his has resulted in a major cut in the overall challenge of the game

 Well, just tell your friends to stop slacking and finish the quests!Wrath of the Lich King also brings along another step in the pro-casual shift that was heralded along with Burning Crusade. If you'll recall, BC cut raid sizes down from 40 to 25 in an effort to make raid content more accessible.


 WotLK further improves accessibility to raids by mirroring every 25-man raid with a 10-man version. This means that there won't be any content exclusive to high-end raiding guilds; except, of course, the loot, since the drops are different in the two versions. And also the 10-mans meant a great opportunity to gear up more quickly as experienced BC raiding guilds transitioned into 25-man content: thanks to very smooth loot itemization in heroics and 10-mans, many guilds were able to cut right into 25-man raids without having to grind partial instances for loot.


his has resulted in a major cut in the overall challenge of the game. Whereas previous expansions meant working to get through raid zones, now most experienced guilds have already cleared all available raid content, many on their first or second week of trying. While raiding may only appeal to a small portion of the server population and these changes may be trying to get more people into raids, it's also left the hard core raiders with a bitter taste in their mouth as things have become far too easy.