Dungeon Finder Needed Badly

The game does need a LFG, is trully dissapointing to sit there to beg for somebody to come and do a flashpoint/heroic etc. I usually dont do them due to the lack of this tool. Shame too as they are fun to play.

I agree a cross server Flashpoint finder / Que is needed. I am so tired of flooding general with LFG comments. I sit in the fleet for hours looking for a group. A system like this worked for Blizzard and it made me play WoW again when they implemented the system. I am dumb founded that this would not be the normal thing to add in a MMO especially if your trying to crush the competition. I can say that if something like this is not put into place, I will not be staying with this MMO... the aggravation of trying to find a group is not worth it when there is a simple solution. .. And to those who say join a guild to get the groups.. It never works that way. Unless your the same level as the majority of the guild and in the inner circle your left in the dust as they only are about the content thats available to them. And you could tell me all day long that a good guild helps its members and that is just not the case I have been in plenty of guilds. I dont blame them for wanting to play the content available to them.

i feel the same, it takes too much time to find a group for flashpoints, and i dont have it.

Amen brother

It's been a long while since I've posted to this but anyway, +1 for X-server flashpoint/op finder.

Yet another exciting weekend of trying to get a group.... one day i do hope to see some content other than the 3 war zones over and over again...

How many days until my time runs out? can't happen fast enough at this point.

Straight to the chase. I leveled 1-70 during warcraft's burning crusade phase where there was only a basic looking for dungeon tool, with no queue type system. During this time, I made so many friends and ended up being a guild leader of my own guild just running dungeons and meeting people on my server and keeping contact with them.

During Wrath of the Lich King, when I started on a new server, and they introduced the cross-realm looking for dungeon tool, I started a new character on a different server after getting back to the game. Well, during this time, with the new tool, I leveled 1-80 mostly through the dungeon tool (as a tank), met a lot of seemingly nice people, but made only 2 friends that were actually on my server and able for me to play with. In the end, my experience was largely an anonymous one, with few people to interact with on my server and no potential guild mates, much less a guild of my own to form. Those 2 friends I made were just by chance people I met through the tool that happened to be from the same server as I was. Wrath of the Lich King was largely an anonymity experience and generally destroyed the sense of community on the server. I ended up joining that one friend's guild, where we sold gear for cash for people we 'carried' through content. (Mostly fresh 80s.)

So basically what I suggest is just opening a broad channel that anyone logged onto a looking for dungeon tool, that is not cross realm, for the realm itself, and people can advertise their groups there along with being logged into the system. (In wow, it was /4 LFG > bla bla) That way, people playing on alts can see when a heroic group is forming and so on, while still playing and leveling their alt and in a queue for a low level flashpoint. It would encompass the entire community and not splinter it, as a cross-realm LFD tool will undoubtedly do. It was a bad design choice for wow, but people there don't care and have long stopped caring for such design choices.

Those are just my experiences with both systems, hope it is of some use to the developers. As a side note, the global /4 LFG channel was removed once the cross realm feature was added and was long asked for by the community to have it back, because of the reasons stated above. People on lowbie alts, couldn't see when a heroic raid was forming or a regular PUG raid that they would have wanted to join, while being and playing on their alt.

Overall, I always had something to do in WoW because of Dungeon finder. I could freely go out and do my dailies or quest or level professions or whatever while waiting for the dungeon queue to pop up.

I never understood the big fuss people have with it. It's an OPTION.

If you don't like playing with strangers then form a group with your guild or friends and have at it.

I personally didn't mind playing with strangers. Sure people left at the first sign of trouble and occasionally you'd get the "d-bag" player yelling around but I was fine overall.

I'm just not that sensitive. If people criticized my dps or yelled out cuz I messed up on a boss, oh well. I really don't care what people think and I think that was an advantage when playing with random people.

Please oh please lets get this in the game asap. Currently, after 2 hours of doing dailies there is nothing to do. People sit for hours in fleet doing the semi-naked dance by the cantina. There are no warzones and no chance of getting a group for hm fp. The sooner the devs make this happen the happier the 50 croud will be.

I've always just seen so many good arguments in favor of such a tool, and so few good arguments against.

I don't know...I'm going to be honest here...I'm actually NOT looking to make friends with the people in my group. Because I'm a cantankerous old roleplayer who really only likes to spend my time in game with other roleplayers. But I'm okay spending an hour with a random group of players just so that I can see the content into which BioWare have poured so much love. I've done a number of flashpoints to this point with random groups made the old fashioned way, and nobody in any of them made it to my friends list.

Look, I play this game at odd times. When I'm logging in, most people have gone to sleep. I am a member of a guild that has, maybe, 20+ people around at peak times, but when I'm there, there are maybe three, and often, I'm the only one.

I've got a family and a life and I have limited playing time, and I can't afford to be sitting around at the Fleet all night waiting to fill out a group when I could be going out and adventuring to keep busy.

Basically, anything that helps me to get a group running quickly and while I go about other business would be a very welcome tool.