I’m beginning to wonder how much of the angst with the lack of RDF is really just antisocial behavior. Wanting to zip in, watch things fall over, drool over your Details! meter and complain that the queues are too long and if you had free roll tokens and personal loot that item you wanted would have dropped. It would have taken one run instead of seven. But it would have meant less because it was easier to acquire. Difficult things are what made the game rewarding. (/beating dead classic horse)
I don’t think the RDF is going to solve any of your problems. You need to find community and like-minded people to play with and you do that by grouping and communicating. The absolute BEST way of negating the possibility of this occurring is implementing a random dungeon finder. Group with people, invite them out of no where when you see them. If they decline (most will) don’t take it as a slight. Be social, be nice! Kill the opposing faction, ask if they want to do the dungeon daily after you’re finished with your Hodir ones. Add them to your friends list when you’re done. TELL them you had fun and are adding them, they’ll likely do the same thing!
I’m playing with a couple folks that I ran with in 05/06 that I hadn’t played with again until about a year ago. We’re on discord every night grinding heroics and feeding each other crap and having a great time reliving our youth. We’ve compiled a list of a couple dozen randoms we’ve ran with in the past week and from guilds I now know are reliable in my future pug endeavors for raids or PvP further expending community. I pull from this group of players hourly and we’ll even occasionally use the built in LFG system and one of those guys will pop up and immediately realize who invited them. “Oh no not you two again” or “Long time no see” (literally was about 2 hours). It’s so much fun! Eventually they started asking me if I wanted to do specific dungeons.
Adding an instant dungeon finder to add random folks from another server and cutting out that small talk while traveling to the stone or PvPing in front of the instance portal is what will kill your server community in the end. I’m not saying you’re wrong for wanting it, I just want you to know what it is you’re asking for.
Maybe it’s unavoidable on the mega servers? It just sounds so lonely.
Was added as a catch up mechanic a year after Wrath launch. It’s arguable that if you want RDF and other features that spawn from it you’re better off playing DF as that will have it all plus talent trees returning
No RDF encourages people to just quest because it’s not worth bothering setting up a group, and taking the time to drop what you’re doing to summon the 2 guys afking in stormwind. Dungeons are bad exp and most of the time groups don’t spam the dungeon (because it’s bad exp) so all that downtime of getting the group to form, dropping your quests to afk the flight path there, then summon, then run the dungeon is worse than just keep questing.
So, the real solo rpg players are everyone just questing.
