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

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:04:33 +0000

Very good summary – I have totally come across this double edged sword problem in my time as a casual WoWer. I dont have as much time to play the game as others and when I do I hope to have fun while doing it… Although the leveling goes super fast with the dungeon finder I’m tempted to avoid clicking it sometimes owing to the number of complete A holes I have met while running dungeons. Like I said I am not a pro with 6 lvl 80 mains hell bent on getting my Worgen to level 80 on the third day of the expansion release – I play this game to have fun, and it is sad to see that the social and interactive elements of this game fall into ruin when a system like this is implemented. I feel almost like I am doing Baal runs in Diablo 2 sometimes – I grew tired of that game long ago, was hoping the same wouldn’t happen with WoW but looks like its heading that way…. to each his/her own I suppose but I think I’ll just stick to reading through quest lines in cold and empty Northrend — maybe I should start playing the Elder Scrolls instead

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:43:26 +0000

try leaving group then get back together. it sounds like you are just teleporting back into the same instance

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!
.-= We Fly Spitfires´s last blog ..EVE Online – Tempting Me Back With A Zephyr =-.

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.