Its not a 0.5 tier difference, the 10 vs 25 tier s...

2008-12-09T10:28:00.000Z

Its not a 0.5 tier difference, the 10 vs 25 tier sets are at least 13 ilevels apart (a tier), and the gear that drops in the 25 is mostly a tier ahead as well. Tier gaps are both larger and smaller than they appear, the whole T4->T6.5 thing was 52 ilevels, and T4-T5 was 13 but felt massive.

Problem for casual players is that the instances either must be easy enough to be puggable (soz guys, afk for dinner in the middle of fights), or hard enough that you need a solid guild to do them. Blizzard didn't set the bar right with Naxx, and the progression is separate between 10 and 25, despite 10 mans actually being possible to make harder on individual players (25 man instances must be easier individually because of 25 failure points rather than 10 to achieve the same difficulty).

With issues like tank scaling (1->2->2 for 5/10/25 man instances) being "casual" is a very bad thing at the moment. I don't feel like raiding much atm, but I realise if I don't end up hardcore I will likely end up not raiding much at all beyond pugs, and I can't even keep my gear in line through Heroics etc such that when I get back I am a valid choice to take along because I worked damn hard in the time I had / wanted to play to get the gear. I don't mind 300 badges an item, at best that is 7 days grinding heroics (all of them and the daily) to get an item, more likely its closer to a month for most people (3 heroics a night, 15 badges = 20 days). Its by no means a fast progression path, but it would be nice to have it open.

I'm already out of things to buy with my Emblems o...

2008-12-08T19:33:00.000Z

I'm already out of things to buy with my Emblems of Heroism.

There's only 3 reasons I will do heroics

a.) help friends out
b.) for heroic achievements. You get a plague proto drake if you complete them all.
c.) emblems for legacy items

Blizzard intended that casual players do try 25mans after clearing out 10mans if they want to continue raiding.

Also technically the difference between 10man and 25man are only .5Tier difference. You will see the 1tier difference come March or so.

The best 2H axe you can get from 10man naxx is actually the 2nd or 3rd best 2H in the game. It's not really that spread out but if you want the best in game then you will most likely do 25man naxx ... as intended.

Blizzard did admit that the jump from regular 5mans to heroics in TBC were a bit steep.

I kinda agree on the multiplier for emblems but I guess blizzard want's us to participate on 25mans and I'm not holding that against them. Just like pvp gear you have to ... pvp. What do you do with that raid gear? Hopefully you use that to raid =P or at least help in raid progressions.

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