But do you think that AQ 40 and NAXX will be trivial for high end guilds?
I was in really bad guild, we took a long long time to clear MC/BWL and when we started on AQ40 first boss we nearly had him down first night. There were guilds who cleared it quite quickly in vanilla, and insanely quickly on pservers (obviously that has a caveat on it). I think you will see hardcore guilds clearing AQ40 in the first few weeks after gates open, and same for Naxx (maybe slightly longer). If they tune it up it will just help add a couple of weeks of difficulty for the hardcore guilds will the lower guilds play catch up.
I was in really bad guild, we took a long long time to clear MC/BWL and when we started on AQ40 first boss we nearly had him down first night. There were guilds who cleared it quite quickly in vanilla, and insanely quickly on pservers (obviously that has a caveat on it). I think you will see hardcore guilds clearing AQ40 in the first few weeks after gates open, and same for Naxx (maybe slightly longer). If they tune it up it will just help add a couple of weeks of difficulty for the hardcore guilds will the lower guilds play catch up.
Makes sense
It is still odd to think about that a numerical change might make the game experience more like the original
make the game experience more like the original
Yeh that's the idea of tuning up raids, is to try to better emulate the vanilla experience in regards to difficulty. I don't know if they will do it, but I think it could be a good idea to consider. If hardcore guilds breeze through content en masse it may just make the game feel every different to vanilla WoW.
Makes sense
It is still odd to think about that a numerical change might make the game experience more like the original
This is true for numerous aspects of the game and this is why #nochanges can be a bit counter productive. The modifications we have seen to emulate server batches is a prime example of changes that are designed to capture authenticity. There are many changes that should/can be considered in the spirit of recreating an authentic experience. Do you want an authentic replication OR an authentic experience, because you can't have both without a time machine =(.