I have been trying to run low level dungeons on my 45 mage and nothing makes any damn sense.
- had a lv11 warrior who was doing 15x more dps than me
- bosses oneshotting people like it’s M+10
- wiping to trash
- the new scaling is so damn broken
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That’s nothing new, they have like 1 button so that 1 button needs to scale hard.
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Did a leveling dungeon on my level 40 rogue. The level 11 Resto Shaman did 15k DPS over the run. More than all the other players combined. It was pretty funny actually.
No body died. It is what it is. I’ve just gone back to fishing/cooking dailies and pet battles to level.
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are you saying tanks getting oneshotted in a low level dungeon is no big deal?
ok buddy lmao
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Oops. I was under a different impression. A warrior doing more damage than you shouldn’t be broken.
this is the new wow fun stuff lol
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I leveled 20 new tanks in dungeons during the prepatch. The only time I ever got one-shot was because of a bug in Razorfen Kraul where the boss’ spirit link totem sets your health by flat amount and not by %. A level 14 was in the group, so it gave me 76 hp and I got one-shot by the level 54 boss.
The group was able to clear it without me, because dungeons are easy for low levels.
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You think that’s bad? I was leveling an alt yesterday in the old world. Things were fine until I got to level 35. As soon as I dinged, my auto attack was one-shotting everything, even elites. Then, I checked the new zone caps. Old world only scales to 30. I guess they didn’t expect people not to notice and stick around. So, after level 35, everything is an easy kill. LOL!
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This is normal. If low levels didn’t get a big damage amp to make up for their lack of kit then they’d get lobbed for doing no damage which is particularly bad if the player is new.
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This is mostly tanks not using mitigation. It’s not the bosses one shooting players for no reason
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You can activate Chromie Time in order to continue leveling the old world, if that is your wish
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I know. I just thought it was funny.
Leveling dungeon scaling has been broken since SL prepatch. Freehold is the great filter preventing new players from staying on. You go in Ataldazar and get this expectation that dungeons are 15 minutes long, and then you go in Freehold and 2 hours later you are out of repair money. It’s just sad.
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You don’t even have to do the arena pit boss in freehold to get the random dungeon XP. It can be skipped.
That means you fight 6 packs of trash total if you go that route
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Let’s be fair Blizzard can’t tune end game dungeons so how it heck could they tune them for levelers?
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That’s not what I am talking about. I am talking about the NPE, New player experience.
Firstly, new players have no concept that they are there for the random dungeon XP and typically want to do the dungeon at face value. Your little tips and tricks don’t reach them. Those shouldn’t be required to have a good experience in low level dungeons to begin with.
Secondly, the arena boss isn’t really the main killer in Freehold, it is the trash mobs eviscerating new tanks. I’ve been in around 50 unfinishable Freeholds this expansion because a minimum level tank comes in, instantly dies 15 times and leaves, a replacement minimum level tank comes in, instantly dies 15 times and leaves, and so on.
This is the face of WoW for like 80% of new installs for the last 3 years and it just sucks.
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Doing multiple times the damage of the rest of the group combined should not be normal.
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It sounds like you don’t try to communicate to me. In my experience, if a new player tank is having trouble like that all I need to do is whisper them and ask how they’re doing, and if they need help or are unsure of what to do
Then they figure out how to shield of the righteous, shield wall, death strike, etc
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that’s normal if you do the pulls wrong. you’re supposed to use crowd control and interrupts for dangerous packs.
You are just missing the point. Most low level dungeons are likely all 5 inexperienced players. There’s a whole WoW society that goes on without your involvement, and that is the one that matters most. Without that demographics being served, there is no future. I have 8 tanks in full season 4 raid gear and rival S4 PVP sets. I am an exceptionally good tank. When I go in Freehold on a low level twinked tank, I pull a pack and I just instantly die no matter what mitigations I have up. There’s nothing to tell them. You just have to have level 48 mitigations or literally anything else is a better experience, but they don’t know that. They can’t know that. It can not stay tuned the way it is.
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