The Violet Hold (Dalaran 5 man)
So has anyone tried the Violet Hold? its a 5 man instance in Dalaran, you get keyed at level 75 (quest, starts in the city somewhere).
Its basically Black Morass 2.0. 18 waves of various mobs, 3 bosses, 2 of which are random picks out of 6 or so.
I went in and 75 and got spanked. I did manage to down the first boss once - the "Vashj like" boss that blows up and summons a ton of little water elementals. The ethereal boss wiped the floor with me. What was funny was that when I killed the first boss, apparently I took too long because new portals started spawning WHILE i was fighting her (LOL!) and so after I killed her they pretty much destroyed the shield.
I thought it might be good for a xp/hour instance to level 75-80, even if I just kill only trash and maybe 1 boss and reset, but unfortunately it seems to hover around 120k xp/hour. Some of the mobs give good XP, some of the mobs give no XP :( Questing/easier instances are better from an xp/hour still though.
The bosses seem kind of multiboxer unfriendly, there is a lot of movement and target switching involved. For example the water boss despawns fairly often and a ton of little water elementals spawn all over the room. She re-emerges a few seconds later, if any of them get to her she gets buffed up and takes a lot less damage too. its trivial with 3 independent DPS to kill all the adds all over the room, unfortunately with multiboxing its a lot harder :( I usually only managed to kill 1/2 the adds, 1/2 would get to her. She still went down slowly, and around 20% or so stopped despawning. Unfortunately it took so long new portals started spawning (LOL!)
Its a very hectic pace, I have a mage so food/water was no big deal but even still I found myself only having 2-3 seconds max to drink between portals. Hopefully once I get a few levels in it'll be easier, I would not recommend going in at level 75 anyways. The mobs do hit very, very hard so I think a tankless team is going to have a difficult time -- my 17.5k hp prot pally got low a lot and usually was the first to die most of the time. Lots of magic damage too, so a warrior or DK tank may be great here.
