Back after about 6 years

nolf

Dungeons have certainly changed a lot!

I am closing in on lvl 30, and so far every dungeon I've run is just a speed run.  There is no strategy or difficulty, as long as you know where to go.

Is this the case for all of the dungeons, or just the lower level ones?  I ask because I can see how much easier it is to level in the open game world at low levels, and wonder if the lower level dungeons got the same treatment.

Or is this just what dungeon running in WoW is now?

Vrika

It's what the dungeon running in WoW is right now. At max. level there will be exceptions, but everything before that is more or less a speed run if you join through group finder.

dreamscaper

I've ran all of the dungeons up through the first raid in WoD. From what I can tell, strategy is mostly gone from the game, save for a handful of fights.

Rusque

Yeah, game has changed a lot in 6 years. Must've been a pretty big "culture" shock to see it now lol.

nolf

Originally posted by Rusque
Yeah, game has changed a lot in 6 years. Must've been a pretty big "culture" shock to see it now lol.

I won't lie, the shock is ongoing and continual lol.

 

Thanks for the replies all!  At least I know what I'm in for now, I guess.

Sort of

tarodin

I was looking for mmorpg games but i've came back to single player games. Anyway I still looking this website waiting for the GAME... jaahahaha

fivoroth

Levelling dungeons are a joke. Sadly this has been the case since wotlk. People now have heirlooms which are incredibly overpowered during the levelling process. What's even more sad is that max level dungeons are super easy too. The only thing that's not completely devoid of strategy are raids.

nolf

Originally posted by fivoroth
Levelling dungeons are a joke. Sadly this has been the case since wotlk. People now have heirlooms which are incredibly overpowered during the levelling process. What's even more sad is that max level dungeons are super easy too. The only thing that's not completely devoid of strategy are raids.

Yeah I've banged out about 40 levels in 5-6 hours in dungeons.  It's a damn shame.  I can't help but ask myself what I'm leveling at this rate to get to...other than level cap lol.

Some of the most fulfilling PvE in my gaming experience was done in WoW dungeons, but those days are clearly long gone.

Nitth

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Originally posted by nolf
I can't help but ask myself what I'm leveling at this rate to get to...other than level cap lol.those days are clearly long gone.

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Thats how i feel about all theme parks now.

As for wow in particular, if you dont want to raid at "endgame" then there is no point.

nolf

Originally posted by Aori

Unless they nerfed some more stuff, dungeons leveling in WoD were challenging but there was some outcries. Either way 30-60 can turn into a pain in the ass if you get a bad tank or a sleepy healer, its all you really need, dps just speed up the process, though healers have gone oom before if the dps was slow. I've wiped quite a few times in cathedral because of the groups aggro, people get over zealous.. ha.

Dungeons aren't as easy as they were, prior to WoD I could take my heirloom tank and round up half the dungeon without a healer. Now I need a healer for 1-2 groups. I could imagine a non heirloom group having to take their time a bit. I run full enchanted heirlooms so my experience is different.

There was a point where these dungeons were easieri?!?!

 

I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that.  Tonight I went into a dungeon (I'm a resto druid) and our tank dropped out right as we got inside.  One of the DPSs said "fuck it lets see what happens."  You know what happened?

We 4-manned that shit without a tank.

nolf

Originally posted by Nitth

 

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Originally posted by nolf
I can't help but ask myself what I'm leveling at this rate to get to...other than level cap lol.those days are clearly long gone.

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Thats how i feel about all theme parks now.

As for wow in particular, if you dont want to raid at "endgame" then there is no point.

I joined this go around because a buddy/coworker of mine wanted to run 2-man arenas.  I am just a little sad that WoW, which in it's earlier days was arguably kinda easy and dumbed down looks like insane mode compared to it's current incarnation.  I guess the trends really are headed to a more lobby game mentality.

Originally posted by Aori

Originally posted by Nitth

 

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Originally posted by nolf
I can't help but ask myself what I'm leveling at this rate to get to...other than level cap lol.those days are clearly long gone.

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Thats how i feel about all theme parks now.

As for wow in particular, if you dont want to raid at "endgame" then there is no point.

Ya.. they are more or less washing their hands of the world content and small group content. I mean they were talking about working on world pvp and then we got Ashran.. with multi content features such as a PvE raid boss and limited time minigames! I went back into Ashran after almost 2 months away from it only to follow a group around for 2 hours and never have a pvp battle. The 2 factions circled around each other.

I have gone back to my old leveling grounds as I roll up in level in dungeons.  It is not quite as deserted as I expected, but considering I joined a "new player" server, I had small hopes there would be more activity.

I am honestly not even sure what Ashran is, but I'll tell you this, I was out when WOTLK came out lol.  WoW never seemed like a game that was good for open world pvp other than lowbie ganking anyway.  At least to me.

Bladestrom

Originally posted by nolf

Originally posted by Aori

Unless they nerfed some more stuff, dungeons leveling in WoD were challenging but there was some outcries. Either way 30-60 can turn into a pain in the ass if you get a bad tank or a sleepy healer, its all you really need, dps just speed up the process, though healers have gone oom before if the dps was slow. I've wiped quite a few times in cathedral because of the groups aggro, people get over zealous.. ha.

Dungeons aren't as easy as they were, prior to WoD I could take my heirloom tank and round up half the dungeon without a healer. Now I need a healer for 1-2 groups. I could imagine a non heirloom group having to take their time a bit. I run full enchanted heirlooms so my experience is different.

There was a point where these dungeons were easieri?!?!

 

I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that.  Tonight I went into a dungeon (I'm a resto druid) and our tank dropped out right as we got inside.  One of the DPSs said "fuck it lets see what happens."  You know what happened?

We 4-manned that shit without a tank.

lol its a travesty, a child could tell you games are boring without challenge.  Looting is addictive though eh blizzard and bonus children can play it too.  win win for the shareholders, lets ignore the average playing age, we want moneyyyy.