Why RDF hurts the game

I mean. I’m on a server that is 90% alliance 10% horde and only have like 250ish on average horde online.

The LFD tool would be quite nice for people on realms like my own.

Maybe mega servers don’t have this issue, but I mean, I don’t really count mega servers when I think about whats good for the game, people clearly disregard that already by choosing to make mega servers so cleaerly they do not actually care.

The community has always been there if you wanted it. People are already just tossing the idea of it out on the mega servers already. I don’t see why people say “this is gonna kill the community” when people actively work outside of communities and basically treat classic like retail already anyways.

“Facepalm”

Do I need to start pushing for LFR for Wrath again?

Back off the LFD.

Another pointless thread about LFD because “things have to take longer and be less convienent for players for no reason”.

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I’m not saying that RDF is a bad tool, I’m saying it’s too powerful.

Bringing shaman discussion here? Another mediocre druid trying to find worth…

Again, read my post before generalizing.

RDF is better then premade groups. Even if you have a group already, it’s more beneficial to use the tool.

So despite travelling to the dungeon you still have beef with you teleporting inside of it? lol.

I’m confused as to what you’re trying to say?

Yes, RDF teleports people. From anywhere.

I said you could travel and stand outside the dungeon before you queue and your response was that it would still teleport you.

Because it would. What are you trying to say?

No one’s saying it wouldn’t teleport you?

What Im saying is, even if you were to travel to the dungeon and be standing outside the entrance you would still have beef with it teleporting you into the dungeon?

You’re not understanding this I don’t think.

I wouldn’t have a beef with people doing that quite frankly why would I care at all? Although it would seem completely unnecessary at that point, wouldn’t you agree?

Why would someone run to a dungeon if they could have had the same benefit from not running to the dungeon?

It’s an awful feature. But the teleport is not the worst part, IMO. It’s the fact that it’s cross realm. It removes all the social/community-building aspects of group play and removes all incentive for players to be nice to each other and not act like jerks, because there are no longer any repercussions.

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On the flipside, you can meet people from other servers and form a bond that eventually leads you, or them, to transfer servers and raid for years with them. I know this from experience.

Considering the modern state of the WoW “community”, anything that allows us to bypass the LFG channel (a.k.a. the man-child, booster & GDKP channel) is a good thing.

Yes yes, I agree. It’s so much better for the game to fly past the world at 310% speed for 2 minutes and 37 seconds to get from dalaran to my dungeon then it is to simply teleport to the dungeon.

Anyone that disagrees doesn’t know how fulfilling those 2 minutes and 37 seconds of afk flying truly are to the player experience.

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Our server discord has a report section where people can file complaints and blacklist egregious people…

Except less than half the server actually gives a crap about the server discord and some even treat it like a mark of honor to piss off particular guilds. Servers are simply too heavily populated for “bad behavior” to really do much, particularly when the “bad behavior” is easy to spot as a reprisal to other “bad behavior” and no one looks particularly good.

Community-based punishment just doesn’t mean anything when you and your entire guild can flatly ignore what the community does and does not want.

Not the point, but keep going.

What other purpose to dungeon entrances exist with RDF except for running back after wipes? You can effectively avoid ever having to use them again.

Another coward hiding behind an alt yet trying to bash other posters.

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I’m bashing you because you’re a negative person.

Why did you bring up shaman tanking on this thread? Answer that honestly.