25 person max raid size for expansion

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The introduction of a difficulty slider for instances resolves most of the remaining issues. A pug should be able to run a lvl70 x 25man raid on easy mode and succeed. Whereas a hardcore raiding guild should be able to get significant challenge while running that same instance on Elite difficulty. The rewards will be comparitively better for the latter.

Only it's nothing like that from what I've seen. The difficulty is for the new lower level (60-64) instances and it's based on player level.

Blues have already established that a lvl60 instance on Elite difficulty should pose a reasonable challenge (and reward) for lvl70s geared out. As such the lvl70 instances should be nearly impossible at that difficulty.

Either I'm heavily confused or you are.

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The effect of the grind to 70 (from 60 or 1 in the case of new classes) will recreate the process by which guilds formed for end-game content at 60. The need for a guild to 'boot' half their members will be replaced by a first-come first-served mechanism.

... You must not know what most of us are like if you're actually saying this is a good thing. You want to start an arms race where the first to 70 win and get a raid spot? Can't log out ... Bolty is two bubbles ahead of me!. Right, that's exactly the atmosphere I want in my raid group.

Every "superguild" that formed on my server by the first group of 60s to start filling raids died. Every single one. It took the ones alliance side only a few months at most, and the only one horde side to last more than a year recently disbanded. Members > Loot, and I'm not going to partake in some stupid race that'll shatter friendships and abandon people who can only spend 10-15 hours a week on this game instead of 40 just to get an item a few months quicker then have it all fall apart.