Dragon Soul
Ulduar
TOC
Dragon Soul
Ulduar
TOC
Naxx Wotlk
Copy/Paste, badly tuned. Nostalgia speaking here, but one of the most fresh and epic feeling raids (yes, it was too hard) became a sightseeing tour. Wasted potential, Naxx deserved better. Mechanics stayed fine, architecture didn't work for 10-man at all.
Hyjal
DS was bad, but remember hyjal? Uninteresting, easy bosses hidden behind walls of super annoying and extremely repetitive trash and stupid NPCs. The concept was completely broken (Archimonde was OK).
DS
Copy/Paste, again. Illidan and Arthas were great villains, Deathwing didn't interest me at all.
Ruby Sanctum
Mags
Dragon Soul (Just because it was far to easy)
TOC gets the honorable mention. If possibly beats mags, except for the fact it was a single encounter dungeon.
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You appear to be confused on three counts- there was under 4 months between Ulduar and ToC Patches - April 14th to Aug 4th 2009. The useless voice chat patch came during TBC when Black Temple was the top raid. Also, tiers pretty much always last more than 3 months, I can't think of a single tier that only lasted 3 months, the aforementioned just-under-4-months Ulduar era may actually be the shortest which is crazy when you consider how it is generally regarded as a very good raid instance.
3. MC
2. DS
And the worst raid ever title goes to...
ToC
Hard to choose, so many bad ones lately.
Dragon soul unrivaled victor obviously, along with all throne of the four winds and bastion of twilight. Yeah cataclysm was fairly weak on the raid front..
in no particular order:
1) Ruby Sanctum (one boss wtf)
2) Trial of the Crusader (what is this all about, one room and no sense of achievement what so ever)
3) Naxxramas 2.0 (after doing the 40 man version and stuggeling hard on it, this dungeon filled with watered down bosses was heartbreaking).
1. ToC
2. DS
3. Probably Ruby Sanctum (one boss filler content after 8 months of ICC lol...)
Also the ppl saying Naxx was watered down content are wrong. The biggest problem was the glyph system made every player extremely overpowered and if there was no glyph system at the time the raid would have been much more difficult
- BWL
- Karazhan
- Firelands
Best Raids though is:
- ICC
- HoF
- Naxx 2.0 (never tried the first)
i swear... i think im the only one who likes ToC
Im going with
Hyjal
DS
BoT
Sunwell isfaceroll at 90. I run through it alone like it's absolutely nothing. The bosses die in like 15 seconds and they tickle me.
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Hyjal makes DS look like the best raid of all time.
Seriously nothing is even 1/10th as bad as Hyjal.
1. Ulduar (I did love firefighter though, one amazing fight doesn't make a good raid though)
2. AQ40 (again, I loved Twin Emps, but overall it was bad, plus I hate bugs, Twin Emps is one of my all time fav boss fights though)
3. BoT (I just thought it was a very basic, rushed and badly planned raid instance, Cho'gall should of been far more epic, I also hated the design of the place)
It's weird that my top 2 worst instances have arguably my 2 favourite fights of all time, but one fight does not make an instance. My main pet hate is the design of the actual instance, not the boss fights.
1. Karazhan
2. SSC
3. Sunwell
Hated BC anyway.
TOC
4 Winds
Dragon Soul
Mention for Ruby Sanctum though
The new ones are really lackluster to me, DS was bad and they seem to be following suit
From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."