I'd like to think, maybe foolishly, that the current content has been affected (effected?) by the same misguided intent that designers made Blackrock Depths and the Molten Core. The sprawl is breathtaking but very unnecessary.
Looking back on WoW vanilla I feel a lot of nostalgia about the frustration of wiping as hound packs respawned on top of the raid, or the rush of fighting through the lyceum, or the first time we were like hey what does
[Binding of the Windseeker] do?
But things got better. BWL was
hard but once you got over that hump, it was very rewarding. AQ was mind-numbing at points, but eventually got a place in my heart second only to the Nefarian fight. The single C'thun kill I was part of is still a highlight to me. ZG was fun and AQ20 was great also.
Naxxramas left my jaw dropped. So perfect, so balanced, so well-thought.
The current encounters are new; I have faith they will only get better!
But like I've always said... 40 man raids have room for at most seven weaknesses that you can make up for with 33 good players. It seems to me that the ratio is the same for 25 man raids.
Plus, if things don't get better, there's always Warhammer Online
