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Tuning encounters for 40 people is difficult. New encounters that are built around a 40 man raid are taxing on the server as well as client machines, with all the spell effects and spawned adds. Rounding up 40 for a raid can be difficult, maintaining a roster that can field a balanced raid is even harder.

Naxx requires a ton of consumables in order to progress. Smaller raids would give people time to take a break from raiding without hampering their guild's progress to a large degree, as well as reducing the number of consumables the average raid goes through in a night.

For every Patchwerk kill right now, we go through a minimum of:
4 flasks of the titans
Mages/warlocks generally bring their own flask of supreme power
Major mana pots
12 greater stoneshield pots
elixirs of the mongoose
juju power
winterfall firewater
mana/wizard oil
mageblood potions
etc

It gets expensive to maintain.

 

It's quite simple actually, and it's not that blizzard can't make 40 man raid dungeons. They're getting a lot better at it, MC, BWL, AQ, Nax are all set ups in the development of raid dungeos.

40 person dungeons require guids of anywhere from 55-100+ people. That is hard to manage and maintain and excludes a large section of the player base from those encounters. Also with 40 man encounters at some point skill is replaced with sheer numbers. You just need enough bodies. The coordination is a bit of a nightmare which also limits what Blizzard can do with the encounteres.

Capping it at 25 allows Blizzard to keep moving towards encounters which require coordination and skill rather than a massive number of bodies. It allows more guilds to participate because coordinating 40 people total is a lot easier than 70. It lets them get more people involved in end game content.

A 40 man dungeon might hit 30-40% of the player base, whereas a 25man will accomodate 70%. It's good for business. That's my take

 

To replace the ingredients for the potions used, yes. But we also have to farm to make sure we don't run out of consumables, farm for repair money, and farm more for tier 3 armor costs.

Heres a site with the tier 3 rogue material cost: http://www.worldofraids.com/v2/?page=t3&rub=mat&p=rogue

Something close to 900-1000 gold in materials and payments to NPCs to get 8 of the 9 pieces in the set.

 

Yes, Ive done the orb thing (and usually end up passing on rolls for people who need a glove/weapon healing enchant or crusader), I've farmed and sold herbs. For a while I farmed burning essence from the BRD coffer and would sell the FR libram combine to people.

Gold is not very difficult to make, but when raiding its even easier to spend.

One of our warriors has started doing pickup Onyxia runs where all the items are randomed for and afterwards he disbands the raid and loots the gold.

 

<3 Jamaal

So are the rumors about yall transferring true or not, cant ever tell from WoW Forums.

 

Raiding guilds don't raid Friday and Saturday night. Expecially while trying to progress in Naxx most guild raid at least 5 nights a week.

Feralina and Patchwork fights you're wiping every 2min while learning the encounter and when you're geared out that's a cloth repair bill of 12g or a plate repair bill of 20g once or even twice every night. And when you're already committed to raiding for 3-5 hours, most people don't have another 2 hours to farm every day. That doesn't even count if you like to pvp!

But I don't think smaller sized instances will remove the need for consumables.

And lack of gold is always an issue. There are tons of ways to make it, but not always enough time.

 

well put and so very very true!!!

 

WoW Burning Crusade: Jeffery Kaplan Interview

Yesterday an interview with Jeffery Kaplan; Lead Game Designer of WoW: Brurning Crusade was done to talk about the additions and story elements coming in the expansion:

http://trailers.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wow_bc_int_gt.mov (Quicktime MOV, 78.2MB)
http://trailers.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wow_bc_int_gt.wmv (Windows Media, 75.2MB)