World of Warcraft PvP Guides - Dungeons and Instances Guides
For players new to an MMOG many of the terms can be very confusing, especially once you start talking to other players in game. Just think back on all the terms you learned from the first time you started playing MMOG’s. Terms like adds, agro, DoT, HoT, and many more. In this huge new vocabulary some of the terms get lost in the muddle. It is easy for anyone who has played an MMOG before to simply assume everyone know what some of the basics are, and there are not many more basic than Instance, Dungeons, Raids, and in WoW the term Heroic.
Heroics are very simply dungeons / instances that are tuned for players at max level for the expansion they were created for. So Wrath of the Lich King heroics are dungeons and instances that are meant for players that are level 80. They are also made to be more difficult than a regular level 80 instance. How much more difficult depends on the actual instance that has been made into a heroic. Heroics are always normal instances that can be entered by setting the dungeon difficulty to Heroic and then entering the normal dungeons entrance.
So now that you know what all of these critical elements of the game are and want to get involved with them, where do you go? Well the simplest way to start doing instances is as you level. While leveling you will get quests that lead you to the various instances appropriate for your level.