Also, yes, people DO care - admittedly, not everyone will, but some do, regarding class and spec. I’ve been turned down/rejected several times for groups because they wanted AoE DPS, not a Warrior.
Gotta love it when someone makes a thread, details a lot of reasons why the current LFG tool is not working (especially for alt leveling) and they are met with the usual list of excuses from the “wider community”.
“Well MY experience was different, so it must be a YOU problem, but a tool/game problem” - check
“Quest EXP is better than dungeon EXP”/“Quests are a better experience” - check
“Muh social experience” (aka spam or whisper players on mass to get group) - check
“Make your own group” - check
“RDF is not a classic experience” - check
Interviews from years ago used as “proof” that things won’t change - check
“Blizzard wants to sell boosts” - check
“Move to a new/high-pop server” - check
At this point all the people opposed to RDF in any form actually have a “Greatest Hits” of excuses and “counter-points” that I can actually checklist the replies to threads like this.
But to support the OP, I recently leveled an alt from 1-80 through TBC and Wrath. I tried multiple times to get groups together for Group Quest or Dungeon content, with 99% of those attempts resulting in having to BEG a Guildie to come and either help kill the mob, or run me through the dungeon. Trying to do either of these things with people of my own level, regardless of server population or people in zone, resulted in nothing getting done.
Yes, I could just skip that content and move on, which I ultimately did, but I wanted to do the content because Group Quests/Dungeon Quests give higher than average EXP and some good gear that helps leveling in the next zone. Believe it or not, even with leveling, World of Warcraft Classic is a Min/Max game. So I’m playing the game the way the developers designed and intended the game to be, but my experience gets crushed because alt leveling has been forgotten with this revamp of Classic.
In a game which already has a lot of changes in it already, why is RDF the hill to which many people seem to want to die on? We already have Auto-PvP tools, Dual-Spec, more Heirlooms than original, etc. So why keep denying this one tool that, if put in correctly, would give people more reason to level alts and keep the cash coming in through subscriptions?
Thanks for the thoughtful and honest reply. You pretty much summed up every argument against RDF that I’ve seen over the past 3-4 months. I’ve invalidated or otherwise proven to be false each and every one of them, and it sort of just goes in a circle.
I’ve actually seen a handful of decent replies here (2 or 3 out of the dozens that consist of what you mentioned) that I intend to reply to.
No Dungeon Finder – Players rediscovering Wrath of the Lich King Classic won’t find the Looking for Dungeon feature originally added in Patch 3.3.5. We’ve heard from our Classic community that the importance of social bonds is a big part of what makes Classic their game of choice, and we agree.