Give me option to join group in progress or not

With the changes to how folks are punished for leaving after a boss kill in raids, I don’t want to join a group in progress if I’m going to be punished for leaving another raid since I missed the the first boss.

Just because a raid is short a person doesn’t mean I should be punished or forced to kill bosses I’ve already beat. This whole system seems clunky.

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Yes, there is no reason for this not to be an option.
Long overdue.

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Adding a button to queue for in progress runs could be a decent solution.

Go a step farther and give satchels for anyone who queues for an in progress LFR/LFG too.

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It was an option years ago. It was removed because nobody would join an in progress group and you would be waiting forever to try and replace people who left.

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A better solution would be to put the best loot on the last boss so people have an incentive to finish the run.

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That basically a live or die option , ppl will choose a fresh one all the time and the in progress ones will die ,

So better hope players don’t leave the group cause you won’t be able to replace them

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Now this is much better idea , an m+ idea. Though this will reduce hte amount of loot you can get , but still waay better

Nobody would ever queue for raids in progress. You think its a good idea until someone leaves your group and nobody ever comes in to fill the spot.

You think you want it, but you dont.

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Giving the last boss the best loot is already a thing, they typically are the ones that have the tier tokens.
That’s not going to solve anything anyway, because people run LFR for transmog, not just upgrades… and nobody is asking to have to spend more time in LFR.

There would definitely be people queing for in progress raids for tier.

The players should be able to choose what they are queing up for, period.

They could also try going FF14 style and let players que for specific boss fights, instead of 2-4 boss wings. I doubt they would go that route but they could.

Here’s the problem.

Every run has people that leave.

If you have the option to not join a run in progress no one will select that option.

So if we have that option every run will be kill the first boss, people leave, everyone sits there waiting for replacements that never show up.

It seems like they do have it set up so you don’t get replacement runs multiple times in a row. So sometimes you do the last boss first.

The problem with the system is that it offloads responsibility for…

Best case — another players misfortune (disconnected, unexpected afk, whatever) which resulted in a kick

Worst case — another players bad behavior (kicked for trolling, bailed on the run, whatever)

TO the player who takes their place in that incomplete run, completes the wing and inevitably has to requeue to kill the bosses they missed out on. This flow then makes them a deserter if they don’t want to kill bosses they are locked to, and the problem perpetuates from there with the next player. And so on.

It’s an insanely stupid way to handle deserter. In the grand scheme, small potatoes but it’s annoying as all get out, hostile UX, and nobody (least of all Blizz) should be surprised that people are cheesed off about it.

This is only going to get more annoying the more wings there are to complete.

The final boss of the wings drop tier tokens. There would be plenty of people that would love to skip the first boss or two for tier.

They tried it and it didn’t work so NO. :person_gesturing_no:

If rewards were lucrative enough it would be fine

When?
Since they added tier sets/tokens back into the game?

Idk why, but I can picture some kid stomping his feet when reading this reply lol. Pretty sure you’re not a developer, so you don’t get to say “no”.

No I’m not but the Dev’s removed the option for a reason and just because you want it doesn’t mean it’s ever going to return. :person_facepalming: :rofl:

I do actually agree with this. I would willingly wait longer to get fresh groups.

Also contributes to why no one tanks. I can’t remember the last time i ran full dungeon. I stopped pugging.