Luck of the Draw Buff finally implemented

With the upcoming patch 4.0.6, Blizzard will ad a number of changes and tweaks to Cataclysm. In the midst of the work with the patch Blizzard made somewhat of an embarrassing discovery.

Blizzard admin Ghostcrawler writes

"In case you aren't already aware, Luck of the Draw is the name of the buff you get for grouping with random people using Dungeon Finder. It currently provides a 5% buff to damage, healing, and health if you have at least one random player in your group. With patch 4.0.6, we are increasing this buff to 5% damage, healing, and health per random player, up to a maximum of 15%.

In the process of working on this change we actually discovered that the Luck of the Draw buff has not been working in Cataclysm at all, save for a few specific dungeons. This means that the difficulty in almost all normal and Heroic dungeons for those using the Dungeon Finder tool was higher than expected. Still, with that issue corrected in 4.0.6, we feel the bump up to 15% for three or more random players found through the Dungeon Finder is a necessary change."

So to all of us complaining about the Cataclysm dungeons and heroics being too hard - this is one of the reasons.
To read the entire Ghostcrawler news post, check out the link below.