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by Mike Schramm 
Sep 22nd 2007 at 9:00AM
Seeya from Dethecus has an interesting question for us to answer this Saturday morning: What's the total number of times you've visited the instance you've seen the most of?Most guilds raided Molten Core many, many times to gear up everyone that needed it, and back at 60, I spent many weekends plowing through the lava packs down there. I've also run Shadow Labs many, many times since BC dropped, and Steam Vaults and the Arcatraz have also seen me go through quite a few times. Nowadays, Karazhan is probably getting the most traffic, although the cooldown on it probably keeps people going through there as often as they'd like. And don't forget lowbie instances-- I've been through SM and Deadmines on every character at least a few times.
But for me, the instance I've been through the most times overall is definitely UBRS. There were days, when I first hit 60, when we would run it twice a day. I've tanked it, healed it, and DPSed it. I've learned it, taught it, marked it, master looted it, done every quest in there and seen every drop. I've seen a hunter pull Drakk, a Mage pull Drakk, a Warrior tank them all, and even seen a Rogue do the pull. I can't count the number of times I've seen Eviscerate IX drop, and at one point, I could probably list off both all the pulls and Rend and Nef's dialogue to you-- without being near a computer. UBRS is my instance, and I'd put my runs through there at almost 100.
So what's the instance you've run the most, and how many times have you been through?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Instances, Raiding
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Pex Sep 22nd 2007 12:59PM
Well, probably Deadmines.
My friend has done SL 33 times though. ;)
Tolthalan Sep 22nd 2007 1:12PM
Post BC, gotta be Karazhan. God only knows how many times I've been there.
kentiam Sep 22nd 2007 1:56PM
Baron runs all the way. I ran that at least 100+ times, at one point (Pre-TBC) myself (Prot warrior) a warlock and a priest, were 3manning in nearly 45 minutes. Chain pulls ftw.
Sl0th Sep 22nd 2007 8:21PM
I can look at this one of two ways.
On a single character, I've run Shadow Labyrinth at least 10 times through, with another half-dozen aborted-mid-way attempts on my hunter trying to get a Sonic Spear. I've also done Steam Vaults about 5 or 6 times so far, and I foresee other instances quickly gaining in number as I try to get more heroic keys.
But if you go by all time on all characters... Deadmines. Hands down. Every one of my characters that's made it past level 18 has been in there at least once. Some 3 or 4 times. And I'm a bit of an altaholic, so that's a who lot of DM runs on a bunch of different characters.
Lanfier Sep 23rd 2007 12:31PM
Probably Zul'Farrak. There was this one streth, last August on my very first character. Seven or eight other guildies and I were constantly running ZF trying to get five of the eight people Sul'Thraze. I think my Warlock made it from 42 to 48 just from ZF runs. Dark times.
DaddySpaz Sep 23rd 2007 5:16AM
Goddamn Zul'Farrak. I still solo it like 3 times everyday since all blue items there disenchants into Large Radiant Shards. With some luck i can get 6-7 of them in 15 min and then with some greater luck sell them 12g a pop. I even got the Mallet Of Zul'Farrak a week ago so i could get more DE-loot ;P
Otherwise it would be ShadowLabs. Got neutral to Exalted in there without any lowercity quests, mainly cuz i never bought my flyingmount for TempestKeep ;P
feadin Sep 23rd 2007 10:53PM
Worthless Wrecth! your friends shall join you soon enough!
Buuty Sep 24th 2007 6:48AM
Reading this thread rally makes the gun sound boring at level 70? Running something over and over so you can get a weapon that allows you to run something else over and over? Fix MMO mechanics!
Savageman Oct 18th 2007 7:06AM
I must have run Strat 75 times at least with my old guild. Uusally it was the same group and we were always trying to get the picolo. We got to the point where we didnt even need to talk about what we were doing. It was the most fun i've had in the game.
Oblivion Sep 24th 2007 11:21AM
The old level 60+ content wins the prize for most runs for my characters. UBRS/Undead Strat/Onxyia are probably tied for first place and BWL/MC have to be a close a second.
BRD is probably my most run non "end-game" instance. People always needed BRD for some reason. Especially alliance characters trying to get there Onxyia attunement.