02-20-2008, 10:05 AM
Quote:A few people for whom the new gear is a mediumish upgrade might do 1-2 extra karas they would rather not to pick up a couple of pieces. Nobody is going to drop a 25man raiding night to go back to Kara, not when the easy bosses of early T6 are there waiting to shower loot on them. At no point before Brutalis is gear > skill - while you do need to gear up, it's been proven to not be too difficult to do so during the natural course of progression.
If you want to look at hiccups in raid progression design, how about removing attunement and early easy bosses in T6 means a lot of people are going to skip the end of T5 - which many people agree are some of the best encounters in the game.
That's where the biggest bottleneck is. Kael'thas and Vashj are freaking difficult, epic encounters, and the stuff that follows is less impressive for quite some time. So, guilds are going to go skip Kael and Vashj and instead poke into easier killable bosses in BT and Hyjal.
I don't think this is such a bad thing, although it is regrettable that two cool bosses will go somewhat down the route of C'thun as someone only elite guilds ever did, or ever will, beat. But even then, plenty of people have seen them, and will kill them in the future. I know we plan to, and we're certainly not likely to pull it off our schedule for Karazhan just because the badges/hour is better there.
-Jester