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Feature request: class request in party finder
gerx03
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 8 Arc User
Requested feature: Give party finder the ability to optionally select preferred classes for each empty party slot
Detailed: Before you queue for a dungeon, you would have a button on the Available Queues screen that brings up a window. On this window you can see your current party setup but you can select what classes you would prefer to find for each slot for the next dungeon. The server will try to find party members according to your request and will only fall back to the original (almost) random setting if there is no possible match in the queue at that time.
Reason:
Now that the shard merge is done we face a problem that - while it existed before - did have a way around.
A not-beginner team does not want to use the party finder because it could get a class that just does not fit in the party setup. While the standard "1 tank, 1 heal, 3 dps" setup for five player mmorpg parties is good, it might not be that simple to just random 3 dps with the queue. In a party that know what's up in a specific dungeon there are most certainly fix ideas on what all 5 player's classes should be.
So what do people do now? Yes, they use the zone chat (or the lfg chat) to find party members. While it's good until a certain point, you have to admit that if you have like 2000 people online at a time then it simply just cannot work. Try reading Protector's Enclave /lfg channel 30 minutes before DD.
So we are stuck again with the party maker but as I said before it has the possibility to just screw up a party even before they arrive to the beginning of the dungeon. Which means that some change has to be made to make it more reliable.
Detailed: Before you queue for a dungeon, you would have a button on the Available Queues screen that brings up a window. On this window you can see your current party setup but you can select what classes you would prefer to find for each slot for the next dungeon. The server will try to find party members according to your request and will only fall back to the original (almost) random setting if there is no possible match in the queue at that time.
Reason:
Now that the shard merge is done we face a problem that - while it existed before - did have a way around.
A not-beginner team does not want to use the party finder because it could get a class that just does not fit in the party setup. While the standard "1 tank, 1 heal, 3 dps" setup for five player mmorpg parties is good, it might not be that simple to just random 3 dps with the queue. In a party that know what's up in a specific dungeon there are most certainly fix ideas on what all 5 player's classes should be.
So what do people do now? Yes, they use the zone chat (or the lfg chat) to find party members. While it's good until a certain point, you have to admit that if you have like 2000 people online at a time then it simply just cannot work. Try reading Protector's Enclave /lfg channel 30 minutes before DD.
So we are stuck again with the party maker but as I said before it has the possibility to just screw up a party even before they arrive to the beginning of the dungeon. Which means that some change has to be made to make it more reliable.
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