Yeah...

Pretty much every new boss raid or 5-er that I've seen since naxx, I find myself joking in chat "oh, this is just Heigan's dance, but with more shiny things on the left of my screen instead of right like that last guy."

I feel like we all need to be wearing cowboy boots and hats that are frilly for actual cows, but just right for the C&W clubs downtown... :)

Line dancing meets MMOs.

Raids for me have been getting less interesting since I started them - having started in Kara. I joined near the end of Classic, and didn't hit 60 i time to experience any of those raids. But I've gone back to many of them on high level toons.
- A look around and I can tell you had to think, and change up a lot. But that they were also designed with the understanding that 20 or so folks would screw up leaving the encounter to be done by the remaining 20 not yet face-planting.

...

Some things have improved and others have not.


What I miss most about older raids was tolerance among players for wipes. Back in Kara people just assumed you'd wipe on a boss for a few weeks until you all got it down. Now, 5 minutes into LFR, we haven't even wiped yet - and folks start giving up because one of the DPS is only pulling 20.7k DPS on a fight where he should have 20.71k...

When you had to form groups, and you had to unlock things to even get in the door...
- People felt more committed once there.

Yes it was way too much of a pain to form a group most of the time, but once you had one, you all felt a commitment to work together for the goal.

Now people give up way too easily on the whole thing or each other.