Officers' Quarters: The plight of 25-man raiding guilds

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1-30-2012 @ 1:51PM

Backer said...

This statement is false. Easiest case in point: Ultraxion.

10 man (2 tank/5 DPS/3 healer) DPS requirement: 27.5k DPS
25 man (2 tank/17 DPS/6 healer) DPS requirement: 29k DPS

A decent 10 man raid will have almost full raid buff coverage anyway, so there probably isn't a great DPS gain from raid composition.

In addition, you can have a single player soaking the Hour of Twilight on 10 man. On 25 man, you'll have to rotate through a number of players to ensure 3 people stay out each time.

There's no extra slack from a DPS perspective and the mechanic is actually quite a bit more complex. On top of that, you can "cheese" your way out of another mechanic entirely (the time loop phase) on 10 man if you have a dual spec healer that goes DPS. That's not an option on 25 man. It may have been true in the first tier of cataclysm raiding, but raids are not tuned more loosely for 25s in Dragon Soul.

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