Most horrible instance per expansion. (MMO Copycat)

[Mychelle]

I saw this over on MMO Champion's forums, and thought it might be interesting to do so here. =P Basically, you give your input on which dungeon you hated the most per expansion, and a little info as to why that would be your choice.

Vanilla:
Burning Crusade:
WotLK:
Cataclysm:

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My Votes:

Vanilla: Blackrock Depths. Got nothing to do for 5 hours? This was a good time waster.
Burning Crusade: Black Morass. Lets introduce a timed event that you CANT SPEED UP.
WotLK: Halls of Stone. Hurry the hell up Brann. /twitch
Cataclysm: Grim Batol. Half the time you get people being lazy on Dragon bombing runs. So it seems to take an exceptionally long time to get anywhere when your having to kill *all* the mobs from 80%+ Health.

[Moore]

Vanilla: I love them all honestly, but the worst for me is always purple or orange Maraudon. I love center however.
Burning Crusade: Once again I really like them all, but I guess Auchenai Crypts because it only has two bosses.
Wrath: I don't really care for either of the 'draks.
Cataclysm: The first one in Vash'jir I do not like that at all. Underwaterness/giant octopus o3o

Also Black Morass I always thought went too fast... I was kind of a noob still then though.

[Aleu]

Vanilla: I didn't really mind many of them... Well except for Maraudon. God I hated that one.
Burning Crusade: I remember always dreading Mana-Tombs. I don't remember why exactly...
Wrath: Halls of Stone. I would get nothing, but this one whenever I queued for a random and I've grown to hate this one.
Cataclysm: Both ZA/ZG. Just... why blizzard? =/ ZA is no different then it was back in BC and sure ZG was kind of fun at first, but making them give 140VP per completion? They're not even hard anymore. I've run these two enough to be plain out sick of both of them.

[CrystalKitten]

Vanilla: Gnomer. enough said?
BC: Not sure, I didn't really play much when BC was "current".
Wrath: Not sure there's really anything I disliked... Although.. Bran's slowness was annoying.
Cataclysm. Hmm.. Tough one. I think in general.. I just really REALLY dislike how they severely gimped some of the more interesting dungeons, like Sunken Temple without giving us the option to do the original versions... I actually like all the 85 ones though.

[Vephriel]

Vanilla: Gnomeregan, for sure. Never liked the appearance, or the confusing route, or anything about it. I still sigh out loud when I get queued into it on a lowbie. Ugh, just hate the place.

Burning Crusade: Hrm, I can't really pinpoint my least favourite. I didn't like any of the Auchindoun ones really. Mana-Tombs and Auchenai Crypts might be the ones I disliked the most.

Wrath of the Lich King: Halls of Stone and Halls of Lightning, for sure. I loved all of the other WotLK instances, but those ones were just always so meh about getting.

Cataclysm: I guess it's Grim Batol. I actually really loved the place the first time I went through it, I remember saying it was my favourite dungeon. The repetitive failure of groups though over time just led me to dread getting it in queue though.

[Kalliope]

Ugh, this is hard to do, since everything got a lot easier in hindsight....

Vanilla: I'd still say BRD. Epic though it might have been, there was basically no chance of a pug completing the instance. Ever.

Burning Crusade: Shadow Labyrinth, though if we're counting heroics, MANA TOMBS. Shadow Labs sucked on normal as well as heroic, but god, I hated heroic Mana Tombs with a passion.... Also, Caverns of Time: Hillsbrad's quest design that meant people lost the escort quest chain halfway through was a pet peeve.

Wrath of the Lich King: Halls of Reflection, simply because pugs were capable of failing every section on both difficulties.

Cataclysm: Tough call. Grim Batol and Halls of Origination still suck to get in a pug (again, either difficulty), even now, but there's little that can compete with running heroic Deadmines undergeared before the nerfs. I loved the instance once my group got geared and didn't have to pug it anymore, but the initial scarring remains.

[Chimera]

Vanilla: Strat and Scholo, but now i love them to death, before it was the issue with them being undead :S But now its just plain out Maradon, and was always Maradon in vanilla

TBC: I think it was Mana Tombs, whichever one had Etherals in it, i dont like them, no one ever did the quest with me so my escort always permanently died for that run when one person says 'sure!' and i summon up and everyones like 'no!' -_-;;

WotLK: Utguard Keep. Utguard Pinnacle. ANYTHING WITH VYKRUL. Only vykrul i like are the frosty blue ones in Storm Peaks >_>;; Azjol'nerub and Ahn'kahet were actually not that bad for me, i hated bugs to death in my earlier years but i was fairly alright with WoW bugs in dungeons, but oh god did it take me a long time to quest in Silithus..

