I should qualify my 25 man vs 10 man comparison

I am ONLY talking about heroic mode - frankly anyone playing normal mode cannot have a valid opinion on raid differences as both are easy.

I also dont agree on the camaraderie point by Big Shoe...in fact the social banter in a 25 man is a huge part of the fun, you have your favourites obviously but within a 25 man environment you can have social cliques - and that gives you space to allow players that have differing temperments and qualitys. 25 mans that dont do that - collapse.
25 mans that do are progression guilds and do so becuase of solid leadership, quality players and a diverse pool of members within the guild itself

Thats really another "beef" with 10 mans - they really become little more than a tight circle of mates - 25 mans encourage much more complexity of social and team arrangement and are challenging just off that.

I also read an earlier comment implying that a 25 man raid can "afford" too loose a couple of players unlike our heroic 10 man cousins....another falicy, IF you are raiding at heroic level in 25 man you will need every single point of dps to bring bosses down and every one of your 6/8 man healer team will have to sweat their butts off. The point people are trying to get across here is that the"FUN chaos" factor is what makes 25 man raiding great - being in a large raid with all the colour of a raid boss fight at heroic is what makes raiding great - 10 mans - sorry just dont cut the mustard in comparison and never will

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