Is it necessary that 2 people need to channel the spell for like 10 seconds per person?
I why can’t a warlock just summon the whole raid with the click of a button? Why make 3 people be present, then 2 people at a time have to summon 1 person at a time.
Given that there isn’t any technical reason, I’m left to assume the rationale is simply to waste the subscriber’s time.
Why should the passage of time IRL speed up or change the summoning mechanic in game? What’s the implied connection here?
We had shorter hearthstones, shorter mailing, and many more. Summoning is just about the only thing not changed in 20-ish years.
and rdf was born!
I don’t remember needing to channel for 10 seconds. We start channeling, someone accepts summons, we start another one. Seems pretty fast. Are people not accepting the summons and that’s why you’re standing around channeling until it times out?
10 seconds may be an exaggeration, I’m not sure I’ve never sat there timing it; but it takes what feel like a significant amount time for the summon go through. It may be a technical limitation, because the time it takes definitely varies.
Bring back have group will travel!! Should never have been removed
Summon will take longer to start channeling if the targeted player is in the middle of loading due to going from one zone to another (ex. taking a portal from Orgrimmar to Valdrakken).
But, once summon channeling starts, it should take a few seconds at most from my experience.
Just teleport to the dungeon. 
“Just use something the majority of players don’t have.”
Summoning a raid 1 by 1 with a summon stone is nowhere near as fast as casting 1 spell that’d summon the whole raid like a LFR queue or timewalking raid queue popping.
The tech is already there. They just don’t give it to us to out of disrespect for our time.
They had it for a little while in Cata and decided being able to instantly move groups of people around to any location in the world was bad for the game
stop being so lazy and just show up to your raid on time
y’all still can’t travel to the instance entrance you want to play after all these years?
Back when I was raiding I was expected to be at the entrance and ready at raid time.
dungeons aren’t any different. If you know what dungeon you want to play, why aren’t you going to the entrance to meet your team?
it sounds like you would like Have Group, Will Travel back.
Personally, I think they should give summons to at least 2 other classes, such as priest or shaman and maybe you can select 2 targets to summon at a time.
All that over a 5-10 second summon?
Because it’s CURRENT YEAR ARGUMENT!
Allow the warlock to summon people by themselves and also give them portals like mages.
I came to find the just teleport 5hed comment. I leave satisfied.
I don’t mind the Warlock teleport. We got a bunch of others from tele rings, dungeon ports, cloaks. That combined with global dragonflying gets you most places pretty easily.
I feel like now with dragon riding everywhere and the large number of portals and items I could get from anywhere in the world to any raid or dungeon in less than 3 minutes.
A max level mage should be able to teleport to selected party member, no matter the distance.