Does everyone just skip RFC?

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I rolled a mage, horde-side, and I have all the Ragefire Chasm quests collecting dust in my log. I’ve tried quite a bit, at varying times of day, to find a group for it. But always unsuccessfully. Nobody seems to run it at all, ever. When I do a “/who ragefire”, there’s never anyone in there.

This seems strange to me, because on my Alliance toons, I’ve never had any difficulty getting a Deadmines run – there are constant calls for players to join groups.

Do people just hate RFC? Puzzled…

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There is no good gear in RFC. Your options are to find a high level player that will run you through it or keep leveling until you can do WC.

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Find a group with a 60 mage leveling a guildie or an alt. They’re always happy to have lowbies join because it increases the amount of XP their friend is getting.

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Did you try starting a group? No one wants to LFM over LFG

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Game is dead if you’re not 60. Don’t worry it will die soon for 60s as well.

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I was going to corpse run my way there with some friends around launch date. Then the DDoS attack hit and we gave up on that plan.

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I always take my alts through RFC.

Like someone else mentioned, the gear isn’t worth it but at level 12-13 you can get close to 2 levels from the run and quests.

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Hmm. My server is Grobbulus (RP-PVP) and I didn’t have any trouble finding an RFC group. You might try a PVP server instead of a PVE server if you aim to play horde, just keep in mind that the PVP community is more toxic. I’m not sure if there are any PVE servers with large horde populations.

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I’m always surprised to hear this. I’ve been on ED for ages and it seems super-chill. Of course, I mostly hand with dwarves.

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Rfc just sucks, wc is muuuch better

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I was on ED for years as well and never saw any toxicity. Though this one rogue trailed my druid from shattrath all the way to the alliance town in Nagrand just to kill me back in TBC.

He was a jerk.

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WC is great for exp but ugh, only ran it twice. I ran RFC like 4-5 times.

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it took a day or two but i did eventually catch an RFC group

it was three shamans and two warlocks

between the searing totems and the imps there were so many tiny fireballs flying around, it was pretty awesome

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:roll_eyes: Game has been dead for 15 years.

“How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!”

Which realm is your Horde alt on, Gnorbert? RFC is good once to do the quests, but other than that no reason to. Personally I just prefer to skip it and quest.

Also Deadmines has way better gear than RFC. RFC is a heaping pile of garbage.

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well of course RP servers wouldn’t have trouble finding a group for a low level dungeon

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Deadmines has AMAZING gear and is a fun experience. RFC has crap gear and isn’t remotely fun at all.

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RFC has crap gear, but the quests associated with it give good XP, decent coin, and some non-crap gear rewards at the very end. I try to run it unless I level past it too quickly. In fact, I was just in there earlier today with a shaman tank.

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Had no problem on herod.

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I had no problem finding a group for RFC or any other dungeon. And RFC is a low level dungeon where you get some decent quest rewards at level 14: bracers, pants, weapon.

I think the problem is how you go about looking for a group in the first place. Here’s how I do it:

  1. Do a “/who [low_lvl]-[high_lvl]”. So it would be /who 14-16 for RFC. You can expand the range if you don’t get enough members after steps 2 & 3.
  2. Send a whisper to all the tanks and/or healers in the search results, starting from the highest level. Something like this, “Hi, I’m assembling a group to go through Ragefire Chasm. Are you interested?”. I like to spell out the dungeon because it makes it more real to the recipient. And I ask if they’re interested instead because of you ask “do you want to join?” then they may say no as they might need to consider it for a bit.
  3. Once you get both a tank and a healer, search for DPS roles and add, “we already have tank and healer” to your whispers. They are more likely to join if you already have both those roles filled.
  4. Keep refreshing the /who results as new users may come online.

Copy/paste you message and send to up to 50 people at once. I have never not gotten a group together with this method except once when I tried at 3am server time.

Edit: if you’re a really greedy bastard (like me) you can avoid whisper to those with the same armor class as you. That way, there is no competition for rolls on greens/blues.

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Only noobs run rfc. No gear and world questing is faster at that level