25 person max raid size for expansion

[Kevin]

You seem to be conflating "less people" and "less difficult". While there might be an overall reduction of difficulty (I certainly hope not), that would be an entirely different issue.

The way I see it, they could just as easily make the encounters harder, with more onus on each individual to do his or her job right, something which they have to go easy on at least a little bit with 40 man encounters.

I would be quite disappointed if the game got overall easier, and I've never beated Ragnaros, let alone Nefarian or C'thun. (Been to rags, though. Go go Lurkers/Keepers on Terenas!)

But I think blizzard has been doing a good job of introducing harder and more interesting endgame content so far, and I doubt they're going to stop just because they're dealing with smaller groups.

Or, at least, I think we can safely hope.

-Jester

Yeah I remember when people thought Ony and MC were hard or impossible. (Even MJ, go read some of his write ups). Now those places are jokes. ZG and AQ20 are both harder than anything in MC, the enounters are more complex and require people to play better than anything in MC does. Heck if you are in ZG and AQ20 level gear I think both of them take more skill than most everything in BWL for that matter.

So yeah, small can be hard, if not harder. 45 minute Baron run in appropriate gear (i.e. no ZG or AQ20 gear even) is hard and a lot of fun and take more skill than most anything in MC as well. So I agree wholeheartedly that just because it says 40 man doesn't mean it's harder.