I've posted about this before, but.. the problem with Velious dungeons is the scripting that severely punishes sub-optimal groups unless those groups contain over-geared characters (which often defeats the point of running the dungeon in the first place). Nobody should have to have gear better than what drops in a zone to be able to run that zone, but that's pretty much what is required if you have a less than maximum sized group, or a group of six random toons tossed together (a la dungeon finder). I've had two successful dungeon finder groups since it launched. In both cases, we were successful because one or two of the people in the group were actually raiders, whose gear dwarfed everyone else, and who were generous enough to run the dungeons even though they did not need anything from them. That's a pretty darn rare occurrence, and is not something dungeon finder should have to rely on. Since then, my partner and I have been unable to find groups via DF, and have tried to progress through instances on our own, but two appropriately geared players (even with mercs) have very little chance of advancing through the Velious instances, due to the scripting that makes boss encounters infinitely harder than every other mob in the zone. We're not going to SLR just so we can run a zone that, at that point, will no longer provide us with any actual reward. So we're taking some time off and playing a different game that actually lets us advance as a small group.
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