Four of our guild walked into Blackrock Caverns at level 80, still wearing almost entirely LK gear, (prot pally, dest warlock, SP and me healing with resto druid) and had a very enjoyable run in (definitely) under 2 hours. Right amount of trash mobs. Right level of "raid tricks". Couple of on-the-edge fights. Nobody died.


What's wrong here?


(a) Not a PuG

(b) Not heroic

(c) No Leeroy pulls

(d) other: __________

 

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(c) - If you pace yourself, do smart pulls, and CC then these dungeons are a cake walk. If people try to FaceRollPullItAllAndAOELoLzLoLzOMGIAmDead then that greatly increases the time to clear and the gear needed to stay alive.

 

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OMG you must be an elitist jackass because you're talking about the fact that your group didn't suffer any L2P issues!

 

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(d) Other


You are level 80 (81 maybe) so you haven't seen any of the scaling issues. Your spells are still VERY cheap and hit just as hard as they will at level 85. Your gear is exceptional for that level as well I bet. The mobs only hit slightly harder than WOTLK mobs and really the only difference is they have more hps and slightly different tricks.

Try some instances once you hit 85 and see if it is any different from your experience right now. Frankly, I think I may re-activate in a month and see if you can use that freeze level feature on the rest of my 80s and see if that is more fun...

 

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This is exactly it. I ran BRC at 80 on my priest - healing it in my disc smite spec - and had a blast. This compares in no way to healing anything at 85. I wish I had never leveled past 81.

--Sly

 

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Glad to hear it Auen.


Where are Black Rock Caverns? Near BRD? Is that a new dungeon or am I just forgetting it?

 

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I have not done it yet but I believe you need to do a quest to get to it.

kyrv, Caverns is nearer to BRS. 3 o'clock on the outer ring, take a right.


At 80, didn't need a quest to get in (they were provided inside).


And Bremen and Sly, I hear you. Loud and clear. We have concerns for 85. Our gear was not exceptional for 80. On average it was about 260ish. (My druid had a handful of PvP gear as well.) After reading all the posts here, I decided to use my druid to heal to see what it was like, because I knew I would not be priest healing at 85. I was wondering how healing was going to be at 85 as I was going through every encounter.


On the other hand, what stuns me is the rumor that they are already thinking of nerfing one of the regular encounters. (Boss with the quicksilver armor standing by the flame, I think.) Played smart, there was no issue there for us.


I know we are gonna have to step it up for 85 and heroics.


Was just encouraged that our first experience through a Cata instance felt more like an old Dire Maul run.


So, mixed review. And yes, I'm sure you'll hear back once we hit 85. (Given what we are hearing, we're in no rush.)

 

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That 3rd boss in BRC is a pain on heroic sometimes with his timer. You will find out.

 

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I don't doubt that at all.

 

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