The big pre-patch 3.0 for World of Warcraft: Classic is online and once again ended the era of Burning Crusade. The next expansion starts with Wrath of the Lich King, but without the dungeon finder. However, the system that replaced the group search leads to frustration and a lot of spam shortly after launch.
The release of the “new” expansion Wrath of the Lich King (WotLK) for WoW: Classic is still a while away – on September 27th it’s time. But the course is already being set in the game and with the pre-patch 3.0 the first changes came into play and the end of Burning Crusade.
For many readers on MeinMMO, Wrath of the Lich King is considered the best WoW expansion ever. Although, at the very end, it brought a controversial feature to the MMORPG: the dungeon finder.
With the remake in WoW: Classic, the dungeon finder is not coming back into play. But just a few hours after the start of the pre-patch, it seems clear: the replacement system isn’t really working either. The “Looking for Group” tool seems unnecessarily complicated and makes for spammed chats.
If you want to get in the mood for the new Classic expansion, we’ll include the legendary cinematic “The Wrath Gate” here:
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New tool is too complicated – players prefer to spam
What is the problem? A thread on the topic quickly formed on Reddit, which has already collected over 350 comments within 4 hours. Title: “The new LFG tool is total garbage”.
The thread creator “dbcanuck” is noticeably frustrated by the new tool, which is supposed to help find group members faster. However, the problem is that it is much more cumbersome to set up the tool correctly than to quickly post a request in the chat.
In addition, the new group search mechanic restricts access to the group search chat. This is now causing the other chat channels to be full of group search requests, such as trade chat.
If you are looking for all information about WoW: Classic WotLK, you will find it in our big special about the expansion:
WoW WotLK Classic: Release, Pre-Patch, Beta – All information about the new expansion
What’s wrong with the tool? According to dbcanuck, it starts with the operation. You have to do 3, 4 menu clicks to list yourself. A message in the chat, even a repost of this message, would be faster. The user calls it “very difficult”.
In addition, there is a real obligation to play roles: players can register as tanks and then do not necessarily have to play this role. This invites you to disguise yourself as a popular tank and then negotiate with the group.
In this context, many commentators report that the selected role is reset again and again and you have to set it again with every search process. However, this seems more like a bug at the moment.
In addition, the tool had to be updated manually in order to display the latest group searches.
Many players in the Reddit thread are frustrated because there has already been a long beta phase to detect such problems. In addition, the tool is not really new, but rather a revision.
User “Isair81” writes a very appropriate comment: “The reinvention of the wheel… but the wheel is no longer round, it is oval”.
Also leave us a comment with your opinion on the topic. If you’d rather know why the dungeon finder is no longer in the game with WotLK, have a look here: WoW WotLK Classic does without the dungeon finder: “It just doesn’t fit the community”