Comments on: Question of the Day: What are your favourite instances/ flashpoints of all time?

By: Syl

Syl — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:49:58 +0000

two words: DRAGONS!

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:06:42 +0000

I really like Black Talon (it was always a shock when the captain survived ).

By: Kadomi (@Kadomi)

Kadomi (@Kadomi) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:06:44 +0000

I wish I had gotten to experience more FPs as I did in my time in SWTOR. I only did the first four, and of those, Black Talon was the clear winner.

As far as WoW instances go, my vanilla favorite was SM for the atmosphere, in TBC I loved The Botanica, WotLK I enjoyed the Stratholme instance before running it over and over ruined it. Cataclysm had very weak instances, I couldn’t really pick a favorite. If I had to, probably Vortex Pinnacle.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:59:05 +0000

Sunken Temple made my head hurt after a while. I honestly preferred Maraudon to that.

By: Syl

Syl — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:06:48 +0000

For WoW – Sunken Temple in vanilla; Karazhan in TBC; Utgarde Pinnacle in WotLK.

By: Jonathon Barton

Jonathon Barton — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:50:49 +0000

The Polaris in The Secret World.
It’s the best instance I’ve experienced in any game. There are perhaps 2 dozen trash mobs in the entire instance, and the final fight is nothing short of **EPIC** (OH GOD, DID HE JUST….HE DID…OH, GOD WHAT NAO!?!?!?)

..and it’s the first instance in the whole game…

Historically, I loved The Scarlet Monastery, despite trash after trash after trash pull…

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:12:32 +0000

People ran the vanilla instances regularly. Maybe not 12 times a day regularly, but plenty often. There were always people who wanted to farm them for Tier 0 gear, or ultra rare drops, or crafting drops, etc etc. Clearly they had flaws — they were long for a start.

Nu-Deadmines is a good instance, in the WoW style. But I never found it the complete experience that Strat or Scholo were back in the day. They were less structured around events and corridors. Sure there were events, but you might have to trigger them from quests you had done outside the instance, or they might have more random elements. NuDM is still a long tunnel with pauses for events to happen.

IMO Kaon in its way is a better descendent of both original Deadmines and Strat/Scholo in that structured type of way. But without the extra complexity.

By: Simon Jones who is Blogless

Simon Jones who is Blogless — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:10:33 +0000

Sunken Temple, home of the ‘Where the hell are we?’ boss.

By: Simon Jones who is Blogless

Simon Jones who is Blogless — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:08:48 +0000

The thing is, new Deadmines /is/ a rich instance with a strong story and a variety of exciting events and was arguably one of the best dungeons of Cata. People just got to be able to run it reguarly and so it’s faults became more obvious, something I suspect some of the older dungeons didn’t really have to endure.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:24:29 +0000

The old, big “let’s tell a grand story” instance in WoW has been eschewed in favor of raids instead. The largest instance in Cata was Halls of Origination, but it’s not my favorite by a long shot. The thing about Blackrock Depths in Vanilla was that it really was a living, breathing city. Sure, it had other things to it, like having to get the key to get into the other part of the city (which required you to actually die to start it off), but merely finding all of the cool things like the tavern and wandering around the upper part of the arena where all the spectators were yellow simply made the place.

I did poke my head into AoC’s Sanctum of Burning Souls briefly, and the imagery there looks very brutual and savage, which is perfect for what Funcom was going for.

I suppose I ought to go back and get into a flashpoint or two, but I’ve been following my Gunslinger’s story so much that I’ve been focusing on that.