I'm playing on the Sarlona server and I have been in a guild since I resubbed a month and a half ago. I'm level 11, with 1151/1750 favor after a month and a half, and I am on anywhere from 3-5 hours a day.

My goal for my first character is favor first, xp second, and to experience all the content I can in the game, while not having to repeat anything other than to get the favor needed from the quest.

So of course, I can join the Gianthold groups and all the other groups that run the same quests over and over again, but I look for and start groups for whatever is around my level that I still need favor for. I spend hours upon hours during the week doing nothing online, waiting for people to join my group, or a group to start that I haven't done the quest on Elite already.

I'm getting tired of all the waiting around. I'm starting to lose interest and I am unsure if I will resub after my second month is over.

Is anyone else having trouble finding groups on Sarlona?

Is your guild very active? If not, with your playtime you might consider joining a very active guild that has a lot of people on. Maybe that will help you group with guild members.

Surely if you find a very active guild they will have members with your playstyle. Some guilds just don't do PUGS for various reasons.

Have you posted this on the main forums? You could post this in the main DDO forums in Sarlona section and see what people have to say.

Some people in my guild are pretty active. Those that are, are either too low or too high to group with now. Sometimes we have 20+ members on, and other times only 3. At any rate, I wouldn't leave this guild for anything, because they are the largest and most active RPing guild on the server. I've spoke with many people in-game about this and I don't get immature responses or anything. People just prefer to do other high xp quests, that are above their level, while I prefer to do all quests and I make sure things are around my level.

Honestly, the fact that this game is solely a grouping game is what's hurting it. If I cannot find a group, I cannot play. Naturally, people will figure out what is the most efficient quests to do and stick to those, shunning the rest of the content they'v'e done on previous characters before. This is m theory on why I am not getting any takers on the groups I start. Probably because they know something about the quest I do not and are stearing clear of it. Or they are too busy in Gianthold to be bothered with the other quests. Another theory is that a lot of the population left after their month ended after resubbing for the Monk Module.

Not to mention you are probablly the worst point level-wise to find groups. I am afraid it is going to suck until you get up around 13th-14th especially when you are particular with groups.

Haven't played Sarlona so cannot comment on the pop there, I am on Arggo (well and Khyber but haven't played there in awhile) and I am really not having problems grouping.

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Not to mention you are probablly the worst point level-wise to find groups. I am afraid it is going to suck until you get up around 13th-14th especially when you are particular with groups.

Haven't played Sarlona so cannot comment on the pop there, I am on Arggo (well and Khyber but haven't played there in awhile) and I am really not having problems grouping.

I've been hearing I was at a bad point, level-wise, since level 7. Pretty bad when the majority of the levels in-game isn't good for finding groups in a grouping game.

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Not to mention you are probablly the worst point level-wise to find groups. I am afraid it is going to suck until you get up around 13th-14th especially when you are particular with groups.

Haven't played Sarlona so cannot comment on the pop there, I am on Arggo (well and Khyber but haven't played there in awhile) and I am really not having problems grouping.

 

I've been hearing I was at a bad point, level-wise, since level 7. Pretty bad when the majority of the levels in-game isn't good for finding groups in a grouping game.

The problem is a majority of the players have capped characters and with many of us multiple ones. It does make it a little more difficult to get groups due to the xp penalties/cutoffs.

Easiest way is to start your own groups. People will join, don't be as picky about classes you require (there are almost no quests that require any particular class). There are a lot of people out there that do not like to start groups (me included) and wait for other ghroups to start. Also many people like myself will be doing stuff on another character and check the LFM page once in awhile to see if there are any interesting groups for our lowbie characters. 

It may not suit your playstyle or character build, but I found it quite a rewarding experience running quests (few levels lower if required) solo or duo, on the harder settings. The runs are slower and you get to soak up the detail, that is often glossed over grouping in quests.

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Not to mention you are probablly the worst point level-wise to find groups. I am afraid it is going to suck until you get up around 13th-14th especially when you are particular with groups.

Haven't played Sarlona so cannot comment on the pop there, I am on Arggo (well and Khyber but haven't played there in awhile) and I am really not having problems grouping.

 

I've been hearing I was at a bad point, level-wise, since level 7. Pretty bad when the majority of the levels in-game isn't good for finding groups in a grouping game.

 

The problem is a majority of the players have capped characters and with many of us multiple ones. It does make it a little more difficult to get groups due to the xp penalties/cutoffs.

Easiest way is to start your own groups. People will join, don't be as picky about classes you require (there are almost no quests that require any particular class). There are a lot of people out there that do not like to start groups (me included) and wait for other ghroups to start. Also many people like myself will be doing stuff on another character and check the LFM page once in awhile to see if there are any interesting groups for our lowbie characters. 

