Have you ever went into a dungeon complaining to a Real ID friend about how the healer sucks or how the tank isn’t holding enough aggro, wishing they could join you instead? Now you can with the new Real ID Party feature!

This new feature allows World of Warcraft players to invite their real-life Real ID friends regardless of what realm they play on and queue for a 5-player regular or Heroic dungeon. Inviting a Real ID friend to a group is simple. Just open up your friends list to view which friends are online. Click on the “plus” button to send an invitation to join your group. You can invite up to 5 Real ID friends but can also use the dungeon finder as well to fill in the missing roles.  Any player who is the group leader can invite their real ID friend making it easier to fill the missing roles. 

What is a Real ID friend you ask?

Real ID is a system that battle.net created to be used with people you know and trust in real life such as friends, co-workers and family, to interact with while in-game. Although you can pretty much add anyone you wish as long as you have their email address. To add a friend, open up your friends list, click on “Add Friend”, type in the player’s email and you’re finished. The player will see a pending request in their friend’s list. If they accept, you will become Real ID friends with them. 

There is another feature call “friends of friends” where you can view the friends of your Real ID friend on the friends list. If you know someone on their list, just simply click on their name and press add. They will receive a pending request in their friends list just like your Real ID friend did.

So what are you waiting for? Get online and have some fun with your friends across the realms! No more wishing that they can be alongside you. Have fun and as always, be polite and appropriate while in a group. No one likes a PuG!