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Today's +1 offerings were not nearly as conducive to spamming as yesterday's. :(

Oh.

Well this is awkward.

I don't know what that means in terms of current raid progression, but grats to your guild.

Wow, very cool, grats. :)

I wouldn't call it dead. It's not as popular anymore, but there's still some guilds that do 25 man raids. It's a situation where there are pros and cons to both. It's easier to get a 10 man group together because it requires less people. However, because there are more people, you are more likely to get every buff available and if a few people die or otherwise ***** up, it won't cause a wipe. So 25 mans are a bit more forgiving. That's always been true though.

The more hard core raiding guilds are mostly 25 man still.

That's the opposite of what I've heard Rio. Most of the people in my guild seem to think that 25 mans are easier for the reasons I mentioned above. If someone screws up in 25 man, it's a lot less likely to wipe the group than if someone screws up in 10 man.

I participated on some of the attempts the guild I am did on her. TBH, it isnt so hard. Its harder to get to her than to kill her, you know? Few people have her because few people cleaned heroic BoT.


25sX10s....well, to be really honest, it's pretty well balanced. I cleaned normal on 10s and am doing heroics on 25s.
In 10s, you have less room to *****. If you lose 1 person, it's probably a wipe. In 25s, you have more room to lose people, but not that much. You can lose 2~3 people out of 25, wich is almost the same as 1 out of 10. Add to that the fact that on 10s is harder to have the right people for the right mechanic. For instance, on Nef10, you wont have 3 tanks, but will have a frost DK kiting the adds. Or a good frost mage. If you dont have neither, you are pretty much screwed. On 25s, you just slap another tank.

In the other hand, in 25s, there are a bunch of fights where the mechanics are a bit harder. Elemental Monstrosity is one, for example. 3rd and 2nd phase on 25s is way, way, waaaaaaay harder than on 10s. There are other examples like that, like Atramedes, Chimaeron, etc.

So, all in all, they are quite balanced, meaning there are fights that are harder on 10s and fights that are harder on 25s. Just not balanced the way it should be, because, ideally, all the fights are the same for either mode.

Edited, Jun 27th 2011 11:24am by Brisin

My google-fu skills are failing me. The thread in general about the heroic Atramedes kill reminded me of a comic that was (I think) linked on MMO-champ, and now I can't find it. It was about the Chimaeron fight, and the raid being surprised that their normal way of killing a boss (tanks die, DPS kills boss before they wipe) was a valid strategy.

Yeah, pretty much tomorrow.

Transfer one. Transfer the other in the next month. That's what I'm doing right now, at least.

Thinking about buying Magic. Only 10 bucks, seems like a reasonable fare.
I've been playing Darkspore a lot. Pretty fun game and it only cost me around 30 bucks. Although I don't think I will have the desire to finish it or play it on multiplayer, I did some co-op with a friend and had much fun. I recommend it for anyone that can spend the money.
Tried the demo of Dungeon Siege 3 before buying it. Absolutely hate the way you move in the game. And it's not much a hack'n slash, but more a seek and destroy. Anyways, I'm not buying it. A friend of mine did and is trying to get rid of it now.

This weekend I used turntable.fm
Unfortunatelly, it's blocked to only US now, due to copyright and stuff.
Too bad, it was a cool concept where you could upload the music you wanted to play or use any that was in their library (wich was pretty huge, actually), open up a room and have chat with some friends while each one would chose the next music and all.