Cata is, quite frankly, a terrible expansion so far. I say this as both a former hardcore raider and current casual player. They went with a hardline status when Cata opened up, and now that their is a significant decrease in subscriptions they've nerfed the opening content to ridiculous levels.
TBH, my little casual guild had no business killing Al'akir last night on the first attempt. We lost 3 players right off the bat and by the time we killed him we had only 4 people left up (and me the only healer). Yet he died anyway, and there was no sense of accomplishment. I wish we'd downed him last week, we were so close. It would have felt better.
So now you have two extremes going on. Either you're a hardcore raider running around killing things in Firelands or you are a casual raider who can raid the previous content without having to think about it much. Bleh to both.
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TBH, my little casual guild had no business killing Al'akir last night on the first attempt. We lost 3 players right off the bat and by the time we killed him we had only 4 people left up (and me the only healer). Yet he died anyway, and there was no sense of accomplishment. I wish we'd downed him last week, we were so close. It would have felt better.
So now you have two extremes going on. Either you're a hardcore raider running around killing things in Firelands or you are a casual raider who can raid the previous content without having to think about it much. Bleh to both.