• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    There’s some rose-tinted goblin welding goggles there.

    Pugs for 5-mans used to be a huge pain in the ass. Especially for lower-level dungeons or for DPS classes (and especially the boomkins, the fury warriors, and the ret pallys).

    Remember spamming city chat, LFG BFD?

    And if you were a warlock, you were expected to run all the way there (remember not getting mounts until 40?), and wait for two other people, so you could summon the last two?

    I haven’t really played much since TBC, or at all since LK. LFG was a huge improvement. It had flaws, for sure…it did break the community a bit, as you said…but it made the game playable for people who didn’t have hours to commit to getting ready for a 5 man dungeon.

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      36 minutes ago

      Everybody has different experiences. For me the game was okay but it was secondary to the friends that I met and played with. That shitty LFG experience pushed people to make and join guilds.

      There’s definitely a way works both ways.

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      3 hours ago

      Yup and if you were on a low pop server or mature one with not many leveling. Forget doing dungeons at all.

      DF and RF have their issues but it wasn’t all fun before.

      As a feral who needed random blues, I spent days trying to get groups for less popular dungeons, just to have the item not drop or get ninja’d