3.1 Soon - Anyone else been scrambling for drakes?

[Lissa]

My point was not to discuss the strategy, but I see I didn't really make the point clearly.

The point was that because 25 man guilds doing 10 man could do 3 / 3 / 4 easier, that became the de-facto standard. Then 10 man guilds approach it that way, but with their DPSers each doing 200-400 DPS less (maybe double that in the critical bloodlust phase) maybe that is no longer the easiest composition. They waste a lot of time trying to do things that way, when, for their raid makeup it might be actually a very difficult raid composition approach.

The mixing of the content tiers potentially created an issue with the way that 10 man guilds approached the fight. That was my point. The specific strategy doesn't really have any place in the thread.

I disagree, the overall fight in 10 man was different in how you approach it in 25 man. 25 man was all about DPS, 10 man was all about control. The 3/3/4 composition was 25 man raiders thinking they could apply more of the 25 man tactics to a 10 man fight that was not ment to be fought the same way. It wasn't that people strictly running 10 man content had less damage output (this is not in dispute), it was that they emulated what 25 man content raiders were doing because the 25 man content raiders believed that the way to complete the fight was to treat it like the 25 man fight, that being DPS was what you needed vs. control which was what you really needed. If more of the 10 man had realized that the fight was about control, you probably would have seen a shift to 2/3/5 instead of the 3/3/4 (you still needed 3 healers for the breaths during the key phase of having Shadron and Vesperon up with their respective Disiples as well).