Does anyone know how Ulduar is laid out, if the bosses must be done in order, or if there is some flexibility?
I ask because of hard modes. Sartharion is nice because he's a single boss instance. You can do the normal mode, or you can do the hard mode, but it doesn't effect anything else. By contrast, say Instructor Razuvious in Naxx had a hard mode. You would then be forced to decide how much time you were going to budget on trying the hard mode, or whether it would make sense to give up, do him normal, and then proceed to the rest of the wing + sapph and KT, or perhaps a different bosses' hard mode.