daily heroic "random" dungeon...Follow

I had a friend who had a lvl 80 priest alt. She was angry because she said for the past two weeks the random on priest each day was Nexus. Her priest was decently geared. I assumed she was exaggerating and I did a random wit her priest, sure enough it was Nexus.

My characters get random dungeons, or maybe I just don't keep up with it enough.

Mine is either UK, UP, OCC, or any of the new heroics (generally H HOR which I despise).

I think it has something to do with some people seeking specific things from dungeons.

When Frozen Halls was released, *most* of my randoms were from H-FH much to my displeasure, as some of my characters weren't geared for it (some still aren't; I haven't done a heroic in months).

Then, I was seeing a lot of Occulus.

And then you got the CoS.

I'm thinking it has something to do with how many people are Q'ing for specific dungeons.

H-FH instances are a given -- 232s drop in there like candy. Someone wanting to score a few easy pieces of gear without having to blow Emblems on them would love to do this for the drops.

Occ, some people Q for that as it is a pretty quick and easy instance these days with lots of bosses. Even without the spoils bag from getting it as a random, it is still a very quick instance for the number of bosses that are actually in there. Lots of emblems for very short amount of time.

CoS, some people want the drake. And it has one of the only 2 purple shields in the game other than the Titansteel Shield Wall (the other is, IIRC, in H-Freaking-HoR).

As for UK, it is the easiest one to get through fast. Nexus, has lots of bosses AND is Easy too, and then UP has the boss count too.

I could see if some of your "WTH is with this so-called randomness!?" thing being influenced by some people Qing for dungeons specifically and you end up in those groups because of that.

"I'm thinking it has something to do with how many people are Q'ing for specific dungeons."

It makes perfect sense to me. If a tank or a healer queues for a specific instance, he/she is going to get it instantly (tank) or within a minute or two (healer). The other players just queued for a "random", but ended up in the instance the tank or healer queued for specifically.

UK - super fast and easy
Nex - fast and easy, plus has 5 bosses (badges)
CoS - tanking shield
Occ - extra badges
ToC - lots of purple drops if you're gearing up an alt
ICC five mans - better purps for players who are replacing their "beginning purps"

I can see why these ones might come up more often than some of the others.


BTW: The tanking shield comes from REGULAR HoR. I should know, I ran it dozens of times before it dropped for my pally. Actually it got "ninja-ed" the first three times by dps who didn't have the manly (or womanly) parts to tank it themselves, but were perfectly willing to roll "need" on it even though I always started the instance by saying that was the only thing I needed from the run (but I'm not bitter).