1-50 Leveling in Pre-Patch/Shadowlands

[MiRai]

I want a watch of video, including webcam, of you doing the stupid quest where you have to poke them with the daggers to tell you the truth. That quest seldomly takes me less than 30 minutes for a 4-5DK team.

You were (mostly) granted this on the ISBoxer Discord (no camera), but for everyone else, here you go (with terrible audio quality).

The tuning on some of them has been pretty bad recently. Namely: Slave Pens last boss. Arcatraz has its moments, particularly with the tuning. Auchindoun has a couple trash pulls that aren't fun. You're right though, they're doable, and it's not as hit or miss as Cata/MOP on the overtuning, but I wouldn't want to do these from 1-50.

For me, everything up to the final boss of Arcatraz was quite terrible, so nothing's changed there, and Auchindoun has the very difficult beholder boss that can be a show-stopper (unless it's been nerfed, I don't know). On the other hand, Cata dungeons can go [redacted] right in their [redacted] for the [redacted] [redacted] that they are. Finally, I don't think I've multiboxed all of the MoP dungeons, but I've probably done most, while leveling. Right now, they can definitely pose some challenge to those who aren't familiar with them, so we'll have to see how the end up after the squish in SL.

No intro quest, you're exactly correct. That's the behavior on PTR now. Shocked it is the way it is. There is an intro quest, but it's not required for queueing.

I can dig it, and I hope it stays.

There is a mechanism in place where the game will prompt you if you wait too long in queue. I haven't seen it firsthand, but it asks you if you want to expand to other adventure timelines. You simply hit yes and you're presumably available to do dungeons from other timelines. I believe that is their response to this, because, yes, otherwise you could queue and no one else wants to do Cata. I suspect people will still have their favorite timeline and other timelines will get ignored quickly.

Okay - I figured that something had to be put in place for the less desirable/populated timelines, where the available dungeons are likely going to be somewhat dormant/avoided.