Heh, who said they are? The fact is though that the fights ARE balanced with top level in mind and that is why top 25s still exist while all the other levels of skill dissapeared in 25!
You think that the lower AVERAGE skill level is for a 10 man and a 25 man, the easier it is for the 25???
It is the OPOSITE! When you move to casual levels, the fight that is balanced relatively well at top levels of skill is MUCH more difficult for 25s! All of them . There is not a single exception for the casual level guilds were a fight in this expansion was EASIER on 25.
Why?
Well, dear Injin and Mr clueless theorycrafter of raiding models, the lower the average skill level is for a team, the larger the VARIANCE in skill levels between a 10 man group and a 25 man group.
At top level it is very well posible the top player from bottom player to have 5% difference in performance both for 10 and 25.
While we go to lower levels, average skill has no relevance to actual skill of the top player and the bottom player of a team in performance. And the difference is more striking BY far in a 25 simply because of the seer number of people, making it more likely for ultraskilled and ultra"bad" players to exist in the same group.
Last night we killed warmaster heroic (10) and the first dps was at 34k while the last one was at 16k with low uptime that dropped the total damage done, UNDER the two tanks (one of them being a warrior tank that did more damage with 12,5k dps!). There are class differences but come on, this is a deafening examble of how much skill can vary in a group that is not top team!
This phenomenon, is amplyfied in 25s, making this fight impossible, for a team with the same AVERAGE skill level with mine's, while it is considered of equal difficulty (some claim that it is harder in 10 man version!), between the 2 sizes!
What are the options for my 10 man team? Pick up the best 5 maybe and go to kill this boss in an easier manner? Nop, that is not possible, because there are not 5 man raids!
What are the options for a 25 team of MY level of skill (my 10 man team's that is), that atm CANNOT kill warmaster heroic at all while we can do it?
If you can't guess ill tell you. In a 25 the chances of more than one person doing those 34k the top performer did are TRIPLED! You know what you can do by downsizing and have those 3 people doing 34k in the 10 man version????
It means literally that a group like that can eat popcorns while killing warmaster heroic 10!!!
You know what pressure this FACT puts in the 25 man team to do EXCACTLY that and downsize to 10????
NO you DON'T because you haven't been in this situation!
This is why non top 10 mans kill more stuff than same AVERAGE skill 25s.
And the non top 10 man can CONTINUE existing because there is no smaller raid size, so my mr 34k cannot ask for a downsize.For 25s the story is TOTALLY different. Some of the best players, being unable to kill warmaster heroic, while lets say my guild does it, WILL PUSH the officers to downsize, so they can kill warmaster while having popcorn!
And this is why you have to STRUGGLE to find a casual, or non top 25 man guild left today.
You mr Injin have a one sided view of the matter, based on your average group, with non optimal setup, that downsized to strict 10, while Wrath was still the relevant content!
And you come here (together with that LFR hero) and claim what???
That average 10 man guild has it harder than an average 25 man guild???
Come on m8, give me a break really!!!
You don't have a first clue what a leader and an officer of an AVERAGE 25 man guild has been through this expansion. But that is not an excuse. Because there are sites like wowprogress and guildox around, and you can go and see, how many of those AVERAGE 25s are left!!!