Rumors on Reddit: Is Blizzard planning a Dungeon Finder for M+?

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@Jito-turalyon

I explained that with a car analogy:

@Jito-turalyon

Let’s say me and my wife have to pick up an infinite number of kids from the school and drive them to our house before we go back to the school to pick up more kids.

Let’s say we drive an old Nissan that has room for 3 kids plus the 2 of us.

Let’s say that each round to pick up 3 kids and drive them to our house and get back to the school to pick up the next batch of kids takes 30 minutes.

Let’s say we have 8 hours to pick up as many kids as we can.

How many kids can Jito and his wife pick up in their old Nissan in 8 hours?

Well, let’s see. That’s 3 kids per 30 minutes, so that’s 6 kids per hour, times 8 is…48!

48 kids!

Now let’s say that the next day Jito and his wife have upgraded their old Nissan to a Ferrari.

It can also hold 3 kids plus the 2 of us.
But the Ferrari is much faster than the old Nissan, so it can do a round in 20 minutes.
So in 8 hours, how many kids can Jito and his wife pick up in the Ferrari?

Well, let’s see. That’s 3 kids per 20 minutes, so that’s 9 kids per hour, times 8 is…72!

72 kids!

The point you’re trying to make is that the way you transport more kids to the house is by getting more cars with more drivers to transport them.
And that is true, that would be the most efficient way.

The point I’m making is that if you improve the vehicle you transport the kids with, then you can also transport more kids, because you’re improving the time factor.

Back to WoW.
The LFG system is effectively just a means of transportation. It puts people into groups and gets them (manually) transported into dungeons.
If you improve the LFG system in any way so that it puts people into groups faster and transports them to dungeons faster, then you get more people into groups OVER TIME.

I also explained it with the total wait time comparison previously:

Jito. Flawed analogy.

A dungeon lasts 40 min. You cant reduce the trip of the car (group) by half. Its 40 minutes. Regardless of what car you use.

The only way is to make more than 1 trip. Make 2 or 3 trips. But if you only have 1 driver, you can only do 1 at a time.

@Jito-turalyon

@Jito-turalyon

Let’s say you have 10.000 players in Group Finder and they all need to get into groups for Mythic+. How long time does it take for all 10.000 players to get into a group? Well let’s say the average wait time is 8 minutes per player, so that’s 80.000 minutes the Group Finder is processing in order to get all these players into a Mythic+ dungeon.

Will an automated queue system be able to process 10.000 players for Mythic+ dungeons faster than the manual Group Finder can? Yes. This is literally what we use computer software systems for. Managing large data volumes and processing them swiftly. People don’t beat computers on processing numbers, and at a large volume players are just numbers. So the average wait time will be lower with an automated queue system by virtue of the volume of data that’s being processed in total.

If these explanations don’t do it for you, then my teaching or communication skills simply aren’t good enough to convey the matter to you.

You dont have 10k players in the quew. You got X tanks. X healers and X DDs who’s sum total is 10k.

The average wait times are not 8 min. Its 8 min for healers/tanks and 2h for DDs. Its proportional to the ratio of tanks/healers/DDs.

SO. If you only have 1k tanks. Then only 3k DDs get to play. All the rest wait in line.

You can optimize those 1k tanks and 3k DDs however you want. Wait times will not be reduced. Because the same ammount of DDs wait in line, for the name ammount of keys available (1k).