1-50 Leveling in Pre-Patch/Shadowlands

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Mate, there must be dozens of us who enjoy the DK starting area.

I want a watch of video, including webcam, of you doing the stupid quest where you have to poke them with the daggers to tell you the truth. That quest seldomly takes me less than 30 minutes for a 4-5DK team.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... which TBC dungeons are we filing under "difficult?"

The tuning on some of them has been pretty bad recently. Namely: Slave Pens last boss. Arcatraz has its moments, particularly with the tuning. Auchindoun has a couple trash pulls that aren't fun. You're right though, they're doable, and it's not as hit or miss as Cata/MOP on the overtuning, but I wouldn't want to do these from 1-50.

We could just sit in the city and queue for an expansion's dungeons until a certain level, then change it up and move to another expansion if we get bored. Is there an intro quest of some sort for each expansion before the dungeons are accessible in the LFD tool, or can you just talk to Chromie, switch it up, and then have access to that expansion's dungeons right then and there?

No intro quest, you're exactly correct. That's the behavior on PTR now. Shocked it is the way it is. There is an intro quest, but it's not required for queueing.

Ultimately, I hope they don't end up over-tuning the dungeons, simply because with everyone being spread out across several different expansions, in parallel, and unable to easily access another expansion's dungeon queue (outside of the Cata/Classic combo), I would expect the tank and healer populations to be thinner than usual, at least in certain expansions. If dungeons go back to being more forgiving, as one would expect since they're just leveling content, then it will be easier for solo players to enjoy them, and in turn, multiboxers, as well. Right now, you can find that certain level ranges really don't offer themselves to leveling through dungeons, but after the upcoming level squish and expansion split, this sounds like it'd be easily avoided now that we can just pick and choose where we want to play.

There is a mechanism in place where the game will prompt you if you wait too long in queue. I haven't seen it firsthand, but it asks you if you want to expand to other adventure timelines. You simply hit yes and you're presumably available to do dungeons from other timelines. I believe that is their response to this, because, yes, otherwise you could queue and no one else wants to do Cata. I suspect people will still have their favorite timeline and other timelines will get ignored quickly.