that only had a couple characters.

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Couldn't get a single queue pop for two days until they fixed it. Then it was one damn DLC dungeon after another. I did a handful of them - through gritted teeth - and then I went to play Project Zomboid instead.
All in all, nice event. It even saved me 1080 crowns, because I was so busy whacking zombies in another game, I totally forgot to log in and buy that pseudo-Roman outfit.

Yeah - I had fun really. Got a sweet group for normal Fang Lair which I hadn’t done at all - all other groups were chill and solid for a bunch of other normal dungeons - Scalecaller, Spindle II, COA II, COH I and others.

I used to to do vet pledge dungeons a lot - but only vet Scalecaller lately.

It was nice to rek some normal dungeons- but getting solid groups was key.

10 characters a day every day = 3 pets, motifs, maps, transmute stones.... underwhelmed.

Despite the first day glitches, I had a fairly good experience with the random dungeon finder. I was fortunate to be placed into a lot of good groups of friendly players. With a few exceptions, I found people were really decent to one another where the experienced players waited for the newer players to complete quest dialogue before charging off to the next boss. In a couple of cases, I was dropped into a DLC dungeon that I had never attempted before. When I told the group in chat that this was my first time in the dungeon, one of the more experienced players took the time to stop before each boss and explain the mechanics to me so I had I clue what was going on. Overall, I had a pretty good time despite not getting any good loot in the mystery boxes.

One suggestion I would offer for next year would be to give additional rewards (extra boxes?) as an incentive for completing the much longer DLC dungeons.

All the d-bags immediately porting out to FG1 ruined the experience. Just man up and run the content you were given.

Got my 12 tickets and was done with it.

Mixed, but slightly more on the positive side of things.
I refuse to do random's on my lvl 50's as I won't touch DLC dungeons, but I had 5 other characters that were new. Managed to do them all, wait times were not too bad. Biggest issue was being booted for not doing the fungal cheat.
Got 4 pets and lots of motif's which I sold and brought in about 50-60,000 gold for myself.

Overall I just dislike dungeons cos it brings out the "I can solo this so I will blow past everything" people.

I didn't like the issues with the dungeon finder, but as I got to the end of the event I finally got the dragon pet, only thing I wanted except a mount or the 130 jackpot, so that changed it from bad to mixed for me.

I'm going to be frank: this event brought out the worst of us.

I've seen high CP players scream at low-bies much much more (usually bringing up the event) because group finder led us into a DLC dungeon like Moon Hunter Keep. I've seen people screaming at each other over half the team going into Fungal Grotto 1 (FG1) for an easy box without telling the other half. I've seen a lot of people losing their minds and getting relatively more impatient at random groups versus when there wasn't this event. I've seen relatively much more DPS players faking to be tanks and healers due to the role system of the group finder - causing really awkward and heated in-group moments - and then their excuse is "I need mah box brah".

And then there was that time that group finder broke so hard that a lot of people started screaming in zone chat over it. People argued over zone chat on the details of group finder: how it worked and et cetera.

"scream" as in ALL CAPs by the way.

And this event is where I've seen the most dungeon rushers ever in public: using all sorts of hilarious ways to force the entire team to "follow their lead". Some of them would list out commands saying "DO THIS", "NO YOU IDIOT" and so on. Some even walked to their death and blamed others.

Since there was FG1, it took far longer for me and a lot of others to get pledges done; in a single day, I had joined 10 random groups where there would at least be one person trying to pressure everyone else to tp into FG1. It was to the point where I chose to solo dungeons for the sake of my pledges, which thank goodness I can.

So, honestly, this event was a disaster in my experience: it brought out so much public negativity, and it highlighted ZoS's incapability in Multiplayer Game Design 101 with Group Finder being the pinpoint of it all.

Honestly, so much of this nonsense could've been avoided if ZoS actually implemented any of the given feedback for the Group Finder over the years like having separate categories for random dungeon queues like one for all the newbie dungeons and another for all the DLC dungeons (which often have more complicated mechanics).

Also, there should've been a separate dungeon queue specifically for this event: like, it's a no-brainer that those who are normal random dungeon goers and those who are only interested in the event's rewards will clash hard - regardless positively or negatively. This has happened in much older MMORPGs, and Korean MMORPGs have avoided this much better - really highlighting the incompetence on ZoS's end.

So, I really really hope that ZoS learns from this and from all the people making topics now debating that Fungal Grotto tp thing, but I fear that this lesson will be taken like the rest: too late.

didn't get all the rewards I was hoping for. was NOT a fan of "someone denied invite" bug. yes. bug. not only it shouldn't happen in a premade, but for me it would always happened on a stage AFTER ready check. where everyone visibly hit yes (icons turned white) notice would change to forming group.. and then suddenly "someone denied invite" did NOT enjoy the 20 hour random cooldown, but.. that's not even specific. event just exacerbated all the things I hate about it.

did enjoy getting rewards I did get. did enjoy getting some skill points for alts. did enjoy running stuff with my guildies.

so.. yeah.. mixed.

P.S. have grown to appreciate certain "fake tanks" you know the ones that are basically dps, but with a taunt. like.. I genuinely didn't know CoA2 can go that smoothly and relatively quickly. unfortunately, its highly unlikely that these particular fake tanks will queue up for normals outside of undaunted event, which means the only fake tansk I'll get from now on are the dps without the taunt or ability to survive pretty well while dishing out the pain. ah well.

My experience is I waited all year to do it, getting my alts ready to run dungeons on all of them just because I enjoyed it so much last year, aaaaaand... on the first day, everything being so broken meant all the other people I run dungeons with checked out. So it was up to me to solo queue if I wanted to do the rest of the event, and the long queues on my DPS meant I wound up only doing it on my healer. Oh well.