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I dont think a 25 man instance is necessarily less 'epic' than a 40 man instance. Basically it is up to the raid designers to make something of it. Take for example the Maulgar battle, not a very hard battle, but imo is not comparable to the ZG or Aq20 battles. It is much more akin to the 40 man battles. Well balanced fight, apart from a few roles(MT and mage tank) not very dependent on who is doing it. We did it with lots of mellee and with lots of casters both worked fine. So yes you can make quite decent boss encounters with 25 that are not too critical on who or what (Mag is another example, though still some tuning required).
Sadly enough this is one of the few 25 man battles (not been to TK yet) that i feel have the right mixture of things to do, balance between randomness and execution and no obvious enrage timer. The devs have for the rest not been very creative; too many bosses are imo : "lets do random ability X and Y and Z and hope for the best, and lets add an enrage so the only tuning we have to do is tuning the enrage timer". There is no structure in the encounter, no logic.
Basically the idea of 25 man is not that bad. If the devs have the creativity it should be easier to organize than 40 mans. But I have the feeling that atm they dont have a real philosophy when designing encounter apart from "needs to be hard enough".
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