64-66: Mobs that do stuff

In the mid 60s I've still been getting assigned the occasional SP or UB, but the majority of my instance runs have been either Mana Tombs or Crypts.  These two instances are some of my most hated in BC.  They're just annoying.  I hate all the mana burns and  I hate possessors, although the later are a non-issue on normal mode.  I remember needing to explicitly yell at pug DPS to switch to the possessors sooner on heroic difficulty but I've found that I'm able to easily kill them on my own now - they only have 1300ish hp.

In other news, I've now switched to leveling almost exclusively through instances.  I didn't even spent my last two talent points for my DPS spec for a long time.  As an aside, for anyone who looks me up on armory and wants to make fun of my gem choices - I basically just buy whatever's cheap and I see first when I'm scrolling through the AH.  I know my crit/stam gem is retarded but it was like 2g I rather than continue scrolling through for something else I just bought it and jumped back into an instance.  Min/maxing is for when you're at the level cap, not for gems in gear you're gonna replace in another couple hours of play time.

The one time I did head back to bang out a couple quests, I noticed that it's actually a lot faster for leveling than running Tombs/Crypts.  I think questing will always come out a little ahead because the reward XP is ridiculous and with flying mounts be available at level 60 now, quests take no time at all.  But when the ranom instances are Tombs/Crypts I'm not able to bullrush through the way I can in something like SP.  As you can see from the video in the post below. SP is an isntance where you don't really have to care if the group gets feared into the next pull.  All the mobs are nonthreatening and you can AOE several pulls at once.  In Mana Tombs you can't do this because of the mana burns, the healer will run OOM before you're able to kill everything if you pull too much.  And in Crypts you can't just round everything up because a possessor might be able to snag someone, and there are so many casters that the mobs won't neatly gather in a pile for you to AOE.

All in all, I'd say this is one of the least fun stretches in a while.  I'm just not a big fan of the instances I'm getting assigned.  Unfortunatly, I don't think I'll ever get to run Shattered Halls, Mechinar, Botanica, or Arcatraz, which are some of my favorite BC instances.  I assume random Northrend dungeons will be available at 68 or 69 and I'll be running those instead.