Cataclysm: Deadmines. For one thing only. Spiders. Not the new models of spiders, the old ones, the vanilla ones. Arachnids are the one thing i actually avoid in WoW that have an exoskeleton. Bugs i can do fine with, scorpions? They dont even look like bugs to me! Spiders? I will never truly love an Arachnid i think, well actually no im sure i will, i have a soft spot for the WoW tarantulas but the old world Spider model, and to be huddled in a corner cowering, well, Helix scoot on over casue im joining you, i too am terrified of the fact your surrounded by possible a hundred or so Spiders of all different sizes and your in a CORNER with nowhere to RUN and even the small ones become as large as your SCREEN as they ATTACK YOU. *shivers and hugs her Brilliant Macaw* thank god that the spiders dont appear in reg. deadmines....

[Nahale]

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[CrystalKitten]

Cata: Stonecore. I'm not sure I'll ever run this again with a random tank.

<.< You weren't part of our terribad run last night! That's the one we were doing that I was complaining about... I will admit that while I don't hate it (I better not.. I want the draggy), the giant boss is DEFINITELY one of the top 2 or 3 worst bosses in Cataclysm if the tank doesn't know what they're doing... "Oh look spikey things. I'm sure my group won't mind if I keep the boss pointed at them the whole time, I'm sure those spikes are fun!" -.-

[Magli]

Hm.

Vanilla: probably Gnomer. I always got lost in that place. I went back at level 80 to farm up the engineering pet schematics in there, and got lost again. Grr.

BC: To be honest, I didn't run many BC instances. There was one heroic in HFP that was almost impossible unless you had a paladin tank; I remember hating that one because I had capped my Honor Hold rep through questing but couldn't convince anybody to run the instances with me unless I could recruit a paladin to tank it.

Wrath: Halls of Reflection. Too many bad PUGs experiences in that one. I'm not sure I ever tanked the gauntlet successfully.

Cata: Grim Batol. Had too many bad experiences in there the first couple months, the worst being a two-hour wipefest of a PUG that never even got to the final boss. I always dread it when it comes up as a random, and am always surprised when we curbstomp it in 35 minutes....

[meepitco]

Vanilla: Mara or BRD. I hate both of them ~_~
Burning Crusade: Well, none. If we start talking about raids...Probably Tempest Keep. I personally don't care if Phoenix drops from it, I don't like it.
Wrath: Occulus...I don't give a damn about Halls of Stone, just...OCC was horrific...
Cataclysm: ZA/ZG defiantly. I did both raids before, and to be honest, they were MUCH better than these cheap knockoffs.

[Nahale]

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[Lupis]

Hmmm…
Vanilla: Probably Blackfathom Deeps. Hate that place.
BC: Ohh… Not sure, really. I liked a lot of them. Oh, wait, I hate Old Hillsbrad.
Wrath: Halls of Stone/Lightning. I LOVED every other dungeon.
Cata: Grim Batol. >.<

[Lisaara]

Vanilla: Blackrock anything....evil evil place. Gnomergan too.
BC: I never had issues with BC dungeons. I liked them.
Wrath: The 3 Icecrown ones. UGH!
Cata: Can I say all of them? ><;

[peanutbuttercup]

Vanilla: UBRS. Felt like I was trapped going there for different things. Plus no one ever had the key so half the time you'd spend hours trying to find someone to let you in.
Burning Crusade: Didn't really do any then so I can't say.
WotLK: Halls of Lightning/Stone. So darn long!
Cataclysm: Deadmines. I don't think there's any other instance which has killed me so frequently. Plus you never get out with the same group you went in with because no one else can stand it either.

