Black rock spire but particularly LBRS that place is a masterpiece of map design; layers up layers...UBRS is actually a part of LBRS and you can fall from UBRS to LBRS in a few places. The dungeon was practically a 5 man raid. So many challenges from how to pull, to CC, to boss mechanics.
I made all my new warrior recruits tank a LBRS run for me back during vanilla as a test of whether they were competent and it worked. It set the tone of seriousness and expectations and taught me a lot about their strengths and deficiencies as warriors.
It also didn't hurt that I was one of the tanks who was willing to help people with LBRS for the onyxia key chain (Warlord's Command) and few other people wanted to set foot in there.
SM is great for teaching people how to pull, by the time I start running SM is when I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere with my character. Love Zul'Farrak, the atmosphere is brilliant. Bums me out when people say the stairs event is tedious, it's great.
Least favourite probably the quillboar ones or the low level mazes, wc/mara.
Black Rock Depths. I probably ran this dungeon around 500 times back in Vanilla. It speaks volumes and I believe it to be the perfect five man instance. The size really showed what Blizzard tried to do with dungeons. I mean you had to go through there to get the Molten Core (obviously was scrapped early on). There was no fixed route and pretty much every group had a different way to run it. I remember knowing everything about this instance - be it boss, routes, keys or quests. I am not exaggerating. At the end of Vanilla I duo farmed this instance with my Warrior friend. Many crazy stories about this dungeon and a lot of gold was made.
Besides that, all the 10/15 Man dungeons were really well made. I loved running LBRS and getting the quest for the ring for UBRS. I began running this instance when the first Winterveil event started and being really jelous that I didn't win the green hat that drops during the event. It was funny to see the reaction of people when you used the ring during the Rend Blackhand fight. Stratholme had an amazing vibe, espacially knowing the WC3 story.
Maraudon's Earth-Song Falls is my absolute favorite in terms of design. I always wanted to travel around Desolace and see if I could find the massive chasm with a dungeon inside of it but never did.
Also Blackrock Depths for the sheer size and exploration aspect of it.
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Scholomance, it's just so gorgeous when you stop to look at the doodads and all the other things populating it.
But I must say, by concept alone BRD is very, very cool.
I'll seem like a simpleton when I admit this, but that's okay.
I love Ragefire Chasm.
It's so simple, easy, and when you're a low level you meet new friends through these dungeons so it's a pretty nice networking dungeon off the beginning.
Next in line would have to be Shadowfang Keep because of all of the interesting bosses and the size of the dungeon is a pretty good run.
I love every single one of them. Dire Maul and Maraudon are so beautiful and mysterious.
Maraudon for me, I love its varying aesthetics, and that it's segmented into all these different parts which can be accessed through each other. Usually Maraudon runs can also end up being very long when no one has the scepter, so lots of great memories have been made in that dungeon.
Sunken Temple would be my runner up.
BRD obviously, as many also chose. Needs no explanation.
Also really like Zul'Farrak. The theme and bosses were really fun. Have good memories of that place.
And Wailing Caverns is just a classic. I love how a group of 'noobs' with few skills run around that snake pit, collecting their first greens and occasional blue. Everything that drops there feels like such a big upgrade.
Zul'Farrak
Deadmines
Scarlet Monastery
I'm a huge fan of Scholomance and BRD.
I love Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep, Sunken Temple and BRD. :)
I love Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep, Sunken Temple and BRD. :)
I personally agree with Sunken Temple and BRD :)
EASY! Scarlet Monastery, for sure. I don't think I've ever felt more at home in a dungeon. I tend to main priest and the entire inquisition/catholic church aesthetic fits perfectly with my priestly fantasy. I remember spending hours trying to get that bloody tabard of the Scarlet Crusade. In addition, that room with the secret sliding door in the Crusader's Chapel blew my mind when I saw it for the very first time. Can't wait to get in there and experience it all over again. IMO, Whitemane's Chapeau is the definition of vanilla priestly aesthetic.
Wailing caverns purely because it was my first ever dungeon experience back in vanilla. Sitting there at the skull-shaped entrance with all those dragon encased mob portraits. Filled me with a mix of awe, curiosity, and a sense of danger. Good times!
I enjoyed going through the city-like dungeons the most, I think. Gnomeregan, Dire Maul, BRD, and Stratholme.
Scarlet Monastery - it's got something for everybody, and prior to level 60 it's the only dungeon that I've always ran multiple times on virtually every character I've rolled.
Deadmines. An absolute classic and hands down probably the most iconic dungeon of World of Warcraft. Everyone knows it! It was so neat crawling through this claustrophobic series of caverns and tunnels, fighting goblins, miners and mages to finally blast open this door to a huge pirate ship inside a massive open area filled with pirates and their parrots. Truely surreal and I don't think any other MMO has quite captured a similar experience and community aspect as that dungeon has.
I'll narrow it down to my top three:
1) Stratholme - the environment in the burning city was just incredible. From the secret bosses, to the two sides to run,
to the raid portal to Naxx that never came to fruition, to the lore from WC3... this is my favorite dungeon.
2) Scholomance - another excellent environment and backstory nestled into a very challenging dungeon.
3) Black Rock Spire - this is a combined upper/lower dungeon. Crossing the last bridge to Drakkisath, looking down and seeing so many
different floors of Black Rock Spire has always impressed me.