Group content any good?

[Sternutation]

I have heard that this game historically barely had anything in the ways of dungeons and raids, But I also heard that they have been adding those in recently.

So what is the current state of group content like?

I am basically looking for a MMO with decent co-op, PvP and PvE that isn't WoW or FFXIV. Would this be it?

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

There is group PvP. There is a fair amount of gear capped group PvP with Seasonal servers and then capped node wars. There are also some uncapped group PvP with the high end guilds and players. As to see if you like the combat, that really up to you. Some classes perform well on 1v1 and small scale and suck at large scale and vice versa. Experience is also very dependent on lag and latency issues due to the speed of the combat. If you have 20 ping, its good. If you have 80-100 ping like I do, its pretty awful.

There are some high end group grind spots that are group orientated. There are 3 dungeons so far with a 4th one on the way. I think people enjoy them, but can't say how often that they actually get run. I have never done them myself as I tend to do mostly lifeskills.

The game doesn't have defined roles as do other games as most classes are DPS and there is only one classes that would be considered support and there are few slightly more tanky classes.

[Kuree]

Group content is fairly limited and bare bones when compared to MMORPGs like ESO, WoW, and FFXIV. There are several group grind spots as well as 3 co-op dungeons, although these dungeons are not the typical dungeon from traditional MMORPGs; they are quite bland.

As for PvP, group based PvP is what is primarily offered, ranging from 3v3 equalised gear arena to 300v300 large scale "siege". However, the PvP is now a mere shadow of its once former glory as open-world group PvP is essentially dead.

Basically, Black Desert is a solo game with a small fill of group content. As a new player, you'll most likely be spending the majority of your play time grinding alone.

[WhulfPack]

Group anything in BDO doesn't exist. by "Group" play you are thinking something along the lines of players helping players defeat or achieve the same goal.

All of BDO, all "Group" content is everyone (minus 1) hitting the same thing or charging at the same thing, and then hitting it. There is exactly 1 class that spends it time doing ANYTHING for any other player present. There is no "Threat" table. There is no group heals, there is no "Supoort" classes. The holy trinity does not exist. It's everyone beating the guts out of the same thing at the same time.

If you get low on health, your problem, if the monster starts hitting you directly, your problem. You die, your problem.

In BDO "Group" play basically defines a bunch of people in the same spot.

Shai is the only class in the game with a skillset meant to help anyone else. Even then, it's mostly for PvP.

I have almost 15,000 hrs in the game. Played almost every single class to at least lvl 60. That is how it's always been. There is no "Buffs for everyone" or "Shields for everyone"

Games that do something like that are that way ---->

It is one reason I quit playing. I enjoy support roles. There aren't any in BDO. There might be a slight nod to it in some places, but it's not meant as a mechanic. So like I said. Group play don't exist.

[X3ntra]

Agree, we can't talk here about group content, group content you can find at WOW where you can choose role tank-heal-dps, here you are just dps only with bit of defense and bit of heal that works weird.

Tried Oluns but makes non-sense, 3 people attacking golems that are tanky and much HP but mob hits everyone, dungeons are just werid and rewards are extremely bad, poor scripting without improvements from years. Atleast they added guild bossed even thou are booring at some point but you'll get 1b for 1h run. Game is capped to ~1b (+ - ) garmoth results aren't real for 80% of people.

So answer is no, there are no raids PVE here, you can do few dungeons 5 man or do few grind spots 2-3-5 man, if you are in search of raids / dungeons then WOW is the answer.

[Cocytus]

pfft yea, this game is a MMO in name only, if you take out the little bits of pvp and the horrible group grinding then it's essentially a singleplayer game with p2w mechanics (absurdist cash shop prices), literally required subscription (value pack) and some chat slapped on it.

[Raxer]

Originally posted by Sternutation:

I have heard that this game historically barely had anything in the ways of dungeons and raids, But I also heard that they have been adding those in recently.

So what is the current state of group content like?

I am basically looking for a MMO with decent co-op, PvP and PvE that isn't WoW or FFXIV. Would this be it?

u have the "option" to do group content, but most players that stick around, will stop because it's simply not worth the time/effort compared to solo stuff sadly.

BDO is only good if u like this artstyle, action combat, and the char creation, the rest are mediocre (and I'm honestly sad to say this myself as I have a hard time finding a game to no-life)

[PlaceHolder]

its a heavygrinder, beside pvp group content is guess what, grinding or "dungeon" but the dungeons are a joke compared to eso or wow.

when you are looking for a heavy group content mmo play wow,eso or ff,gw2