The Dungeon Finder in the Patch 3.3
Dungeon finder is a new dungeon system introduced by the Blizzard in 3.3,why we have this cool tool. Back in the days of “Additional instances cannot be launched,” the servers were set up so that each realm had its own instance server. At least, this is how we understand it, because Blizzard doesn’t exactly share its network layout.
However, before Wrath, people didn’t run that many instances. It was something that guilds did, but not something the general player base got into. When Wrath hit and pugging became the cool new fad, the instance servers weren’t ready for it. To stop the servers from collapsing under the burden of so many instances being run on them, Blizzard implemented a cap on the number of instances that could run at one time. This made instances nice and stable, but very difficult to get into and causing the “Additional instances” problem we all came to know.
That was just a stopgap fix until they could implement their big plan. In order to fix the issue with “Additional instances” they removed all of the instance servers from being attached to a single realm and let them be available to all realms in their battlegroup. Now, if your old instance server was completely full, you just got sent to an instance server that still had slots available on it. Tada, “Additional instances” is now fixed. Again, this is a guesstimation as Blizzard won’t release that info.
This opened up a lot of possibilities for Blizzard. Since your instance servers were shared throughout the battlegroup, that means you suddenly had the opportunity to do an instance with anyone from your battlegroup. All you need is a swank interface and away you go. Okay, we’re oversimplifying, but that’s essentially what they did.
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