there simply should be a checkmark option if you are fine with doing dungeons that already have started.
it's a design flaw, which the game has more of than any other mmos i know.
hell, these are the devs that made the bg queue single only.
these are the devs that buffed dots by 60%, telling everyone they know what they do and they have a plan, then nerfed them by almost the same amount a few month later.
these are the devs.. i could go on for hours.
just understand that they are not really capable of making sensible and smart decisions, and you will have an easier time in eso.

@Dusk_Coven You can literally solo all base game dungeons except the one that used to be soloable before they changed pads not to unlock solo

Lots of good points on both sides of this here. The one thing I didn't people are thinking about from a quick skim is *why* is the group missing a person. It's usually because they kicked someone, in which case I have zero sympathy, or because someone quit, which doesn't exactly make me want to join their group.

Put bluntly, this isn't just about getting put in groups where you don't get pledge credit, it's about getting put in problem groups that you're probably not going to want to be in in the first place.

Of course, people do get "disconnected". But I can't help but note that when I was doing dungeons regularly, I got pulled into partially finished vets about ten times more often than partially finished normals. It's just so incredibly uncommon on normal, that I really think of it as a vet issue and it's overwhelmingly people quitting / getting kicked / logging.

Personally, that takes me to letting people check a box to opt out of partially finished's - and maybe as well letting them specifically ask to be put in one of they're feeling heroic and /or want helms. Give the player looking for a group the choice.

Varangian_af_Scaniae wrote: »

I just did "Cradle of Shadows" got two joins where people were 50:ish finished. I quit both joins and got a "15" min "cooldown".
WHY SHOULD I A NEW PLEDGE PLAYER GET A 15 MINUTES COOL DOWN, for not wanting to join a dungeon I get no creed for????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

You got a cooldown because by quitting on that group, you just wasted their time. The cooldown gives you a reason to give them a fair shot for 15 minutes, at which point your cooldown is up and you can move on if you want. Or you can ask to be kicked.

Also, it prevents dungeon-hopping as I mentioned above, trying to quit out hard dungeons and get an easier one for your Daily Random.

Red_Feather wrote: »

DLC dungeons are the least popular content. You are best to not need to do them. Skip pledges for them. Leave if one pops as your daily random. Your life will be much easier the faster you ignore all dlc dungeons. The only people who do them really have nothing better to do. Like streamers who only stream doing the same thing over and over every day of the week while they speak in a monotone braindead voice.

That's not really true. Lots of DLC dungeons are (very) easy on normal mode.

Maarselok, Cradle of Shadows, Mazzatun, Scalecaller to name a few.. piece of cake, even with a pug.
Frostvault and Unhallowed aren't all that bad either - once you know the trick.

While some veteran HM dungeons from the base game can be pretty tricky, like Banished Cells 2, CoA 2.
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