Are pretty much exactly what I feared.
My guild steamrolled through all of normal modes last week and ended up downing Ragnaros on Monday (I was only present for a few of the kills - RL, etc.)
So we started Heroics today.
Normals are very easy. Heroics are not.
Going into this patch, my number one fear would be that we would power through the normal modes, then slam our faces against the hardmodes for the rest of the tier. We couldn't even down Shannox tonight, and he was the only one we worked on for four hours. Pert of it was likely that we went into this patch in T11 heroic gear, mostly. So we were at an obvious advantage. But the fact doesn't change that we went through half of the raid content our first week.
I know people say that they have no pity for those who power through months worth of stuff in the first few weeks. And I agree with that to an extent. However, our guild was merely going at our natural pace. We weren't min/maxing to a ridiculous degree, we weren't paying for faction transfers to reset our raid ids, we weren't going anything but ******** around in Mumble and killing bosses.
It'd be one thing if the guild is trying to go for world firsts. However, I feel like there's just not enough content when you can just get through half of it in the first week.
I'm not saying that I wanted to wipe to normals again and again. However, it seems that this tier is noticeably more forgiving than the last. I wanted normals to at least give me more than just a few casual kills worth of content. Honestly, my overall impression of them was that they just weren't hard.
Heroics, however, (or at least the one fight I've seen firsthand) were a brick wall. We wiped 33 times before calling it for the night and killing him on normal mode. The lowest we got him was 50%.
I don't think I wanted to kill him my first night. That pretty much puts him in the category of what I explained above. However, the jump between normal and heroic is simply massive. And lets say we spend a good month, month and a half and eventually down H Rag. Then what? We still have no idea when or what the next raid is (if it's another ToC I swear to jegus I'm ******* quitting this game), let alone what 4.3 will hold. I think they talked about a CoT raid or something?
But the point stands: There's not enough content, normal is too easy, and the jump to heroic is huge, but not insurmountable.
Heroics are probably a little tough, but nothing we can't handle, I think. It's just a shock going from Majorlolmo to **************************************** And above all, my biggest concern is, what do I do when we run out of content in two months? Will it be ICC again, raiding the same thing for 9 oh so long months?