Definitely Ramparts

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I've always been a fan of Underbog as an easy heroic. Mech is a nice set of badges, but I hear they're nerfing that next patch as they add badges to the 10-man stuff.

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I've run all the heroics except Black Morass now, and in order of easiest to most difficult, I'd put them something like this...


1. Slave Pens
2. Underbog
3. Ramparts
4. Botanica
5. Auchenai Crypts
6. Mechanar
7. Blood Furnace
8. Steamvault
9. Sethekk Halls
10. Shadow Labyrinth
11. Mana-Tombs
12. Shattered Halls
13. Durnholde (Old Hillsbrad)
14. Arcatraz


Believe that's all of them. Of course this is just based on my own person experience, so I imagine that people are going to disagree. Anyway, there you have it, Xonate's List of Pansy Through Impossible Heroic Dungeons.

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I think the answer is the same set of heroics that people start with now... Mech, SP, UB if we mean which are the easiest step up from normals. If you can run Arc, SH etc in normal, you can run those in heroic.

For fun? Hmm.. I'm partial to UB, but mostly because it's new to me (I didn't run it as I levelled). SP is fun, but you need CC as there are 4 packs with 2 that fear and one that MCs.

The biggest challenge people will have is tanks holding aggro on mobs and/or keeping mobs CCed while the tank moves from mob to mob. Unless they nerfed the heroics again, the mobs hit pretty hard and will 1 or 2 shot most cloth/leather wearers esp those who are less geared up.

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I haven't run that large a variety - but whenever I want a real "easy" run and a good way to get badges, I hit up heroic Mech. For the difficulty, the payoff is tremendous...and it's really not all that difficult.

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Definitely Heroic Mech. The 2 minibosses are pushovers, the instance is short and trash isn't hard. Apart from the lady boss you can PuG it everyday.

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the 2 easiest are UB and SP by far. but likr any other dungeon heroic or not, the level of difficulty is deirectly related to 2 factors, Group Make Up and Player Skill/gear. if u have no CC any heroic will be very difficult, if u have a under geared tank, who has trouble holding agro, any heroic will be very difficult. if u do not know all the pulls, and what to do for each pull, any heroic will be difficult.

if you have the right class make up, and people geared and experienced enough for that level of play, any heroic will be simple.

most heroics are realtively simple, and usually only have 1 Gear/Experience check point. for example
heroic Ramps is really easy, but some groups just cant kill the last boss. or Blood furnace, the whole thing is super easy, except the second boss event, unless you use some tricks, this can be very difficult.
heroic SH is pretty straight forward however the gauntlet run is quite difficult on heroic. the same goes for all heroics, knowing the dungeon, class make up, and player experience Gear are what determines if a heroic is hard or not, not the heroic it self.

ive been in groups that walked through heroics, like they were on normal mode, ive been in others that couldn't manage the first pull.

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I just ran heroic Shattered Halls yesterday with an almost ideal group:

2 Frost Mages
Prot Pally
Holy Priest
BM hunter

Despite this, we had some bad luck with CC breaking and Assassins (one 2 shot me with no warning), and were unable to complete the speed run.

Also, Sethekk Halls is quite similar to Slave Pens in terms of difficulty (some slave pens pulls are actually harder imo)

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Heroic Mech used to be the easiest badges to get, but like #3 said it is getting nerfed with the new patch. The two minibosses no longer drop badges, you just get one from the chest you open with their crystal fragments key. I would say heroic Slave Pens would be the easiest for those just starting out.

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Heroic Shattered Halls is definitely easy with a Paladin tank, you don't even crowd control as long as both him and his healer have Karazhan-quality gear, which isn't difficult to have these days.

It's also drops 5 heroic badges per run, because it does have 2 minibosses on it, much like the gatekeepers in heroic mechanar.

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One of the problems in considering which is the easiest is that sometimes the boss fights are not of the same difficulty as the rest of the instance. For example, in heroic Crypts, the boss fights are relatively easy, whereas the rest of the place can be a pull due to the wandering ghosties as well as all the adds that get auto-summoned. Whereas in Ramparts, the rest of the place is a pushover, except the last two bosses can be rough on an inexperienced group.

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Shattered Halls is cake. 45 minutes later we have 5 badges. Group: pally tank and healer, warlock, rogue and hunter.

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Heroic Mech... it's so easy I forget it's a heroic. 2nd would be Steam Vaults simply because everyone is so familiar with that zone.

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Mech is the easiest. It's also done the most which means you're more than likely to run with at least someone who knows the place pretty well.

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Heroic Shattered Halls isn't so bad with a good pally tank, just because of the mobs. I definately wouldn't want to run it with someone undergeared though.

By far, the two that seem easiest to me are Ramparts, and Mech.

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Mech with a lock is fairly idiot proof. As long as you have a good tank and good healer, which is pretty much the case with all of them.

Slave Pens is fairly easy with decent CC.

Sethekk Halls is waste of time and energy.

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Last week I started a thread on the WoW forums about this change. The response has been overwhelming in the "This is a bad change" way. And not just people complaining that they worked hard to get their keys, so why should everyone get theirs for free.

Up to this point, getting your heroic key means you've run those instances quite a bit. You know your way around. You've got intance gear. You can get honored with any faction without ever running an instance -- this means you'll have folks with quest greens and no clue what the instance is, running the heroics.

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I'd have to agree that Mech is the easiest heroic. Plus the first boss is more fun on heroic anyway imo =P

As for the hardest, I'd have to say SH based on my experience.

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Hate the COT heroics. Mech, ramps, SP, seketh all easy. The true 70 ones are all a nice challenge. But i have never gotten 5 badges from SH....is the 5th from the timed event?

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I've run several heroic mechs with my regular group and made it all the way to the third boss before realizing we were actually on a heroic.

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