The following news post has been brought to you by one of our internal testers:

So you want to find a group and you don't know what to do without a global /LFG channel? Fear not for this guide will help you!

Before we get started the best advice I can give you is to make friends, join a guild and be a part of an active alliance. Being in an alliance will allow you to chat with many more guilds and will help coordinate exp groups, RvR, relic defense and so much more. DAoC is meant to be a social game so make the most of it.

This guide will use the Atlantis skin, but using a Custom UI will result in almost no differences except some layout changes.

Step 1: Opening the LFG Tool
Open your group panel (default 'O') and find the Set LFG button. If you use a Custom UI, your button should still be in the group panel, but it may be located in a different spot.


You will see a dialog like this:


Step 2: Searching for other players and making yourself searchable
Most of the filtering here is fairly intuitive. What filters you set are what you are looking FOR in other players. The only part that other players will see is what you set as your Objective and your Duration. Here are some tips:

a) Battlegroup does nothing and can be ignored.
b) If you don't check "Looking for Players" you won't be able to search for other players nor will they be able to find you.
c) Objective and Duration won't exclude you or other players it just acts as additional information.
d) Clicking on a Class Selection button will ADD all those classes to your filter on top of whatever classes you previous had selected.
e) You can change level by 5 instead of 1 by shift-left clicking the arrows.

If for example you need a tank for your exp group, and your group is level 20-25, you might do this:


Step 3: The results
When you hit Submit button you will set your LFG settings and make a search for other players.
If there are any players that match your filters, a dialog box will open like this:



From here you can click a player and then click the Contact button. Doing this will replace anything you had in your command line with /send NameOfPlayer

If you wish to search again without changing any filters you just have to type: /lfg

That's it! Here are some FAQs:

Again, another good answer to many of these questions is: Join an active alliance!

Q: What if I have a bunch of different characters and I don't care which one I find a group with?
A: In this case your best bet would be to set a wide level range, include all classes, and then send messages to players that you find in that level range that are grouped or solo, explaining what class you have around their level.


Q: What if I'm RvRing but I really want to keep my eyes open for a dragon raid?
A: Just include all levels (see next Q) and look for players that have an objective of Epic Raid.


Q: What if I'm on a low level alt and I want to keep my eyes open for a dragon raid?
A: This isn't uncommon, so set your objective to Epic Raid so other players know you probably have a 50, set the full level range and check with /lfg often.


Q: How come there are options like Master Level and classes that can't be played on Uthgard?
A: Unfortunately this is written into the client and isn't easy to fix so it's a low priority.


Q: How come when I click (Class Filter Button) it selects (Class) which doesn't make sense?
A: Same answer as above.

Once again, thank you to our internal testers for an amazing job, guides like these will hopefully prove useful to a lot of players out there

Your Uthgard Staff.

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another tasty update. thanks, this will help.

What a nice way to bully unpopular classes, just uncheck their box! I still think a realmwide /lfg channel for the pve zones would benefit the servers health & community 100x more. When it's easy to find a group you get to know a lot of people, you add them to your friendslist and might even join their guild. The community improves. Very few people will actually use this lfg window, which means less groups, less players and less community interactions.

And didn't the different starter guilds used to be in one big alliance? That would improve the game for new players without a group so much even without implementing a realmwide /lfg channel.

moha wrote:What a nice way to bully unpopular classes, just uncheck their box! I still think a realmwide /lfg channel for the pve zones would benefit the servers health & community 100x more. When it's easy to find a group you get to know a lot of people, you add them to your friendslist and might even join their guild. The community improves. Very few people will actually use this lfg window, which means less groups, less players and less community interactions.

This is a great feature, so much better and more effective for forming groups than an /lfg channel. Why would no one use this? You don't make any sense. This feature makes it incredibly easy to look for people for your group or to find a group of your own.

A lot of people will use it once they learn it's there.

i remember the classic times... where 30 assassins have been set on lfg and nothing else

poor tim

Ah so that's where to find the Set LFG tool. I was confused when the message said to set LFG in in the UI. I will try using this tonight for sure! Even though as a Paladin people invite me the second I log in.

Wyndhm wrote:Ah so that's where to find the Set LFG tool. I was confused when the message said to set LFG in in the UI. I will try using this tonight for sure! Even though as a Paladin people invite me the second I log in.

Don't worry, this insta invite problem will settle once you go into level 50 rvr as pala.

holsten-knight wrote:

Wyndhm wrote:Ah so that's where to find the Set LFG tool. I was confused when the message said to set LFG in in the UI. I will try using this tonight for sure! Even though as a Paladin people invite me the second I log in.

Don't worry, this insta invite problem will settle once you go into level 50 rvr as pala.

Hehe, statements like that get me curious.

Im from live, so when u say paladin I picture. .....

Shield slammed in the face....then eating a 2 hander to the face

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Kaosfury wrote:

holsten-knight wrote:

Wyndhm wrote:Ah so that's where to find the Set LFG tool. I was confused when the message said to set LFG in in the UI. I will try using this tonight for sure! Even though as a Paladin people invite me the second I log in.

Don't worry, this insta invite problem will settle once you go into level 50 rvr as pala.

Hehe, statements like that get me curious.

Im from live, so when u say paladin I picture. .....

Shield slammed in the face....then eating a 2 hander to the face

Sent from my SGH-T599 using Tapatalk

this is 1.65. palas dont have DET here. which means 40-50% of the fight they will be mezzed or rooted. (out of endu chant range of course.)

Hi elitists.

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Oh and tbh - play the class you like to play, there will be enough room for more then just '8vs8' Rvr.

moha wrote:And didn't the different starter guilds used to be in one big alliance? That would improve the game for new players without a group so much even without implementing a realmwide /lfg channel.

i really like that idea, especially since as someone pointed out to me... basically all the clerics are in the same starter guild

hazelhimself wrote:this is 1.65. palas dont have DET here. which means 40-50% of the fight they will be mezzed or rooted. (out of endu chant range of course.)

I used to have intercept activated :p

I played sub-pally on a pretty good team just before ToA came out : Dext 5 + MoB 5 is quite insane

Chrissi wrote:Hi elitists.

Hi.

new incons are deacivated like maps?