With the dawn of patch 3.3, a plethora of new content is now available to keep you distracted from things you should be doing. One of them being cross-realm instancing. If you haven’t used the new LFG tool yet, you should give it a whirl. I’m only writing this because I’ve seen a lot of people asking questions about how the whole system works. So I’m going to try and hit every major problem I’ve experienced so far.
LFG?
First an overview of the interface, which can be accessed by hitting the ” i ” key (assuming you haven’t rebound it).
In Your Face Interface
As you can see, its not very daunting. To start off, indicate the role you wish to serve in a group by selecting one of the three left-most boxes. I like to check the leader box as well, since I’ve had better luck getting groups with it checked.
Why yes good sir, I am perfectly fine with that.
Next decide whether or not you want to do a random heroic or regular dungeon. Each has rewards beyond groups formed by players not using the system, or those selecting the instance they want.
Choose Wisely...
If you choose to only queue for a specific dungeon, you will not receive the additional rewards, and you’ll usually have a longer wait than if you queued randomly. You will see an interface like below, simply select the instance you want and hit join.
Select and Join
You’re almost there! You’ll notice an eye looking back and forth on your minimap. This is the LFG tool minimap icon, and it will tell you things like what role you queued as, average wait time, and if you already have group members, what roles are still needed.
Its Not Rocket Science...
When you get a group you should see this dialogue box pop up.
HUZZAH!
If everyone in your group accepts, you’ll instantly be transported to the dungeon. If someone bails out, you’ll be moved back to the top of the list and receive another group member and then be transported. If your group completes but you get stuck at the loading screen for a while, don’t panic. You’ll see a message like below when you get out.
Don't Panic!
If you receive this message, simply right click the LFG tool’s minimap icon and select Teleport into Dungeon” until you get into one.
Once inside you’ll notice a debuff, this is intended to keep you from copping out and grabbing a new group right away. It lasts 15 minutes, just like deserter.
Don't Be Bad...
You’ll also notice a Buff, to account for people who might suck.
This almost makes up for sucking
When loot drops you’ll notice a new looting option. You can now roll greed on an item and if you win, except instead of receiving the item, you receive what it yields when disenchanted.
I'm Greeding For Shards
And once you’re done, you don’t have to hearth or run out of the instance, simply go back up to the minimap and teleport out of the dungeon.
BUT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE DONE.
LFR?
Open the Raid tab of your Social window and open the LFR tool. It’s not cross-realm, but it works basically the same as if you were to select a specific dungeon from the LFG tool. Only this time you can opt to have a message available to those who are interested.
