That said, all being well, there will be a new source of enchanting mats on the market, which might make things a little cheaper and more abundant

Most likely it will be like the battlegroup battlegrounds… you can’t trade anything other than conjured goods

Otherwise, i feel that it will fail like all the ”cool idea blizz” things.

When you talked about the old LFG system, i remembered the real old days when you had to go to the summoning stone (wasnt a summoning stone back then, it was there to say that there is an instance here) and click on it, to get queued to that particular instance LFG system. it was messed up.

What really pisses me off, is the Enchanter thing that they will be adding, there will be a greed/need/disenchant thing in the new rolling system, as an enchanter my self, i dont like to ask people to pass on blues to D/E them, i roll greed like anyone else and if i wont it i keep it then D/E it myself to get mats for me.
If anyone asked for it, i will be glad to do it, i just dont want to do it because i have to!

I really hate how Blizz is going with this, and i hope they only do it for lowbies, there will be a massive ninja looting happening and i just hate the idea.

If they really implement it, i won’t use it anymore, Arthas-US is a big server, staying in a major city for 15 minutes will get me in a raid.

Whilst alot of what you say is true.

I plan to use this as an opportunity.

Get trustworthy gnome to hold my goodies. go to freshly minted level 15 on new realm. Get friendly gnome to offer me an invite and then hand over my loot.

New realm without being broke….here i come

After the implementation of cross-server LFG / instance runs, accountability is going to go out the window. At the moment, if you mess up bad, ninja loot, abuse people or otherwise act like a tool in a PuG, you will get remembered. You will get ignored, you will get added to (not)friends lists so people can avoid you in future. Will you be able to add people from other servers to your friends / ignore lists?

With no accountability, comes extra asshattery. It’s like a fundamental law or something along the lines of internet + annonymity = douchebag. In my recent experience I would guestimate about 1 in 6 or so people I pug with are horrible. So most of the time its fine, and when it isnt usually it’s something you can quickly resolve. Will it become that much harder to find and hang onto a PuG of joy with cross server LFG? I think so.

… But there’s more content out there to be pugging aside from just 5 mans. What happens when you pug Ulduar and it all falls apart? How many people are going to try to steal that raid ID and finish it off in different groups? How does that get handled? What happens if someone extends the raid ID of a pugged raid, do the other people find themselves stuck with it next week?

Thinking about pugging raids, how can you easily verify people have the required gear to join your raid if they come from another server? Cross server gear /talent inspections? I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In fact, I expect people will avoid pugging players from other servers whenever possible. I would sooner spam trade and general to pick up the players I need for a PuG than go outside my own server.

What’s next, cross-faction LFG?