This is ridiculous. You can’t really find pug groups for anything anymore.
The two arguments against it hold no weight. First one is “find a leveling guild”. If that’s the answer, then how is a dungeon finder gonna effect you in a negative way?
The other, the elephant in the room. “It will destroy the social part of wow”. Addons did way more damage to that than dungeon finder ever will. Just no one likes to talk about because they use them. Back in beta and launch, almost all the friends I made was from helping and discover stuff together in game. All removed with addons this time around. If blizzard really cared that much, we would have servers that didn’t allow addons.
if your whining about it taking longer than 10 minutes to form a group go back to retail… please
take your impatience with you because players like you who whined non-stop are what ruined the game for a lot of us because blizzard decided to listen to your cries
All it is, is people being powered level through a dungeon. Which is isn’t fun. And there is plenty of discussion of that on the forums. Not a rare unique case that dungeons are hard to find. Bring on the dungeon finder. Put it on just a few servers and I bet most people will flock to it that enjoys leveling.
You can very easily run dungeons by talking to people. Massively easier to run a dungeon if you heal it, or tank it as a warrior. Just because you aren’t willing to socialize doesn’t mean the entire game needs to be ruined for your sake - and it would ruin it. Socialization is a cornerstone of vanilla WoW, and automated queue systems and cross-server everything ruined that.
I’m very social. It would not ruined, as stated addons already ruined the cornerstone of vanilla. I know because I played it back when we didn’t have addons for everything. You have to spamming lfg for hours. then getting a bunch of people who won’t do much more than say “hi”. But a dungeon finder is gonna destroy that? Bring it on.
That is a valid argument and the main draw to play Classic. Classic is easier than the modern game and without the need to socialize and interact with players in the world, Classic’s main strength is gone.
You even admit in your OP that it would hurt the community.
Its not that I think it would “destroy” the social aspect of the game but it would hurt it and everyone knows it. The bottom line is that a dungeon finder isn’t able to do anything that you can’t do yourself. You just need to look in the /who window for players around your level in the zone, then more generally in other zones. Start asking everyone in the level range if they would like to run x dungeon and invite the first five players to reply that fill the needed roles.
Then finding a dungeon won’t be hard. It certainly isn’t for me.
Addons existed back in vanilla, you just didn’t know about that many. Sure, some are new, but most of the really powerful ones are just more polished versions of what they had back then. You give an example of the worst possible case (which also leads me to believe you don’t socialize and network half as well as you claim) to defend a system that didn’t exist in vanilla and that goes directly against the goal of Classic.
The goals have already failed. Everyone knows everything, and adding a dungeon finder isn’t gonna make it worse. Apparently you don’t remember how vanilla was actually social. What we have now is nothing like that.
That’s not at all the intention of Classic. Classic’s goal was to recreate as close as possible to vanilla on the most stable, finished patch. Which is what it did.
Vanilla WoW was definitely more sociable, but I still don’t find it any harder to get a dungeon. In fact, it’s a bit easier with more people at cap and more people knowing what they want in dungeons.
It depends, on the time day and server to be fair. Also people are much more picky on who they bring now as well, and there are much more reserve groups. Personally i find it very hard to get a mage, then i remember use to.
