What happened to raiding? I miss doing 25 mans that actually felt like raiding versus these new fights which favor much smaller comps. Feels like I’m doing a glorified dungeon. Bring back 25-mans!
Uhm most raid fights have favored larger group sizes for multiple expansions now because they are flex and blizzard is terrible at scaling down number of mechanics for smaller groups ?
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10/12 doing 226 some fights really don’t favor it. The one that stands out to me is vex. Everything else has been pretty good
I miss 10 man heroic too, probably my fondest experience of raiding was ice crown citadel 10 man, which felt fair, still “unfair” at times due to only have saying 5 or 6 dps in total and 5 or 6 mechanics, but hey, better than the bloated and boring stuff we got now.
I like larger groups too, but part of it is they want less people to watch over for mechanics.
Take Wrathion for example, the first boss. If I get 10 competent people that know how it works its easy as pie. I get 20 people and 5 have no clue then the boss just has more HP when they die.
Same for something like N’Zoth, people view it as more detrimental with more people because of more HP and the chance a few of your players go insane ruining the pull because they have no idea whats going on.
More people does not necessarily make fights harder, but it is used as a limiter on how bad some mechanics will be (Hivemind Echoing Void) or as a way to limit how many people will make mistakes.
I’ve noticed that Psychus dies way quicker with a smaller group than a large one.
And yeah, more people does make things annoying when it comes to paranoia, more chances of people to run over other people.
Honestly it is shocking how a smaller group makes things piss easy on N’zoth. Blizzard has been rather terrible with flex scaling this expansion. I mean whos idea was it to have 3 Omega Vectors (Vectis) go out regardless of your group size?
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TBH this is the most favourable a raid has been to small groups in a long time. It is actually strange how easy N’zoth is for 10-12 man.
Pretty much every other raid in the last few expansions has favoured the 20-25 group size.