I’m hoping they actually do this but I’m afraid it’s going to be SoM 2.0 with added mechanics and huge difficulty increases in well known and established raids.
It’s definitely a tricky thing to pull of with all the runes we have.
I hope they error on the side of making the raids easier rather than harder. We should be able to complete all classic raids with any group comp as they state, just like in 2019.
MC being 20 man is kind of a let down after telling us in interviews multiple times it would be 40 man.
I’m guessing its easier to make it a 20 man rather than buffing/retuning the raid to match the power creep thats happening with runes and new items. MC in its Vanilla state would be steamrolled in 10 minutes flat otherwise.
*Edit.
This part at least makes me hopeful they may rebalance AQ and Naxx so that PUGs will have hope of clearing them.
The minority of players want 40 mans. Mainly the players who never had to put a 40m together want them. There’s a reason it was killed off in the 1st expansion. 40s are bad.
A lot of the pro 40m posters just don’t seem to grasp the fact that SoD is not near the population of Classic '19 or they are willfully ignorant of the consequences from it.