The puzzle dungeon is a completely different type of content. In the puzzle dungeon, there are no trash mobs. Instead, there are puzzles and affixes. Before starting the puzzle dungeon, members can choose their affixes, but doing a puzzle dungeon with an active affix does not increase loot quality. It only offers achievements.
So, what is needed to clear puzzle dungeons? Well, for starters, most classes cannot solo the puzzle dungeon. There are multiple class specific challenges, and without the appropriate class, you can’t solve the dungeon. But, you can only take 5 classes… and there is one puzzle type for each class! This means that you need to clear the puzzle dungeon using the classes you have, and the clearing path will be different every time.
Puzzle dungeons have puzzle rooms. In a puzzle room, the dps need to keep consistent dps on the puzzle, while the classes that can solve the puzzle do so. Puzzle rooms have built in limiters. For example, a puzzle room might decrease the dps all players can do by .5% every second. This lowered dps means that the puzzle shields might come back online if the puzzle solver doesn’t solve the puzzle before the dps completely collapses.Other puzzle rooms have lava on the floor, or require non-solvers to run jars back and forth or to do some other task to enable the solver to do their job.
Puzzle dungeons also have greed rooms. A greed room has lots of treasure, but a persistent threat that will kill the players suddenly if the linger too long. An example is a slowly closing door, and once the door closes any player in the room will die, and the puzzle dungeon will be over.
Puzzle dungeons also have group solution rooms. This requires each member of the team to solve a puzzle at around the same time. Puzzles are mixed, so many times, people don’t know which puzzles need to be solved for.
Lastly, puzzle dungeons DO have bosses! But, these bosses must be tanked, and a solver must solve the puzzle for that boss to reduce its defences. Bosses may have up to 5 defenses, each one reducing slows and damage taken by 20%, and each one removable via solving the right puzzle. Puzzle are scattered all over the place in boss rooms.
So, what puzzles are there?
Paladin:You need to divine bubble past a ring of death that will kill anyone normally.
Death knight: You need to infect 5 statues with a disease
demon hunter: You need to reveal and kill 3 invisible demons.
Druid: You need to use entangling roots on the right statue
mage: You need to polymorph the right statue.
warlock: You need to use demonic gateway to get to an island in the middle of a room with an infinite abyss beneath it, and banish the statue.
Priest: You need to levitate over a pool of liquid death that will kill you if you try to enter.
Warrior: You need to charge over burning fires
Monk: You need to meditate and calm the inner turmoil of the correct statue
Shaman: You need to purge the curses from the right statue.
Rogue: You need to unlock the right chest.