re: WoW - What's your favorite dungeon/raid ever?

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Heck, just the need to farm rare crafting recipes and make alchemy lab/Black Forge/Black Anvil runs kept these dungeons relevant and useful soooooo much longer than present-day dungeons which become largely obsolete after the first month or two of the expansion (beyond the occasional late-game catch up gear), and that’s a real shame.

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I've never really looked at it like that before, it makes sense.

Instead of making dungeons useful outside of loot, like the ways you mentioned, they decided to have players run them as fast as possible for better loot (Mythic+) instead of the immersion.

I remember running BRD all the time for some Fire Resistance bracers for our MC raid. You just don't need to do that kind of stuff anymore and I think the game benefited from it.

If you had a couple friends that needed to do some dungeons to prepare for the week's raid all of your friends would group up and run those dungeons for everyone. Now dungeons revolve around people guarding their precious Mythic+ keys that they have to use an addon/website to determine if you're qualified.