Look. Il be brutally honest with you:
I know a ton of players that have 0 issues getting invited. 10 min wait times MAX.
LRF PuG is just like the real world: Imagine that each season, your rio score is your CV. And each time you apply to a key, its as if you send your CV to a company.
Here is a list of things to reduce the wait times (in bold the most important ones):
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Get an addon that tells you WHAT classes are in the group. Your a Pala, and there is a Pala already in the group? 0 chance. Dont bother. Related to this are the buffs you offer. You see they have a DPriest healer and no class that can give BL and you can? Apply. Got more chances. Your a warrior and in a group with DH and Rogue? Your 5% buff is pretty good for melee.
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Change your name to something appropriate. A DH called “IlidanxxMeGaDpSBiGD” does not sound trustworthy or catchy. A pala named: “HammerOfHugs” sounds better. Sometimes you get invited just for your name.
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Are any of your friends russian (as in, the dudes with cyrilic servers / names)? Then tell them to move to an EU server and use normal latin words. Because of comunication issues, people in russian servers have a bad reputation. Unfortunate, but true.
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Follow the process we ALL had to follow: If you did EV in +5, look for EV +6. Not EV +15 cause “your the bomb”. Nobody knows, nobody cares. 1 at a time.
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Create a network. PuG. Sometimes groups are just horrible. Finish the dungeon and GTFO as fast as possible. But other times, the group is just AMAZING. Be quick and offer to do your key, or to do the key-holders +1 or +2 key. And be quick and add people to your friends list. Especially Healers and Tanks.
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Once you have a decent network, first thing you do when you log in is see if there are tanks or healers online on your friend list. Whisper them ASAP to do stuff. And preferentially do stuff with them.
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No healers or tanks online? Find DDs in friends list. Do your keys with 2 or 3 DDs from your friends list that you KNOW. That way its less random not to fail keys.
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Both tanks/healers and DDs are online at once? Try to form a group with them. That way, you are a 3/4 man premade atleast. BEST CASE scenario. Do your key. I can guarantee it will 100% be a timed key. If not, you will still be satisfied with the key. TRUST ME.
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Make a private Discord server and invite people to join you. Not force people, but invite. If people hear your voice, and you introduce yourself, you sound more trustworthy. You bond better, do better networking this way. Also, even if you never see the dudes ever again you have an extra degree of coordination you otherwise would not have in a random PuG. Increases the chances of timing.
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Dont wanna network and do the above?
- Some buddies of mine are DDs while doing premade / raid. However, when they pug, they have 0 pacience to wait times. They tank/heal and play a class that can do that. I began my healing carrer just like that. I mained warrior since 2005. Once I got sick of waiting in LFR I tried tanking. Not my thing. I tried healing with this shaman and loved it.
Now I wait like… what… 1 min TOP to get an invite?
PROBLEM SOLVED.
This is what I would say to the “players” with this attitude: Grow some balls. If THEY dont take cances on others, why would others take chances on them?
Such a selfish attitude. I dont agree with any change that rewards that crapy attitude. Its the PuG world. Sometimes you depleate, sometimes you dont. Its what it is, and you cant change PEOPLE. You can just accept them as who they are. And that is what your friend should be doing, not complaining about wait times.
And if they dont like that, then network harder and make a premade. Or reroll healer. Simple as that.
TLDR: LFR system is a system that works OK. Not the best, but it works.