Leave My Queue!

Sometimes when I join the LFD system in WoW I get a group and here we all go,ready check time! Oops.. did someone afk? Oh noes, get back in line! Very annoying when I am playing as DPS. It happens when I am healing, though I get another group just as quickly. As DPS it can be another bit of a wait.

Why bother joining if you're not up for the wait. People who queue and go afk, or whatever it is they do, should get a debuff- just the same as deserter. Not the biggest deal in the world but it's quite aggravating some days.Tonight it happened six times in a row. Come on people, stop wasting my time!

I've been playing the Paladin some lately, it's a nice change from healing in heroics. Holy was my main spec but having geared Resto Druid makes it a bit pointless to have another healer. So I am slowly working on more gear for the Paladin. My Ret set is pretty far behind, though I did manage to get the T9 shoulders last night.

It has been fun not worrying about healing the group. I try to push my dps as well as I can, stay out of the bad stuff on the ground and all that jazz. The wait times are a good deal longer now playing on this one but it was to be expected.

Hope everyone has a great weekend and may your queues be short!
-kaozz

LFG (WoW)

I read a lot of blogs, sometimes I have more time to do so than others. I have noticed lately that some people are complaining about the new Dungeon System in WoW. The biggest complaint is the animosity and the impact on being social. I've been one to complain about it to an extent, I don't knock it's efficiency though. I try to keep in mind, whith the good comes the bad.

While some people may say nothing, you may never see them again, how often did you care about the groups you had in the past with the old LFG system or from the trade channel? Honestly at 80 I didn't often meet nice players, thinking back on this, I often met just as many jerks as I do now. LFG with my dps characters was actually much worse than it is now. I couldn't even find a group even on a healer and tank combo at any hour, day or night, I can now. I can actually find groups late night for a change.

There are guilds we can join to have a more social environment. I do remember not being able to do all guild runs because a tank wasn't on, which was annoying. So we spammed trade forever trying to find one. Now you queue up, one is assigned to you. Isn't that nice?

Instead of sitting in a city looking for the group to form up, it's automated for us. Groups are handed out on a silver platter, you get rewards on top of  having a group formed, gold and emblems. Yet we still complain. If it's such a horrible system there is always the option to make your own groups or do guild only runs.

I'm not saying it's prefect. There are still kinks that need smoothing out. But it's the easiest I've ever had to getting groups and I enjoy getting groups fast. While I do miss the social aspect, it was never that great in WoW to begin with.  So what really are we missing out on? 


-kaozz