[General Gameplay] Would you prefer it if there were more group activities in the game?

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Last Edit : Jun 5, 2023, 06:30 (UTC)

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On: May 22, 2023, 08:59 (UTC), Written by Minarya

1. AP/DP is sadly only one part of the qualifications for the dungeon. I personally would rather have someone with 50 less GS who knows how to communicate and has some info about the mechanics, than someone who is a gear lord but doesnt understand what "stop at 50% HP" means. But since these are qualitative, not quantitative, its hard to measure or gate this. Sadly, BDOs dungeons only work if all members do the mechanics correctly, so even one single person thats inattentive will make it impossible for the whole 5 man group to complete a dungeon. While someone whos undergeared simply needs a bit more attention from the healers / med kits, but as long as they manage the mechanics, the dungeon still works

2. Also already exists with Murrowak. However, as with most BDO content, the lack of adaption is directly related to the low rewards compared to high effort. And thats what is shared for most group activities. The rewards are simply not competitive, so people rather do solo stuff. The easiest fix for having more group content in the game is rewarding everything we already have appropriately, and you would be suprised how things change.

However, as this does not seem to fit PAs design philosophy of making group content "not required", aka too profitable, I wouldn't hold my breath on that happening for a while.

Problem is that if the group content becomes more rewarding, people might flock to these activities that don't require Alt+C'ing. And that is something PA clearly doesn't want to see happening (and no just them). So, while I would love to see Atoraxxion becoming a place you'd like to go daily with your friends for some good drops (weekly dungeon runs are fine, but the lack of any drops from the end bosses doesn't really help in teaming up, since players who already ran it won't find it compelling to just help... well, most players at least).

For the dungeon party finder, I think they could improve on it, if Atoraxxion get more popular. Say, add a counter to the number of runs a player did complete in each dungeon and try to match them accordingly (akin to party matching in AoS based on score).

Not that it's gonna help all the time. Had a few bad experiences with Elvia runners joining us on normal or season and soloing there because they didn't agree with the tactics we were using (tossing a "that's how we running on Elvia" argument) or outright botching mechanics (I'm guessing because that's how they were doing them on Elvia too).