The Dungeon Drop Dilemma

To illustrate a clearer more personal picture, let's color an ordinary, everyday scenario together. Not wanting to get behind on gear, you take some time out of your daily routine and warm up the old WoW box; logging onto your main to que up for your daily heroic. Pressing the find group button in eager anticipation in making some awesomeness happen, you instead groan in dissatisfaction at the average wait time being well over 20 minutes! Feeling rather annoyed, you run around in a circle a few times then head out to do your dailies while you wait for the dungeon to pop. Well after the estimated time has gone by, you hear that faithful(drum roll please) 'DUN DUN DUN'. Finally, the wait is over and your irritation has been relieved! Everyone gets inside together, buffs up, and the tank makes that first faithful trash pull...

But wait! The healer wasn't inside yet, and that one stupid DPS death knight decided to pull some mobs, causing everyone to die. Shrugging your shoulders in determination, you zone back into the dungeon, only to have the tank drop! The pull happy death knight blames the tank and calls him a moron, and then the healer leaves too without notice. Relieved you still have 3 DPS and a position at the top of the line, you decide to reque. After some waiting, you get a fresh druid heals and warrior tank. The healer comments that the tank only has 115K health, not being anywhere near enough to tank this heroic. Being an arrogant Tauren warrior, he pulls without a word. The healer keeps the tank up well enough, and things finally seem to be working again...and then your dead! What the hell happened now? Let's check the charts. Damn, another tank that can't hold aggro! The tank makes a smart ass comment and leaves, followed by the healer and a DPS. Stuck with that original noob death knight as the only one to que with, you press the button and wait for more people. "Sorry bud but I gotta go." says the death knight as he leaves party, pulling you out of que and back at the bottom of the dungeon line. You log off frustrated, not wanting to wait 25 minutes for another fail group.

Now that I've gotten everyone riled up as they think about these painful memories, what is the point? The dungeon finder system is broken. It's sucked since day one of patch 3.3.3, and now it's just as bad, if not worse. There is a lot of potential behind the dungeon finder, Blizzard just needs to modify it so it doesn't operate like it's still in alpha phase for matching up players! Until Blizz will take real action, the wipes will continue, and you won't get anything done. What do you think can be done to fix it, because I sure as hell don't have any suggestions?! Keep queing my friends, the fail pugs are just a 25 minute wait away!

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