Comments on: It came from the PUG: Sorry, missed the invite

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:35:45 +0000

On my tank, I take a breath or two. On my shadow priest, I make netherweave bags. LOTS of bags…

By: MM

MM — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:13:08 +0000

I quest, gather, do “stuff”, grind rep, AH, dailies, try on clothes, whatever. Sometimes I forget I’m even queued at all. Hearing the dong can sometimes be quite shocking.

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:10:09 +0000

Just play Peggle/Bejeweled in WoW while you wait in the dungeon finder

http://www3.popcap.com/promos/wow/

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:38:10 +0000

Oh that reminds me of the other thing which annoys me. When you zone into a random dungeon and the first thing someone says is, “AFK 5 mins.”

It’s like — wait, you were here to click accept for the dungeon but can’t stay just a few more minutes to actually finish it? Or ‘why did you press accept if you knew you had to afk?’

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:12:36 +0000

Yeah, this. Though one time I was queueing for DPS and needed to go to the toilet, and I still had 5mins left to reach the “average queue time”, and what happens? Didn’t quite manage to hit accept when I got back to see the invite… >_<

By: Mustard

Mustard — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:18:41 +0000

How many times have you zoned into a dungeon for a dps to drop out, and said “Meh, lets just start”. I know I have several times. I have had the same thing happen as Akasza – been in queue, found group, dps declines, healer mysteriously vanishes (same thing when I’m queuing as a healer – the tank vanishes).

Simple solution – if the tank and healer both accept, that should be when people zone in to the dungeon. Afterall, who needs dps anyways

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:28:37 +0000

I thoroughly enjoy queuing as dps on a hybrid because I feel I earned it with all the tanking I’ve done this expansion

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:27:39 +0000

Personally, I’d be happy if it would announce it in the chat window or you could make the whole screen flash a few times. (ie. I’d be able to see it around the edge of the browser.)

I prefer not to have the entire WoW soundtrack on because I might be listening to spotify or chatting to someone.

By: Gronthe

Gronthe — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:14:41 +0000

I go pick flowers or cut rock while I’m waiting. It’s the only real time I ever have to farm. If I’m away from the computer then I’ll turn up the volume, really, really loud so when the LFD thing chimes “ready” I can run back and go clicky-clicky!

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:44:49 +0000

As others have said, you can enable sound while windowed, provided you don’t mind the WoW soundtrack. However, for those of us who don’t have dual monitors, you might get very nervous if your machine takes an extra few seconds to re-render the screen when you hear the announcement and reopen your WoW window.

Personally, I think the system could stand to add a few seconds onto the time to accept/decline and add a second warning noise when time is about to expire. Yes, this means an extra 10 seconds for everyone when that last person is actually AFK, but I think that’s a relatively small price in comparison to booting someone from the queue after 30 minutes because they were a second late to return to their screen and/or didn’t hear the initial sound.