shadowrelm wrote:
there are still people playing, 99 percent of whome are in the raiding game. you solo, or double box and you raid. little to nothing else.
Couldn't help but disagree, the population is not 99% raid oriented, I'd believe it to be an exaggeration to even claim 80% was truly raid oriented.
And there is grouping as well, if you can't ever find a group, you are doing something very wrong. There aren't groups just hunting you down as you log on and inviting you, but the slightest bit of effort and you can find a group. The only times finding a group can be a true issue is during the off hours, and if you are still motivated (i.e. building a group yourself instead of standing in pok complaining about no groups being out there to invite you.) you can get groups going even then. So many times there is a perfect group out there just waiting to be formed, but no one to take the lead and actually get the ball rolling.
Use the LFG tool (though way too many forget about it whichs hampers its usefulness), Use the general chat channel(s), head to the hotzones and simply ooc that you are LFG once you arrive. Remember those that you grouped with and wouldnt mind doing so with again.
It isn't hard, at all, I do it all the time when I'm on. I was part of 3 pickup groups last Friday alone. I don't think I have ever had a real challenge in getting a group if I wanted one, unless it was extremely early/late in the day.
And that just addresses pick-up grouping, finding groups/people to go adventuring with is dead simple if you simply find a quality guild, though in my opinion, this is probably one of the biggest reasons pick up grouping is less widespread than in the past. Simply put, people would rather go grouping with friends and guildies that they know and trust rather than play out the risk of grouping with strangers. I'm guilty of doing it at times myself as well.
Anyways, where was I going with this? Ahh, who knows, I'll just end it here...