Overview
Instances are a big part of World of Warcraft. You won’t experience one until your late teens but once you do, you will see what WoW really has to offer. These areas are designed to allow groups to complete stories in the game. Each area has it’s own theme and opponents, who are nearly completely elite monsters, most of whom attack in groups.
Instances are where you find some of the best items in the entire game. As a matter of fact, odds are you will have all of your equipment at level 60 that come from instances. The last enemy is usually very large and has a wide set of attacks that you would not find on normal creatures. They tend to take between 30 mins and 4 hours to completely clear one, with the average being about 2.5 hours.
Groups in these zones usually need to be very balanced to succeed and in the higher level instances, players really need to know what they are doing as even a small error can wipe the group out.
There are also Raid Instances that are for groups of 20-40 level 60s. I won’t go into any major details about that simply because by the time you get to the point of doing those areas you should know every inch of the rogue class from this guide.