Fuck you, Blizzard

Raids & Dungeons

All raid dungeons in Wrath of the Lich King will have both 10-person and 25-person versions. So at level 80, every major encounter and every big boss fight can be experienced with a group of 10.

25-person raiding progression is not dependent on 10-person raiding progression.

There will be no attunements or keys to obtain, and you won't be locked out of a 25-person instance if you decide to attempt the 10-person version, and vice-versa.

25-person raids will earn more, higher-level rewards, in what should be the equivalent of one "tier" of loot quality.

Taken from www.mmo-champion.com's compilation of the Gamespy and Curse WLK info.

Fuck.

What the hell is the point of being a raider now?

Loot, I didn't care about. Looks, I didn't mind. Now they're taking the dungeon and the encounters away, taking our exclusive domains and extending them to the slobbering masses.

I like 10-mans. 10-mans are good. They fulfill a different role to 25-mans. They can be equally epic and cool. They can be serious content for some guilds and random afternoon badge runs for others. That's fine! Put more 10-mans in! Put hard 10-mans in! But for god's sake, leave me a motive to RAID! Leave me my prestige, my reward for wasting my evenings in the game. Leave me my Hand of A'dal, my Medallion of Karabor, my Band of Eternity.

A raider is DEFINED by the encounters he wipes to, learns, beats, and farms.

When we lose our exclusive rights to those encounters, we lose everything that makes us raiders. It all means nothing.

Fuck.

On a different note, the DK has been confirmed as being a superior anti-magic tank. It's the Inquisitor. Exactly what I had hoped.

But, hey, what's the point of that if I'm not raiding? Not like any heroic or 10-man raid is going to require specific types of tanks for specific encounters. Hell, if I wanted to tank small instances I'd roll a prot paladin.

...Fuck, Blizzard. Just fuck.