Hello there,
So here I was thinking about how Im looking forward to 40 man raids again, but then it occurred to me how much of an imbalance pve content in general in classic is going to be, lemme elaborate a bit more.
In vanilla raids were split into 2 imaginary groups within the 40 people, the group that had the good players who knew what they were doing and pushed to beat the boss whether it be from tanking/dpsing/healing and working around the mechanics and then you had the "fillers".
The fillers were basically people just filling the slots so that the "good players" can beat the encounters, in fact the amount of fillers were so large that in most guilds they formed the majority of the raid.
What would've happened to a guild if they had only good players ( in classic standards at least ) who knew how to position/ do their job and work to avoid the bosses mechanics back then ? you've all heard of guilds like Nihilum etc. that's basically what a raid group of non-fillers looked like, basically top tier.
Now with that in mind, over the years a lot of players were molded with all the raid encounters to be better at dealing with boss mechanics and encounters, albeit with a lot of addon usage but still players ( even bad ones) became somewhat better at dealing with team oriented boss fights.
So what would happen if current day wow players who have raided for years go back to classic and raid ?
If blizzard does not alter the content at all, then the majority of players will clear all raids in a very quick time frame , since bosses back then weren't as mechanically intense but mostly required certain ilvl or stats to complete.
So my thoughts are, raiding will not be as memorable as it once was once classic hits, as most players already know all the mechanics for all boss fights, the proper way to beat them and the way to farm the gear needed to kill said bosses.