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I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but for me the most dramatic aspect of the smaller raiding sizes is how important it is to balance healers/DPS. With 40-man raids, I always felt like there was a large amount of space to play around with the number of healers in the raid. I think we only ever really felt the crunch of too many or too few on fights like Patchwerk and Loatheb.
Come to TBC, and getting down to the minimum number of healers for the encounter is very important. Wether it's enrage timers or dealing with adds, adding even one DPS class to an encounter can change the pace of the fight dramatically. People have also noticed that in Kara, where a three healer group is ok but a two healer group is just better due to the more concentrated DPS. It's annoying to lose the flexibility of even one healer slot. The 7-healer Mags raids is going to do dramatically better than the 8-healer one, and if your group can cut down even more it's in even better shape. From a raid leader standpoint it sucks and from a healer standpoint it sucks- every fight the healers need to be pushed to the limit (in consumables and concentration) because the DPS is trying to beat the enrage/adds timer. Then if the healers get good enough that they can start to relax... cut one from the group to try to make the fight easier!
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