I'm not sure if you missed it or what, but I said in my OP that I start groups. I don't discriminate against classes or anything like that. First come first serve is my mantra concerning that. The problem is that I get NO ONE that wants to join my groups. I see groups for VON 1-4 a lot lately and Gianthold. At least those are the ones close to my level range. I refuse to do Gianthold yet, because they are level 13 quests and I am only lvl 11. No use in doing content that was meant to give me xp at lvl 13 when I have a lot of lvl 11 quests that I have never done before that can give me xp now. I've done VoN 1-4 already and doing it again would just give me xp. I really want favor AND xp, because I want to unlock my 32pt build.

I've been starting groups on my own since level 3. Up until level 7, they were easy to fill, but that could be because those are the levels people test build or because it was closer to when the Monk Module was released. I continued to start groups from 7-9, but it was hard to fill those. I eventually got through those levels. Now at level 11, it seems like there isn't a population on the servers. But yeah, I start groups on a daily basis, no one joins them anymore, that's the problem.

Originally posted by Dr.Rock

It may not suit your playstyle or character build, but I found it quite a rewarding experience running quests (few levels lower if required) solo or duo, on the harder settings. The runs are slower and you get to soak up the detail, that is often glossed over grouping in quests.

I agree and would do anything that nets me favor. The problem is find a person to duo with.

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Originally posted by JK-Kanosi

Originally posted by Hvymetal

Not to mention you are probablly the worst point level-wise to find groups. I am afraid it is going to suck until you get up around 13th-14th especially when you are particular with groups.

Haven't played Sarlona so cannot comment on the pop there, I am on Arggo (well and Khyber but haven't played there in awhile) and I am really not having problems grouping.

 

I've been hearing I was at a bad point, level-wise, since level 7. Pretty bad when the majority of the levels in-game isn't good for finding groups in a grouping game.

 

The problem is a majority of the players have capped characters and with many of us multiple ones. It does make it a little more difficult to get groups due to the xp penalties/cutoffs.

Easiest way is to start your own groups. People will join, don't be as picky about classes you require (there are almost no quests that require any particular class). There are a lot of people out there that do not like to start groups (me included) and wait for other ghroups to start. Also many people like myself will be doing stuff on another character and check the LFM page once in awhile to see if there are any interesting groups for our lowbie characters. 

 

I'm not sure if you missed it or what, but I said in my OP that I start groups. I don't discriminate against classes or anything like that. First come first serve is my mantra concerning that. The problem is that I get NO ONE that wants to join my groups. I see groups for VON 1-4 a lot lately and Gianthold. At least those are the ones close to my level range. I refuse to do Gianthold yet, because they are level 13 quests and I am only lvl 11. No use in doing content that was meant to give me xp at lvl 13 when I have a lot of lvl 11 quests that I have never done before that can give me xp now. I've done VoN 1-4 already and doing it again would just give me xp. I really want favor AND xp, because I want to unlock my 32pt build.

I've been starting groups on my own since level 3. Up until level 7, they were easy to fill, but that could be because those are the levels people test build or because it was closer to when the Monk Module was released. I continued to start groups from 7-9, but it was hard to fill those. I eventually got through those levels. Now at level 11, it seems like there isn't a population on the servers. But yeah, I start groups on a daily basis, no one joins them anymore, that's the problem.

I understand.  My girlfriend and I play together, both our characters are lvl 15, so we actually have 1/3 of group ready to go.  We often start groups for what we want to do (such as Coalescence Chamber, a shroud flagging quests, that no-one would join last night).

We play late at night  being New Zealanders.   We only have a limited amount of time to play, being very busy people.  So it is very frustrating when we don't get a group, or it takes a long time to get a group.  This happens on semi-frequent basis, probably about 1/4 of the time.

I like that DDO is a grouping game.  I think by being 'forced' to group, the game has developed the best community and group dynamics out of any of the games I have played.  However, in a grouping essential game, every effort needs to be made to make grouping easier.

I believe they should do another server-merge.  So, people who want to the more 'obscure' quests, like yourself, are able to have a bigger audience to pick from.  While people like my girlfriend and I, will have more late night players to play with.

I do know that this maybe unpopular, as most primetime players would have no problem grouping for the quests they want to do.

BoBo

What time do you usually play? My non-pd favor guy is on Sarlona, a 13 dwarven ranger named Hrmph.

And on Tuesday nights you might be able to hook up with the Dancing Dead, It is a group of non-pd alts of members of the Extreme Explorers permadeath guild that plays on Tuesdays and they are currently in the 9-13 level range.

I play everyday. Monday, Tuesday, Thurs and Friday I play  during the day PST (12-5pm). Wed. (12-11pm at most), Saturday & Sunday (12-11pm at most). I think I've played with your character before, because I recognize his name. My character's name is Validorn.

I'm thinking of going over to CoX due to the recent announcement for one, and for two, because I