Originally Posted by
Waterbeetle44
Or you know. With a bit of reasoning you can probably find the reason for that.
1. The split of 10/25 lockout, meaning less pugs, less guilds running multiple difficulties.
2. The split of the 10/25 lockout shattering guilds making people make new guilds. New guilds has never made up the same % of the raiding guilds as it did in the start of Cata. There were new guilds EVERYWHERE. But what happens with new guilds? The split up. A lot of people quit in the early weeks of an expansion, they level up to new level cap and realise, fuck it, not for me. So many guilds split their 25 man groups in 10 man groups, and a lot of those guilds didnt last. They were not well thought through and had bad dynamics. So having so many new guilds was a big part of the "crash".
3. 30% buff in ICC that had been out for 12 months. People were not used to raiding anymore, they had not had serious raiding content for like 9 months.
Once they got actual raiding content they got shocked.