And, I suppose, now that I think about it, I do rather enjoy the time we spend on the 10 man hard modes for the most part. I feel that we are being challenged, not running head on into a brick wall.

I don’t know if that is a result of “outgearing” them, or just the 25 man encounters being overtuned. I do know that even if we aren’t bringing superstar DPS to our 10 mans, we can still complete some of the hard modes (including Hodir) with relative ease.

I said this back when I posted about Yogg, but the differences between the tuning of the 25 man versions and the 10 man versions are staggering on some of the encounters. I understand that they expect you to have more buffs, etc, for the 25 man raids, and the DPS requirement should be higher, but I can’t help but thinking that they overdid it a bit in a few spots.

I really don’t mind a challenge at all…but right now I feel more frustrated than challenged.

My favorite of the hardmodes we’re working on now is General Vezax. Last night I was able to heal through the Vezax kill without needing to hop in any of the saronite vapors, even when just healing through the “kite phase,” and I was quite pleased with myself for that little personal achievement towards the raid’s progress for hardmode. It’s a personal challenge as much as a raid-wide challenge, and that keeps Ulduar from getting boring too quickly, especially in the face of all the nerfs.

I haven’t seen the 25s though… so all I can say is that I think they did a good job with the 10-man ones I think they’re rushing the new content too quickly on the heels of Ulduar, and it’s only natural that relatively few guilds will have completed the content hardmodes/algalon yet.