For about three days now my friends and I have resorted to party finder for dungeon/mission runs due to the difficulty of getting into dungeons otherwise. Take all of this with a grain of salt, as I am currently very frustrated with being forced to use the party finder system. The system feels unfinished/unpolished, which wouldn’t be an issue if I was exposing myself to it willingly, but that isn’t the case.
There are several issues I have with party finder, but there are two issues that bother me so much that it makes the game borderline enraging and unenjoyable.
First issue is that I got into the game to play with my friends, yet there’s no way to queue up together for party finder. Often times we will queue up together and end up in 2-3 different groups. So we sit in comms each running a separate instance, which leads us to feel like we have to split out comms. The system simply doesn’t support playing with friends.
Secondly is party composition. Too often you get into a dungeon with no healer, or no tank. While that is fine there are those instances that bother the living **** out of me, which is when you end up with 3-4 of the same class. I have ran dungeons with 4 barbarians in a group, 3 quarrel shooters, 4 wiz3>ele, and so on. As if that wasn’t enough, those parties often times come lacking a healer and/or someone who can properly pull mobs. Different class combinations are supposed to compliment each others’ weaknesses, but when party finder queues the exact same builds together the dungeons get much harder.
I do understand that requiring specific classes, or disallowing a certain number of repeats, would make for terrible queue times. Take into account, however, we have a limited number of dungeon runs per day, which means that every time we get one of those terrible parties we have wasted one of our precious daily dungeons.
The past couple days have been a nightmare to me. Party finder has been draining my desire to play ToS rather quickly. Every time I queue for a dungeon I ask myself “Is this going to be another 4 of 1 class group? Will I get to play with the people I want to play this game with?”
Entering and doing dungeons/missions is incredibly frustrating at the moment, this needs attention right now.
/rant