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    Default I've never thought of doing this!

    Found this little gem on another forum:
    Mate, just do it once, extend your lockout in it every day, and it practically minimizes the chance you ever get it as a random again :P Using this method, I've made Azjol Nerub my daily dungeon 12 out of the last 13 times :P
    Dear god why havent I thought of extending my lockouts on dungeons I hate doing. All that wasted time arrrgh!!!

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    Neat idea.
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    how do you extend the lockout?

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    No shit how?
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    raid tab, click the button and look for each dungeon. Highlight dungeon and click "extend lockout"

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    I tried this in the past, unless something has changed, it doesn't work. the random finder doens't care what you're saved to.

    The only way to impact your random dungeon selection seems to be using and carrying crappy gear to prevent you getting things like HHoR

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hivetyrant View Post
    I tried this in the past, unless something has changed, it doesn't work. the random finder doens't care what you're saved to.

    The only way to impact your random dungeon selection seems to be using and carrying crappy gear to prevent you getting things like HHoR
    The RFD checks your bank/bags as well as I understood, so that wouldn't work either.

    I'm pretty sure extending the lockouts doesn't work, as I've popped repeat dungeons in RFD.
    ...for when one toon just isn't enough...

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    Quote Originally Posted by OzPhoenix View Post
    The RFD checks your bank/bags as well as I understood, so that wouldn't work either.

    I'm pretty sure extending the lockouts doesn't work, as I've popped repeat dungeons in RFD.
    Yup, i know it checks your bag, but I don't believe it checks your bank.

    I'll find the blue post on this subject, brb!


    EDIT: Here we go
    Similar to the gear checks in Battlegrounds, the system will check all of the gear in your inventory.
    And in regards to using lockout, it has some effect but proobably not much unless everyone else queuing has the exact same lockout's:
    No, it's not random. There are some loose gear checks and gear matching systems in place. The Dungeon Finder weights dungeons you've already run a little lower, but then also looks at who is in the queue, what they are in the queue for, and tries to figure out the quickest way to get you inside a dungeon. It's a fairly complicated algorithm that isn't trivial, took a good deal of time to develop, and we're happy with the way it's turned out. Ultimately, it's getting players in dungeons with minimal wait times, but it's not completely random.
    Last edited by Hivetyrant : 07-15-2010 at 01:50 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hivetyrant View Post
    Yup, i know it checks your bag, but I don't believe it checks your bank.

    I'll find the blue post on this subject, brb!


    EDIT: Here we go


    And in regards to using lockout, it has some effect but proobably not much unless everyone else queuing has the exact same lockout's:
    yeah it's not completely random, it favors throwing my priest in HoL or DTK. >.< Could be worse I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hivetyrant View Post
    I tried this in the past, unless something has changed, it doesn't work. the random finder doens't care what you're saved to.

    The only way to impact your random dungeon selection seems to be using and carrying crappy gear to prevent you getting things like HHoR
    That's not the way random dungeon system works. By extending your lockout you reduce the chance that you will get it again. Notice the quote says that he got the same dungeon 12/13 times? It's because it doesn't work all the time.

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