Originally Posted by Liebestod
I wish this were true, but I don't think Blizzard has been that good with progressive nerfs in TBC. I wasn't able to experience the early iterations of SSC/TK, but iirc the only main hard things about early SSC was the trash and Leotharas and Vashj, everything else has been untouched? And in TK, Solarian was only beaten after being nerfed, same with Kael'Thas.
But in any case, the fact that these instances weren't even tested on the PTR demonstrates that they weren't tuned well. Huge mistake, it's hard to even debate the merits of their tuning seriously.
otoh, one can look at MH and BT, which haven't received many nerfs (iirc Illidan received buffs..) and were not really tuned to be difficult for "world first" guilds. They could have been, should have been imo, but they weren't.
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Are you serious? Most bosses in SSC/TK are on their second or third iterations, some are on their fourth and fifth.
MH/BT has been untouched for the most part since the bosses were already rather trivial for the top end, but the ones that WERE difficult are completely different in difficulty than their original forms. Maybe most guilds are too far removed to remember, but Archimonde, Shahraz, ROS, Hyjal Trash - Wave 11... Gurtog is the only exception, having been nerfed accidentally, and subsequently rebuffed.
In addition to that, continual heavy stamina and Ilvl gear upgrades soft nerf all content simultaneously for people below the gear peak, with the addition of "gear up" zones like Karazhan and heroics getting similar dumb down treatment.
Sorry, but this topic is still beating a dead horse, and still voicing complaints which are basically unfounded or just plain unfixable/do not need addressing.
I'm not against content being made easier for guilds that raid less, players that raid less, "Casuals" if you will, but what you are asking for is just ridiculous.