Favorite Raid, Favorite Dungeon?

[JJShadoe]

The title says it all. Which is your favorite Raid and Dungeon? Give a brief explanation of why! Maybe someone will give you a good reason to re-visit some worthwhile old content.

Favorite Raid - Karazhan - Because it's one of the only raids that feels to me like a real space that you can move around in and explore, instead of just a series of neat-looking but arbitrary big rooms with big bad guys. Loads of lore, excellent encounter design and diversity, and the most immersive raid zone, for my money's worth.

Favorite Dungeon - Ahn'Kahet - The Old Kingdom - Because it's the most visually striking zone in the game for me. There's such depth to the space inside here; so many intriguing things out beyond your reach that make the Nerubian underworld feel like such a huge and mysterious place that you're barely scraping the surface of.

[DeleteThisUser]

Couple different favorites for each section.

Raid: SwP. The reason it's my favorite is wiping to M'uru countless times is enough nostalgia for me. The real reason is the entire raid felt right.
Raid: Ulduar. Who doesn't love Ulduar (or Mimiron)? Everything from the lore to artwork to raid mechanics and hard modes. Plus Val'anyr is sexy.
Raid: ZA. I liked the idea of "exploration in the jungle," even though that doesn't sound right.
Raid: Naxxramas. Many memories in the old and new one. Healing Loatheb back in the original one was... interesting.

Dungeon: Nexus. First going into the instance, the artwork and rune style looked amazing.
Dungeon: DK & Gundrak. Both were great. Has a nice northern jungle feel.
Dungeon: Forge of Souls. The dark metal/rustic looked is a favorite of mine.
Dungeon: Utgarde Keep & Pinnacle. I'm a viking fan.

There's plenty of other ones I like or dislike, but mostly because of memories.

[Knough]

I've only recently discovered that the new ZG is my favourite dungeon; on a new-ish alt (530 ish, pvp/pvpe cheapskate mix), the difficulty is just tuned so it's not a faceroll, but it's not impossible. There's little fun stuff like the master chef, there's the cauldrons, some nice loot, rare mounts.
I think the beauty and depth was often ruined a bit in Cata by the initial difficulty, since I never managed to get into cata raids until LFR.
Green! Funny gimmicks! Good difficulty! Mounts!

[Adam Jensen]

Karazhan or Ulduar.

ICC as a close second.

[MrHappy]

raid: Throne of Thunder
dungeon: i guess it is more of a set but i liked the LK set of dungeons that lead up to the ICC.

[Mekkle]

Throne of Thunder, just for Lei shen, I have no idea why I like him so much, he just seems awesome to me. As for dungeons? Utgarde keep and Utgarde Pinnacle, i love viking related stuff.

[Lochton]

Dungeon: Blackfathom Deeps (Has been renewed on my list after seeing the update to come), Maraudon (specially at the waterfall), Shadowfang Keep.

Raid: Karazhan, Ulduar and Throne of Thunder

[Rorke]

Dungeon - Pit of Saron

Raid - I've never raided

[Tziva]

Karazhan is my favourite raid.

It's very hard for me to pick a favourite five-man. Shadowfang Keep or Scarlet Monastery maybe? There are so many I'm fond of.

Edit: Original Stratholme, dead side.

[Haywire5714]

Favourite Raid: Throne of Thunder

Favourite Dungeons: Pit of Saron, Forge of Souls, Well of Eternity, Vortex Pinnacle.

[McNeil]

Favorite raid: Icecrown Citadel (Love the boss fights, the lore, Arthas and the Scourge in general, the atmosphere, the way the raid has been lay out where you have a lot to choose, having an epic ending, some of the most funniest bosses in WoW like Putricide and his ''children'')

Favorite dungeon: Stratholme (The first 5 man dungeon that felt huge and a little scary, see'ing a huge human city burning while overrun with the undead)

[Ciddy]

Favorite dungeon - BRD (the older version that could take hours to run and frequently had people getting lost). I loved the dwarven theme it had and how huge/epic it felt. It was always fun to get in one of those groups that went out of the way and did a full completion of the instance.

Favorite raid - Tie between Karazhan and Naxxramas (though I only did the level 80 version of Naxx in Wrath).

Loved plenty of others, but those are the first ones that come to mind when I think of favorite dungeon/raid. I liked the dungeons that were ridiculously long and huge, especially the ones that had multiple wings like Dire Maul or Maraudon. I haven't been a big fan of the "rush through it and burn everything and be done in 10 minutes" thing when it comes to dungeons.

[Acelius]

Favorite raid: Karazhan. It has a strikingly different atmosphere and layout, and bosses like the Chess event made it truly unique.

Favorite dungeon: Blackrock Depths. I just love massive dungeons that takes a long time to explore.

[Arrashi]

Raid - Dragon soul.
Dungeon - Vanilla Maraudon.

[Diograo]

Here we go again

Raids:
Karazhan - Funniest ever, no needs to explain! My favorite overall raid!
Ulduar - its the best for me from a artwork perspective! I love it!
ICC - best of the best in terms of lore and immersion, imo. I really felt I was going through the domains of LK to go face him! It seemed like I was there in person lol

5mans:
Forge of Souls/Pit of Sauron/Halls of Reflection - these 3 fitted so well in lore, and it have very nice artwork too.
Shattered Halls - invading an enemy fortress to reach its core and kill the enemy leader ... so fun! My favorite dungeon of all time!

[emmert]

Favorite Raid: Ulduar
Favorite Dungeon: Well of Eternity

[Archmage Alodi]

Raid : Sunwell
Dung : Well Of Eternity