Soloing Old Instances For Alt Gear and Gold

I think one of the reasons I’ve stayed a WoW Noobie is because I just don’t have the time to do raiding and if I had the time to Raid, I still wouldn’t have the time to study that weeks instance, learning the trash, the map and the bosses weaknesses. This time restraint also is a reason I feel I don’t know my toon well enough torisk killing others, If I did Raid.

So one of the things I’ve found fun is, when I have an hour or so (on my own time) is to run my own raids on old lower level instances. For most of the dungeons this is my first time visiting but I usually don’t have to worry about dieing since I’m 80 and they are lower levels. Since I don’t know the maps either I do get lost some but it’s kinda fun exploring.

This past week I’ve had a little time on my hands so I was able to run Gnomeregan and Stratholme. Stratholme was great, since it’s level 56-61 I still had to be on my toes when attacked but groups. Not alot of gear dropped but it was a tense and fun solo battle. Last night I ran Gnomeregan, at times this could get a bit boring because usually everything was a one hit kill, but the drops were crazy last night! I bet I sent 30 greens and a couple blues to my bank alt and had the good luck to get both Schematic: Lil’ Smoky and the Schematic: Pet Bombling. So not only did just selling gear get me around 300G but I learned to create 2 new pets that I can sell and sent some sweet gear to my alts. Oh and I almost forgot I also received another drop that I didn’t know existed, the Manual: Strong Anti-Venom.

What should be my next solo dungeon? Have you ever done this?

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2 Responses to “Soloing Old Instances For Alt Gear and Gold”

1. PZ says:

   July 28, 2010 at 10:11 am

   I often run Deadmines solo… its fun just to have everything sitting there smacking you then hit one button and they all die lol.

   Only downer is most of the blues are Bind on Pickup so it’s hard to get some good gear to send to alts… but you can make a decent living off of the cloth alone.

   Lots of linen and wool in that dungeon.
2. Arkiem says:

   June 17, 2011 at 12:27 pm

   I also run old low level raids, especially level 70 raids, the gear looks more epic and the raids are more fun so i understand your point of view, nice post