Comments on: Emerald Dream: The Patient!

By: Tui

Tui — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:29:51 +0000

I liked the new cross realm lfg until recently, when the sheer amount of lazy people who skip as many bosses as possible just to get the 2 frost emblems is getting annoying. Especially when at the start people agree to go to all the bosses. because you join with a specific dungeon to do them not random. Then half way through you get a new tank, explain whats happening he ignores you and continues to head to the final boss leaving the 2 dps and healer stood still. Not being able to vote kick as you vote kicked the other person who was offline. 1 person vote kicked but the other 2 people are now not able to vote kick the new ignorant tank and the party leader not being able to remove said pleb. Therefore the tank and one dps manage to finish the dungeon, and exit after grabbing the loot. Leaving you and said friends stood there going >.< not being able to rejoin the instance queue as you are saved and completed it and not being able to finish off the fricking bosses!

By: Kapowette

Kapowette — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:28:06 +0000

See, I have to say, speaking from the alli side only here, we’re [me, the mr, our guild] noticing more problems with Azjol Nerub players – or rather ‘azjol nub’ as we’ve started to freudian-ly slip into…

To the point now where we come into a PuG that’s got AN players in and actually go ‘aw crap!’ – don’t get me wrong, some are good. But the overwhelming trend we’ve found thus far has not been favourable to that realm at all!

It seems to be common issues with the players who are problematic too; having little – if any clue – of what they’re doing, while at the same time seeing fit to throw fits at everyone else about how they’re uber leet and know better ad infinitum, and the whole attitude of ‘im doing you a favour by just being here’. Ah, the joys.

Mostly though, I have to say I agree, I really like what the cross-realm pug system has done and think it’s really been a change for the better in the game

By: Farfetch

Farfetch — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:45:09 +0000

Have had a real mixed bag on LFG, during peak hours when the gear matching seems to work, have had great groups either when DPSing or tanking, people able to heal, not run low on mana and keep pulling quickly, with breaks where needed. That said, I find low dps groups, especially late at night, to be disappointing. I’m genuinely surprised how low dps some people can go, rogues and dks under 1000 dps at 80 is laughable and when I as a pally tank doing around 2k dps am the top damage overall, does make me wonder what some people have done from 1-80 if not just mashed the keyboard repeatedly.

I don’t look out for servers and have yet to ignore anyone but I do always feel a sense of foreboding seeing HoR on the random.

One thing I have seen and it was picked up on on the ED forum site was the lack of and unwillingness to use CC. We have CC for a reason, sure you don’t need it for a good group in UK, but in HoR on the first 2 bosses or in PoS on the way up to the gauntlet, it becomes so much easier, perhaps more so for the healer, if you shackle or use pally fear, avoiding CC is a rather sad indication of the desire to farm instances in 10 seconds and not savour the place.

My other complaint is the automatic assumption that everyone wants to skip half the bosses (Eck in Gund for example or caster woman/mushroom in OK), it’s fair enough if you say early and see what people think but sometimes you just need 1-2 badges and it’s annoying to then have to instance again as someone wants to save 2 minutes.

By: Magevossie

Magevossie — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:18:25 +0000

I leveled my paladin from lvl 76 to 80 using only LFG because I got really sick of questing and they implented this system, you get an average of 10% XP from 1 dungeon so its pretty quick and I liked it allot better then boring quests + you get some nice gear and allot of emblems at the same time.

By: Gothmogs

Gothmogs — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:41:45 +0000

A friend of mine and I are leveling via instances as a tank and healer! I ran my first couple of Ragefire Chasms and was really surprised how well those runs went. Everyone knew what they were doing, there was a newbie in one of the runs who was asking a couple of questions and everyone was really helpful. However there were still a few folk who felt typing “hello” was a bit much. Anyway looking forward to more lowbie runs

By: Prue

Prue — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:57:40 +0000

Sometimes I think you need to look at things from a different perspective too. Having a tank that cannot hold aggro is of course inexcusable (to some extend) but if he dies because he is only wearing blues hardly is. If you think back to when you first hit level 80 and started running heroics pulling multiple trash packs and aoe’ing them down was not the easiest thing to do. Wiping on Anomalus wasn’t unheard of and surviving Loken’s Lightning Nova was quite hard – even the three spider packs before Krik’thir was something we wiped on more than once occassion. Right now we outgear it to a large degree, but people new to the game or people playing their alts need to catch up – and that is one thing the LFG system is good for and ment for.

Of course some people are going to work around and queue for a role they are unable to fulfil – since waiting in queue for 10+ minutes is not very fun when queueing as a tank garantees you entrance instantly. It serves a huge inconvenience for everyone else and you end up wasting a lot of time on banalities. I guess it would be nice to see people just levelling up something like 60-80 using the LFG system and be somewhat capable of pulling their weight in heroic instances – and I suppose it is even the fastest way to level in any regard these days – but unless they match people up with gear first and then instance difficulty later I do not see things change much any time soon.

By: Gothmogs

Gothmogs — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:36:30 +0000

And that is one of the reasons the “Link Achievement” system is flawed.

By: Magevossie

Magevossie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:33:37 +0000

Nec hunny, I wouldn’t even let you in on your main.

By: Necrall

Necrall — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:07:52 +0000

Vossie, what if it was me wanting in on one of my alts?

I’ve done all the fights on Nec but my achieves are on Nec. I can’t link his achieves from my Hunter.

By: Chicks

Chicks — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:37:30 +0000

I think i have been pretty lucky with the lfg, had a few oo screw this im leaving and people rolling on everything. But the whole system came at a pretty good time for me as I had just dinged my hunter and was really wanting to make it my new main but gearing was going to be hard as I was so far behind and i didn’t want to be carried by friends… but the new system arrived so i just bit the low dps and bad gear bullet and did as many as i could.. i was also lucky i did a toc normal and the group were farming it also so we did about 10+ runs and all got lucky with the drops. I have to say tho i dread getting Hor because no matter what someone always breaks my trap on the ranged add. As im a dps and on horde i dont find the queues too bad and most runs are speed runs.. would be nice to have a chat (i talk to much as it is) with new people but i always say hello and ty for the run. One weird thing tho i have noticed, is if i join a grp on aly with some rl friends it always seems to go really bad but maybe its us causing it..I haven’t tried leveling a new char and getting the low level instances but i hear thats pretty successful.