Wotlk instance progression

[Niley]

Started my grind yesterday, did Utgrade almost all the way to 72, then switched to nexus, as i was getting borde :P
Anyway I thought this would be the best ss to put here:

Feel free to ask away if You have any questions about exp, bosses etc


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update 1.
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update 2.
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Update 3.
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Update 4 -lvl 78 instance @74
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Update 5 - Violet hold BM v.2(yes, it sucks just as bad)
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Update 6 - Halls of stone
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Update 7 - Halls of Lightning cleared at 77
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[gigauae]

would be nice to share the strats for UK :D
as some of us are in learning progression, i belive some already did it
good job btw :D

[Niley]

would be nice to share the strats for UK :D
as some of us are in learning progression, i belive some already did it
good job btw :D

there isnt much to UK really.

1st boss,
place my shamans on the side(left or right, doesn't matter), put totems down, use hero, run in with my pally, use all agro abilties i have(hes undead) by the time ads spawn, he's dead

2nd boss
I kill the melle guy first, while having grounding down and chain healing my group...thats all :P

3rd boss
phase 1 is easy, and straight forward, just keep him max distance and faced away from the group, heal when You get hit by aoe.

phase 2
I use heroism before he gets up, once hes up I burn really hard, after 4-5 bolts I chain heal teh group, and use divine prot on the pally, also use lay on hands. Then burn burn burn and chain heal the grp when needed.

[Meathead]

How long did it take to get to 72 and did u do any quest first or go straight to the intsance? Cause i cant quest at all ally ganking and waiting 15mins for a mob to spawn it sucks big time aswell how long did it take per a run? thanks

[Trammel]

Unrested XP/hour for both Nexus/Keep (estimation @ playing reasonably serious)?

More or less viable as 5 dps?

Is the level of gear on your paladin necessary?

[FunkStar]

I've cleared Utgarde keep and nexus as a 5 ele shammy group so far. Been farming first 3 bosses in Nexus for XP (last one is horrible).

I must say, compared to any instances encountered before, these are damn hard! Trash isn't, but the bosstactics are just very multibox unfriendly (or well, 5-dps unfriendly)

UK gives me 6-7% xp per run, nexxus 10% (at lvl 71)

[Deekhay]

Protec Paladin + 3 Elemental Shamn + Resto Shaman
Lvl 70 - Utgarde Keep
Lvl 70 - Nexus
Lvl 71 - Azjol Nerub
Lvl 72 - Ahn'kahet (This was by far the best multiboxing challenge EVER! Thanks again to this community, it was a great gaming moment)

Hardly healing through trash. Going smoothly.

Lvl 73 - Drak'Tharon - Last boss the fight is awesome :) Nice shaman shield!
Lvl 74 - Gun'Drak - Mostly tank and spank bosses mainly those with higher hp, fun instance, got an awesome ring... Lvl 76 oh well...

[Meathead]

The second boss in Keep hurts to hard its the caster that owns my shammys they are only 6khp :( so i cant get passed him. Might have to reset it everytime i get up to him :P

[Drizzit]

The second boss in Keep hurts to hard its the caster that owns my shammys they are only 6khp :( so i cant get passed him. Might have to reset it everytime i get up to him :PThat is what i did when i did UB... I couldn't kill the first boss, so what i did was clear everything around him and then just reset. It took about 20-25 minutes to clear everything before him and i think i was getting about 1.5 bars per run.

[gigauae]

well guess my shamans needs more gear b4 i try that place again, btw anyone noticed that wotlk quest rewards isnt really that gr8, i had tbc armor which was at tbc around average or bellow average, yet i hardly replaced any so far, sone approx 60 quests

[Drizzit]

Yea a lot of people complain about quest in hellfire that give you still that you don't replace until heroic/raids. This is why they didn't do in the wrath. They also said that equipment will not be that much of a difference how original and bc where.

[puppychow]

tbc changed itemization formulas so that stamina "cost" less on an item, therefore TBC items had HUGE stamina boosts on every single piece of gear, making it worth grabbing green/blue stuff over much of pre-TBC -- although T3 was still decent going into Karazhan. Also TBC introduced gem sockets.

in contrast formulas haven't changed and there are no new things, so its a minor progression. Even still, by the time you 74 you should start seeing upgrades, after all, the first zones are meant to be doable by people in green 68 gear so it can't be massive upgrades.

