Mid 30's Leveling - Dungeon Group

[blizzard]

My guy is Blizzards - 34 Iksar Shammy and I'm into this, but I won't be able to play until Friday.

[Griffball89]

Anyone else play night times all weekend?I sleep during the day for work

[Djinn2112]

35 Shammy IGN Sleestaks. Open to any grouping but especially interested in off the beaten path areas.

[PDX0621]

I may try and set up a Kaesora group tonight, sometime after about 6-7pm PST. My warrior is parked outside and ready to go, and transportation can be provided by my druid. I can be reached in game on any of the characters in my sig.

[Djinn2112]

I'd be totally in for Kaesora tonight. I'll watch for your warrior online and see if you have some room.

[PDX0621]

Happy hour lasted longer than I thought. I'm more than a little buzzed and ready to rock! I'll be online as Bhear, recruiting and hopefully providing transportation for the group, look me up!

[Rinarch]

Just got 30 on my bard, usually on around 8:30ish PM PST feel free to look me up on Lashi

[PDX0621]

Have met a lot of awesome people and made a lot of groups, with help from this thread and in game. However, being the primary "recruiter" for groups is starting to take its toll, and leaving me a little burned out. It often takes 30-40-50 tells to individual players to get a handful of replies to form these groups. Everyone wants to group and exp, but few if any want to help look for others. This leaves me sending out all the tells, trying to pick a location, consolidate everyone, and coordinate transportation. Sometimes it takes 1-1.5 hours to make a group, which often leaves me little time to actually play.

That being said, please feel free to continue to use this thread to look for other players or help forming groups. I think I'm going to take a little time off, join the masses, and get in where I fit in for a while. I can still be reached on here or on any of the characters in my sig. If you need a tank, let me know!

[Riotgirl]

Originally Posted by PDX0621 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

However, being the primary "recruiter" for groups is starting to take its toll, and leaving me a little burned out. It often takes 30-40-50 tells to individual players to get a handful of replies to form these groups.

Everyone wants to group and exp, but few if any want to help look for others. This leaves me sending out all the tells, trying to pick a location, consolidate everyone, and coordinate transportation. Sometimes it takes 1-1.5 hours to make a group, which often leaves me little time to actually play.

That's the rub, right there.

Myself and a couple of players tried this in Live. We grouped in Sol A and had a fantastic time. However, it never really picked-up because co-coordinating interested parties was akin to herding cats.

Fast forward to P99 and inspired by a couple of threads posted in the Intro forum, we have created a GSP [Guild Static Party] that meets at fixed times per week. We now use Yammer to communicate and co-ordinate Guild and GSP activities.

I'd suggest that you use a similar tool and put the feelers out for players to get involved. As you have found, the ratio of players who want to assist coordinating and those who want to group and exp is quite a large differential. It may be an idea to bend the ear of a couple of Guilds and see if you can pull upon their experience and learning in co-ordinating Guild events / raids, to create a check-list of considerations, as well as common issues that you will need to consider.

Do not underestimate transportation and the time it takes to get from one side of the World to the other. One of our Guild members volunteers their time to transport the GSP around (if required) and occasionally baby-sits. I can well appreciate how difficult it would be to co-ordinate a number of disparate players of different races, religions, and locations to actually make it to the agreed meeting spot at a defined time!

Sadly, I'm too low a level and the time-zone is all wrong for me to participate. That said, I'm all for these type of player-led initiatives.

[MikhailLenin]

Hey PDX0621,

First, I also live in Portland. Second, just hit 30 on Druid and have been running into the same issues as you have.

I am usually on around 7pm.

Char name is Iduno