Re: LFM use/abuse

[Darkrok]

TBF though, if one sees a private LFM, and it says private, why would you try to hit it?

I'll often send a tell to the private runs and ask them if they expect to be short an arcane, bard, or tank. Having all 3 of those capped at the moment I've had a few times where the private LFM's were suddenly not so private anymore when I asked about their needs.

As an aside, those 'being choosy' raids - they're not so choosy when you hit them up with a pure bard. I think the bar on Bards basically amounts to the following 3 questions:
1) Are they a known idiot?
2) Is their build idiotic (staying pure is a guarantee to get a pass here even if you completely screw the toon up )?
3) Do you have enough hp's? If they myDDO you make sure your hp is a high number. It doesn't matter if your myDDO shows you using a Club of the Silver Flame, if you've got 500hp's you're in.
Obviously bad bards will eventually hit the #1 list. That said, I grouped with someone I don't remember ever grouping with on a recent 'being choosy' ToD. I hit the LFM and was IMMEDIATELY accepted on my 20 pure bard. That's not very choosy.

[Hendrik]

And that's the problem I pointed out first time...private parties on a public LFM panel. I just personally think they do not belong there.

Best of luck on your crusade.

Until Turbine changes the rules, you will continue to see, and I will continue to post, private LFMs for my friends and Guildmates to easily form groups.

Don't abuse the LFM system and decline anyone from joining your LFM either.

[Aeolwind]

Abuse is the LFMs that have...

Looking for a guild ship that has alters.

I don't see this one as a problem honestly. You do have to be grouped to get onto an airship, it saves people receiving blind tells, bothering people that are in quests already, & can help you potentially make a new (for better or worse) friend. My friends and I are fairly off to ourselves, try to stay out of server politics & just kill stuff. The few times we've let folks use our Invasion altar have netted some decent conversation for a few minutes.