The time limit is fracking BRILLIANT because it does the same thing for raiding that dailies did for questing: It forces people to take time by removing the possibility of grinding constantly. If Blizz wanted a way to force the top guilds to take longer to beat content instead of grinding away at it, this is a pretty good one - you get one hour of practice wiping each week, and then you have to find some other way to amuse yourself for a while.

Developer 1: "Hey, Algalon is super hard. How long do you think it will be before someone downs him?"

Developer 2: "2 years ago? Six weeks. Now? Six hours."

Developer 1: "So do we make it harder?"

Developer 2: "Screw that. Just put an artificial cock-block in there. Make it where you can only fight him when the Widget of Unspeakable Power drops from Yogg-Saron."

Developer 1: "But what if it doesn't drop? People will be complaining about progression being based on a roll of the dice."

Developer 2: "Fine. Put an hour timer per week on it so no one even has a chance to learn the encounter before he's gone. It'll take people a while that way."

Developer 1: "That's just mean. And kind of lazy."

Developer 2: "Yeah. Let's go get some pizza."

Developer 1: "Sweet."

I don't know, Heilig, but I had a similar line of thought as you.

Obviously, a 1-hour timer will make practicing on him more difficult. But, this also makes me think that Blizz is using this as a way artificially slow down guilds from blowing through their content.

Though it's probably nice to have a stopping point instead of beating your head against a wall night after night for hours.