Would much rather be playing the game, than sitting in some inn talking to a bunch of rando internet people trying to get some dungeon group together. Dungeon finder is fine as is imo. With it you can be out doing other stuff while waiting in queue. Just use regular group finder op, and list it is meeting at inn at wherever, and bam you have what you want.
The current system makes it simple. Makes it where at least you know someone has gear(ilvl) and experience (m+ score) to achieve what you are trying to. A good class comp for the dungeon and the affixes and you are good to go. Get a guild on a RP server and theyâll do all that other stuff
Devs originally had the âsummon stonesâ as a place designed for people to meet up for what you suggested OP. No one used it for said purpose. They stood in town and shouted till party formed. They eventually changed what they called meeting stones, to summoning stones and let you summon people over. No one wants to be in some palce standing afk to get into a dungeon or LFR. They wanna be questing or wqs or w/e else and fill in the time. This idea would be dead on arrival.
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We had that in the past. It was called the orgrimmar bank for inspection.
It sucked.
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the Torghast as a layout was very cool. a meeting stone and close-by the wings.
a PVE Zone like that would be cool. PVPers have one, in multiple cities.
This would be cool, but the dungeon finder is an extension of blizzardâs attitude towards old content. Giving players easy, zero-effort access to dungeons in previous xpacs is the easiest way to keep them grinding through newer content the rest of the time.
If they could they would absolutely give everyone zero dungeon finder support for old dungeons, but they know it would cause a poop storm.
this ships sailed in wrath.
No. It really doesnât. Players damage the contact and communication between players. If players wanted âcommunityâ so bad, they would create it.
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And they did! With communities and discord. They simply donât do it in wow, as to have better control of whoâs toxic and kick them from the groups.
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So you want a less convenient, more annoying, time wasting way to find groups?
âŠ.nah.
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Yeah this is a cool idea.
A board you click on in the taverns to hook up with other ppl and some tavern minigames while you wait in queue would be so cool.
The problem with the whole spammy thing is ppl just abuse /chat and chat is so horrible in this game.
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Sure, do this on your RP server, that sounds like a blast. However, most people want nothing of the sort.
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We need a more roleplay friendly MMO to come out soon. WoW lost its appeal for such grandoise things
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Iâd rather sit in dungeon finder que doing quests while I wait instead of 2.0 version of classic WoW in a tavern looking for a group for 30mins to an hour to run dungeons and be judged like meat depending on gear if I get in the group or not.
If they remove dungeon finder in retail that would be the last straw for me, but if you want to form groups like classic WoW go for it.
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you have mythic plus and normal plus raids to do your groups - why must all the game be set up where people have to find their own groups?
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tldr: take something that is currently very simple and over complicated.
Yes, this may make sense on RP servers⊠but nowhere else.
eh, take that RP back to the RP servers where it belongs and leave the rest of us to our LFG.
So like sitting in the main city hub like we already do?
Cool idea, but the core audience of LFD/LFR appears to be players who either want a carry, dislike the concept of working co-operatively with other players, or both.
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Back in the day, this was called âIronforgeâ.
The Modus Operandi was sitting in IF, looking for groups, or looking for more for your group. Once you formed up, everyone (mostly) flew/rode/walked to the instance. Heck, I donât even know when we had summoning stones added. I certainly canât recall being summoned to early Vanilla dungeons.
But, this was the way. This was how it was done. In theory, the chat wasnât local, folks could have been in Stormwind, save that noone was in Stormwind. Ironforge was the singular hub, it was closest to most everything.
In Wrath, we did it in Dalaran, pre-Dungeon Finder. This was where you lamented how some of your party didnât have 300 flying yet, as you watched the dots on the mini-map fall behind as the group descended on the dungeon like a group of airborne troops.
Of course we had summoning stones then, but most folks flew anyway rather than everyone just sitting in Dalaran waiting for another pair of the group to go first.
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