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Should level-capped players be put into content they outgear?
I do not like The Stonecore. On a recent guild-sponsored alt run, four not-ready-for-heroics players and my level 85 shammy queued up for a random Cataclysm dungeon. We wound up with The Stonecore. We immediately decided that we didn't want to run The Stonecore, but we also didn't want to just wait the 15 minutes to requeue. So, we cleared our way to the first boss and defeated it, successfully eating up the 15 minutes. Not wanting to actually finish an instance that didn't offer us any level-appropriate gear, we re-entered the random dungeon finder. The result: The Stonecore. Again. We gave up, ran the instance for the lousy 70 justice point payoff, and died a little inside. A huge part of my distaste for The Stonecore is related to how often it comes up in the random dungeon finder on both heroic and normal versions. It's a wipe-filled nightmare on heroic, especially with a group that doesn't know what it's doing. (And let's be honest, text-based communication on the fly can only get you so far.) I have no complaint about getting regular Stonecore at levels 82 and 83. The problem is that I get it all the damn time when I'm level 85, and Blizzard gives me almost no incentive to finish it.
Totem Talk: Resto shaman healing in Throne of the Tides
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Totem Talk for elemental, enhancement and restoration shaman. Want to be a sultan of swing healing? A champion of Chain Heal? Totem Talk: Restoration will show you how, brought to you by Joe Perez, otherwise known as Lodur from World of Matticus and host of the BDTU: Lore edition podcast Well, the climb to 85 sure was a fun one, wasn't it? No matter what path you took to get there, if you're reading this, then you're ready to heal some folks and venture into the dungeons of Azeroth in pursuit of gear, fame and maybe a little rep. Today, I'd like to start by talking about healing Throne of the Tides in Vashj'ir. This is one of the first instances you get a chance to enter in Cataclysm, and honestly, it's one you should definitely visit at max level on both regular and heroic modes. It's a wonderful instance visually, and it holds some very nice restoration shaman loot. It lets you, well, get your feet wet, so to speak, in the new world of healing. After all, Under the Sea, darling, it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me.