[mphuie]

Yea a lot of people complain about quest in hellfire that give you still that you don't replace until heroic/raids. This is why they didn't do in the wrath. They also said that equipment will not be that much of a difference how original and bc where.

I'd have to disagree. Howvengefulling Fjord quest rewards are iLvl 138 and Utgarde Keep drops are iLvl 155 and only require L70.

To compare

Arena S3 set - iLvl 146
T6 Raid set - iLvl 146-154
T5 Raid set - iLvl 133

[puppychow]

You have to compare item quality in addition to ilevel. A green item of iLevel 155 will almost always be slgithly worse than a blue item of iLevel 138 which will be worse than a epic item of iLevel 125.

[Niley]

another update :)
I did all instance grind from 70-72...it got really tedious and boring tbh, I was getting around 370k ish exp per hour or so.

Anyway, last boss in DTK comes with little surprise, he changes whole team into ghouls and changes all Your abilities, took me one wipe to figure out what to do, but after that it was cake walk =D

[Niley]

Doing Gundrak atm, Im lvl 74 on all 5, 1st boss was easy, 2nd boss is pita, when he lets the water elemental it gets pretty healing intensive....but afrter 2nd try:


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Edit - all cleared pic up top!

[Dominian]

Phean why does yout Bartender show your rank as high warlord when your a draenei? :P or does it mean something else?

[Lyonheart]

Phean why does yout Bartender show your rank as high warlord when your a draenei? :P or does it mean something else?

Because he works for Bliz and can make the game say, do, what he wants! How else does a level 74 Team clear a level 78 instance in WotlK?!?!?


Ok I'm JK! and yes I'm jealous 8(

[Niley]

Phean why does yout Bartender show your rank as high warlord when your a draenei? :P or does it mean something else?

Its HonorFu, it always shows that symbol :P

[Dominian]

Phean why does yout Bartender show your rank as high warlord when your a draenei? :P or does it mean something else?

Because he works for Bliz and can make the game say, do, what he wants! How else does a level 74 Team clear a level 78 instance in WotlK?!?!?


Ok I'm JK! and yes I'm jealous 8(

One of the major factor is wow is gear and untill you get a certain gear/level you cant beat a encouter.. When you do have the gear its about skill.

My tank got 350 defence and 10k hp if the first boss in UK is allowed to spam shadowbolts even with shadow aura up there barley is time to dps as he hits my tank for 2-3k shadow bolts and he fires em fast.

A easy way is to just los abuse him and force him to meele, i would imagine the fight would be different with spell reflect.. (if it can be reflected) :( The fight is realy easy if i always got my tank in range of fire nova totems and thunderstorm, but a normal tank and spank fails 9/10 times.

[Niley]

another update with violet hold cleared, I hated that instance...
1st boss splits into water elementals, die die quickly, but YOu have to kill them before they get back to him, also does a knockback before the split.
2nd boss is a core hound, does lava frontal cone, fireballs also shoots lava that stays in one spot(usually on top of my shamans) for few seconds
Last boss is a bit chaotic as she does blizzard and hits pretty hard, also teleports everyone in the middle...its was very chaoitic, but she goes down pretty fast.


Im never coming back here....unless this si the only way to get rep, or I overgear the instance by a ton....at least i didn't wipe :P



edit...from wanting a challenge, Im trying a lvl 80 instance, so far I have no prob with trash
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68% on lvl 81 boss:P
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[Meathead]

Dam i wish i had gear like you. My gear is crap i cant barely take down the first boss in The Keep :( I wish they had made the 70 gear cheaper to get like honor wise and stuff :( or badges :P

[Niley]

Halls of lightning cleared at 77 pic up front.

[pinotnoir]

Dam i wish i had gear like you. My gear is crap i cant barely take down the first boss in The Keep :( I wish they had made the 70 gear cheaper to get like honor wise and stuff :( or badges :P

After your comment I looked at his gear.. OMG WTB guild that lets me box raids. Very nice gear and good to see a guild lets a boxer take part.

[Niley]

Just started doing Utgarde PInnacle
1st boss downhttp://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2091/wowscrnshot111808200546oj1.jpg

Ive quit this inatnce after this kill, mobs are to spread out, takes time to kill, not good exp at all.