These are a couple of tips that have helped me form a good group and that I wanted to share with you. If you want to add more, then please reply to the thread and I'll edit it in later.

1. If you are looking for a group to go to an instance, make sure you click off the Auto-Join option. This will guarantee that you have control over the groups you will join or the classes that join your group.

2. Commentaries box: this is a great field where you can let people know what you currently need or have for a certain quest or dungeon. Ex. if you are a warrior and you prefer to dps instead of tanking, then include this information in the box.

3. Searching for members is easy, go to the LFM tab and select the dungeon/quest that you are looking for more members. You will get a list of everyone that has that dungeon/quest selected. When you mouse over the character's name, you will get a small window that will display the character's information, commentaries, dungeons/quests they are LFG, and a list of group members if they are grouped. This allows you to carefully select the groups that you want to join and the classes that you want to add.

4. When inviting other people, send them a whisper first saying that you want to join or invite them to the dungeon/quest that they are LFG. It is rather annoying just getting an invite out of the blue and not knowing what it is for.



For now, this is all I got but will add more things as people suggest.

I also realize that the tool is not perfect and that it does require additional features to make it better. Instead of just complaining about it, then we should all do something and keep a suggestions thread alive with the ideas that we have to improve on it.

They need to turn off join by default or just rid of it. I think that is the reason why most people don't use it.

Good list!

The tips you listed are exactly how I use the tool. My guild has most toons several levels higher than mine or below mine. I have to PuG a fair bit. LFG tool has worked pretty well for me.

I definitely use the comments block to list my goals for the dungeon (quests, loot, etc.).

I also check the composition of a group inviting me to make sure there's a likelihood of success (not all priests at minimum level for instance - heh).

Definitely need to make auto-join OFF be the default rather than auto-join ON.

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