No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

All those issues have been fixed in WoW to a good enough degree that everybody mostly uses the LFD. Is there room for improvement? Course!

Without LFD or server mergers soon this game is going to die on roughly 60% of its servers.

Would you like to give us citations and reliable sources on how you arrived at that 60% number?

If you want to argue your case FOR LFD, use sound arguments instead of creating numbers out of thin air.

There was a 10% drop in server usage just from last week to this one.
Check the stats pages...

There is no need for LFD.

The game is still in its early stages, so there is no need for stuff like flying mounts, dps meters and complex addons for raiding, etc.

Regardless of numbers, it doesn't take much to realize a large amount of NA servers are in trouble. There are various people all showcasing there 'standard' server on the status page but with less then 40 people on the fleet (this is shown the many images that people have taken). The only thing that'll save these servers are mergers and/or a X-LFD. Hell I wouldn't be shocked if 83% of the servers are having population issues.

Instead of a cross server LFG tool would it be possible to make a LFG tool that lets people form groups across alt's of their account, what I mean is a system where you can log into one account and join a queue for a group from any of your character's, when a group is ready to form and you've clicked your popup to join the action it automatically switches you over to the character you queued as and a magic shuttle takes you to the action, when the group is finished then another magic shuttle return's both character's to wherever they were before they joined the group and your free to carry on questing as you wish.

I think this would have several advantages over other LFG tool's, firstly the biggest delay in forming a group with any tool is finding a tank/healer, all the servers in the world isnt going to help if only 10% of the available players are tank's, allowing people to effectively queue up as 3 roles at the same time, albeit across several accounts at different levels could reduce queue time's more than simply allowing more people to wait for the same bottleneck of not enough available tank's

The second advantage is social, because of the Legacy system encouraging people to group across alt's would both re-ignite the leveling game experience and also over time you would begin to recognize good players by their legacy, while its hard to quantify how much of an effect this would have it would definately make people more accountable than any of the never meet again x-server LFG system's

And finally just fun, waiting around for a group is boring even if its only 20 minute's as a dps class, I'd much rather spend that time running around with a low level char killing durni's (where are the durni's anyway!) than twiddling my thumb's waiting for a popup

I can see faults with this, I'm sure it wouldn't be easy from a technical perspective and players turning up with damaged gear or unprepared could be a problem but that could be fixed by sending them to a orbital staging area with a bank/vender/mailbox before they actually jump in the shuttle down to the flashpoint.

Anyhow, I'd be interested to hear what anybody else thinks about this?

Ofc there are no tanks and healers.
Most peeps want to play dps because they dont to cary the responsibility.
If you keep whining about tanks/healer shortage...make one

Plain and simple.

My main is a healer, my next char probably will be a tank, but that's not the point, the point I was trying to make is that a system that allows you to join a queue for a group as a alt could possibly reduce the bottleneck effect more than a x-server system and definitely more than expecting people to re-roll because from prior experience in wow very few people do. Reducing queuing times was only one advantage, other than the advice that I should re-roll do you have any opinion about the actual idea?

My god we are talking about LFD cross server, we are not talking about flying mounts, if u wanna fly use your ship on the rail space missions so imba arent they .
If ppl dont like LFD cross server dont use it, stop all this gibberish talk.
Besides I doubt that the game engine could handle dps meters and complex addons for raiding.

LFD Cross server is need period.

I guess Biodrones gotta drone.

LFD server only, not cross server.
Look what cross server brought to Wow.

afk people
rude people (there always be some but now even more because they arent on the same server)
kick system
kick abuse

bla bla

Why do people always forget that...it gives blizzard a headache