If you want to say why "World of Warcraft" can always be in an irreplaceable position in MMORPG games, as a veteran player who has played Warcraft for 15 years, my biggest feeling is that Warcraft's unique team copy experience is not found in other games of the same type. It is precisely because of the group design that has been maintained at a very high level for so many years that World of Warcraft has been the king of the MMORPG game track until now, and it has survived a large number of competitors.
However, as an old game with 9 expansions for nearly 20 years, the team dungeons in World of Warcraft have also reached a very terrifying number, and so many team copies naturally have uneven levels between each dungeon. But in my mind, there are 6 copies that are more classic than other dungeons, and I believe that for many old players who have played all the way, these 6 dungeons also have a very important position in his heart.
1. Molten Heart
The team book of Molten Heart has a special meaning in the hearts of all Warcraft players, not because of how well it is designed and how luxurious the equipment drops, but because it is the first group book that all Warcraft players face, and it also allows all Warcraft players to see the charm of the World of Warcraft team dungeon.
In fact, if you want to look at the requirements of the current dungeon, the group of molten hearts is very simple, the boss's moves are few and monotonous, and the dungeon map has almost no sense of hierarchy, basically a few simple forks, and throw a boss at you in the deepest part. If players who have experienced the last 3 major versions of World of Warcraft go to play, they will definitely find it boring.
But it was also this kind of dungeon that revealed rudimentary and immature everywhere, allowing players who were new to this type of game at the time to see the charm of teamwork and working together to overcome difficulties. It was this dungeon that made World of Warcraft and other online games distinct from the minds of the generation of players back then.
2. Temple of Darkness
As the penultimate team of the TBC version, the Dark Temple is much more mature than the team book of the level 60 version, and at the same time, the team size of the player team has also changed from 40 to 25 people, which has become more streamlined, and the talent skills of each class are also more perfect, and the player's dungeon experience has actually become very good at this time. However, what really makes this group book one of the most classic dungeons in my mind is because in this dungeon, players can finally get up close and personal with popular characters in the Warcraft universe.
In this quest, players will be able to go head-to-head with Illidan, a popular Warcraft character, which is a dream for players who have entered the pit from Warcraft. And after defeating Illidan, you can get his signature weapon Aeginoth Blade, which is also the first orange weapon in the TBC version, both in terms of the plot and the drop, the Dark Temple is a very memorable copy for players, so much so that when I mentioned the TBC version many years later, I thought of Illidan and the Egg Knife, instead of the Sunwell and the Orange Bow later.
3. Ulduar
This copy of Ulduar has a very special significance for national server players, because neither the WLK version of the year nor the later nostalgic server players have been able to play. This kind of dungeon that has been missed twice in a row is the only one in the entire history of Warcraft for players in the national server.
In my opinion, Ulduar's dungeon design is in the top three of all the World of Warcraft versions, and the various interesting mechanics in the dungeon are seen in other WLK dungeons. The old one's vehicle battles, the left and right hand bosses, the different modes of Salon, and the battle of the last observer Algalon are enough to be called the pinnacle of team-based boss design. There were a lot of MMORPG online games called World of Warcraft back then, but after experiencing their copies, I can only say that the copies of those games were more than ten streets worse than Ulduar.
4. Icecrown Fortress
Icecrown Fortress as the finale of the WLK version, I personally think that it is inferior to Ulduar in the dungeon design and boss design, but the biggest significance of this team book is to let Arthas, a plot line that began in Warcraft 3, come to an end here, and players need to break through the Scourge Legion's rush to reach the Frozen Throne to personally slash the most popular villain in the Warcraft series.
It has to be said that Arthas's popularity is indeed incomparable to other characters, and WLK also reached its peak in popularity in the Icecrown Fortress version, and began the first decline in the number of online users in World of Warcraft in the subsequent Cataclysm version. Alsace has contributed to such a high popularity, and the vast majority of players have insisted until the end of the version in order to make the final end with the former Terran prince, of course, the final boss battle has not disappointed the expectations of players, and the epic battle atmosphere + the highest difficulty of the year has made it the most memorable boss battle in the minds of players after many years.
5. Blackstone Foundry
The Blackstone Foundry is one of the worst groups that has been scolded, because its perverted difficulty led to a large number of guild groups being broken up, and the number of online people fell directly to the bottom, and it was this group that made Blizzard decide not to announce the number of online people in World of Warcraft anymore, if it weren't for the fact that the subsequent version of the Legion Advent was too good to save the number of people online, the Blackstone Foundry might have become the culprit who ruined World of Warcraft.
But if you look at the dungeon design regardless of the difficulty, I think it's an excellent team book no less than Ulduar. Although the map of the whole dungeon is not large, many of the bosses are very creative and have their own unique mechanics. For example, the Rolling of the Mine Tunnel, the Train Supervisor, the Burst Furnace, the Two Brothers of the Conveyor Belt, and the Final Boss Black Hand each have unique mechanics. There is no such thing as a simple and brutal DPS crush in this dungeon, and a large number of bosses must learn how to deal with them in order to pass.
But the high difficulty ruined this dungeon, because the mechanics of each boss are very different, and learning to deal with it itself has certain requirements for the player, coupled with the outrageous numerical strength, it directly beats ordinary players to the ground. If the boss stats are not that high, then these interesting mechanics will definitely be the focus of discussion in the future.
6. Night Fortress
As an Alliance player, I enjoyed Night Fortress a lot, as it was a quest where I could avenge Gul'dan, the leader of Stormwind. And the Night Fortress is also the most layered dungeon in my mind, the player enters the dungeon from the sewer, and then fights the underground boss all the way to the courtyard, and then reaches the inside of the fortress from the courtyard to the top and finally goes up to the top to have the final decisive battle with Guldan.
The area of the entire dungeon map is actually very small, but Blizzard has opened up the vertical space of the dungeon, and players may experience 4 boss battles in the same place, one underground, one on the ground, one inside the fortress, and one on the top of the fortress, which can be said to have achieved the ultimate in space utilization. This small, delicate copy is hard to find in all World of Warcraft versions.
summary
I tried several games of the same type after the World of Warcraft server was closed last year, and I felt that I couldn't play anymore, mainly because I couldn't get used to playing their copies, I felt that the design was too sloppy, and the characters' operations were not so smooth. It's all the World of Warcraft dungeons that have whetted my appetite for so many years, but fortunately, the national server is also coming back, and I hope to be able to experience more interesting dungeons in the new version in the future.