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#1 Aug 21 2010 at 7:54 PM Rating: Decent
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... is not so random, for me anyways.

While I haven't kept any stats, I'll just whip some up on the fly, but it seems I always get UK 80% of the time, followed by either Occulus or UP for the remaining 20%. Very, very, very (have I said very yet?) rarely do I get anything else.

While it doesn't really matter much in the big scheme of things, they are all fast badges, it just seems a bit frustrating I guess, or perhaps boring is the right word, to see those same dungeons so often.

Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon?


And yes I know, 90% of all statistics are made up.


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#2 Aug 21 2010 at 8:56 PM Rating: Decent
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I had a friend who had a lvl 80 priest alt. She was angry because she said for the past two weeks the random on priest each day was Nexus. Her priest was decently geared. I assumed she was exaggerating and I did a random wit her priest, sure enough it was Nexus.

My characters get random dungeons, or maybe I just don't keep up with it enough.
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#3 Aug 21 2010 at 10:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Mine are pretty random, for the most part. I wish they had away of making people that need gear from the Heroic ICC 5 mans to get them more often than not as a random. I know that would make things easier for people.

I know, I know, the game is easy enough as it is. But, it makes the game more appealing for the more casual players.
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#4 Aug 22 2010 at 1:48 AM Rating: Decent
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Mine is either UK, UP, OCC, or any of the new heroics (generally H HOR which I despise).

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#5 Aug 22 2010 at 7:37 AM Rating: Decent
9 times out of 10 I get H CoS. With the ability to skip all the talking in the beginning, it's a little less annoying.
#6 Aug 22 2010 at 7:52 AM Rating: Good
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I think it has something to do with some people seeking specific things from dungeons.

When Frozen Halls was released, *most* of my randoms were from H-FH much to my displeasure, as some of my characters weren't geared for it (some still aren't; I haven't done a heroic in months).

Then, I was seeing a lot of Occulus.

And then you got the CoS.

I'm thinking it has something to do with how many people are Q'ing for specific dungeons.

H-FH instances are a given -- 232s drop in there like candy. Someone wanting to score a few easy pieces of gear without having to blow Emblems on them would love to do this for the drops.

Occ, some people Q for that as it is a pretty quick and easy instance these days with lots of bosses. Even without the spoils bag from getting it as a random, it is still a very quick instance for the number of bosses that are actually in there. Lots of emblems for very short amount of time.

CoS, some people want the drake. And it has one of the only 2 purple shields in the game other than the Titansteel Shield Wall (the other is, IIRC, in H-Freaking-HoR).

As for UK, it is the easiest one to get through fast. Nexus, has lots of bosses AND is Easy too, and then UP has the boss count too.

I could see if some of your "WTH is with this so-called randomness!?" thing being influenced by some people Qing for dungeons specifically and you end up in those groups because of that.
#7 Aug 22 2010 at 11:31 AM Rating: Excellent
The Nexus,CoS, DTK are the only 3 I seem to ever get on my DK.

My Hunter gets HoR and Gundrak a lot.

I do wish they were more random -.-

Here is the kills on my DK.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2010 12:40pm by Sandinmygum
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#8 Aug 22 2010 at 1:07 PM Rating: Good
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"I'm thinking it has something to do with how many people are Q'ing for specific dungeons."

It makes perfect sense to me. If a tank or a healer queues for a specific instance, he/she is going to get it instantly (tank) or within a minute or two (healer). The other players just queued for a "random", but ended up in the instance the tank or healer queued for specifically.

UK - super fast and easy
Nex - fast and easy, plus has 5 bosses (badges)
CoS - tanking shield
Occ - extra badges
ToC - lots of purple drops if you're gearing up an alt
ICC five mans - better purps for players who are replacing their "beginning purps"

I can see why these ones might come up more often than some of the others.


BTW: The tanking shield comes from REGULAR HoR. I should know, I ran it dozens of times before it dropped for my pally. Actually it got "ninja-ed" the first three times by dps who didn't have the manly (or womanly) parts to tank it themselves, but were perfectly willing to roll "need" on it even though I always started the instance by saying that was the only thing I needed from the run (but I'm not bitter).
#9 Aug 22 2010 at 1:11 PM Rating: Decent
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I've taken up a new strategy on my fresh DK. I didn't finish the PoS quest chain. I know that HoR isn't the end of the world, but it's just not a fun instance, so if it's taken out of the equation, they can give me whatever dungeon they want.
Oculus is getting pretty damn annoying at this point in time though. For the last three days, it's been my first random heroic.
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