12-13-2010, 12:05 PM
I'm not trying to make a big deal out of it. My preference is to do 10 mans. Mainly because I feel that they will most closely represent the true reasons why the game is challenging. And if they're harder, then that's great. Hell, that's the point. I prefer that type of challenge over the frustration of a 25 man raid where 1/5 of the raid is actually hindering progression as opposed to helping it forward.
Blizzard themselves have said that their intent is to make the two formats roughly equal in difficulty. And they've said that they've taken into account the "varied skill levels" (see: bads) that compromise a part of every 25 man raid. So it's not just me pointing out the differences behind the difficulty in 10 and 25.
Unless 5 pieces of loot drop off each boss (idk how many pieces drop but it was 3 throughout the entirety of WotLK), you're actually getting less loot off 25 man as opposed to two 10 mans. And that's completely discounting the legendaries. Two ten mans will get twice the legendaries.
None of the ranking sites I visit, including wowprogress, are differentiating between 25 and 10. So there's no prestige lost. In fact, given this, I'm very much concerned that a tight 10 man guild like Silhouette will have an easy time capturing the realm rank 2 spot.
The only reason I've seen for doing 25 mans that isn't flat out wrong is that 25 mans are more "epic". I don't agree, but how someone feels is not something you can argue against. You just have to ask yourself how important this epic feeling is when compared to all the opposing reasons against 25.
I suppose there are some clique issues that could develop. I'm not sure how that would play out. Though I've said it before... Half the people in any given 25 man are people I don’t know that well and wouldn't miss if they were gone.
If anyone has some other good reason for doing 25 man, I'd love to hear it. Otherwise the above are my reasons and I don't think I'll be stating them again. It seems like the majority of people want to do 25s - most of them "because it will be easier". I think that's pretty sad actually, but I'm sure 25s are what we're going to end up doing at first. We'll just have to see how it goes.
Blizzard themselves have said that their intent is to make the two formats roughly equal in difficulty. And they've said that they've taken into account the "varied skill levels" (see: bads) that compromise a part of every 25 man raid. So it's not just me pointing out the differences behind the difficulty in 10 and 25.
Unless 5 pieces of loot drop off each boss (idk how many pieces drop but it was 3 throughout the entirety of WotLK), you're actually getting less loot off 25 man as opposed to two 10 mans. And that's completely discounting the legendaries. Two ten mans will get twice the legendaries.
None of the ranking sites I visit, including wowprogress, are differentiating between 25 and 10. So there's no prestige lost. In fact, given this, I'm very much concerned that a tight 10 man guild like Silhouette will have an easy time capturing the realm rank 2 spot.
The only reason I've seen for doing 25 mans that isn't flat out wrong is that 25 mans are more "epic". I don't agree, but how someone feels is not something you can argue against. You just have to ask yourself how important this epic feeling is when compared to all the opposing reasons against 25.
I suppose there are some clique issues that could develop. I'm not sure how that would play out. Though I've said it before... Half the people in any given 25 man are people I don’t know that well and wouldn't miss if they were gone.
If anyone has some other good reason for doing 25 man, I'd love to hear it. Otherwise the above are my reasons and I don't think I'll be stating them again. It seems like the majority of people want to do 25s - most of them "because it will be easier". I think that's pretty sad actually, but I'm sure 25s are what we're going to end up doing at first. We'll just have to see how it goes.