Since everyone is talking about it, why not throw my two cents in. Just like everyone else I was ecstatic when the tool first came out, and I still am to some degree, but the love has waned. At least for my dps it has.
So here is my experience with it. On Madge, I blazed through the first 3-4 days it was out, doing Heroic after Heroic. I was even becoming an old hand at the 3 newer dungeons that they also added with the patch. I was getting groups left and right with just a few minutes wait. Little did I know that this wasn't going to last. Thought I guess I should have seen it coming. I was so desperate to get my new title and my pug that I didn't even think for a moment that it wouldn't last. After I burned myself on Heroics (I think on the last day I did 12 in one sitting), I sat back and walked away from the computer for a few days ranting to myself how awesome the new tool was, and how it was the best thing since sliced cheese.
When I finally came back to WoW, I decided to let the Mage sit for a while longer. Since my husband was going out of town for about 5 days, I decided it was time to make the push to 80 with my Druid. (When he's gone I find myself driven to level.) So, I played my Druid who was level 71 at the time I started. I had been dual spec for a while, since level 50, and was really enjoying healing so I decided to take her into a few instances to heal, thinking that I could get XP quicker that way than doing quests. It was rough at first, with all the DK's who think they are tanks but aren't, but since I had complete dungeon gear with four BoAs as well, I was good enough even to keep subpar tanks up, mostly. It was fun, and I leveled her this way the entire time that my husband was out of town for, with the exceptoin of a few quests here and there.
Then it happened, I put myself in the queue with my 71 Hunter, thinking that it would be fun to see how I stacked up to all the dps that I had been healing over the last few days. And I waited, and waited, and waited... It seems that the newness of the DF had worn off. Even though I could get groups quickly with my healer, my dps was taking longer and longer to get into a group.
Now, I don't think this is a 100 % bad thing. At least not for dps that is still leveling. I mean, dps have it easier to level by questing and grinding, so I guess I can just do dungeons in between my questing rather than doing questing in between my dungeons which is how I was doing it on my Druid. It's the same way on my Mage, only not as bad, but the wait is still there. I worry that it's going to get worse as time goes on.
I really like the system. It takes all the hastle out of queuing up for a dungeon, and just let's you sit back and wait. When you queue up with four of your friends, you can just select the dungeon you want and boom you are there. There is no more running to the stone to summon. When you are done you get plopped back where you started, very nice. I don't like the fact that there seems to be a timer on kicking someone from a group. When you get into a group, you can't kick someone in the first few minutes. Now, I haven't had the urge to do it many times, but there have been a few. One specific time was when someone in the group used a racist term to describe the race choice of another group member.
I look forward to using the new system and with the exception of a few quirks here and there, I'm not upset with the way it works, but I am a bit worried for how the system will fair in the coming time. Who knows what the situation will be a few months from now, or even how it will look right before the expansion. I have no doubt though that once the expansion hits, groups will become quicker, even for dps, since more people will be coming back to the game.
All in all. I give Blizzard a +1 for the Dungeon Finder.
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