How Follower Dungeons work in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

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This new dungeon tool is also handy if you’re unfamiliar with a dungeon and want to get to grips with it before hopping in with other players. With that in mind, here’s everything you need to know about World of Warcraft Follower Dungeons.

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Follower Dungeons are currently limited to Dragonflight, so they’re mostly good for getting damage-dealing characters from 60-70 if you don’t want to quest in the outside world. Questing or running dungeons with groups of players (either pre-made or as a tank/healer, with their shorter queues) are more efficient means of leveling.

Follower Dungeons are chill, however, and make a pleasant addition to the game when you have a few minutes to kill. They represent one way to get an alt character experience, pick up a few extra pieces on a new max-level character, complete a quest that requires a dungeon run, or farm for that glyph or item that drops off that one boss.

One other bonus to consider: You’ll never have to worry about a too-fast or too-toxic group again—although your followers will quit your party if you die! Don’t worry, they’ll show up again after you release.

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WoW Follower Dungeons

You can queue for Follower Dungeons as you would any other Dragonflight dungeon. Open the Looking for Group tool and select Follower Dungeons from the drop-down list in the upper right corner. You’ll be presented with the list of Dragonflight dungeons, minus Dawn of the Infinites, and can check as many as you like.

These are Normal-difficulty Dragonflight dungeons, and you can queue with one to four other players in your party. Currently, Follower Dungeons require level 60 and a 180 item level to queue, though that may change in the next expansion when Dragonflight becomes the default leveling experience.

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The gear that drops from them is the typical Normal dungeon leveling gear, which gets better as you get higher-level, maxing out at Explorer loot at level 70. At 3/8 on that upgrade track, that’s 421 item level—so this is one more way to get an alt a piece or two of gear if they’re behind.

Sadly, you can’t just run Follower Dungeons endlessly as you are limited to 10 a day. If you’re leveling and use a full party of NPC companions, you’ll get about 80 percent of the XP you would in a pickup group of players.

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WoW Follower Dungeons

When you queue up (alone or with friends), the game will populate the rest of the group with whatever you’re missing—a tank, healer, or another damage dealer or two. If you’ve done the Exile’s Reach starting experience for new players, you might recognize some of the names—these characters are NPCs you saw during that experience, including the final dungeon at the end.

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WoW Follower Dungeons

The NPC AI is surprisingly good and has clearly been programmed for the specific mechanics of these dungeons. They swap to targets that need to be downed quickly, dispel your debuffs, react to mechanics, and basically act like a better-than-average leveling pickup group.

With that said, interrupts aren’t always their forte, so if you’re a long-cooldown interrupt class like a balance druid you may notice that things frequently go off, but heals are strong and Normal-difficulty dungeons are forgiving, so it’s a pretty smooth ride.

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