Hello everyone.
I'm writing this small guide to let players of Sylvanas know that Premade Group is now fixed and fully functional and show people who are unfamiliar with this feature how to use it, as I can see no one is using premade groups and that's pity.
What is Group Finder (Premade Group)?
It is simple feature that will make your life much easier when you are looking for people for your Mythic Keystone, m0 runs (legendary farms), dungeons runs for quests and especially raid runs with no need to spam in world chat.
You can either:
A) Make your own premade group
B) Join an existing premade group
A. Making your own premade group.
1. Press "I" key (by default) and you should see window.
2. Select "Premade Groups" as shown in circle. (click on spoiler)
3. You will see 6 categories in which can be premade groups made. You will want to use Dungeons and Raids - Legion. Depends if you want to make group for raid run or dungeon run. (see spoiler)
4. Choose category you are after and then click on "Start a Group".
5. You'll see new window where you will be able to setup your own group depending on your Mythic Keystone or raid you want to go. (title of group, dungeon, difficulty and item level requirement).
6. After you are done, click on "List group" and you will see window like this:
7. Now wait for players to apply to your premade and you can decide who you invite into your group.
8. After you invite enough players to your group just click on "Delist My Group" and your group is ready for dungeon or raid.
B. Joining an existing premade group.
1. You will start the same way (Press "I" key, select "Premade Groups" and choose category you are interested in, but this time select "Find a Group."
2. You will see premade groups in category you chose (if someone made their own group in that category).
3. If you find group you are interested joining into, click on that group and select "Sign up"
4. After you Sign Up, you'll be asked to choose your role. You can select multiple roles (if you class allows you to) and select "Sign Up" again.
5. Wait for leader of group to decide whether invite you or decline your application to their group.
5a. You can either be:
Invited:
Declined:
6. You can see additional info about premade group if you hover your mouse over it. Small window will be shown.
7. Time to time you will need to refresh list of premade groups as they are not updated automatically. Just simply click on icon in your chosen category.
QUICK FACTS:
1. It's much easier and much more comfortable to use this feature mainly for raid runs as people can search for your group anytime with no need to search for raid's "LFMs" in world chats.
2. You can list your group anytime while you are inside raid, so there's no problem to invite more people during progress in raid.
3. If you choose to set minimum item level requirement, people with lower item level that you have set won't be able too see your premade group.
4. Every premade group has its default minimum item level requirement depending on difficulty, and people with lower item level than default won't be able to see your group, however you can still invite them in normal way.
Dungeons:
Normal: No ilvl required. (Just minimun level 98 for Legion Dungeons.)
Heroic: 810 ilvl
Mythic: 830 ilvl
Any Mythic+ : 840 ilvl
Raid: (Antorus)
Normal: 910 ilvl
Heroic: 930 ilvl
Mythic: 945 ilvl
5. Category "Custom" is usually used for other activies like Sentinaxx in Broken Shore, to invite your friend to group if they are other faction than you, solo group, sometimes to fix phasing issues or whatever you like.
6. If player applies to your premade group with multiple roles, you can choose which role you want to assign to that player by simply cliking on role icon and then invite them.
Thank you for your attention and I really hope this will help people on realm Sylvanas to adapt premade groups and use them on daily basis. Trust me, when you'll get used to it you'll never want to look for people on world chat anymore, only to let them know to check your premade ;-) Share it with others if you can.
Thank you.