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Item levels don't always correspond to easier or harder. I think everyone agrees Kael or Vashj are harder than Rage Winterchill, even though Rage drops items a tier ahead.
The reality is though it'll be easier because you have 10 people not 25. On an individual skill level I fully expect 10 man raiding will be as hard as 25 man raiding, it's just the dynamics of the numbers. It's a greater challenge of maintaining a roster large and balanced enough for 25 mans. And the increased risk of a key person not being able to turn up on a given night when you're relying on 2.5 times as many people.
Also consider if every person has a 5% chance to stuff up and wipe the raid, in a 10 man raid that's a 60% chance of success on any given attempt, in a 25 man raid it's a 28% chance of success on any given attempt. The more people you rely on, the more things that can go wrong, even if everyone is equally skilled.
In reality the numbers are probably more like your best player has only a 1% chance of stuffing up, your 10th player a 5% chance, and your 25th player a 10% chance. So it skews it even more in favour of the 10 man, because you can cherry pick your best 10 and leave out the 11-25 members.
For what it's worth ,I suspect that 10 man raiding will be wildly more popular than 25 man raiding in the expansion for these reasons. Relying on 24 other people not to stuff up is less fun than relying on 9 other people to stuff up. And finding 24 other people who wont stuff up is significantly more tiresome than finding 9 other people who wont stuff up. Even with gear a tier behind, so long as people are capping out at the end of the progression path too quickly, where's the reason to want to do 25 mans?
For comparison, consider 2v2 arena is the most popular bracket despite the fact that 5v5 gives faster rewards for the same ranking ...
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