The missed opportunity of 20-man raiding

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With the release of the Raid Finder and the recent changes to Valor points, the debate about 10 vs. 25-man raiding, which is harder, and which is harder to balance rages on. I have friends on both sides of the 10/25 debate, I understand both points of view, and I think both are utterly wrong. Completely, absolutely wrong. The issue to me is when we went from 40-man raids down to the current raid sizes the decision to offer 25-man raids didn’t really work. I think we should have gone to 10/20-man raiding at the dawn of Burning Crusade , and I still think we should. We had 20 man raids back in classic WoW . Two of them, in fact, Zul’Gurub and Ruins of Ahn’Qiraj . Neither exists as a 20-man raid any more, so this may seem odd to players who didn’t raid then, but these were considered the small raids. People who had just spent hours raiding in Molten Core, Blackwing Lair or AQ40 would put together these runs on the fly to gear their alts or get a shot at off-spec loot, while other guilds that didn’t have the numbers for 40-man raids would spend their time raiding these while trying to build up their numbers. Continue reading The missed opportunity of 20-man raiding Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Raiding , The Burning Crusade , Wrath of the Lich King The missed opportunity of 20-man raiding originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink