No downside, RDF was my favorite part of the game.
And retail has essentially sucked the fun out of it with Chromie Time. You can’t just run Wailing Caverns or Gnomereagan on retail anymore, Wrath Classic should be where we get to do the old dungeon leveling.
I’ll be fine if they add RDF.
I’ll be fine if they don’t.
The biggest benefits I see adding RDF:
The biggest problems I don’t want to deal with if RDF is added:
I’d be more open to RDF not being cross-realm, but at that point, is it even worth it over the current LFG tool?
Exactly all the evidence shows RDF has no downsides and is a huge improvement for pugging dungeons.
Both of these problems have a solution, you kick the troublemaker and replace them.
Which RDF makes relatively pain free, so ironically these are bigger problems without RDF.
I rarely play retail, but RDF feels soulless. I’ll never see those people again. I won’t talk to those people while we’re playing. I don’t know the guilds they’re in or care. There’s no point in thinking about them. Someone is AFK for more than 10 seconds, and everyone mindlessly votes to boot them, because, why not, there’s an endless supply of bodies to swipe right on and a new person is plugged in like machines. Again, soulless tracks to mindlessly run down.
When I play classic, people message me from the DF tool to ask if I want to run something. Sometimes I remember that person from other runs. When I join, I often recognize people in the pug, or at least their guild names and probably know something about their guild. I might know they’re in that one guild that cleared Sunwell on day 1 or their guild is a leveling guild that I’ve been considering joining with an alt.
Once added, RDF will permanently destroy that social aspect because that’s all people will use. I think most the people that are pushing for RDF are from retail, where all the servers long since died, that have no thriving community anymore. Now they’re already spread across multiple servers, and see no harm in killing something that’s already dead to them.
Yes I know that the point is still flying over your head
If they added an option for people to instantly get that gear no one would get it organically, so that’s why the “don’t have to use it” argument is literal sub-80 IQ nonsense
this is like reading the same post I read back in 2009 by the same body of people that ruined retail and now want to play ruined retail classic.
I actually did end up enjoying non-RDF gameplay as I was levelling a fresh alt. There were a bunch of nerve wrecking PvP encounters at the meeting stones, and then I remember seeing and waving to party members in the capital city a few days later as a I met them going about their day. Those kinds of things add a bit of immersion.
So now I fear they add a cross-realm RDF and this magic will be gone. I wouldn’t mind some sort of local realm bound RDF, teleporting everyone to meeting stones though. I really like that realm-isolated feeling.
It gives into whining on the forums which is never a good thing.
If I join a group through RDF and then leave, wouldn’t I get a debuff?
This is where the current tool is better: find a group, ask if they’re bothering with achievements, they say “yes”, I say “not interested, sorry, GL though!”, and drop group and go back into LFG to find another group.
For the first part, does RDF give protection if 3 of the members are a “pre-made” group? As in, three members from the same guild? I honestly don’t know, which is why I’m asking.
Retail RDF gives you a debuff under certain conditions for leaving. I don’t remember if the original version did.
But if it does you don’t have to use it. People can still make groups themselves.
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what patch we are playing for balancing and tuning doesnt matter when it comes to the features released.
what matters is what phase and if we are going by that RDF would happen phase 4. But possible phase 2 since they might be throwing heroic + out there.
All this argument over a tool that was created so ppl can catch up and join us for a year of ICC.
This persons blacklist must be a mile wrong. Topic after topic this person gets shut down, so they always end it with “lol you must be a troll, ignored!”
It makes classic more like retail. I am so glad it’s not in classic now. And should never be.
I can totally understand how difficult it is for you retail player to do the things in the more difficult way. But the classic project is for old school players who don’t like features like LFD. So get used to it or go back to your retail game.
us retail players use the same LFG tool that was added into wotlk for all of our end game content.
Do you guys think we are doing using rdf for mythic dungeons, heroic raids, arenas, and rbg’s?
We use rdf while we level, which takes less than 8 hours now for 1-max, then it becomes pretty much obsolete and we use the LFG tool exclusively.
Downsides are destroying the community
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