Alright, great... I've got more votes for Heroics. In my opinion, the only real reason that Heroics will differ from leveling instances is that during the Heroic it's likely that I've gotten a few more abilities and maybe an extra tier of talents. Those extra things can make a difference, but I think the Heroic version is going to be a lot more fun to do.

This was written before I fully realized what Khatovar had posted below. >_>

Quote Originally Posted by fightcow View Post
1. Heroics only (except maybe for WoD as its current)
2. No heirlooms. Also, state your teams iLVL - I know its not a competition but it can feel a bit meaningless watching someone box an instance with no idea of how geared they are. Knowing the iLvl allows the viewer to gauge how effective the team composition is, as well as the player.
3. Do each instance with as many different team variations as time/sanity allows This is what i love about boxing - same content different team.
4. Only include the harder trash fights, if any.

1 and 4 are mainly included to facilitate 3
2. I like the iLVL thing.
3. My time is always limited, but I wanted to show the two sides of the spectrum of compositions: All ranged and all melee. Anything in between should probably be considered easier than all melee and harder than all ranged.
4. The editing out is mostly to keep the long boring instances from being so long and boring, and I'd like to keep the max runtime to about 20-25 minutes which is what I've tried to do in the past. The old school Vanilla instances which haven't seen a makeover suffer from this problem the most since that was how it was back in the day, but I think most instances will fit into the time slot well.

Quote Originally Posted by Lyonheart View Post
heirlooms are going to be a non-issue soon as they will sell for gold. So depending on how many videos you do.. or when you do them. No reason not to include heirlooms as most would have them in the future i would think. I would say up to 60 at least, since the upgrades for heirlooms might be more difficult to obtain, depending what the plan is for that system. Doing a few dungons with and without might be interesting?

Anyway.. looking forward to your vids 8)
I don't think it's safe to assume that heirlooms will be had by everyone and they may not be all that affordable since we will only need one "copy" of them now, so Blizzard may try to make the prices expensive. The guild heirlooms are ~1500g each which is far from obtainable for anyone starting fresh. Granted, unlike their level 80 counterparts, those heirlooms go to level 85, but I think if Blizzard was going to make them cheap they'd just give them to us since most people could easily afford something like 250g each.

A full set of heirlooms is Head, Shoulders, Chest, Cloak, Pants, two Trinkets, and a Weapon and/or a Weapon and Off-Hand -- We'll say eight total pieces for a nice round number (not including the ring in this since it's not purchased).

Let's forget about the fact that the guild heirlooms cost ~1,500g each and we'll use round numbers for each piece:

8 pieces @ 250g each is 2,000g x 5 characters = 10,000g
8 pieces @ 500g each is 4,000g x 5 characters = 20,000g
8 pieces @ 1,000g each is 8,000g x 5 characters = 40,000g

There are a lot of assumptions there and Blizzard will likely be allowing certain pieces of gear to be interchanged between specs like the other WoD gear is, but I still think that it's going to be a large chunk of gold to buy heirlooms since they're a one time buy and Blizzard is always looking for more gold sinks these days.

Quote Originally Posted by Khatovar View Post
I'd just do heroics for the TBC+ content. I don't think there's enough difference between the two in most cases to warrant an entirely separate video and in cases where there are, you can just throw up a little blurb or something about it. Exceptions, of course, for "Revisit Heroics" like SFK and SM since the level difference between normal and heroic can make them feel like entirely different dungeons based on available abilities.
You know... I didn't even think about those heroics that are first seen at a lower level. Obviously, I do like the heroics version of them better, but I almost hate to leave them out of the lower level stuff since people will likely hit Shadowfang Keep Normal during leveling, but not the Heroic version. I think Deadmines is going to need both versions since the last boss of the Heroic version is completely different, but I'll have to give some thought to the others now.