Naxxramas

[Warlock]

MC is a poor example of the raid scene.  It seems more than anything to be a learning instance where a guild may work on their organization.  The fights are terribly straightforward, with Ragnaros being more gear-dependant than anything else.  Having fought my way through MC, ZG, AQ20, BWL, and delving a bit into AQ40 so far, I can say that the Molten Core is not enough experience in the raid scene to adequately comment on it.  The scripted encounters Blizzard released after the Core was done are more dynamic and require more players to be on their toes (or EVERY player being on his toes, as the Twin Emperors show).

The whole "equal difficulty" thing has been played to death.  Those same people on the Blizz forums saying they want equal difficulty encounters to raiders are now lamenting how "impossible" the Dungeon 2 upgrade quests are; namely the new bosses.
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I agree that Molten Core is a beginner raid instance - I said as much in the notes I wrote for my guild - and yet it drops far better loot than any 5-man. For that matter the *first pull* in MC averages more upgrades per full-blue player than a full clear of every non-raid instance. (This might not still be true, the 1.10 notes claimed an improved drop rate but I don't know significant it was).

Oh, and count me out of the free epics crowd as well. Not being interested in any more Prussian drill is not synonymous with wanting things handed to me on a platter.