If you played Rift and/or playing ToR you know this is going to come up sooner or later so lets get it out of the way now.

How can Tera avoid the eternal LFG conflict that other mmo's suffer from?

Quite simply put, some people hate LFG, some people love it. But either way, if such a tool is added, some people will leave, if it isn't added yet again casuals will leave. Both result in loss of subscribers and that just isn't good for any mmo company.

Is there a happy medium where maybe as content is released we shouldn't even need a LFG tool? If all mmo companies can deliver is instanced raids like than all we can do is suffer from having to have a lfg tool one way or another, so maybe if En Masse can find a better alternative to instanced dungeons and raids than we can complete skip out on needing a lfg tool completely.

So how do you guys feel about a cross server lfg tool, "like WoW's"? And is there a better way of doing content where it wouldn't be so needed?

One thing I did enjoy about Rift at launch was being able to auto join a open world group during invasions and being able to just team up with anybody to clear out a zone. This is something Rift should have sustained more through out patches instead of more and more instanced raids and experts where you had to build your own groups and end up sitting around all day hoping to find that special someone to fill that slot so you could go do what ever it was you were doing.

/facepalm

Quote: Illyasviel on 2012-02-14 05:53:08 UTC

/shrugs

You know its coming as well as i do. its only a matter of time.

Hopefully not the LFG tool, but the lack there of one. Don't believe me? Go read ToR forums and see how long their main LFG tool thread is going to be these days. its like 90 or so pages of players ranting and raving about wanting one and not wanting one.

Did you hit your Y key? There was the menu to browse (by level and province) parties and get an idea of what they're doing through the groups name. Clicking on a party even allowed you to see what classes they were. Players could also publicize their group. I played priest and my friend played lancer, all I had to do was change the title to, "Secret Base LF DPS" and hit publicize then almost instantly I'm receiving tells and requests to join.

Is this what you mean by LFG tool or do you mean like a dungeon finder like WoW? Pick Dungeon, wait for spots to fill (I pray you're a tank/healer), join with randoms, tank and spank or wipe constantly, do it again till cap reached.

There was also a LFG system in Ktera where you can put up your group or message across all servers and see groups and find groups for dungeons. I am not sure if it will come to NA

I hate instance finders. People purposely don't use them in WoW because it attracts trolls and a-holes. LFG tools are terrible because people cheat the queues by signing up as a tank or healer to jump ahead then say they only want to dps once they get placed with their group.

Finding groups in games isn't hard and there's satisfaction in manually building your party and insuring that is a proper party; weeding out people that are jerks in PMs or idiots ('tey typ lyke th1$, u madbro') before you bother with inviting them to the group and wasting time.

Quote: Syvette on 2012-02-14 05:59:04 UTC

Sorry if i wasn't being to clear in my post although i could swear i was. But to keep it short so you can follow what i'm asking about is a RDF. Randumb Dungeon Finder that puts you in a automated group that's cross server.

Quote: ArchAngelAlien on 2012-02-14 06:01:43 UTC

Yes it will, I believe we're still scheduled for the Lv60 patch for launch which will bring many goodies.

If I had to guess OP did not play the beta, if he did then I have no clue what he was doing... There was a LFG tool, and as ArchAngelAlien stated, there will be a different one very similar to dungeon finder from other MMORPGs.

There is already an instance finder in Tera and it is pretty nice. You can queue up solo or if you have a group of 4 people and all you need is a healer you can queue up and it will automatically find you a healer and teleport the party into the instance.

There is obviously no reason to use such a feature if you have a guild but for people who need it they will enjoy it. It's helped me run a lot of the instances in K tera.

Quote: Illyasviel on 2012-02-14 06:08:23 UTC


Actually i did play beta, and sad to say i didn't have the time to make it to level cap, even though it was just level 22 i have a job and two little girls i spend time with. I have not read anything what so ever about them putting in a Cross server dungeons finder, like WoW's, Rift's, and ToR's. If there is some news out there about this plz post link so others can know what to look forward to or to go ahead and skip out on buying the game.

If you can not find such a link than i'll assume that you don't know what they plan to do anymore than the rest of us.