PvE Progress

[kalih]

The first two times I beat the SFK boss, it went off without a hitch... the last two times through though, he caused me all sorts of headaches. If he mind-controlled my paladin, for example, especially early in the fight, bad things tended to happen.

One thing I have noticed is all the item drops are overleveled now. I guess blizz retuned all these instances and in many cases made them lower level.. they also upgraded alot of the loot.. but it seems they forgot to lower the quest levels and the item levels.

So like the BFD quests are level 28 but easily completable at level 24.. and alot of the drops are level 25/26/etc min level.

[kllrwlf]

Level 25
1x Paladin (Tank)
3x Mages (Frost)
1x Shaman (Healer)

Deadmines - Lame. Went there for the Paladin quest, cleared it too easily. AOE everything. The only time I wiped was when I agroed too many mobs (20+ mobs) and I couldn't AOE fast enough. After that wipe, I would only agro a couple of mobs and plowed through it.

Shadowfang Keep - Very straight forward. Had to use Fireball instead of Frostbolt because Frostbolt did none to little damage.

Wiped once with the silence room (Wailing Guardmen). 2nd time around, kept the casters at the hallway, moved my Paladin into the room and worked them down.

Final boss (Arugal), was a pain with the mind-controlling of my Paladin 2-3 times. Eventually downed him with 1 mage and the shaman dead.

I'll run through Shadowfang Keep again, need to macro in Counterspell for my mages to help with the final boss.

Also probably going to respec the mages from Frost to Fire or Arcane/Fire.

Frostbolt was also a problem in Wailing Caverns with the Evolving Ectoplasm. Wanding did more damage then Frostbolt.

My toons' level range is definitely a little higher then the instances, guessing that it'll eventually even out due to the fact that I'm barely getting XP each run. It's fun seeing new content though.

[Kfunk]

I went through SM Graveyard a few times at 27 today. Really awesome drops, especially that Chest piece with 17 sta off the rare spawn Ironspine (or something). Didn't have any major problems, the Interrogater dots did some hefty damage at that level =)

[kalih]

wow 27. I just dinged 29 last night.

I was gonna wait until 30 (because that's the lowest level you get all the RFK quests) and then finish RFK and move to SM.

I'll probably give it a try later.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Updated my post on page 1 with some more data from Outlands instances.

[Kfunk]

I just finished SM Library with the team at 30. I don't recommend doing it that low, it just takes too long. But it was a good challenge!

RFK will be very low level for you at 30, mostly greens. The boss's there are now 27 (despite the quest still being min level 29).

[Qbox]

Deadmines

Killed Rhahk'Zor, Sneed's Shredder and Sneed with 15/16 priest + 4 15/16 warlocks. 1 warlock was at 16 prior to Rhahk'Zor; the rest of the characters levelled between Rhahk'Zor and Sneed. Nearly wiped on Sneed; the priest was at 1% health and had agro when the Shredder died. Luckily we cleared out of range before Sneed attacked, so we could heal up. Bad pull shortly after Sneed and had to run out of the instance.

[razzy]

I have a team of druid(feral tank), Priest(holy). and 3 locks (affliction) all 70, in outlands i have done no heroics because im sure id lack the CC for it.
but have done in normal mode, Hellfire ramparts, Blood Furnace, the steamvolt, underbog, slave pens, durnholde, shadowlabs, auchenai crypt, sethekk halls, mana tombs, the botanica, the mechanar(all except the second boss, was a real pain in the ass with the fire elementals you cant kill so i skipped), and half of arcatraz.
Have yet to go the shattered halls, rest of arcatraz and the black morass..
Does anyone see a way to do heroics unless you have a totally decked out tank or CC? like 2 mages, i cant see locks succy lasting too long in heroics

[kalih]

I updated my first page entry with all my instances up to 40. I've leveled exclusively in instances since hitting 13 and going to RFC. That's probably gonna end here in the early 40s as I grind instances and fill with quests until I get 55 or so, which point will be all instances to 70.

[Bollwerk]

Did my first Outland instance last night ... Ramparts. Was easy until the 3rd boss, then I couldn't kill the dragon, no matter what I tried. =(

Lvl 65
Feral Druid
3x Ele Shaman
Frost Mage