Some of my guildies did take me through the first of the latest instances, and I accidentally got into another when I thought I’d queued for ‘Cataclysm heroics’ and it threw me into one of the new ones instead. So although it was a bit of a trial by fire, I’m actually feeling a bit braver about LFG at the moment.

There are a ton of encounters to remember in 5 man instances though, if you consider all of them. It’s a wonder any of us can, let alone people who haven’t been playing for awhile

Send me your RealID and I’ll give you a good grouping experience.

This is where MoP is headed. VP for dailies, dungeons and challenge modes. Different mixes of solo, group and elite group play. I think is a better solution. Design the game so people will accomplish their goals doing something they are in the mood for, rather than forcing everyone to accomplish their goals in a way they either don’t like or are burned out on.

So now instead of just kicking horrible players, we can tell them to “go back to doing dailies”

I do think it would be easier without cross server queues, and I also think LFG never used to be this bad so things do seem to have gotten worse, to me.

Will keep experimenting over the week, if I have the mental fortitude. Talking about more or less skilled I think obscures the issue, people a) would prefer not to group on content they’re already bored with (and especially not to teach people they consider beneath them) and b) want to get their daily tokens as fast as possible. So if you give people the option to get tokens via solo daily quests, a lot of players (both skilled and less so) will prefer that to having to group with randoms.

Perhaps giving very skilled people stuff to do like Challenge modes, or less skilled people interesting alternatives to LFD like scenarios, farming and pet battles will improve the quality of random PuGs. We’ll have to see.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?589469-GUIDE-In-depth-Guide-to-CKII

You will need to register your game with Paradox to view it, if you haven’t already done so.

Also, Everyone is Rogues. Which given that even the WoW devs admit combo/energy is their best designed class mechanic I’m suprised more people haven’t ripped it off.

The last time I was in WoW, I felt a little bit sad about the state of the game. I logged in and my toon was in Ironforge. I almost immediately had flashbacks of a large crowd of dungeon crawlers standing outside the bank, preparing to go to Blackrock Mountain. I rode to the military district and could almost see the crowds of fighters awaiting their turn for combat in battlegrounds. Heading to the League’s Library I could almost see roleplayers crowding the various shelves and tables, speaking about lore, making up adventures.

*sigh* The game wasnt all that populated so I didnt see that many players (it wasnt empty, mind you, but it wasn’t buzzing). I think all the hub bub is in SW these days. Anyway, great summaries here. You completely nailed the feelings I have about at least these 2 games this week.