Comments on: Loving and Hating World of Warcraft’s Random Dungeon Finder

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:24:37 +0000

The more I’ve played with it, the more I agree with you. I do have a major problem with burnout, though, and I seem to be unable to prevent that whether I’m PvPing or running Heroics to grind gear. I think that turns out to be more of an endgame fault more than a dungeon finder one since the problem seems to plague me in any playstyle.

By: Razorsedge

Razorsedge — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:20:36 +0000

tbh, i love this thing i farm the randoms all the time, i love running dungeons, i do all the heroics everyday to grind the emblems. its an amazing feature gj blizz

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:33:03 +0000

I thought they implemented something in the code to make it so that each player in a group had to be geared well enough to enter a dungeon. But I suppose that could be for just the max level Heroics instead of non-Heroics, which would kind of make sense.

I hate to hear that it caused you so much problems, though. I would have thought Blizzard would’ve planned better than that.

By: Kactus

Kactus — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:02:35 +0000

I hate the thing. I can’t use it because it includes hard, non-heroic dungeons that you need to be geared for in the regular random dungeon list and doesn’t tell you. So I caused a whole lot of groups to not work out without even knowing it was my fault! And now I can’t use the thing, not knowing whether I’ll be able to even DO the dungeon it gives me. Not impressed at all Blizzard.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:30:03 +0000

I have to admit that I haven’t been able to use the feature yet due to the fact that my desktop died It looks awesome and I’m very excited about trying it out!
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By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:44:08 +0000

Yeah, it isn’t supposed to do that, but we got put in the same Gundrak instance 3 times in a row! This was last weekend (I don’t have time to really wow during the week because of work ‘n’ such), and surely they fixed that on Tuesday. If not, I’ll definitely be GMing in the next few days.

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:27:03 +0000

I have done the first two. I haven’t tried HoR, though. Casey told me it wasn’t too PuG friendly, and I haven’t been able to find a guild run.

By: Vycarious_Malygos

Vycarious_Malygos — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:58:39 +0000

Have you tried the new 5 mans yet? They’re not as good as the system but at least HoR has an epic feel to it.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:27:34 +0000

Bingo, you got my point. You also reminded me of something else. Due to Moongates, Recall and all the many other options it was so much easier to form a group anywhere or call for help. In fact so fast that using instant messengers like ICQ was forbidden on some private servers.

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:09:41 +0000

I did love how they were part of the world. But I would also go get groups (usually me and two others) and go hunting ancient wyrms in Destard or Balrons in Hythloth.

They really started trying to make it a group game with Champion Spawns, which were great fun in a group, actually.

But I see your point. The idea of a dungeon being a social thing between friends may be on the way out, with guilds raiding being the main place that kind of socialization takes place. And that puts people like you and me out because I can’t make a whole lot of raids.