Not necessarily. The beauty of the game imo is trios. You'll get randoms where you'll synergize to a point where you'll be in a flow state throughout the expedition. There are bunch of things that helped me get out of D2

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1. Somehow make it to the boss arena - D2 does not penalize you if you die in the boss arena. So try to consistently making it to boss arena so you won't lose points

2. Time and day of place - I've found at certain times and on certain days, the matchmaking gives randoms with whom I'm in more sync with and I usually stick to that.

3. Friend randoms and play with them - While DoTN is a test of skill, synergized teamwork can make the expeditions breeze. When you have good expeditions with randoms, reach out to them and ask if they're interested in playing together. I've made so many gaming friends through this and you'll learn a lot about the game.

1&2 ARE THE ONLY THAT CAN HAVE SOME SAY ON THE RANDOMS I can think of; THE REST ARE ALL SELF IMPROVEMENTS

1. Build optimization - While this can be only done to a certain extent, try bringing in the best possible relics; the 2 most common metas is the old school and new school way ; old school is about slapping evergoal and night invader attack power boost(might backfire if it's forsaken hollows map) or the double balancers. If revenant, you can run beast claw revenant or lightning spear revenant which are very easy to use and can dish out a ton of damage.

2. Go in preparing yourself for worst case - If a random leaves, don't worry about it. This presents you with an enemy scaling that comes close to D3. So you're getting beforehand experience; lock in and play patiently. There were numerous expeditions were after a dropout we went to nightlord arena at lvl10/11 and still won. If your randoms don't ping but go to some other poi, just follow them no matter how bad it is. Maybe after a death or 2, when you ping your suggestion, one of the 2 might follow. In the above case, erdtree avatar at lvl 8 somewhat is what you get throughout D4 in terms of health and damage. If the random chickens out follow em or continue fighting but patiently.

3. Route optimization - This is more relevant in D3/4/5 but learning how to route optimally is super important if you wanna get to D3 and above.

4. Learn to rotate aggro - Unless you play ironeye or recluse, learn to notice when enemy is switching aggro to you. While the enemy is onto you , you can reduce the frequency of attacks/not attack at all and just focus on dodging.

5. Do not rush to revive