[Serenith]

Vanilla: Gnomeregan, just hate it. And Wailing Caverns.
Burning Crusade: I don't know... maybe Mana-Tombs.
WotLK: Violet Hold. It was fun once, or maybe 6 times. But I hate that place. Especially the stupid water bubble boss thingy. The instance felt like we just ping pong from one side to the next side, just kinda boring.
Cataclysm: ZA/ZG....wish they kept it the way it was. I liked going back to the old versions just for fun, and now I can't do that anymore. And Sunken Temple is a joke now, its way too quick.... heh, I never minded the old way. Oh and Halls of Origination, it takes too long... even when you skip the skippable bosses. But in all truth, back when it was fresh and new and I was only healing instances, I would say Stonecore cause I wanted to cry after that place (Ozruk on heroic mode was a nightmare to me cause I would often miss a SW:P and get paralyzed which would be bad for the ranged who had no dots.) I just hate that place.

[Atraiyu]

I have a little bit of an intricate nature when it comes to doing instances. When I'm lvling a new character, I HAVE to complete the WHOLE dungeon at least once, whether I hate it or not, or else I feel as though I really didn't complete it.

Vanilla: Maraudon, Just because it seemed to have absolutely no 'Flavor.' Just could never get into it. But I still died a little inside when they let you bypass Purple and Orange to get to the center.
Burning Crusade: Any of the Archuadon instances. sooo boring and bad PUGs would fail at even the simplist trash pulls, even if you can get a group that'd get pass the first bosses.
WotLK: I'm ok with most of the Instances from Wrath though Bran's slowness was Painfully slow but i found Pugs who wouldn't finishing the whole instance to be Infinitely more Painful.
Cataclysm: Sunken Temple without a doubt! They took and Gutted one of my Favorite Instances til it's nothing but a shell of it's former self. It was like they drove a stake through my Heart when I ran a character through it Post-Cata.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Vanilla: Wailing Caverns pre-nerf. While the dungeon itself wasn't hard, the god forsaken maze was and I dreaded ever getting queued up for it with a PuG, especially since a lot of PuGs don't realize that you need to clear all of the bosses before you can get to the murloc boss, and a lot of people *still* leave before you can do the final event. Even now I still end up with a lot of unfinished WC runs because nobody sticks around for the final event.

Burning Crusade: Auchenai Crypts. Mainly because the opening trash pull causes a lot of problems for people new to tanking. Although it seems as if they've made pulling that entire section a little more forgiving now,especially if you're wearing full BoAs. Other than that, I've been able to tolerate the other dungeons I've PuGged.

WotLK: Halls of Stone was annoying, yes, but by far the worst dungeon there was Halls of Reflection, simply because sooooooooo many people couldn't figure out what LoSing around the corner means or how to run a gauntlet. I absolutely dreaded queueing for that place. Occulus was a short ways behind that in groan factor PuGs.

Cata: I actually like most of the Cata dungeons, honestly. Grim Batol's a bit of a bitch and has a pretty steep learning curve, but I rarely queue that one. Stonecore can be incredibly annoying. I think the most painful one I've been PuGged into though is Halls of Origination. Even when skipping optionals dumb people can find a way to make that dungeon a pain in the ass. And part of me is still sad they redid ZA/ZG.

[Erinyes]

Vanilla: Wailing Caverns. 2 hours of killing random animals while lost in a cave, falling through the gap, and then an escort quest finale? Pretty though.
BC: Didn't do a lot of BC dungeons, but I'll go with Crypts, since I was just plain tired of "tomb full of spirits" after Vanilla.
WotLK: Halls of Reflection due to two things: a) No one ever understtod LoSing the first fight. And b) The fact that you had to LoS the first fight so all you see is partly cutoff player models for 10 minutes.
Cata: Blackrock Caverns. No one seems to understand the stand in the beam thing.

[Comett]

Vanilla: I didn't really hate any of them as long as your tank (or, you know, a leader) new what he was doing. Prime candidates of fail tanks tended to be WC, BRD, UBRS, Mara, Uld, Gnomer. Mara probably takes the cake for me because it just seemed so... pointless.
BC: I was never fond of... Mana Tombs, I think? The one with all the ethereals.
WotLK: Again, I didn't really dislike any of them, but I know I'd groan a bit inside if I got HoS random... if only you could speed up the event, lol e_e And it's still painfully slow even now bah.
Cata: Ummm. Apart from the Zandalaris, probably Grim Batol (I LOVE the story behind it, but the execution is so long and boriiing), and maybe HoO? Again I don't mind the actual instance itself, it's just the requirement of doing that stupid event which takes forever.