40-man raiding was NOT as tightly tuned nor did it place as much personal demands on players as say, 20-man Mythic. 40-man was a logistical hurdle, nothing more.
Thank fuck they won't go back to logistics being the challenge of raiding rather than mechanics.
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Because people were shit, some bosses were bugged to hell, tons of people were still leveling to 60 when new patches came out etc etc.
Stop trying to pretend that Classic content not being cleared as quickly as content today was due to mechanical difficulty, it simply was not. If we'd get mechanics of 2004 in new raids today, the content would be cleared in an afternoon. Or do you really believe that Method would wipe 400 times on Classic Rag like they did on Mythic Archimonde? LOL!
Educate yourself.
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When the world of Azeroth was brand new, the overall pace of leveling significantly slower than it is today, such that the primary occupation for a majority of players was simply striving to reach max level. And even for the most cutting-edge players, many of whom were familiar with the leveling experience from the beta, it took two months from release for the first group to defeat Lucifron, the first boss in Molten Core.
Therefore, applying the tried and true principles of Internet forum logic, Lucifron was clearly more challenging than Garrosh—or any boss in the past 5 years for that matter. OK, maybe not. The delay was due not to the bosses’ difficulty, but rather the fact that it took even the most dedicated groups with extensive raiding experience from past MMOs that long to assemble a sufficiently large group of level-60 players who had obtained the appropriate dungeon and endgame quest gear. In many ways, that was the most challenging aspect of classic WoW raiding: the logistics of assembling and maintaining a sufficient roster with sufficient gear.
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Today, world firsts come at the hands of extremely well-prepared, dedicated players and EVERY single person in the team has to carry their weight and then some. I'd love to see a world first guild get the kill with 5 mouthbreathers on the team.