Violet Hold Boosting?

[Duane]

I noticed today that you can enter The Violet Hold at level 70. This would seem like a good place to help boost my level 71 shaman up to 75 - 76.

Has anyone else tried this?

[Owltoid]

Why do you think this would be a good place when compared to questing or other dungeons? Do you think the exp per hour is good in there? I haven't paid attention so I don't know.

[Coltimar]

I think it would be decent because of the constant flow of mobs. It's a pretty quick instance, too.

[Duane]

Why do you think this would be a good place when compared to questing or other dungeons? Do you think the exp per hour is good in there? I haven't paid attention so I don't know.

Here's my thinking:

1. My toons are still parked in Dalaran so it's simple and quick for them to walk into the instance when my 80 opens the door.
2. All the portals are in a small area so you could park them up on the stairs and clear the rest and still get experience. No running everyone around.
3. The instance runs are always fast and my tank druid is well geared so I should easily be able to make 4 runs an hour.

[Owltoid]

I'm not saying you're wrong, because I haven't seen any testing, but I'd guess at level 70+ it's better to have those toons being dragged along and helping with DPS. That likely means doing instances at level. When below level 60, your 80 can kill so quickly that it's fine if the slaves just stand there. I'm not sure that benefit carries all the way up to WotLK content.

[BrothelMeister]

Violet hold would be by far the worst instance IMO since its the only instance that requires you to wait some time between wrecking the next group of mobs instead of just moveing over and engaging them.

[HPAVC]

Violet hold would be by far the worst instance IMO since its the only instance that requires you to wait some time between wrecking the next group of mobs instead of just moveing over and engaging them.

Wasnt the instance patched for the portals to chain open, or was that just heroic?

Frankly the numbers just need to be posted, how long does a X gearscore Y spec tankadin take to soloe VH normal, what is the XP earned? "Instance Timer"

I like DrakTharon Keep for grinding, the undead and leeroy-able encounters are fast for me.

[ILikeTwins]

There is virtually no time between portals now but you do still need to sit and wait for mobs to exit them.

I dual boxed this instance for a bit on my druid tank to get my lowbie up a few levels. My tank had over 50k health at the time so most of the packs were pretty quick and easy. The only time I really had issues in the instance was with the big floating eye boss (I forget his name but he is the one that spawns in the upper right when looking from the entrance door). He has an eye beam that was hitting me for something like 3k per second and was nearly constant. The next time I got him I just exited the dungeon and reset because I didnt want the repair bill hehe

[Duane]

Well Wowhead and Wowiki have the dungeon info wrong. You have to be 72 to enter the instance. Guess I'll have to try this in another level or two.

[Shodokan]

Its really bad, take it from me... i've tried everything over 70 basically.

If you can stand the grind (4-6 hours per level) you can boost your toons in icecrown glacier farming the groups of 6 converted heroes. Thats how I did it... but it is such a grind you wanna kill yourself after a while, though it is mindless. Just fly your alts in the air and make sure your map is zoomed all the way out...if you are off the alts minimap a bit you are fine, but dont stray too far.