Cata raids so far seem a bit underwhelming to me. What’s your opinion on them?
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Not heard any community opinions from current cata classic.
But the people who did them back in 2011 said they were a huge step up in difficulty and complete guild killers.
For the cata classic release i took a look at the ”60 sec guide” video and it’s just far too much BS going on for my taste.
Dono if i’ll ever raid in cata, I prefer them faceroll easy. But we’ll see, Maybe i’ll join a normal PuG to see if any of the rumors are true.
I’m only 352 ilvl so i dono if that’s enough.
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Normal raids are pretty easy. You can clear them without too much trouble. They sound like your cup of tea.
Except Nefarian, who is harder on normal than several heroic bosses.
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Normal is meant to be accessible. If its too easy, start doing heroic raids.
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I’m enjoying the content!
I have only done 5/13 heroic though, didn’t get the time to progress further yet. Magmaw heroic took us longer than expected, whiped for almost a full three hours before getting the kill. I also get the feeling that Al’Akir is the Sindragosa of T11, sometimes the RNG just cucks you hard in P1. In the end, what worked best for us was just to lust and pop everything to get into P2 asap.
The jump in difficulty from normal to heroic is high, from my experience. We oneshot almost all normal mode bosses, going in with vague memories from 14 years back and 30 second Youtube guides. The only heroic boss I’d consider pushover this far is Atramedes.
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Except Nefarian, who is harder on normal than several heroic bosses.
huh?
Not having fun.
I never got chance to raid them proper but no one seems to want to do Normal mode, they wanna do Heroics instantly and im in poor gear - and its a stressfest as a healer. Im sure it will get better!
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Heroic progression feels very good, a few bosses very easy, then they get more complicated until you get to nefarian and sinestra that can really challenge a unprepared raid.
My guild went in pretty much blind other than reading up on basic tactics on a few bosses, but some of us had done the raids back in original cataclysm.
We cleared everything but Ascendant council, nefarian and sinestra on HC the first week, then with the extra time on our hands this week we cleared up the remaining bosses, sinestra was giving us a hard time, but once we fine tuned our strategies (also disc priest pretty much cheese the fight) she fell over quickly.
Nefarian died quite fast, only spendt like a hour and a half on him before he died on the last attempt of the week.
Good difficulty curve, interesting mechanics, definatly a big step up from wotlk in term of fun.
Dunno if you are just pugging, cause pugs arent about having fun, they are about getting gear. A guild is where you can have fun, playing with the same people every week, chatting and improving together.
Prefer them faceroll ez 
spoken like a true mirage-raceway player there can’t click 1-4 buttons 
Still better than the average memennas one.
If only I could have the options to blacklist that place forgotten by god when I log.
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They are extremely fun.
Except Magmaw.
Is the bad grammer on purpose or just to confuse me ?
Not done any raids in Cata Classic because everyone I played with quit for Cata, I just did the pre-raid gearup and will wait to see if I want to find a guild for Firelands. But these are not the same raids as 2010/2011, Classic is running the 4.3 nerfed raids and dungeons with buffed Classes (unless you play Fury Warrior, lol).
No they are not, we are on the 4.1 raids, which is just fixes to broken mechanics.
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Yea well, you lmk when you clear most bosses on hc, maybe is more over than underwhelming 
HC progress have been a blast so far, my guild already did 10/13 and had lot of fun learning the mechanics. It feels harder than wotlk for sure but fairly rewarding if you do mechanics properly.
Normal feels too easy for my raiding guild, but then again we aren’t clearing heroic yet either, normal is for PUGs I guess and heroic is for guilds.
Heroic seems decently balanced, if perhaps a tad easy as we started with them even on week 1 in mostly dungeon blues.
I’m guessing once we’re mostly 359 or heroic raid geared it’ll be quite a lot easier.
At lvl 85?
… How? ICC heroic is 277 ilvl, you’re lower than a raid from last expansion, I don’t think PUGs are gonna be happy to take you and I can’t really blame them for that lol
Normal has been quite easy. But it allowed me to pump logs instead, practice my rotation, my muscle memory.
Except for Nefarian, because apparently i’m a grade A clown there. Forgot to put my ghoul on assist after i put it on passive to save it from lava.
But Heroic posed a bit more of a threat. Needed some prog on it.
So i’m enjoying it alot. Also did some tanking on my alt. Gonna get my Hpala to 85 aswell, because i wanna try healing. I’m awful at healing & hPala is very strong, so it can be a slight crutch for me. Sorry for any future pugs i join with my healer :).
U can’t read or what? The so called server you are playing are filled with people there can’t even click on 1 spell.