Exactly! I can heal marginally more in t1/t2 purps than I can in a full set of regen blues, but in the regen blues there's basically zero chance of me dying even with a terrible group. It's a lot more complicated than "BIG NUMBERZ AND PURPLEZ PLX"
Hate to be the one to say it cause no one ever listens... but seriously just find a guild. I take guild alts to runs all the time, when you have a stacked party otherwise 1-2 9k gs doesn't matter anyway. Everyone hates this answer but it is the best one, find friends that will run with you b/c you're their friend/guildmate and gearing up is much simpler.
Im sorry but the whole "just join a guild" is a bit of a cop out and can be as much if not more frustrating then trying to find a T2 squad that wont kick you or quit on you. Because simply, how can you tell which is a good guild and which is not without having to do the guild to guild hop? And even the you can end up in a guild that's about to go down hill. I've personally been through a lot a guilds do to leveling alts for farming and you just cant tell.
Like the queue system, the guild system allows for too many people with no clue how to run a guild to make guilds. But for example on an alt I was recruited to guild, they were active though very small group. But since that alt was being leveled just for farming I didn't worry too much about it. On my main I was recruited into another guild, again, small but active, But slowly the mains guild became less and less active to the point where I couldn't even ring myself to recruit for it since I seemed to be the only person that still logged in. after about a month I realized that my alts guild was still very active, had grown in size and amazingly had not kicked me for being inactive. So I decided to leave the inactive guild and join the active one. But even now, still cant really rely on them alone to get a T2 run.
Now you may say, well you need to start looking for a better guild. But again, how many jumps do I need to make before finding the right one? The guild descriptions are mostly a wish list of ideas they'd like to achieve so I cant rely on that to know which guild is good. Cant go by the members list since it can be easily inflated by alts. And you cant even really base it runs with people from other guilds because they just be a select group of good players in an otherwise useless guild.
I've seen that first hand with a dread vault run, ended up running with 4 people from the same guild and in all honesty, it was the easiest run I've ever done in dread vault. Hell, I went from being the guy who always topped the damage chart to being the lowest guy...yes, the DC beat my TR in damage. So on that basis alone I could say that this is a guild worth joining except that I've since done a few runs with other players from that guild and they were horrible.
Bottom line is, joining a guild to get T2 runs is about as useful as trying to do T2 runs through the queue system, there is no guarantee that you are going to get what you want.
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inthefade462Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian UsersPosts: 0Arc User
edited October 2013
1) put in the effort farming/pvp to acquire the gs to join lfg pugs.
2) put in the effort to find a nonfail guild
3) put in no effort and instead cry about it on the forums.
That's why you join a fairly large and active guild, small guilds get absorbed b/c good players that can't find groups will then find bigger guilds with people always on. Generally the good guilds will be well known, and if you join a larger one there can be as many as 50 people online at any time making it very easy to find a group no matter what class you are. I personally am in a PvP guild but we average 15-40 online depending on peak times, if I want to do a dungeon I have no problem finding people even though my guild isn't even PvE oriented. If you're really struggling then just start forming groups yourself. Advertise as looking for more rather than looking for group, especially once you get a DC it will be quick filling it up.
You can't just sit back doing exactly what you've been doing and expect different results. Join a reputable guild, or take control of your groups and form your own, you can't be kicked if you're the leader lol. I don't do it anymore b/c I rarely PvE but I used to friend anyone that was a skilled player and a nice person, once you have a 20 person friend list you can get a group anytime without a guild.
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beckylunaticMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 14,231Arc User
Exactly! I can heal marginally more in t1/t2 purps than I can in a full set of regen blues, but in the regen blues there's basically zero chance of me dying even with a terrible group. It's a lot more complicated than "BIG NUMBERZ AND PURPLEZ PLX"
I've ended up throwing together a set of regen blues for my Destroyer GWF (couple life steal pieces in there because that's what dropped). I haven't even enchanted them because I've been messing around with trying out other gear as well, but I keep coming back to the regen stuff. Holy moly he's an indestructible beast.
Like, do I even care if nobody wants to take him into a dungeon for gear I might decide isn't as good as his blues?
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Im sorry but the whole "just join a guild" is a bit of a cop out and can be as much if not more frustrating then trying to find a T2 squad that wont kick you or quit on you. Because simply, how can you tell which is a good guild and which is not without having to do the guild to guild hop? And even the you can end up in a guild that's about to go down hill. I've personally been through a lot a guilds do to leveling alts for farming and you just cant tell.
Like the queue system, the guild system allows for too many people with no clue how to run a guild to make guilds. But for example on an alt I was recruited to guild, they were active though very small group. But since that alt was being leveled just for farming I didn't worry too much about it. On my main I was recruited into another guild, again, small but active, But slowly the mains guild became less and less active to the point where I couldn't even ring myself to recruit for it since I seemed to be the only person that still logged in. after about a month I realized that my alts guild was still very active, had grown in size and amazingly had not kicked me for being inactive. So I decided to leave the inactive guild and join the active one. But even now, still cant really rely on them alone to get a T2 run.
Now you may say, well you need to start looking for a better guild. But again, how many jumps do I need to make before finding the right one? The guild descriptions are mostly a wish list of ideas they'd like to achieve so I cant rely on that to know which guild is good. Cant go by the members list since it can be easily inflated by alts. And you cant even really base it runs with people from other guilds because they just be a select group of good players in an otherwise useless guild.
I've seen that first hand with a dread vault run, ended up running with 4 people from the same guild and in all honesty, it was the easiest run I've ever done in dread vault. Hell, I went from being the guy who always topped the damage chart to being the lowest guy...yes, the DC beat my TR in damage. So on that basis alone I could say that this is a guild worth joining except that I've since done a few runs with other players from that guild and they were horrible.
Bottom line is, joining a guild to get T2 runs is about as useful as trying to do T2 runs through the queue system, there is no guarantee that you are going to get what you want.
2) put in the effort to find a nonfail guild
3) put in no effort and instead cry about it on the forums.
You've chosen option 3. You are the problem.
You can't just sit back doing exactly what you've been doing and expect different results. Join a reputable guild, or take control of your groups and form your own, you can't be kicked if you're the leader lol. I don't do it anymore b/c I rarely PvE but I used to friend anyone that was a skilled player and a nice person, once you have a 20 person friend list you can get a group anytime without a guild.
We are definitely dominating, and we are always about to win.
I've ended up throwing together a set of regen blues for my Destroyer GWF (couple life steal pieces in there because that's what dropped). I haven't even enchanted them because I've been messing around with trying out other gear as well, but I keep coming back to the regen stuff. Holy moly he's an indestructible beast.
Like, do I even care if nobody wants to take him into a dungeon for gear I might decide isn't as good as his blues?
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