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The original was posted on /r/guildwars2 by /u/kythQ on 2025-06-21 17:22:17+00:00.

TLDR below.

I completely understand that ArenaNet does not want to spend the resources on GW2 right now to completely rework the LFG system. However, what I don’t understand is why they don’t even reorganize the categories of the current system. There are so many fixes to the existing LFG that take at most a couple dev hours (if even that) and would already improve players experience by a lot.

Firstly, from what I can see, there are many categories in the LFG that see no use whatsoever, to the extent that they might literally never lead to a group being created. An incomplete list of examples:

• Mentoring / Adventurer’s Guild.
• Living World Season 1 and 2. (RIBA groups are usually put up in the Central Tyria - Squads category and not here, Tower of Nightmares and Battle for LA are unfortunately dead)
• Central Tyria / Living World. What even is this category and why is it here and not under “Story Journal”?
• The whole Story Journal category alltogether.
• PvP, WvV categories. (I don’t play these gamemodes, but I have never seen anyone use the LFG here.)

Why are they even (still) in the game?

Secondly, there are many categories that could be merged together so that the LFG is clearer and more understandable. For example, the Central Tyria category should just be renamed “General” or something, as it is mostly used for RIBA and Festivals. The Story Journal, Guild Recruitment and Festival categories can then be incoprorated into it.

The general problem with the LFG is that with the exception of some (sub-)categories, most see little use and are usually empty. This falsely leads new players to believe the game isn’t populated and it also makes it harder for players to get together. If you create a group in a category that sees little use (such as Battle for Lion’s Archor or Honor of the Waves) they won’t get filled because people aren’t clicking on these categories.

Thirdly, there are many players (me included) who are open to helping anyone doing virtually any activity in the game. I would love to help any new player clear any core dungeon for example. However, to do that, I would have to open the Dungeon category and then repeatedly cycle through all Dungeon categories until I find an open party. This is annoying.

What they should do to fix that is allow us to select not only the subcategories but also the overarching categories (e.g. selecting “Dungeons” instead of “Ascalonian Catacombs”) and see all the open groups for all subcategories. If they combine this with making the categories themselves more concise it would make it a lot easier to find groups to join and parties would fill much quicker for content that isn’t very actively played.

TLDR: ArenaNet doesn’t need to revamp the whole LFG system. They could already improve things a lot by just reorganizing the existing categories in the LFG to match actual player behavior. Things would improve even more if we would be able to select supercateogires to see all group listing of the subcategories. Doing this should take a dev less than a day and there is no reason whatsoever why this isn’t done.