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Hypatia · 03/07/08, 4:14 PM

I both suspect and hope that WotLK will have a lot more focus on 10-mans than BC has done. Blizzard was apparently rather surprised by the popularity of Karazhan, and I think they're building on that. It's worth remembering that the lead time for creating a dungeon is a lot larger than we see: Kara was originally intended as a raid for pre-BC, but had poor model scale for pre-BC raid sizes. The first 10-man since then, ZA, was probably in development since not too long after people started raiding Karazhan in earnest.

I don't know that I expect WotLK to have fully parallel progressions of 5, 10, and 25-man instances. But, I would be very very surprised if they don't have a nearly parallel progression of 10s and 25s through the end-game. Since they've known about the popularity of 10-mans for quite a while now, WotLK seems like about the right place for 10-man raids to come into their own—it's when Blizzard will have had time to really develop the content in that direction. (Whereas even the Sunwell area was probably well into development when BC came out.)

03/07/08, 4:14 PM	#57 (permalink)
Hypatia Von Kaiser Hypatia Human Warrior <The Inner Light> Lightbringer	I both suspect and hope that WotLK will have a lot more focus on 10-mans than BC has done. Blizzard was apparently rather surprised by the popularity of Karazhan, and I think they're building on that. It's worth remembering that the lead time for creating a dungeon is a lot larger than we see: Kara was originally intended as a raid for pre-BC, but had poor model scale for pre-BC raid sizes. The first 10-man since then, ZA, was probably in development since not too long after people started raiding Karazhan in earnest. I don't know that I expect WotLK to have fully parallel progressions of 5, 10, and 25-man instances. But, I would be very very surprised if they don't have a nearly parallel progression of 10s and 25s through the end-game. Since they've known about the popularity of 10-mans for quite a while now, WotLK seems like about the right place for 10-man raids to come into their own—it's when Blizzard will have had time to really develop the content in that direction. (Whereas even the Sunwell area was probably well into development when BC came out.)