Quote Originally Posted by traja View Post
The way WoW handles this very behavior is by putting the remaining group at the top of the queue for a new tank. Usually it won't take more than a few minutes to get one. This is not an unsolvable issue.
Not a fan of that solution:
- If I'm using dungeon to level (items on the side, so it's not unrealistic), I want to fight all of the trash. NOT part done.
- If it's like healer/tank gone and 2 DPS remain, I don't want to join the group only to wait on the other to join.
- If the partial group is bad and I just finished leaving them seconds ago, I don't want put back in that group.

And in case any of the above happens, what's to prevent me from simply leaving and trying again a minute later? Maybe a mechanism to stop that, but wouldn't want to be too horribly draconian with it.

A better thing to do, in my opinion, would just be to make "Join Party in Progress" default on (currently is default off). A lot of people simply don't think to check it. And people who actively don't want it can uncheck of course. That way at least a bit better of chance of re-filling a group. Group without a tank may as well just break up currently -- replacement possible, but extremely unlikely.