I definitely won’t be playing Cataclysm.

The upshot of this is that probably 90% of raids will have to go back to Ulduar, which is no bad thing, but it does make ToC ssomething of a distraction we didn’t really need tbh.

As for Koralon, give me a break – yet another shortcut to easy loot, and I don’t understand why Blizzard want to sabotage Ulduar yet further with this boss.

I also agree with you about the hard modes. I’m sure I should be excited at the prospect of new challenges but … dialling up health and damage makes the fight harder, but it doesn’t make it more fun.

I’m mostly still in because I like the people and because I want to be geared for tanking Icecrown. That isn’t entirely enough to justify the sub.

I do think the Coliseum isn’t as challenging as I’d hoped, though. I know hard modes are supposed to be really tough but I’m not really enthusiastic about facing them.

It is getting kind of silly with the recycled bosses though. I mean, in this case since Anub works for a powerful necromancer you can kind of see it. But Onyxia and Nefarian?

But yeah, ToC25 normal is nice but a tad to easy for my taste as well. Heroic is more fun. 25 man is very hard. But we have made good progress in 10 man HC, I like that tuning alot. Onlu Anub to go there for us.
But bring on IIC sooner, rather than later. Toc is very much like a filler raid.

We clear the regular mode the first day it was available and subsequently tried the heroic version. We spent like 3 days on the FIRST BOSS. It was nuts. Most of it was due to people being too lax from the ease of the regular, but man … Then it gets easy for the next 2 (even faction champs weren’t that hard), then the Twins are pretty tough and Anub SUCKS.

So yea, it’s like Blizz just turned up everything in the hopes it would fill peoples’ time til ICC, but meh. I’m not a fan of that. I’m really beginning to dislike “hard modes” simply being more health and more damage. Change the fight around! Put extra events in them or something. Don’t just make them hit harder and have more HP.

We downed that big dead bug the first week he was out. Took us four of five tries to get tanking and dps sorted properly and get get all the moving parts identified and a plan to mitigate them. Even so, he was dead in relatively short order after we engaged him.

I left that week thinking that ToC25 regular was just a tad too easy.

Somehow between now and then, the raid has collectively blown the whole fight out their butts. Anub hasn’t died since. Most attempts haven’t even been close. Many enrages before phase 3, add tank deaths for no good reason.

We’re the same way on Yogg, it’s the last boss psychout. It makes me want to nerdrage.