The difficulty change from Wrath to Cataclysm was not a huge problem for me - it was challenging, but I adapted and the raid content is appropriate for the level of difficulty I find interesting and worth my time.

That said, for so many people I know? It is too difficult. Some of those people brazenly declared after the ease of their Wrath experiences that they wanted *more* challenges and greater difficulty without really being ready for it or prepared to do more to experience those things - others were always casual players who were happy with the difficulty level and the one they have to work through now is simply too much sometimes. It makes me sad that I have friends who aren't really ready for Cata raiding content and who want to raid *so* much but simply don't have the skill level/awareness/other to do more than wipe on the same boss every night for three hours.

WoW is in an interesting position where it needs to satisfy the needs of people who want that harder content as well as the large majority of people who simply don't - there are just too many people who play WoW to not try to make it, well, easier for them.

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