Additional wow gold and badges are nice, but it doesn't feel sufficient. I have to admit to being a bit leery of the change. On the other hand, I love the fact that BiS loot won't be a mix of 10 and 25-man loot anymore. After all, if you take the average mid-progression 25-man, you can almost always pop out the top 10 performers to make a better progressing 10-man. 25-man recruitment will get harder with people leaving more often when the raid stalls for a few weeks. I also think this is really going to put class balance under much more wow gold of a magnifying glass, with 10-man class buffs being more important of wow gold.

There should be some sort of extra reward for the logistics and challenges of establishing a 25s run. Overall, it will be good for the game since it frees up even more time for players. It will also increase the level of accessibility so that players don't feel that pressure in doing both 10s and 25s in order to stay competitive. And also, welcome back raid stacking. I don't think hardcore guilds will be much affected -- for them it just means less required raiding. Causal guilds will fall apart in droves and reform in much smaller micro-wow gold guilds, methinks. I know the rewards have not been set in stone yet, but while I am intrinsically motivated to run 25s, not everyone else is going to feel the same way. As a guild leader, it reminds me of the vanilla to Burning Crusade change, knowing that it has the potential to gut the guild. I think we'll see far, far more 10-mans than 25.

This change is driving me nuts, and I can't quite put my finger on why, but I've managed to rationalize it out to a degree. For an experienced, progression-focused raid guild, this is a nightmare -- you run a raid to successfully run a raid in wow gold, not to hold a new person's hand through the instance. In light of that, a lot of people will more than likely be downsizing to 10-man raiding, simply because recruitment and getting a solid 10-man team is much, much easier than doing so with a 25-man team.