Comments on: Q. What’s the difference between a 20 minute Instance and a boosted instance… http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/ It's the end of the world as you know it - brought to you by a Gnome Mage with big balls of fire Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: velinath http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4490 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:51:45 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4490 Honestly, I think instances are getting ridiculously short. I chain-pull pretty much everything on my paladin in every instance I go to, and average (for example) 18 minutes in UK, 16 minutes in Azjol-Nerub…The longest instance for me is probably Old Kingdom, and even that usually doesn’t take more than 30 minutes.

That said, Blizzard mentioned some instances with SEVEN (if I remember correctly) boss encounters in the next expansion, so hopefully we’ll see some more variation then.

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4292 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:19:52 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4292 Balance… one of Blizz’s favorite words…

19 minutes… what someone have a smoko or a bio? ;-)

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4291 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:18:35 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4291 I think short instances definitely have a place in the game, and I would hate for it to all be long. I think TBC had a better mix in instance length than WoLK.

I definitely know how you feel about the wife aggro…

Nothing worse than spending an hour in LFG to finally get a group and have you wife pull the power or network cable 15 minutes in…

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4290 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:10:23 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4290 yeah extended lockout would be great…

There are times where you just have to get boosted (have is too strong a word.. but), otherwise you wont see the content until you can solo it, but the loot wagon is no fun.

Huh! I don’t consider a 35 boosted if it’s done by a 40-ish… although in truth it is still boosting. But relatively speaking, it’s an even spread of levels.

You are still going to have to practice some of those skills because you will be close enough to combat.

Likewise, sometimes you just need to give a friend or family member a little boost to get them up to the required level… otherwise they will spend all night in LFG.

We grabbed a level 30 tank the other night for a SM run… none of use expected it to go well… but everything went fine… everyone can contribute.

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4289 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:58:14 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4289 Baaaahhhh!

Feed them to the lions!

of course the thing is the ones with the easy gold (or easy epics) will become gluttons for the gear, put on a lot of weight around the waist and will no longer be able to raid.

Maybe that’s what should happen with “welfare” epics… maybe we should get a different model… sure still the same design on the gear, but 50 pounds heavier.

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4288 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:47:57 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4288 That epic feeling has gone…

While I appreciate the short instance as much as the next person (probably more as my time is more limited than most), I still like to feel that I have run an instance and not just a group daily quest

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4287 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:39:37 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4287 “Somehow casual content became epics for running the stuff you already ran when you were leveling up”

Yep, run ToC so you can run Naxx faster so you can run Ulduar, so you can run Naxx faster…

]]> By: Arioch http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4278 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:30:20 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4278 Proud to say my little priest has never been boosted. He’s practically a twink with the gear I’ve thrown at him, but he does all his own dungeons.

I think it’s important for Blizz to present a selection of different length dungeons. Maybe one night you have 2 hours to spend and the next barely 30 minutes.

But a guildie of mine ran H Nexus in 19 minutes. Cripes that’s a short instance.

]]> By: Skraps http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4275 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:24:35 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4275 I have to say I enjoy the shorter instances. I have recently started leveling a druid alt with my son who is playing a rogue. We have done a lot of instances. I have to say once we find a group, I have a hard time convincing the wife that we need another 2 hours to complete the run we started an hour ago.

On the flip side I think that maybe they are too short now days. I would like instances about the length of the TK 5 mans, or SSC 5 mans. I think those were about right.

Skraps.

(I wont go in to boosting, I didn’t like it in classic, still don’t like it now.)

]]> By: Lajos http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/08/31/q-whats-the-difference-between-a-20-minute-instance-and-a-boosted-instance/#comment-4272 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:59:00 +0000 http://gnomeaggedon.wordpress.com/?p=4434#comment-4272 I don’t necessarily have a problem with short instances. Frankly, I wish they’d extend the lockout, or have “save points” for longer instances, like BRD. Our group is in 3 different time zones, and on a typical weeknight, that leaves a fairly small overlap to run in.

Boosting: The first guild I was in, when I was leveling my main, I used to *hate* being run through instances by high levels. I wanted to run the instance, not just be a loot wagon. These days, my son’s hunter is lagging well behind us, so when we bring him, he’s usually just able to get into the instance. No matter. He can contribute. When we were in our high 40s, and he at level 35, after our paladin tried to pull, and ended up aggro-ing most of the room, (we didn’t *quite* wipe, thanks to our shamans) I started having my son park his gorilla with us, and go out to do solo pulls, feigning death if he got too many. Worked great, and he felt like he was pulling his weight.

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