"People" (in general) seem to forget what it was like when the dungeons first came out. They were a challenge, they took time (read: wipes) to learn - even in normal, depending on your gear!
Of course, after a while you outgear the content, many people ran instances 'til they got sick of them, "Everybody" knew what to do, right? No, not everybody. There's always someone with a "first toon", or even later, with a "first melee toon" etc. Just because they can roflstomp content on their FL geared mage means jack when they're on a melee class, stand in front of the boss (or in the AoE). Or if they don't have their raid healer backing them, but an appropriately geared healer *squish!*

The only thing that I dislike about the pre-HoT and pre-Troll instances is that they were unforgiving when played "at gear level" - one mistake by anyone and it's a wipe. The trolls should've had a big disclaimer "This was a raid once, please be awake and pay attention" just to wake people up. They were/are challenging, required you to pay attention, and you might still wipe. The bad thing was that you *had* to run them for points - and having only 2 instances for that did get on my nerves.

HoTs? Not as much of a challenge, some neat mechanics (for 5-mans), but still had rough/challenging spots if you weren't in FL gear.

And now people raise their alts, and can't grasp the fact that "no, you're NOT OP for the content, stop being an idiot". I don't care that your main has an ilvl of over 9,000, *this* toon doesn't so stop being stupid *and* a dick. And by all that's holy, please DO get out of the bloody fire!

It's not Blizzard, it's the players. Stop being arrogant and things will go a lot smoother and it might just be fun at any level.

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