how long to heroics take?

hi there

my guild are going to start doing some heroics atm and im concerned about whether ill be able to do them? im not exactly allowed on the comp for hours on end but would like to do heroics at some point. so whats the shortest/easiest heroic?

also, with regards to kara, i understand you can split it up into a number of days, but is there a limit? so can you for example to 2 hours a day? coz my parents get rather annoyed if im on for much longer than that :P

many thanks|||Slave pens is probably the fastest heroic if you take the short cut. Mech and ramps are also pretty short. Any heroic can be fast or can take a long time depending on the group. Really a heroic shouldn't take more than 2 hours but it can.

We usually run kara all at once but i think after downing certain bosses you can then teleport from the start of the instance to a point further in. If you have a well organized raid 2 hour blocks seems doable. Of course if you the raid isn't so organized and you don't actually start pulling for a while and then you wipe or people go afk it can take a lot longer. Kara resets every 7 days.|||If you can't play any longer than two hours, I'd advise you to forget about Karazhan.

You really want 3-4 hours minimum in there or you'll get pretty much nowhere.

As to Heroics... Slave Pens can take as little as 45 minutes. Shattered Halls 30 minutes with a Paladin tank and 3 AoE classes (and around 1 hr - 90 minutes for everyone else).

Most heroics should be doable in 2 hours, but that does mean you need to have a group ready from the get-go.|||Allways make sure you have whatever time it might take before you start doing an instance. If you really have to leave at some point, make sure your party knows so they won't be stuck halfway missing one person. You might want to schedule heroics with guildies on your first runs so you can get the most out of your playtime. Tell people to be ready outside the instance and tell them when you have to leave so they can have a replacement ready in case you won't be able to finish.|||I'd say kara is doable - I have to share the Pc I use and generally I'll be raiding for about 3hrs in the evening. Speak to your Gm about it and see what they say. I know if a fairly competent player who knew what he was doing had asked to join the kara runs I used to lead I'd probably take them over someone who could stay the distance.|||cool, thanks guys

my guild isnt exactly hardcore raiders, we're just a casual guild that like to have as much fun as possible when playing :D GM is really cool, he knows my situation as do my other guildies, i may be able to squeeze 3 hours out of my parents on weekends :D hehe

thanks again!|||you can surely clear half of karazhan in 2 hours, if you are fast you can clear the entire place in 3 hours. Heroics can take less than 1 hour if you are fast.

but it all depends on your group, the level of your gear, how well you play together etc.|||my guild has 2 groups in kara 1 of them is only running for 2-3hrs a night due to younger healers in the group. but clearing kara in 2 nights isnt a problem at all. as long as your guild knows that you can only raid from 8-10 for example then they can have a replacement sat on the door step of kara so you log they summon new player up.

as to heroics slave pens, ramps and mech should be under 1 hr with very few problems others will take a lot longer but its all down to who you run the dungeon with|||Quote:








you can surely clear half of karazhan in 2 hours, if you are fast you can clear the entire place in 3 hours.




Um not unless you completely outgear the place. When we were still needing drops from there or heroics it took us 6-8hours per clear. Now? 3.5 to 4 and we could likely push it close to 3 if we really wanted to. But that groups is fully epicced and very good.

But, yes, you CAN run Kara in 2-3 hour chunks. I used to run a casual group in and i pushed them to do a boss per hour since we were getting TOO relaxed and messing around dying to trash etc. So we focused and killed 4 bosses in 3 hours when, at the time, we were just adequately geared. Actually, i think it was five... let's see... Attumen, Moroes, Opera, Curator, Maiden. Yep, 5...

And yeah, heroics are easy to do in less than 2 hours per if you have a decent group.|||Quote:








you can surely clear half of karazhan in 2 hours, if you are fast you can clear the entire place in 3 hours. Heroics can take less than 1 hour if you are fast.

but it all depends on your group, the level of your gear, how well you play together etc.




Seeing as it's someone who hasn't seen the inside of Heroics yet (and me making the, possibly false, assumption that the rest of the guild is in largely the same situation - seeing how he says "they're starting"), I honestly wouldn't go say that Karazhan will be cleared in 3 hours.

They'll do well to get past Moroes on their first day. They simply don't have the gear or experience to blow through Karazhan in 3-4 hours.

Similarly, if you're new to a Heroic and don't know short cuts/which mobs you can leave in peace and bypass without killing them, your heroics are going to take a fair bit longer than on your 10th run through.