Originally Posted by flyingtoastr
So you're tying to tell me you could get through Tier 6 content in full Tier 4 gear? No you couldn't. You went to the easier dungeons of Tier 5 to get the next set of gear because that was what your gear was tuned for.
1 tier lower means lower healing, tanking, and DPS requirements (along with the fact that its very doubtful 10-mans will be a tight as 25-mans for composition, watering them down further) which means easier. Do we really have to argue about this.
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How hard something is is relative to the people doing that thing. If group A just does 10 mans and group B just does 25 mans then it's irrelevent what loot is avaliable in the content they are not doing.
Now, granted, we can expect that people doing 25-mans will also run 10-mans, and that they will find these 10-mans easier if they are doing it in loot they have gotten from 25-mans runs. I said as much originaly. But that doesn't mean that 25-mans will be harder for them than 10-mans will be for those who are not running 25-mans.
As for 10-mans being inherently easier due to people not being as likely to be rejects. Well this doesn't mean that much, it just means they can be tuned on a finer edge than 25mans at the same point of difficulty as they have less of a 'stuffup' factor to account for.
There is no logical reason that 10-mans must be easier than 25-mans. If it turns out that level 1 10-mans are actually as hard as level 2 25-mans then all they'd have to do is make the level 2 10-mans the level 1, and the problem is removed.
This is all ignoring fights that are heavily execution based and not gear focused.
Now, there may be some reasons to believe that Blizzard will not actualy do what they have said they indend to do, or that they do not realise how to do such a thing (making two valid progression paths but giving one better loot is a bit of a confused stance to me), and it may well be that 25-mans are harder than 10-mans, but that is
not what they have said they intend to do.