Cross-server Flashpoint finder -- Still very badly needed

I don't know what server or side you are playing, but Republic side on the Elysium server isn't anti-social at all. There just isn't ppl in gen/trade chat being e-tards. When I'm out on a world, gen chat isn't really all that quiet during peak times. IF there were a LFD tool, ppl wouldn't even bother getting to know people on the server (as was the case when I still played wow) because it was all about lfd/lfr so you didn't have to go through the trouble of finding out who sucks... you must've not played wow in vanilla or were just a baddie that wasn't given a raid slot. And btw, not a single ninja yet out of 7 days played across 3 toons.




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Spot on. I think a lot of the trouble here is that everyone wants to join a group being formed, not form a group. So they'll sit waiting for someone else to start a group. The kicker is when you see someone asking for more to do X, you join, and they immediately pass off lead and say "need tank/heals going AFK". They'll alt-tab and never come back until you find all the rest, which means they won't even begin to move to the location X is at until the group is full and waiting there.

I just kick them anymore when they do this.

Honestly, guilds and friends really aren't a necessity in wow anymore. LFR (which is related to LFG in concept) made sure of that. They made it so that you didn't have to work for it. But why are we talking about that POS game again? oh, yeah... people want to ruin this game with the same tools that wrecked that one. What happened to work your *** off to make something happen? Raiding/Ops is a reward/privilege, not a right.

A good guild is typically a guild full of people that have the same mindset as you and have the same aspirations as you do. If there are none, make one. If come ops time it's full of baddies then teach them. End-game content isn't supposed to be a faceroll, it's a learning experience and if people can't learn then they don't go anymore. I'm not sure if the last part fits what you consider a "good guild" but that seems to be the general consensus from ex wow players. From what I saw in the last months it was less about having fun and more of "My e-peen is bigger than yours"

The LFD tool in WoW worked well if you had the gear to make it work well. I played alliance in WotLK as a tank, and if I saw that our healer had decent gear, I switched to DPS and we facerolled through with an average dps of about 7k (because aoe is op). I switched to horde and always queued as tank and always played DPS in dungeons, because the three dps usually had an average dps of 2k. Still, the healer and I ran through the dungeon in under 15 minutes, and I didn't care about the other three, I wanted the emblems of frost, and that was all.


But lets get away from actually running dungeons and go to SWTOR. I won't EVER set foot in Directive 7, even though I want to, since I've never been there. Because three hours of looking for a tank is just too much. I gave up trying to find groups for anything, because I honestly don't want to spend hours looking for somepony I will never find. I usually just do some stuff on the fleet, and if I don't see a "LF Healer for X Hardmode" in that time I do dailies or log off and get what SWTOR fails to provide: fun playing a game, instead of trying to play a game. And nopony wants to run hardmodes, or they already have healer. But hey, lets not allow dualspec, it sucks SO hard, since you can do crazy stuff like... Find groups for FPs faster.

Up to now it has just been scumbag Bioware releasing a game that you can't actually play as soon as you hit lvl 50.

Or maybe I should do what a lot of people here say I should do. Join a guild with such a crapload of members that there are ALWAYS enough people online to run dungeons. They call it "being social". I call it BS, because I like the guild I am in right now, even if they are not all lvl 50. Seems like either you are on an overpopulated server in a huge guild or you don't play.

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Find a guild people stop being lazy and waiting for a computer to do the work for you.

Some of us don't WANT to join guilds. Being in a guild is a serious time commitment. Yeah it's great if you have the RL time for it. There are alot of people out there who don't have that time. I don't want to join a guild just to be a leech. Yet that's what I would be because I don't have big blocks of time to raid or help out others.

If your guild is so crappy that you feel threatened with a /lfg tool then it's not a very good guild.

Spot on. I think a lot of the trouble here is that everyone wants to join a group being formed, not form a group. So they'll sit waiting for someone else to start a group. The kicker is when you see someone asking for more to do X, you join, and they immediately pass off lead and say "need tank/heals going AFK". They'll alt-tab and never come back until you find all the rest, which means they won't even begin to move to the location X is at until the group is full and waiting there.

I just kick them anymore when they do this.

I hope you understand he was trolling. If you use the LFR tool you just get easy mode raids and not the best equipment in the game. You need a end-game guild if you want to do the raids the hard way and get good loot.