All anti-RDF arguments are outdated

[Triva-theradras]

@Flexboss-golemagg

1: The big one, cross realm. Makes people toxic in general.
2. The buff, it actively punishes people for playing together.
3. No lockout. It actively punished people from doing dungeons the normal way that have lockouts and no reward.
4. Teleportation to the dungeon. It makes people laze with very little consequences of leaving or being toxic.

1. can be addressed with a simple checkbox or only be active for small servers.
2. The buff can and imo should be removed until 3.3.0 or completely
3. Lockouts before 3.3.0 are necessary, a small but necessary change
4. People are already lazy, usually 3 people wait for their teleport even right now. For the majority of players nothing will change in that regard. I would even argue sitting in town and waiting for the teleport is inherently more toxic and thats reality right now without RDF.

All could be addressed, while the 4th point holds little impact as I just explained.

I already made a topic regarding these changes 2 months ago, and they addressed most of your points. I think I forgot about the 5% damage buff though, that I agree is not needed for the feature and is better off removed.

LFD - the way it should be implemented

Since the discussion regarding LFD is mainly about “yes” or “no”, I would like to point out how LFD could be implemented, in case we get it as a defining key feature for the upcoming classic wotlk. Desired implementation of the LFD tool LFD group building should favor players of one realm Only if a group couldn’t be formed within ~10-15 minutes due to the lack of players queuing on a realm, the search will be expanded to other servers as well this will help keeping server communities toget…

Its clear to me too, that of course its impossible to add a no lockdown RDF early into the expansion. Changes are needed, if its was to be introduced earlier and to offer more choices, like using crossrealm or not, wouldnt hurt anyone. All the effort Blizzard is using to make a new tool thats better off being copy pasted from retail, could have been better invested into making the RDF into something between what you and I describe.