So I enter some random BfA dungeon on my bear druid for the “A nation united” questline and get swarmed by a million mobs who are all at 7k something HP while I’m at 23k+. Should be easy, right? I swipe and mangle and barely do 1k dps among ALL of them, and next thing I know another bunch of mobs join the fight, all suddenly at 23k HP, too, and again I do almost no damage at all. So I don’t even try attacking the first dungeon boss (Lord Stormsong or whatever), I tuck my little bear tail and run out of the dungeon like a chicken cause honestly, I don’t have five hours of time to gnaw my way through that stuff (I originally typed a different word than “stuff” but I got censored).
Seriously, wtf? Then I go to the forums to see if I’m the only complete loser noob who can’t manage a lvl 50 dungeon at lvl 60 anymore even though it was pretty easy at 120, and there are literally hundreds of complaints about how badly Blizzard mutilated us in this expansion.
I want to be able to solo a lvl 50 dungeon at lvl 60. Anyone know if there’s any chance of Blizzard fixing this some day?
It’s easy to solo them. Get gear, if you have 23k hp as a tank you’re way undergeared. It shoudn’t be a problem for a well geared level 60 char. I think the only exception is KR where the 2nd boss will entomb you then reset.
No it’s not. Doable, for a lot, sure. But it SHOULD be easy.
That’s one of the problems in Shadowlands, isn’t it? Gear.
I actually managed to get past that, but it wasn’t easy.
FD during the fight when he targets you with that skill as a hunter and letting the pet kill the boss. Took quite a bit of trial and error with different types of pets and such and using all my cooldowns as fast as humanly possible in the fight, etc.
The scaling went to hell with the rework, and I don’t think Blizzard cares enough to fix it.
You’re not a noob for not being able to do it.
I just went and tried Atal Mythic on my 185 Lock with a tank pet and got chomped by Rezan in like 20 seconds, whilst spamming drain life & kiting as much as possible.
Sometimes the numbers just aren’t gonna happen.
Take a low level Monk into the home temple, and pick up the ‘Continue your training’ quest to fight Master Kistane…
Ha ha ha ha ha ha,
I think that ranks as one of the fastest times I’ve ever been one-shotted. It was like a L1 taking on a raid boss. The combat log was some kind of insane 100,0000++ overkill
Scaling is more than a bit scuffed in older content. Hopefully they’ll fix it soon; I used to like running old raids and dungeons for transmogs, but upwards from later Legion raids it usually isn’t worth the effort. Legion dungeons were easily solo-able by the end of BfA, not sure why BfA dungeons can’t be now.
23k is not actually a fresh 60, its equal to full stage 3 upgraded honor gear, as in ilvl 171. With 180 ilvl, which is basically mythic 0 dung gear and pretty good given current standards, youd have around 25k health.
And yes ive tried doing it on my other rogue at 180 ilvl…just impossible, even a normal dungeon, not even going to talk about mythic. Trash mobs take ages to kill, bosses like 10-20 minutes, or you cannot do em at all because of mechanics thanks to how long the fights are.
Fact remains that the scaling is totally messed up and things that should be easy or not even doable. There were no such issues with Legion dungeons in BfA, or expansions before.
Hate to break it to you, but that does not apply for old obsolete content where you’re essentially fighting grey level mobs, and it was fine in previous expansions. It’s the scaling with Shadowlands that messed it all up. The concept of gearing is only relevant in current content.
I was soloing BfA dungeons on my warrior that at best had LFR and World Boss gear, never actually raided or M+. Scaling definitely f-ed things up. It’s disappointing but sadly I was expecting it. Hopefully it’ll be much easier once 9.1 or 9.2 rolls.
23k health in bear form is fresh geared. Ur talking about DPS classes there.
My DH tank has 37k health and he’s only 160. So for a dudu to have 23k they must be in literal “I just dinged” gear.
Please note such gear is within the ilevel of old expo gear, so if you think that means they should be able to solo it just cuz they 60, shud people who were 460ilevel in BFA be able to solo mythics as well in BFA? Their ilevel would be identical. So the difference would literally be “ding” which is what, 40% health or so if we ignore gearing.
A well geared 50 should be able to do the dungeons (Hc if not mythic) if done skillfully and carefully.
A non geared 60 should rolfstomp it even harder.
This is how it’s been since at least MOP probably earlier. I know in Legion I did the WOD Glory achieves solo in LFR gear. I’ve always gone back and done the achieves from the previous expac, it’s something I look forward to and was hoping to start doing that soon but I guess not.
Remember the days when there was no scaling? Good times…
Ion gave a VERY disingenuous deflection when asked about it. That leaves me with little hope that they will fix anything, because they obviously don’t want to fix it.
Perhaps they can’t believe that we’re not all enthralled by the brilliance of their latest systems, and sometimes want to go elsewhere.