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Raid Sizes and Design Inertia

When I was raid lead in vanilla wow, I arranged and lead many many runs on Molten Core, a few on Black­wing Lair, and many in Zul’Gurub and AQ20. When news of The Burn­ing Crusade’s reduc­tion in raid size came out, that the new raids would be 25 and 10, I cheered. My guild thought […]

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There are Many Ways to Win

The game indi­ca­tor of win­ning in WoW is receiv­ing an epic item. In vanilla WoW, the vast major­ity of epic items came from 40-man raid­ing. I’ll grant that there was an epic hunter quest, a few lim­ited craft­ing bits, some world drops, and a top-level pvp set that only a hand­ful of peo­ple could get. […]

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