Question about random dungeons

[Redbeard]

The only thing I can think of is maybe theres a higher ilvl requirement to do a random (heroic or not) than to just warp to the instance... so even though you can go to both, having discovered them, youre only good enough for one of them. Just spitballing.

I have discovered throne of the tides. I can go to it through Specific Dungeon, but if i queue for a random dungeon with my group it says "one or more of your party does not meet the requirement".. would be nice if they told me what req i wasnt meeting.

[Mukade]

Blizzards RNG isn't as random as you'd think.

Back in TBC I must have done about 20 runs of VC trying to get Blackened Defias Armor for a hunter twink I was making.

The drops off Van Cleef were very ordered. I got 4-5 of one item, then 4-5 of another, 4-5 of yet another, and then finally I got what I wanted (and probably would have got it again a few times if I'd carried on). I was within the 5 or so runs per hour limit because of how long it was taking me to loot everything (wool selling rather well and it being worth it to pick it all up).

I've seen the same kind of pattern farming other instances, although I haven't done that many runs one after another since.

It seems Blizzard may well be using the time as part of the random seed.

[Sanderu]

I have discovered throne of the tides. I can go to it through Specific Dungeon, but if i queue for a random dungeon with my group it says "one or more of your party does not meet the requirement".. would be nice if they told me what req i wasnt meeting.

If you try queueing for a specific dungeon you can see which dungeons you or one of your group members cannot enter yet. And when you hover over de lock icon in front of the instance you can see which requirement is missing.

That way you might be able to find what you're missing for the random requirement.