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Instances are brilliant and they are not the most popular thing for mid-level characters, and some people avoid them like nuts, but they are only hurting themselves. Once you get to level 80, which are about all that's left besides serious PvP, so you better start now enjoying yourself.
Instances are very important. The reason is that they can teach you how to play as a member of a team. The best gear always drops in instances and when it boils down to it, the experience is excellent if you are there at the right levels. It can be tough to find a good group, and we'll discuss that a little later in an article on guilds, but you should really just suck it up and do them all.
You'll run through Deadmines, Stockades and Blackfathom Deeps on all your Alliance toons when starting at level 20. Those three runs are good for usually 4-6 levels and 4 or five blue gear items. Since the guild's power players all have alts, we go do runs like that a few times a week so they are super fast. We'll usually get through all three of those runs in about 4 hours. You could probably level almost as fast going it solo in Ashenvale at that level, but you sure wouldn't get the gear.
Why to do instances? We think the real reason is like the reason you simply must spend some time in battlegrounds and dueling. If you don't ever do them, you won't be any good at them when you really need to be.
You may as well have the ability to pull mobs great in the wild when you need to separate one or two from a congested area, but most of the time, that won't work in an instance. As usual, you are going to get all mobs because they are linked in an instance if you pull one. So you are forced to work as a team where a Mage sheeps right after a Rogue saps, and then you pull whatever is left. If your Hunter is any good they can trap another one and now your tank and healer only have to worry about 1 poor little dead elite walking with the fury of a Rogue coming in from behind and a nice fat fireball in his face, and a ravager tearing his eyes out.
