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

[Jito-turalyon (Jito)]

@Gloober-aszune

They can’t make tanks and healers though.

No amount of text walls will distract from the fact you never address this point when it’s presented to you.

I’ve addressed that point in the other thread so I’ll copy/paste:

@Uda-uldum

First and foremost, there IS a shortage of Tanks and Healers.

@Uda-uldum

How would SoloQ solve the issue?

@Jito-turalyon

I’ll try an analogy.

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.

Time!

Time is the factor you leave out of your analysis, but it’s important. The faster the tanks and healers get into groups and the groups get going, the faster they get through the dungeon and become ready for another group and another dungeon run.

That’s where the efficiency of an automated queue system comes from. And frankly any other improvement you can think of for the LFG system that would speed up the group-making process would work to the same end.

It’s how it is for every other game. Overwatch had shortage of support and tanks. It still has that. But it’s less of an issue now because an automated queue system distributes players more efficiently into groups than manual grouping does. It’s why it’s the way of modern gaming in general. Players don’t want to spend time making groups, they want to spend time playing the games. So automated queue systems become popular because they are the best solution to more quickly get players into groups so they can play the games whilst at the same time reducing the burden on the players to make the groups.