I'm happy at slow, moderate and a nice brisk pace. My mindset is very much to stick with the majority of the group, especially as I've been a healer for a while. I stay where there is a "team" and if a speed runner runs ahead I stay back with the team.

It's the insane warp speed runs I tend to find annoying. Often because the most impatient players are so disinterested in working as a team on boss fights, they can be quite disruptive. A fake tank/healer who dies repeatedly just makes work for the rest of the team. Where we'd finish sooner if they had stayed with the team and worked co-operatively and known mechanics.

The purpose of the poll was to find out what players prefer and why. The actual poll results don't mean as much as the comments, which is true for most polls.

While my personal preference would be a slower run during this event I've experienced a lot of fast runs.

Some were very good, others not. Queued mostly as DPS for characters on both servers who have not maxed Undaunted skill line. I would put the ratio of good to bad fast runs at 80%/20% noting that the majority of runs are what I would call medium and have never ever experienced a slow run in a random group since I started running group dungeons again for skill-points needed for subclassing newer characters.

The good runs had competent fast runners and I stuck to them like glue while we ran past all the trash to whack the boss. Here's where “Joining Encounter in Progress” was golden as those who were stuck behind a wall of thrash mobs were auto-magicaly ported into the boss fight. These runs are the fasted I've ever experienced and were rather enjoyable.

The bad runs had less competent fast runners (noticed this in CMX as my percentage of group damage was very much higher). I still ran right behind them but we got stuck in many mob swarms so these were not fast runs at all.

"Skill Issue" as my bestie Sharp is wont to say. I wryly reply that we've all started out unskilled and he just grunts softly (I take that as grudging agreement).

If I'm doing a random, it's not for the story experience. It's for transmutes, XP, and/or some kind of objective likes Endeavors or a Pursuit. I want to accomplish that ASAP and on as many toons as possible.

That being said, I really do get irritated when players spend time jumping in front of doors that don't open, instead of just killing the enemies.

MasterSpatula wrote: »

Believe it or not, this question isn't binary. You don't have to either mosey along--hitting all the side bosses, looting every backpack, and admiring the scenery--or blast your way from boss to boss. I'd say most folks I know prefer an efficient run but also want to actually kill the adds and loot chests, for example.

always time for chest.

I enjoy getting the full experience as it was intended, especially if it's the first time thru. It's only when I'm trying to farm the Dungeon either for an event or an armor set where I would prefer to get it done quickly, but I'm not going to hate the world if it slows down for whatever reason. I'm definitely not going to get angry if someone else in the group is doing the quest.

If you want to go sightseeing do it on your own time with a group of like minded players.

The poll doesn't make sense because it's too general. There are differences. Almost everyone wants to take it slow and explore things in new dungeons. Most players have gone through base game dungeons many times and want to get them done quickly. Speedruns are also not ideal in many DLC dungeons. You should rephrase the poll, otherwise you will get a result that is not really representative. However, I think you deliberately chose to do this so that the poll would go against speedruns. If this is not the case, you should rephrase or at least add a third option. For example, “Both, depending on the dungeon, I don't care...”
I would like to point out again that the forum community and the people who read this and participate are not representative of the entire ESO player base. What people want here in the forum only partially reflects everyday life in the game. I experience this every day. I use the dungeon finder several times a day - every day. Most BASEGAME dungeons are done even on vet in speedrun mode. Sometimes people complain or leave the dungeon, but that's the exception. This is less true for new dungeons and many vet DLC dungeons. There are tanks and often healers and moderate speed.

Like what do I want normally? I want to get through the dungeon quickly and move on

If someone in group wants to do the story/quest or optionals I have no problem with that

Both and neither. So long as it gets done within a reasonable time, and I dont get ridiculed for how I play during the dungeon... I really dont care.

It depends. Both options are fine. By default, I prefer speedrunning. Unless someone mentions they're doing a quest, working on an achievement, or needs to go slower. Whatever the group decides. But if no one says anything, I'll go for speedrun, because it's the most efficient.