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In this video will be going over the 10 Best dungeons in World of Warcraft history, up to Battle For Azeroth anyway.
–The List–
Intro: (0:00)
10- Halls of Reflection WOTLK: (0:07)
9- Scarlet Monastery Classic/MoP: (1:53)
8- Grimrail Depot WOD: (2:52)
7- The Stonecore Cata: (4:11)
6- Sunken Temple Classic: (6:45)
5- Shadow Labyrinth TBC: (8:23)
4- The Deadmines Classic/Cata: (10:04)
3- Return to Karazhan Legion: (11:30)
2- Culling of Stratholme WOTLK: (13:04)
1- BRD Classic: (15:12)
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So basically, after I quit in Cata Ive missed fuck all.
You forgot to mention Everquest as a game that had instanced dungeons years before the launch of WOW. Most were raid instances, but some were single group only ones.
Halls of reflection and halls oif stone was insta leave for me. I hate scripted stuff that takes way too long.
thank you arkest! it was actually a interesting video idea
cata dungeons hard? LOL!
This is a weird list. Why no Scholo, WC or ZF. ST and BRD were a huge pain in the ass if you ask me.
I would definitely always leave Halls of Reflection back in Wrath. it was fun at the beginning but got old very fast, waiting for npcs, and having to kill wave after wave of adds.
I personally think Scholomance should have been on the list. the revamped version.after going through the tirisfal glades storyline, up to plaguelands and andorhal, than ends with Scholomance.
I miss the hell out of Sunken Temple (Classic) I loved that place.
before watching the video if BRD wont be on the list i will be disappointed
Edit:OMG its #1 thats a surprise; also ST at #6, even after 11 years of playing the game i still dont know my way around and dislike that place
i loved the halls of reflection in wrath but youre right everyone left so i could ever do it 1 time
sunken temple very very very unique
You didn’t have magisters terrace in here best in game by far
A note for the bronze drake from the Culling: I don't know if they changed it since but at launch the mount was guaranteed for only 1 person in the group (you had to /roll for it). The mentioned optional boss would only be there for a few minutes (25 if memory serves) and if you failed to reach it before the time's up he'd just kill the guardian and teleport away so you couldn't get the mount. And only in heroic difficulty
I really miss Cataclysm's dungeons. They were SO fun, and though you got some shitty groups, when you got good groups who understood mechanics and worked together, it was so fun. Easier than organising a raid but still that raid feeling. Miss it a lot. The new dungeons clearly built around mythic+ are shit, imo. It's all about trash pulls.
They NEED long form epic dungeons for solo mode.
should of given a honourable mention to black rock spire in classic. a long dungeon and a 10 man raid all in the same instance.
To this day, I don't even know all dungeons and raids that are located in Blackrock Mountain. I was so overwhelmed by BRD and I kept confusing with other dungeons in the mountain. And the Cataclysm added more of them, and I didn't play the game around that time. So somehow this location is still very mysterious to me.
Sunken Temple was one of the worst dungeons ever made. I was there I guess two times or so and I have been playing WoW now for many years. It's nearly as bad as Maraudon (the old one). Really really lame storywise and much too large.
hummmm waycrest manor??
Never forget Blackheart the Inciter MCing me and making me cast Teleport: Moonglade, fun times
Stonecore trash would lead to continuous wipes
Blackrock and stonecore will always be my fav cata dungeons! For wrath i loved forge of souls and Utgarde keep
Culling of Strath also Had the Crest of Lorderan Shield, which at the time had decent stats and it looked pretty good making it a solid Transmog for Alliance or Undead Horde
Cata had great dungeons, i remember struggling so much at the start and still enjoying them
halls of reflection wasn't the trash, it was this was also when LFD was new, people would que for it under geared, and not knowing to burst down healers, then rouge, then mage, instead they'd just aoe and pull threat causing wipes because you couldn't count on the average person knowing how to handle the trash packs at the start. I only did HoR with a guild group or friends.
Personally I hated ST (sunken temple) it wasn’t fun to run around or yo do it was just a dungeon u did because some class quest items from there were broken
If you can only do a dungeon once, it needs to have a 100% drop rate and everyone gets loot. So you do it you get the gear.
I'm sorry I like this video but I have one issue with something he said WoW did not pioneer instanced dungeons Everquest had instanced dungeons many years before WoW came out, in fact if you look it up Everquest is the game that inspired the WoW Dev's to make the game. Then there was the sequel to Everquest, Everquest 2 which also came out a couple weeks before wow, which also had static non procedurally generated instanced dungeons so WoW did not pioneer static dungeons they may have popularized them but not pioneered. Sorry for the rant but that rubbed me the wrong way for some reason.
Sunken temple was awesome
I hated classic Sunken Temple. Never played the revamped version. Though I must say Lich King dungeons were the best.
CoS was cool until you got your mount. I remember tanks constantly leaving when they would zone into the instance. Its definitely not 10 worthy.
I've never met anybody that likes Stonecore. What, did not enough people get one-shot by breaking their themselves on his body?
I loved all the Cata heroics. Grim Batol was my favorite. Stonecore is excellent, but wow that boss is a group killer.
Cataclysm had wonderful dungeons. I really liked all of them.
One of the first dungeons that came to mind as one of the greatest was vanilla ST, but I was shocked to see it actually mentioned — I thought I was the only one who liked that endless labyrinth, and it really wasn't done that much in my experience, so I thought everyone would've forgotten about it. The word "dungeon" has lost its meaning, now it means just some hallways with add groups and a boss at the end. ST was a dungeon in the original sense. When you went down there, you could feel the distance between yourself and the world above. It felt like miles.
Personally, I would've included: vanilla UBRS and vanilla Maraudon (princess route). Maybe Wailing Caverns — maybe not the greatest, but so iconic for leveling horde. WC was one of the first dungeons that showed WoW was going to be intricate and detailed.
Hard disagree on Halls of Reflection. It may have been good lore, but it was an enormous pain to run with anything but a pre-made group. I think Zul’Farrak should have made the top 10, but mostly agree with your list.
"top 10 best dungeons. number 10. nobody liked this dungeon." 😂😂
tbh in my humble opinion, Operation Mechagon and Freehold are better than half of this list.
….does this mean… bfa had the best dungeons? 🤔
The first time I went through ST it took 6 hours. 7/10 too much water.
Well of Eternity is my favorite one.
Halls of Reflection and CoS are great but they both have so much dialogue and sitting around that running them for transmog is obnoxious
Blackrock Depths was absolutely legendary. And still is the best 5 man in all of WoW’s history.
“BREAK YOURSELVES UPON MY BODY”
Stonecore SUCKED
but Ragnarok Online had instance dungeons? well it has also open world, so it had essentialy both
They nailed Return to Karazhan in Legion. They both had a charm to them and even a final boss out of nowhere with the Legion one being more ridiculous as a demonic alien.
Also trying to get people to run Sunken Temple and BRD was hellish. A lot of people hated those places with a passion and refused to run it. It was like how people dropped from LFG when they got Halls of Reflection or The Occulus.
Also, your last point about dungeon size is flawed. You say that hardcore players didn't like longer dungeons. WoW shouldn't be designing anything off the truly hardcore players except stuff like Mythics. The truly hardcore players are a very very small percent of the total player base and shouldn't be the baseline for anything.
FEEL the strength of my BODY! bo, bo!
BODY
I had a little PTSD flashback of doing BRD at level. Thanks.