Hi!
Since there's a thread on both wow-US General Discussion and -EU Raids and Dungeons forums about getting rid of both 25-man and 10-man in favor of a 15-man, and reading that a lot of people are of very different ideas on the subject, I thought I'd add a poll on mmo-champion, which can probably be regarded as a forum in-between the two.
I'm not looking for a flame war, where you respond by flaming and question the idea of having your favorite raid size removed, simply vote it instead. If you wish to partake in the discussion, feel free to drop a line.
As I see it, all have different upsides and downsides, some bigger or more severe than others. Smaller sizes would suffer from composition problems, where encounters can be tuned to either be forgiving to non-optimal setups, making optimal setups quite strong, or tuned with class stacking in mind, making non-optimal setups suffer. Bigger raid sizes on the other hand, where personal mistakes are more common due to the number of participants, has to be taken into account in the encounter design. I have a hard time seeing an Alysrazor type of fight in a 40-man setting, for instance, where a Baleroc type fight would probably work in 40-man as well as a 5-man, if tuned correctly. I would suppose that the bigger the size, the more tank 'n spank the fights have to be, or at least less complicated and/or reliant on personal skill, while the smaller the size, the larger margins the dev's will have to operate in-between, since comps and the skill from better to worse guilds will vary quite a lot.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
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Link to the mentioned threads:
US: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2973250971
EU: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2505103894