Good morning,
As a person who never made a Dungeon in retail cause i only played Retail 1 week. I like to know what is the expected “time” for each Dungeon. Cause right now i dont know if i should run Dungeon X 1 hour before going to Work/Eat/Bed or not.
So far this is my Experience in Classic as a level 26 Priest:
Ragefirechasm: ~ 30 minutes
Walling Caverns: ~75 minutes
Deadmines: ~ 60 minutes
Shadowfang Castle: ~ 45 minutes
Blackfathom Deeps: ~ 60 minutes
Stockades: ~60 minutes
Gnomeregan: ~ 90 minutes
Razorfen: ?
Scarlet Monastry: ?
Razorfen Downs: ?
Uldaman: ?
Zul’Farrak: ?
Maraudon: ?
Temple: ?
Blackrock: ?
Lower Brock Spire: ?
Upper Brock Spire: ?
Dire Maul: ?
Scholomance: ?
Stratholm: ?
Molten Core Raid: ?
Onyxia Raid: ?
it would be nice if you can share your opinion and complete my list, so i can make a time per dungeon rankeing. And Please Asumme no one is overleveled. DM for example with level 19-20 People and not 23+. I prefer haveing a “worse case”/ “below average” list then a speedrun list
So far: Gnome > BFD/Stockades/Deadmines > Shadowfang > Ragefire
Also, wailling Caverns took me 90min last run due wipe. but i would average it by not less than 75 minutes… but some parties are good and can be done in 60min.
Also, i think that you should split Scarlet Monastery into graveyard, library, cathedral and armory. As there is a huge difference between them
It’s really hard to say. I’d say if you first time a dungeon get as much time reserved as you can. 2 hours at least. Some of them are short, of course: Stockades, Shadowfang, RFC, just to name a few… But when it comes to not-so-short ones, the difference will be pretty impressive between the fastest and the slowest party. I’d say still: as much time as possible for a first-time. And after that you get a feel for it. If you feel like you’ve some time constrains, try not to go with a party that feels unexperienced and/or not trustworthy. If you do have some time - join a wider range of parties and expect it to last your average time.
If Sunken Temple (Temple of Atal’Hakkar) is not taking you five hour then you’re classicing wrong!
I remember running temple being one of the best evenings I ever spent in a dungeon. But then, all of our group were complete nutjobs and kept laughing too much at our cluelessness.
If, however you intend to do dungeons with a very serious group who know all tactics and are correctly specced/prepared then everything will be quicker than average. But where’s the fun in that?
Stockades should never take 60 minutes to clear, maybe 15 max (even with a wipe) looking forward to the BRD timer, I remember spending hours in there one Saturday back in Vanilla.
How about ranking which instances are the shortest by travel length and by mob density? My guess is that stockades is one of the shortest by travel - with SM graveyard behind.
