Another lost level 60

[Alarick]

In no way would this change farming.  Once the place is known, it is no different to target the boss in such a place than it is to target a boss in the mega instances when the path is known.  They both are just grinding as we now have with all the calls you hear to do "runs".  Of course, you wouldn't have world bosses in such a setting and the loot tables allow there to still be special reward for those able to spend the time to defeat the worst of the worst while still allowing equipment improvement for small-chunk-of-time-over-an-extended-period players.
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Dire Maul is a good way to see this. Running DM east for the first time took well over 2 hours. Admittedly, I don't believe any of the 5 in there had gone through before, and we did every quest possible.

Afterwards, Rothgar took me though a boss run. You can skip literally 80% of the content with a particular path and a rogue (or any sneaky level 60 really). A 45-60 minute run hit all of the major bosses in the instance.

The problem with the instance is finding these tricks. For a pick up group, it will still normally take ages to run though, especially for quests. A pick up group, especially without a rogue, will take longer in DM north.

I think the idea of smaller instances would be helpful to the game. I'm talking smaller than DM is even. Something that can be done with a pick up group in about an hour average. In need be, add the raid timer (assuming it gets 100% fixed) to make it so you can still only run the particular section of the instance a certain number of times in a day. I wouldn't hurt anyone if it existed, and it would certainly help a lot of players if these types of instances had good gear for them to progress their character.

I empahsize this again, short doesn't have to mean easy. Blizzard knows how to make things short and difficult. It just sucks that they don't use this skill more often.