LFD – Looking for Dungeon
Patch 3.3 brought about a new way to find dungeons and raids. Acting like a Battleground queue, dungeons and raids are now filled from toons across multiple servers. For the last week I have run a couple dozen of these LFD groups, including runs from all 3 of my 80s, and here is what I have learned:
Not once have I ever grouped with a group where there was more than 1 of each class. (1 warrior, 1 shaman, etc…) I have been told by some friends that they have seen this, but I never have, so if I had to guess I would say the system tries to separate it so that there aren’t peeps rolling on the same items.
For the FIRST daily Heroic dungeon you run, you get 2 Emblems of Frost upon completing the dungeon. For every heroic afterwards, you get 2 Emblems of Triumph. Plus every boss now drops EoTs, there are no more Emblems of Conquest being dropped. So Heroics, OS, VoA, Naxx, Ulduar, etc… are all now dropping EoTs. It is very easy to get these built up now for some really great iLVL 232 and iLVL 245 gear.
If you are 68 or higher, you can also use the LFD system to look for non-Heroic dungeons. The first one of every day will give you 2 Emblems of Triumph. So now you can start storing up your Emblems for when you hit 80 by running 1 LFD dungeon every day. Every dungeon after the first one only rewards cash.
You don’t have to PUG any spots to do LFD. Form a 5-man group of friends, and join LFD as group and let the game pick the dungeon for you. You will see get the credits for the Emblems I’ve listed above.