New limit of 30 instances per day on top of 5 per hour...

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... I do think the reaction to the instance cap is a bit overstated. I'm still getting an alt boosted right now while I'm working from home. So I have her in instances for 8+ hours a day and I only hit the cap 1 time where I was specifically trying to do that for testing at the end of a night (run in, run out, reset - repeat). In just trying to boost her to 60 its been impossible for me to hit the cap.

Maybe if I was trying for world 1st or something, but 30 instances even at 12min per instance would be 6 hours of pure grinding. Most people take breaks, run out to go vendor stuff, etc. And I don't know anyone who's actually spot on @ 12 min - seems like most are @ 15-18 min/run once they do Cathedral+Armory or Mara. ...

From what I understand instead of 6 hours it actually takes you 7.25 hours as, if you farm consistently & continuously, you actually only can get 5 instances the first hour and then are essentially stuck at 4 instances per hour after that.

What some folk were doing were getting their pulls down to the most efficient trade off of XP &/or gold to about 12 minutes so they could build into their planning a quick bio break to stretch their legs, refresh drink, use the bathroom, etc. In your 2nd hour of farming and beyond a 12 min average run after 4 runs gives you a 12 min bio break every hour... Four 13 min runs means 8 mins... Four 14 minute runs and you have less than 5 mins...

Some of us can't play very often and when we do we tend to do it for a day or two straight. A little while back I started working on the Mage pulls and after getting bored I decided to go back to 5boxing to progress and I am glad I did (especially in light of this change). Had I stayed with the most efficient Mage pull approach I could have been locked out this weekend when I finally got a chance to play... That being said I agree that it doesn't really affect most people and for most folk there are changes you can make to mitigate most of the impact. For example I could get my 5box to progress all day by focusing on instances where mobs re-spawn and just start over without resetting the instance and kill all the non-bosses again.

The change to not affect 40man instances is likely a good switch as at least that isn't a concern anymore.