Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:55 pm by nodoze
ormempheus2 wrote:i tried to do CT with just the party of 3, and couldn't get it to start. it said join with current team, and then someone else joined after a while. will i need 5 if I want to do dungeons. if not, whats the trick to start it with fewer than 5?
Were you at the actual dungeon entrance or using the queue system? I am pretty sure you can't start with less than 5 via the queue system but may be able to if you walk up to the door (I am pretty sure I did that with my duo but that was quite awhile back).
Doing skirmishes with only 3 people may be fine but that being said the actual 5 man dungeons are hard enough with 5 real people in them and really hard for a 5 man boxing team unless you are well geared or over geared. I don't know that the dungeons scale down if you go in with less than 5...
That being said you can certainly take a team smaller than 5 to cap and have some success and good experiences. Before NeverBoxer was created I took my GF + DC Duo to cap (I was in the original betas and soft-launch) as my PC couldn't run 5 clients at once very well until the performance tweaks were uncovered so I just did 2 characters initially...
Please report back whether you are able to get in and how things go. I did a few of the 5mans at level with my duo but went though potions and stones to pull it off so after the first few I started doing them after I was several levels higher. Usually I would clear a whole zone and get my duo "Flagged" for the 5 man but then move on to the next zone an only go back after I had completed and flagged for the next zone. Sometimes I would have to go though 2 more zones and be several levels higher to have a chance of completing. Thankfully my guild mates didn't mind me duoing if there weren't 5 real people online and they would join to help me when needed (and I helped many people though their many-dungeons that they could not solo).