I had a huge post written, but I’ll narrow it down:
Give a bunch of people a few hours to learn their classes. Or 100 hours of “normal” content like the 100+ hours of regular zone mobs you created (snore),
Then throw random groups together in this dungeon.
Observe. Laugh if you must. Cry if you have any sense of decency.
Change appropriately because… kitten.
I know. “Specifics!”.
But seriously. Try this. This instance is so tuned toward your highly experienced alpha team, and not towards normally leveling players in the real world, that YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED to have allowed this into the release of this game without a) much more build up – e.g. lots of really rewarding encounters that kind of prepare you for it and b) a much shorter event cycle so that I didn’t have to spend over an HOUR and more than 1 PRECIOUS GOLD, to find out that none of us had any kitten clue how to deal with this encounter and would resort to fighting and ragequitting in the end.
It would be different if it was shorter, cheaper or we had more practice leading up. But this is a bit like introducing a full-contact Chuck Norris into your living room while trying to watch Sesame Street for the 100th time. There’s just no way to be ready for the pain.
So try this. Seriously.
Seriously.