PuGs not summoning

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Summoning stones were necessary back in Vanilla and TBC because, in those days, it could take around 100-120 minutes to reach a dungeon. Now, it’s not the Vanilla era anymore getting to a dungeon takes 40 seconds, and if you’re at least an average player, it’s 7 seconds because you have a portal.

I believe summoning stones should be removed from the game. Only Warlocks should retain the ability to summon, specifically for summoning to a particular boss in a raid, so groups don’t fall apart due to long waits.

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Could you provide an example of a dungeon that takes two hours to reach? Or is that a typo?

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Which popular streamers have you seen kicking people from their groups instead of summoning them or telling them to just go to the dungeon?

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They weren’t. If 2 people can get to the instance, 5 people can get to the instance. The only people who should ever have expected a summon were fill-ins.

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How long do you think it takes to travel from the Eastern Plaguelands in the Eastern Kingdoms to Razorfen Downs in the Barrens in Kalimdor in Vanilla? 120 minutes is still considered fast.

Then you’d have to wait for the guy to travel halfway across the continent to get to the ship, and then walk another half of the continent on foot without a mount to reach the dungeon. That was the reality 20 years ago.

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I don’t know why you’d expect a summon when there’s only 1 person at the dungeon with the other 3 randos in dornogol.

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I have, actually.

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Zeppelin from Brill to Org, flight path to Crossroads, ~5-7 minutes on a mount? Where do you get 2 hours?

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Cool story, bro. Who’s going from EPL (a level 55+ zone) to RFD (a level 40-something instance)? And even if your example wasn’t ridiculous on its face, EPL to Wetlands to Theramore to RFD. No way that’s take two hours unless you’re walking because you’re too cheap to spend a handful of silver on flightpaths. And if you’re that cheap, I don’t want you in my group, TBH.

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What mount? There was no mount.

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ITT extremely lazy people trying to justify their laziness with the most inane examples that they can.

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Even without a mount that run from Crossroads to Razorfen is not two hours.

Are you RP walking?

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I’m talking about Vanilla, not your WoW Classic, which started with patch 1.12.

In Vanilla, we had to explain to people in chat how to get through each zone. People died in every zone they passed through. They didn’t have mounts, they had nothing.

You could just as easily say that leveling in Vanilla takes a couple of days because I can level in Vanilla in a couple of days in 2025, but back then it took me six months.

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on foot yeah maybe, mount halves the time and using flightpaths brings it down to a nice cool 20-25 minutesish depending on how long you have to wait for the zeppelin/boat.

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Oneazeroth TV, he’ll kick people that ask for summons.

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OP, your problem is solved by not being the lazy guy who waits in the city for other people to do the work of traveling to the dungeon.

the guy who sits in the city bleating for summons is annoying. don’t be that guy.

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I wish blizzard would just make follower dungeons heroic/mythic this way I never have to group up you guys.

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its a 30-45 second flight to each dungeon on the seasonal rotation. If you either don’t have a dungeon portal or the ability to take 45 seconds to fly over to the dungeon I do not want to be in a group with you anyways. I refuse to summon anyone unless they are the last person to join the group

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I have no idea who that is, but why do you watch them?

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Blizzard should put the summoning stone in the dungeons and raids.

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