Instance experiences post 3.0.8

[Hachoo]

Everyone share your experiences. For me, after respeccing my DK and my 4 Shamans, I went into Gundrak and Drak Tharon and was EXTREMELY pleasantly surprised.

Less than 30 minutes to run each instance. My best time before that was ~45 or so, so this shaved 33% off my instance run time. I was almost able to kill galdrah before he transformed into a rhino and ended up killing him before i could even pull him to my DPS. A few bosses like Eck and the Colossus I didn't even have to cast a heal LOL. This is awesome.

Can't wait to try some instances that were harder before or I haven't tried yet. I'm going to blast through CoS tonight, I bet the bronze drake will be a lot easier to get now. Also want to try HoL for the first time especially since now all my shamans have 15k hp.

Anyone else with awesome post 3.0.8 instance experiences? On eck my shaman DPS was 2950, 2850, 2800, 2650 since I didn't have to heal and I had bloodlust up. That was probably with an imperfect casting rotation too as I don't think I refreshed flameshock.

Also, I killed Trollgore in 30 seconds and still didn't get the consume achievement - how fast does he have to die to get that?

[lexuspartsdude]

Its not so much how fast, but how many people are in LOS when he decides to add stacks to his cosume. 5 people in sight, 5 stacks. He does it again , with an add in sight BAM theres 6 so 11 already. I think he does it every 20 seconds or so it seems when i fight him. Im sure if your dps was insane you could probably do it.

[Basilikos]

Well, I wasn't specifically looking at anything but the Death Knight PvE buffs. My mixed group (see sig) isn't quite 70 yet, but that's because I've focused on instance leveling. I'm likely to just run Outland instances to keep gearing up (aside from the blues and purples I have ready from crafting). Overall, I'm happy with it. The armor boosts and +def rune are a big plus for Death Knight tanks everywhere.

And while we're on it, the tank was FINE before the patch (assuming the difficulty doesn't differ much from Outland to Northrend). From what I hear, there are some AWFUL tanks out there, but that's strictly them and NOT the class.

[Alemi]

Also, I killed Trollgore in 30 seconds and still didn't get the consume achievement - how fast does he have to die to get that?

Faster than 30 seconds.

It's an ez achievement. Just tank him at the top of the stairs and drag him LOS to your shaman when he gets close to consume timer. When the stack goes up one, take him back, heal up, CL the adds that fly in, dps him, rinse repeat.

I think it took 6 consumes for me to kill him and get the achievement doing it this way?

Edit: Sorry, with my dk/4 shaman, I've been able to clear HoL and VH since before the patch, so I imagine it'll be easier now. Since the patch I added in OK and AN - even with buggy Hadronax, and got my essence of gossamer. I'm sure I can do UP now, i just had issues with aoe dps on the Skadi gauntlet.

With my 4 shaman, we were almost able to do Sarth + 1, but our pally tank was having issues with adds due to the craptacular server lag on Tuesday, so next week we'll get it. And I may take my dk into Naxx with the shaman this week, not sure. But Naxx10 clear this week should be a whole lot easier since my dps has significantly increased. We may try for the Patch, 4 horse, and Maex achievements as we already have the Grand Widow and Heigan achievements - just for fun.

[Multibocks]

lol I didnt know Trollgore had a consume ability, I better look this up.

[Kaynin]

I've not played since patch yet, damn my work. :<

[Fuzzyboy]

Also, I killed Trollgore in 30 seconds and still didn't get the consume achievement - how fast does he have to die to get that?

Not sure, I think it's also luck dependant, but I just did the achievement without even trying, just dps'ing.

[Hachoo]

Also, I killed Trollgore in 30 seconds and still didn't get the consume achievement - how fast does he have to die to get that?

Faster than 30 seconds.

It's an ez achievement. Just tank him at the top of the stairs and drag him LOS to your shaman when he gets close to consume timer. When the stack goes up one, take him back, heal up, CL the adds that fly in, dps him, rinse repeat.

I think it took 6 consumes for me to kill him and get the achievement doing it this way?

Edit: Sorry, with my dk/4 shaman, I've been able to clear HoL and VH since before the patch, so I imagine it'll be easier now. Since the patch I added in OK and AN - even with buggy Hadronax, and got my essence of gossamer. I'm sure I can do UP now, i just had issues with aoe dps on the Skadi gauntlet.

With my 4 shaman, we were almost able to do Sarth + 1, but our pally tank was having issues with adds due to the craptacular server lag on Tuesday, so next week we'll get it. And I may take my dk into Naxx with the shaman this week, not sure. But Naxx10 clear this week should be a whole lot easier since my dps has significantly increased. We may try for the Patch, 4 horse, and Maex achievements as we already have the Grand Widow and Heigan achievements - just for fun.

How do you even know if hes doing a consume? Ive never seen a cast bar or seen him do anything except corpse explosion... I didn't even know he had a consume ability until I saw someone post about it here.

[Multibocks]

Even after reading wowhead I have no idea when he will cast consume, lol.

[weeep]

You have to kill the adds that come to him, so they dont add consume stacks. They are weak, mass TS is enough.