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#1 Dec 11 2006 at 8:43 AM Rating: Decent
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I have been an active farmer of SFK BFD etc for my lowby characters, and my wallet. With the new patch there is an option when you right click on your face IG for instance difficulty. Normal, and Supercrazyomfghard. My question since I have yet to tweak and try; Are the drop rates increased? are there other drops that become available? are there new mobs??? or is it just harder? If its the latter, it seems to serve no purpose other than a a personal challenge which also would get boring after a few runs.

So by and large I am skeptical of the purpose of the instance difficulty option. Anyone that could shed light, or point me in the direction of a thread that has this topic already would be appreciated.

#2 Dec 11 2006 at 8:49 AM Rating: Good
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The instance difficulty option only affects dungeons included in the expansion. As of right now, Blizz doesn't have any plans to apply the difficulty-changer to existing dungeons.
#3 Dec 11 2006 at 8:55 AM Rating: Decent
A guildy said they got it to work in Wailing Caverns. He said to get it to work the leader of the group has to be at the level requirement for said instance. So like, if you were level 60 and trying to do it for SM, it won't work because you are too high of a level.

Also, from a different guildy (who was in the beta), he said you have to beat the instance in normal mode first before heroic mode becomes available.

Now mind you, this is just what i heard from a guildy, so I can't verify any of this.

Edited, Dec 11th 2006 12:01pm by jpaugh
#4 Dec 11 2006 at 9:40 AM Rating: Decent
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I was running my warrior through RFK to farm items for an alt, and decideed to try "heroic". It definately let me set the instance to heroic.

But then I got into a group for another instance and never actually ran it to see what was different.

So as far as I can tell, you can set (at least some) existing dungeons to heroic.
#5 Dec 11 2006 at 9:53 AM Rating: Decent
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Grollog I have seen the same thing. I was on my way to SFK and set it to heroic. Never actually entered the instance as a guild run of scholo was starting and I wanted to join. SOMEONE TRY IT!!! If there are no reply's by the time I get out of work (lollercakes) I will try it myself, and post it here.
#6 Dec 11 2006 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=52717687

Did a simple search on the o-boards and got this thread with a blizzard post in it. Dungeon difficulty settings do nothing for non-expansion dungeons.
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