You obviously hold Blizzard's philosophy. Elite does not have to mean 40-man raids. Elite can mean that it may take 1 week for a 5-man team to do a 5-man elite instance.
What you're saying (along with Blizzard) is that the developers who created this amazing game cannot figure out a way to create a mini-boss that can withstand a 30-minute fight from a 5-man grouop, while throttling down its damage output so-as not to wipe that group instantly?
Essentially that's all it would take. Make a 5-man mini-boss with massive HP, and great armor/magic resistance. Then reduce its damage output to a reasonable level, where a 5-man with a 60 priest and a 60 druid would have to carefully manage their mana and work together to keep the main-tank alive. Such an instance would have a few of these mini-bosses and finally a main-boss whose damage is throttled a little higher.
Obviously such an instance would be required to have a save feature like the 40-man raids. The way I see it, a 5-man group would have a heck of a fight just to get to a mini-boss, taking at least 45 minutes for the best of groups... with at least 3 mini and a major boss, this would easily be classified as an Elite Instance for 5-man, and the loot should reflect that.
I appears Blizzard's end-game philosophy is still too heavily geared towards massive 40-man instances. Is this end-game myopia intentional? Does Blizzard actually believe that everyone wants to experience the in-fighting and backstabbing that is so common when you have 300+ member guilds?
I belive the best solution is to provide extreemely difficult instances that are maxed with 5 and 10-man groups, that provide a similar level of difficulty/reward ratio as those that require 40-man raids. At the very least, they could provide equipment that will end the balance issues that we currently have that mean that only members of mega-guilds get epic items and succeed in your newest end-game farce (I mean fix), which is Battlegrounds.
Is there ever a chance of us getting such elite content for small raids?
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You obviously hold Blizzard's philosophy. Elite does not have to mean 40-man raids. Elite can mean that it may take 1 week for a 5-man team to do a 5-man elite instance. What you're saying (along with Blizzard) is that the developers who created this amazing game cannot figure out a way to create a mini-boss that can withstand a 30-minute fight from a 5-man grouop, while throttling down its damage output so-as not to wipe that group instantly? Essentially that's all it would take. Make a 5-man mini-boss with massive HP, and great armor/magic resistance. Then reduce its damage output to a reasonable level, where a 5-man with a 60 priest and a 60 druid would have to carefully manage their mana and work together to keep the main-tank alive. Such an instance would have a few of these mini-bosses and finally a main-boss whose damage is throttled a little higher. Obviously such an instance would be required to have a save feature like the 40-man raids. The way I see it, a 5-man group would have a heck of a fight just to get to a mini-boss, taking at least 45 minutes for the best of groups... with at least 3 mini and a major boss, this would easily be classified as an Elite Instance for 5-man, and the loot should reflect that.
I appears Blizzard's end-game philosophy is still too heavily geared towards massive 40-man instances. Is this end-game myopia intentional? Does Blizzard actually believe that everyone wants to experience the in-fighting and backstabbing that is so common when you have 300+ member guilds? I belive the best solution is to provide extreemely difficult instances that are maxed with 5 and 10-man groups, that provide a similar level of difficulty/reward ratio as those that require 40-man raids. At the very least, they could provide equipment that will end the balance issues that we currently have that mean that only members of mega-guilds get epic items and succeed in your newest end-game farce (I mean fix), which is Battlegrounds. Is there ever a chance of us getting such elite content for small raids?
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