As usual, we did this with a resto druid, rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.


The Violet Hold is a level 75-77 instance found in the city of Dalaran. Similar to The Stockades in Stormwind, it has several guards at the ready outside, and the prisoners inside the hold are trying to break free and attack Dalaran.

You find the instance next to the quest givers that give you the daily heroic quests. First you have to visit the Violet Citadel and receive...

As usual, this was done with just a resto druid, a rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.

Utgarde Keep (70-72): When you first enter Utgarde Keep, you will get to see the new fire effects that blizzard uses in large scale for the first time unless you've done Brutallus. It's pretty nice looking.

The best thing about this instance is the large amount of non-elites. There are tons of opportunities to pull whole rooms of mobs and just go crazy with the new protection...

Ulduar is extremely impressive. The look and feel of the instances is amazing. The entire zone (Storm Peaks) is the most impressive zone I've seen in this game, by far. I can't wait to see what the raid zone that is not yet implemented in Ulduar will hold for us.

As usual, we did this with just a resto druid, a rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.

Halls of Stone (77-79): Halls of stone is non-linear. You can go to any boss you wish first.

We...

Zul'Drak is a zone, not a set of instances. The first zone, Drak'Tharon Keep, is technically actually in the Grizzly Foothills zone. However, since it clearly is themed around Zul'Drak, and the story behind you even venturing into the instance revolves around Zul'Drak, I am going to lump it into the Zul'Drak grouping for the purposes of this blog.

As usual, we did this with just a resto druid, a rogue, and myself - a protection warrior.


Drak'Tharon Keep (74-76)...

So last night, after struggling to make it into an instance with the world server going down every ten seconds, I finally completed the last beta 5 man to finish my quest to see them all. I decided that the new 5 mans are so fun that I would make a list of them all to say what's been on my mind for each of them. I won't give strategies per se, but bosses that offer something I felt noteworthy when compared to previous 5 mans I will give a little detail on, because I find them interesting.
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