Using the Looking For Group feature correctly?

[Bandalero]

This has been bugging me forever.

When I use the Looking for Group feature - once I've selected a Dungeon on any of the three available slots then the little green eye pops up on my interface to show that I'm in the queue for whatever I've selected.

However, when I select only Elite quests (Group quests) the green eye never comes up. When I close the Looking For Group GUI, I'm not a queue for anything.

Now when I do a mix, say 1 Dungeon and 2 Group quests, the green eye will pop up.

Are we not able to look for 3 Group quests using this feature? Must there always be at least a Dungeon selected?

[Radhil]

The "queue" and the roving eye thing are all connected to the Auto-Join option. Auto-Join basically slaps the group together without your input, and is only available on the dungeon settings.

Now, you can still set the LFG stuff to a quest. What this will do is put you on the list on the other tab, the Looking For More side, for anybody looking on the same quest/objective. They then have to invite you manually, but they get your name easy. This also happens on the Dungeon selections, it just skips past most of that when Auto-Joining your group.

The sad thing is that no-one uses this LFG stuff at all, and you might as well ask about in General or elsewhere for a group, rather than wait for someone to open that up.

[moopy]

Yep, the LFG tool is a big basic and inflexible- it needs to work a lot better before it gets used to any extent. Generally general (and oddly enough) even trade channels are used to look for groups, it seems.

On a lot of servers, a lot of folks have done a /join LookingForGroup too, which gives you an unofficial channel for that sort of thing.

[sycamore]

Yep, the LFG tool is a big basic and inflexible- it needs to work a lot better before it gets used to any extent. Generally general (and oddly enough) even trade channels are used to look for groups, it seems.
It's trade because the trade channel covers all the capital cities, therefore gives maximum coverage (I know you know that :smiley: ). It's a shame for those who want to use the trade channel for trade, but then it's also a shame for those who found the LFG channel useful.

On a lot of servers, a lot of folks have done a /join LookingForGroup too, which gives you an unofficial channel for that sort of thing.
I've joined /lookingforgroup and /lfg on every server I'm on, when the global lfg channel first went there was a bit of activity in them but now they're pretty dead too.

I think it's a real shame that blizzard dealt with this the way they did. They should have implemented a global chat channel (because some people like it, I never spoke in lfg but enjoyed watching it, especially when grinding) that didn't carry any *important* information, so people who didn't like the chat could opt out, and kept and policed the global lfg channel. For whatever reason, people just don't like the lfg tool and it's failing miserably; fwiw I was actually really looking forward to it being introduced because I thought it would be a perfect solution, but it was too limited and didn't adequately replace lfg.

At the very least they could have sorted out the autojoin system. As it is, it's just as much of a good idea wasted as the meeting stones were.

[moopy]

sycamore,

You're making way too much sense, stop it :)

Yep, lots of obvious improvements.. I personally think the LFG tool would be a lot more useful if you could set class types when LFMming- eg, in one slot you want a tanking class (warrior/pally/STORNG DURID 4 FITE), in another a healer etc. The tool is all but useless when all you get is loads of one type of character (ok, so an all-shammy party can 5-man a lot of things, but you get my point).