I'm sick of the "random" dungeon finder

[kadaan]

I recently hit 80 on an alt and farmed random heroics for a while, and here's my statistics:

3 Ingvar the Plunderer kills (Heroic Utgarde Keep)
3 Keristrasza kills (Heroic Nexus)
3 Anub'arak kills (Heroic Azjol-Nerub)
3 Herald Volazj kills (Heroic Ahn'kahet)
3 The Prophet Tharon'ja kills (Heroic Drak'Tharon Keep)
3 Gal'darah kills (Heroic Gundrak)
2 Sjonnir the Ironshaper kills (Heroic Halls of Stone)
2 Loken kills (Heroic Halls of Lightning)
2 King Ymiron kills (Heroic Utgarde Pinnacle)
2 Cyanigosa kills (Heroic Violet Hold)
1 Ley-Guardian Eregos kills (Heroic Oculus)
1 Mal'Ganis defeated (Heroic CoT: Stratholme)
0 The Black Knight kills (Heroic Trial of the Champion)
0 Devourer of Souls kills (Heroic Forge of Souls)
0 Scourgelord Tyrannus kills (Heroic Pit of Saron)
0 Lich King escapes (Heroic Halls of Reflection)

The order I got the heroics in is:
1. Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom
2. Gundrak
3. Drak'Tharon Keep
4. Utgarde Keep
5. Utgarde Pinnacle
6. Halls of Lightning
7. The Culling of Stratholme
8. Azjol-Nerub
9. Halls of Stone
10. The Violet Hold
11. The Nexus
12. The Oculus


All heroics were done as random, none were queued for directly.
All were queued solo as dps.
All groups were successful clears, and I never left any groups early.
I still haven't gotten ToC or the ICC 5mans (even though I'm able to select ToC and FoS in the dungeon finder, so my gear is high enough.)

[Svpernova09]

You know if that is true maybe use the gear switcher to make everyone naked que up then gear up once you hit the dungeon. Might be a way to get easy dungeons over and over again. Mabye you can find a sweet spot that always puts you in GD or something.

BTW I have been keeping track. I have ran 33 randoms and 17 of them have been ToC.... I hate ToC....

This doesn't work. I've tried a variety of things to "trick" the system, looks like they designed it very well (inorite) It seems to take measure of the gear you have on you, in your bank, and in your bags. Queing up an entire team naked, with gear in the bank, made no recognizable difference in the dungeons selected.

[Fursphere]

It probably caches the highest score you've ever had.

In other news, QQ LESS.

http://www.wow.com/2010/01/05/blizza...bulous-prizes/

Occulus is getting MORE LOOT (+2 badges, 8 total for random run, highest in the game right now) and a chance to drop the blue drake that Malygos used to drop.

Although this only addresses people who auto-bail when they get the instance (I'm guilty myself). It does not address the issues of players completely failing over and over again not being able to grasp the simple concept of the drakes (its three fucking buttons people! come on!).

For us boxers - its still a pain in the ass until you master the five green drake kiting strat.

[Trick]

Even happier that I went to 3-boxing now. I just let the tank and healer, well, tank and heal for Occulus. 3 bronze drakes, and I just keep doing my DPS job.

[Lyonheart]

5 bronze drakes is very easy now...it was easy before, but WAY easy now. watch Moos video!

[Multibocks]

Im too lazy to make the macros.

[Fursphere]

Im too lazy to make the macros.

QFT.

I write too many macros as it is....

[Trick]

Make what macros? I don't use any additional or special macros when I'm on Bronze Drakes.

I just recently realized that keys which the vehicle doesn't override still work in the background. For example, my F1 is a macro to assist the leader and cast Chain Lightning. Well, when on a vehicle the Assist portion still works. Change target, press F1 to make the others assist on my target. Start spamming drake attacks. I thought it was pretty simple once I realized this.

[Multibocks]

How do you time stop on only one drake while the other continue dpsing? See its fine if you want all your guys to mash the same button, but once you introduce a little complexity it requires macros or a new keymap.

[Svpernova09]

How do you time stop on only one drake while the other continue dpsing? See its fine if you want all your guys to mash the same button, but once you introduce a little complexity it requires macros or a new keymap.

When I was trying OCC, I just setup keymaps just for use with the drakes. I had it setup so timestop was on round robin, and I had it setup to where 4 toons where spamming 1, and the 5th was nuking. I never actually got it down, but I had the boss to 15% before whelps ate me. I haven't tried since the nerfs.