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Here are my suggestions for Heroic/Normal raids:
Length and Difficulty:
The normal raids would be tuned easier, and would have fewer bosses (An easier BT could omit mother/council/illdian or even more like gurtogg+ros omitted). Trash would be on a longer respawn or might not respawn at all. Some trash packs might be omitted.
Loot:
All loot would be "mirrored" between normal and heroic with the same distribution of stats, but at a lower ilevel, like 5-10 levels. This would make it easier on the itemization team and assure that heroic raiders would have no reason to raid the normal mode instance for some item that was somehow better itemized than a heroic slot.
Lockout:
The instances would share a lockout, so you had to pick normal or heroic mode each week; you can't raid both.
Attunement:
To attune for the Heroic raid you need to EITHER complete an attunement from the previous tier (like the system we have now), OR complete the Normal mode of the same tier.
Here's an example for "normal mode" BT, assuming the current BT is "heroic":
1. No attunement needed for normal mode.
2. Bosses in normal mode: Najentus, Supremus, Shade, Teron, Gurtogg. RoS just isn't there, and the door to Mother never opens.
3. Trash respawns only on a soft-reset, and the density of the trash is reduced.
4. The bosses are tuned easier, but with the same mechancs: Naj burst hits for less, heals for less while the shield is up. Supremus hits weaker, volcanos hit for less. Shade would be the same, or maybe omit rogues from the side packs. Gorefiend would hit weaker, and only 3 constructs would spawn per ghost, or hit for a lot less if they make it to the raid. Gurtogg overall damage just reduced, with weaker dots, more time between bloodboils (3 per phase instead of 5), and a similar if slightly more forgiving P2.
5. Loot tables are the same, but the items that drop are just ilevel 136, and all stats are scaled down accordingly.
6. There is an quest to kill Teron and Gurtogg which attunes the player for Heroic BT.
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