I didnt get anything when I went through Deadmines last night Dont know why.

Will have to look to all the quests for Scarlet Monastery then, as I want as much XP as possible when I do it.

Quote from: chrisdickoI didnt get anything when I went through Deadmines last night Dont know why.

Will have to look to all the quests for Scarlet Monastery then, as I want as much XP as possible when I do it.

if your lvl 40 then your to high.

Yep you wont get XP if you do a dungeon many designed for players much lower level than yourself.

Grats on the mount!

Cheers

Thought that might have been the case to be honest! Wish I could do SM on my own, as it seems a PITA to get any group etc together.

Quote from: chrisdickoCheers

Thought that might have been the case to be honest! Wish I could do SM on my own, as it seems a PITA to get any group etc together.

yea, I think the problem is nobody ventures up there.. my lvl 64 chap still aint been there!
was going to run through some dungeons just for the sake of it & to twink my alts

Make sure you use the LFG tool (default shortcut key i). Almost always pugs, but occasionally youll find a guild run who just need a 5th person.

LFG tool..........is that how random people ask me to go places sometimes?? Wondered how they did that!

Did the 1st SM tonight.....was easy, got fcuk all XP, lol. Went in to the 2nd SM and was hard! There was 3 warriors, one which was level 20, a hunter, and summat else....but no healer, so we struggled too much, so everyone quit! lol

Hehe everyone needs to be around the right level and you always need a tank and healer unless you overlevel the place

Level 20 is waaaaaaay too low for SM.

This is one of the first instances where a proper group setup is often needed.

Tank (feral druid/prot pally/prot warrior)
Healer
3xDPS (preferably with some Croud control).

Going in and hoping to just DPS everything down will probably fail.

Check out http://www.wowwiki.com/Instance_guide

Cant get it to at work but I think its the page Im thinking of

Cheers for the link

The other guy was a Mage, and he was decent actually as hed ran it before. I tanked, and think I did ok and kept the agro off the mage. The level 20 did nothing, as he just stood back so he didnt die......Also, are hunters any use really in instances?

I wasnt too bothered though, as I just wanted to get to know where SM was tbh. Can always try again!

Hunters can do damn nice dmg (top 4 people in our 25mans are 2lock and 2hunters) and also some basic CC with traps but they have a very bad reputation with nubs.

Good hunter will pull 1 mob to trap, keep them trapped, do very good dmg, dismiss pet before jumping off a ledge (otherwise pulls alot of stuff), keeps pet on passive, turns off growl.

Bad hunter will pull aggro off the tank and die, not use traps, just autoshoot, pull half the instance when you jump off a ledge by not dismissing pet, have pet on aggresive, growl off the tank so he cant keep aggro, oh and the best ive had... Not even use a pet.

Yeah, we had a bad hunter today actually! Didnt really seem to do anything! Did Uldaman was ok actually.....thought Id get more XP still though....about 1/3 of level 40.

Is it worth me carrying a shield and one handed weapon do you think? As I only use 2 hander normally, and because I didnt have a shield they didnt want me to be the tank, there was a druid or tauren or something who had slightly more HP than me, so he tanked.

Never tank with a 2h, always use 1h and sheild and drop into defensive stance.

Spend some time looking around on wowwiki for tanking information etc.

Never, EVER, and I mean EVER tank with a 2h weapon.

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