CThun down!

[MongoJerry]

I'm not arguing the nature of the fight, I'm saying you don't need to bring up "alliance and horde are different, I'll tell you who has it easier" every time there's a raid discussion.
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OK, thank-you. I admit that my initial post that said, "just play Alliance and have plenty of paladins and dwarfs" was quippy and off-the-cuff -- and half wrong as Skandranon rightly pointed out. However, the initial point was related to the discussion of the level of difficulty of AQ40. Some people are under the impression that AQ40 is a direct progression of BWL in terms of difficulty. That is, that one is supposed to complete -- and had better complete -- BWL before starting AQ40. However, several posters, including myself, pointed out that the first several bosses in AQ40 are in fact designed to be easier or on par with BWL bosses and that guilds capable of beating Ragnaros should be able to make good progress in AQ40 before reaching a wall where the difficulty ramps to something more difficult than BWL.

My contention was and is that where this wall occurs depends on one's faction. I believe it happens at Huhuran for Horde raids and after Huhuran for Alliance raids. But as Skandranon points out, equipment plays a role here. I will concede that as nature resistance gear gets easier to obtain -- especially in 1.11 when a lot of recipes will be added -- the wall could push back beyond Huhuran for Horde guilds as well.

So the point I was making was a genuine point. However, I again apologize for how quippy my initial remarks were. I would like to ask for some leniency in the future, however, over simple remarks I'm likely to make in posts regarding the Alliance. I spend a great deal of my play time looking over my shoulder to make sure that I don't get jumped by some Alliance player when I'm trying to pick herbs or summon a Silithus boss. I enjoy the intensity of the PvP server experience, but you must understand that the moment my brain registers the word "Alliance," it triggers long established fight or flight responses in a Pavlovian way. So, if in the middle of a discussion, I let slip a comment about "Alliance scum" or "silly Alliance," I'd ask that some leniency and benefit of the doubt be granted that I don't of course mean that all players who play Alliance are scum or silly or play on "easy mode." I just mean the ones who play on Tichondrius. :lol: