Heroic Farming Speed question

[Ualaa]

I'm pretty consistently running DTK + UK in 30-45 mins each.
I loot every corpse along the way, but am tempted to use the old Master Looter/Loot Threshold/Opt Out of Loot method, so only greens will sparkle.
At the moment, frostweave is still skill ups from making the 20-slot bags, although I've not gotten a skill up in the last dozen bags (445/450).
I'm sending all the DE mats and bags to my horde team, via the neutral AH; they're up to 11k (22nd level, 5 of them), hopefully will have 25k for epic flyers before they're big enough to fly fast.

Haven't really focused on a lot of heroics, more of my effort is on leveling two teams without RAF.
And consistently running dailies with at least 2, sometimes 3 teams, which is 45 mins each team.

They're up to 3 of the 5 tier 9 pieces.
Pally has a lot of auction house stuff, Naxx25, Ulduar 10/25, ToC 10/25 and one piece of ICC 10/25 BoE gear; sitting at 36,900 health with the imp and sanctuary buffs.
The rest of the team hasn't had their gear upgraded more then heroic drops, and four badge purchases so far.
Although one of the shammies was full Naxx25 geared, and a couple hundred badges of Heroism/Valor level stuff.
The warlock who joined the team -- traded for a shammy, to the other team (Curse of the Elements), is basically fresh 80th gear, plus the 3 pieces of T9.

[Zappy]

Hi all,
so I have been farming heroics for the last 6 weeks or so and I am wondering what I am doing wrong. I keep seeing people posting about doing 2 - 3 heroics an hour and I am wondering how? I am pretty well geared and burn through heroics pretty fast, but the fastest I have cleared Gun or UK is about 30 minutes and so hence my question on what am I doing wrong? These are very easy heroics and so how could people be doing some of the other dungeons faster?
It seems it is the trash that takes the time, are there shortcuts people are using to get to bosses? I read about people doing Gun using certain paths pre the randon dungeon tool, but now that does not work (using the two entrances to skip the trash).
Any insight or advice?

Depends on team. Using DK/Ret team, I can run UK from start to finish looting everything I kill in 15 minutes. I usually lose the 15 minute dungeon finder debuff on the last boss. One thing with this with team though is that I never have to stop and drink/eat on them. I haven't ran it recently on my shammys, but the last time I ran it, I was right on 20 minutes. The difference there was that I had to drink several times.

To me, heroic Azol'nerub is by far the fastest. I've gone from start to finish there in just under 10 minutes. What I found is that when you clear it, the dungeon debuff time automatically disappears.

As you get more gear, you'll find it easier each time. When I first tried UK, I couldn't finish it, then after a few gear upgrades it became easier and quicker each time. I've also gotten braver each time doing multiple pulls at once, in addition to skipping a few packs where I can. (hallway before 2nd boss), and there's a set of mobs by the stairs that if you're careful you can walk by.

[Prega]

i do heroics each day.
some instances are really fast: AN - 15/17 min, UK 15/18 min, VH 18/20 min max ( i need to skin everything there), nexus 22/25 min, dtk 16/20 min, new FoS around 17/20 minutes.
if lucky with random, i can do 3 runs in 1 hour.
all done with looting/skinning
with 5 paladins almost dont need to drink/eat
unique instances for me over 30 min are HoR and PoS. HoR is hard and requires some rest and sometimes CD ready before last event. PoS is for killing all mobs for my battered hilt collection (atm 0(zero(nothing)))

PS: forgot oculus. if i get in random, i do 3 boss and 1 wipe max or jump it. so it no counts for me

[zenga]

If you can do 2 heroics per hour i think you are doing just fine. There is always the distance you have to run, no matter how fast you kill. There is always the trash packs in the way, no matter how fast you kill. Some trash is not designed to pull together, as they don't move, slow you down, etc ... then it's just faster to kill smaller packs. I honestly believe - besides a couple of exceptional players who know every single mob with their eyes closed, and who usually outgear the instance a lot, - that the " i can run in it in x time" can be compared to the dps exaggeration.

[Mystic]

Interestingly enough I just started to time my runs to get an idea of shards per hour, blues (disenchant) per hour, epics (abyss crystals) per hour, etc.

I was primarily interested in shards per hour since 30 shards equals 2000 honor, and I wanted a comparison to honor per hour from various BGs assuming a 50/50 win/loss which is typical for Reckoning in my experience. The idea is to run heroics when we have WG for the shards, getting as much if not more honor per hour than I'd get running BGs, with the extra boon of getting enchanting mats. For AV, by the way, it has become a rush to the end fest now, and yields about 500-600 honor for alliance regardless of who wins, and it takes 6 mins. Factor in 4-6 minute queues, and the yield is around 3000 honor per hour.

Ironically, this is exactly what I get from farming shards while doing heroics, 3000 honor per hour (30 shards = 2k honor).

I run a DK/4xRet team that is stacked out in PVP gear, with the DK having two sets, one PVP and one PVE for tanking. Not sure which will show on armory if your check it as I switch all the time mixing heroics and PVP.

So, to give you details that answer your question here are my average times, since I started timing them (two days ago). All dead mobs fully looted. I will update as I run different heroics not yet listed.

CoS - 30 minutes (thanks to all the RP crap you have to endure)
UP - 21 minutes
VH - 14 minutes
Old Kingdom - 20 minutes
DrakTharon Keep - 21 minutes
Azjol Nerub - 13 minutes
UK - 19 minutes

[crowdx]

So what I am seeing in this thread is that Melee teams seem to run quite a bit faster on average than caster teams. I use an addon for timing my dungeon runs, are others also using an addon or just looking at their watch/clock to see how long it takes?

[Greythan]

Makes sense on the melee teams as melee DPS doesn't require mana/regen as they go.

I also find myself not interested in going much faster than I do. The only thing I need to incorporate is more AE pulls. I don't know about you all, but I do run a single toon in dungeons from time to time. What I notice is that the well geared pug group will AE everything and move fast. With multiple looters and AE trash pulls, they go real fast.

[zenga]

I'm mainly looking at my buffs. I cast greater blessing of sanctuary for example at the start of a run, and i see how long it's still up at the end of it.

[pinotnoir]

I usually do them in 20-30min. I loot everything because the vendor trash sells for usually 25-30g per run. In addition to the trash drops I de all the greens, blues, and epics I dont need. Right now I am hording the mats because I keep saying I am going to finish leveling 2 enchanters. If you sold all that stuff you can make some cash. I am not in a race and plan on posting a video if I can figure it out soon.

[Ogloo]

yeah i dont loot anything but bosses.. unless im in ICC heroics hilt farm ftw