Naxxramas

[oldmandennis]

I have not designed them in my mind completely and thus can't give you complete rewards, quests, whatever you could possibly get there.

I didn't expect you to. I was asking in general what you were looking for - lvl 60 greens, lvl 70 blue, lvl 65 purple... what?

How long time people spend there? Or should spend there? Same, just like any other instance and dungeon. How much time do you spend in Deadmines or Wailing Caverns?

See, there is a big jump in the amount of time you invest per instance as you move along. WC, you do one time for 2 hours, probably. Starting with BRD, if you want to continue to progress your character, you run dungeons multiple times. And when you start raiding, you hit the same place maybe a hundred times.

You can have some class ability in there given through collecting quest items.

So now the raiders have to play solo? And yet it is unreasonable to expect people who want to solo to raid?

Does a 5 man instance have a requirement of items of a specific level and colour to drop for it to be possible to implement? Appearantly not since I have been (even with my limited instance experience) in 5 man instances that has droped everything from purple items to at most some green level items (don't thing it has almost any blues possible at all).

Yes, that is exactly it. Blizzard tries (not always completly sucessfully) to balance the drops from an instance against the difficulty and duration of it. This is the crux of the matter. If you are ok with your hypothetical dungeon dropping lvl 60 greens, then it's not a big deal if it can be done by some classes can do it in 20 min. If you want 60 blues, then it has to compare roughly to strath/scholo/DM. And by the way, no nonraid instance drops purples at a reasonable rate.

27 was a bit of an exageration, it's supposed to be one for each tree of each class. However, it would be atleast 9, and probably more. If you are really challenging the players, there will definatly be encounters that are very easy for shadow priests, and difficult for holy ones, and visa versa. If you don't make all the wings, it will be easymode for some classes/specs if it is possible for less optimal ones. And if it's easy mode, you can't pass out gear better then what you get in Strath/Scholo