How hard is it to add ROTA to the criteria, or a simple free form text field to provide additional content for people looking for parties.
Even when Blizzard implements a system, they don’t put any thought into how users would leverage it. I see more people still using discord because they can’t implement basic features.
Because a simple free form text field would only be exploited to make SB hit for sextillion damage and nerf barb.
No seriously, Blizz will (eventually) realize it’s a ghost town at party finder and either revise or remove it. It’s a good idea, but people who are looking to party up are probably already established on discord for this purpose.
the entire purpose of game emersion is to prevent people from leaving the game to use 3rd party apps to do things. Trading is now a separate website, party finder could be done better to make it an in-game only tool solution.
Not very difficult to implement an in-game party finding system if they spent 2minutes on thinking through the design.
Not to mention how it’s well nigh worthless for finding pit run parties since you can’t join a pit in progress and there’s no way to know when they’re in or out.
I don’t get it. You put up a boss party and people expect a free carry or something? The groups I join, and create, all assume it is a ROTA otherwise why post it.
What are you talking about “ghost town”? I find parties every single day for Infernal Horde, high pit tier runs and boss rotations. Basically 24/7 there are groups available. It’s working perfectly fine IMO.
To the OP, I’m not sure what you’re doing wrong. I find boss rotation groups quickly and easily using the party finder. Open it, click “Advanced Search”, then under the activity drop-down select “Boss Lairs”. Select your torment level and press search. I just did this right now and there are 7 groups available for all different bosses. They have “bring materials” listed as a criteria, so that tells you that it’s a rotation.
If the group’s not terrible Pit 100-105 takes less than 2 minutes. If they’re already in one, go to Cerrigar and stand next to the pit stone for 2 minutes. It’ll ask you to confirm when they go to start another one.
They already realized dark citadel was a gaveyard and had to offer us free candy, i mean mount, to play it. So, maybe they will do something… eventually.
Sadly, that information could have come in handy an hour ago. 
I’ll try that next time tho for sure.
I’ve used group finder pretty heavily last week or so and I’ve had no problems finding geoups. The time of day/night sometimes is a factor though of course. I think they could allow for some additional fine tuning for players being able to include a custom message but it’s better than nothing.
There is already text “Bring Mats” & “Has Material” if you pay attention. If it still does not work, as party leader you can just kick those ignorant random players.
We don’t need a party finder, what we need are game states other than open world that people can just jump in and grind together (get your mind out of the gutter).
The single biggest hurdle in this game is getting to p300 as it will take 100+ hours after you get to end game. No one wants to fiddle with finding and coordinating groups.
Do you remember D2 you’d just hop into and out of Cows or Baal runs as you needed and as your time permits? That was fun.
You’d also get to see crazy builds that people came up with like lv 30 charged bolt or teeth only necro. IDK if they were good solo, but they were fun to watch.
We need to get away from the MMO style of group play and just bring in uncoordinated grouping for the parts of the game that really give the most XP. Helltide and world boss don’t count because their XP is a pittance.
Tell me more about your personal insecurities, I’m intrigued now.
What I said is true. Not sure what you mean. A good group can clear tier 105 in 60-90 seconds.
you mean a good group can clear Pit110+ in less then 30sec,
the party finder things allows ALL players to join even the leechers, imagine people with paragon 100-150 joining for Pit 110+ and auto dying at entrance…
Party finder need filters, I still use Discord for making good parties, since this finder is useless…
They probably don’t add text form for two reasons. 1. To limit the toxicity in it. 2. to limit the spam of gold sellers/rmt. They probably dont want it to be used as an in game AH or RMT seller spam.
This is the team that took 1.1 years to add “ctrl-click now drops items from your bag”.
Rule of thumb: if it can’t be done on a standard controller, the devs aren’t interested, and 80% chance they haven’t even thought of it yet.
The hordes thru finder is really bad. People clearly using real world math that 15 on lords is indeed less than plus 1HB or 2elites, they need to use D4 math. Every single time Lords come up they find a way to get it selected. I also now realize why SB was so OP, most people cant even half way pilot it.
I politely ask at start my compass my picks. If the leader wants to troll, grief etc it is very easy. Like how was a party kick vote not mandatory for content people will try and leach. anyone under 200 paragon in torment 4 is only fighting to stay alive and slowing the group down
If you like watching people with loot fever act up then finder has that in spades.
Tried Party Finder for the first time today and found an awesome team for Dark Citadel. We cleared all three wings on Torment 4 in under 30 minutes!
Are you saying bring mats doesn’t imply a rota cause that’s exactly what it does