My guild is on the break of disbanding because

[Febsterr-arathi]

@Zhujiang-mograine

So let us make a status update on this thread folks.

This thread was created all the way back on Jan the 8th. Since then a lot has happened.

Firstly)

I have been vindicated by the released numbers. The numbers both show that the raid is significantly harder than the raids released in both Legion and BFA. According to the numbers the raid seems to be around the same difficulty as Shadowlands raids (you know the disaster raids which had low participation because they were too hard).

RAID		% guilds got AOTC 4 weeks in
The Nighthold		27.91 %
Tomb of Sarg		21.81 %
Antorus		36.73 %
Uldir		18.34 %
BDA		20.88 %
Eternal Palace		28.38 %
Nyalotha		31.83 %
Castle Nathria		11.06 %
Sylv Raid		13.69 %
Shadowlands final fail raid		4 %
vault of incarn		12.1 %

Of course the participation in the raid is also awful. Funny how one thing seems to follow the other?

There are now also daily posts on the EU forum complaining about the difficulty of Raz on Heroic, to the point where a users are complaining about the daily threads.

Good news though, if you think the raid is needlessly hard, all the numbers agree with you.

Secondly)

Remember how I predicted a massive issue from the increased skill-gap from talent trees as well as lack of passive damage like we had in Legion / BFA? The issue being that the game would be harder and there would be no way to outgear content properly because of lack of borrowed power and titanforging?

Well Blizzard has seemed to agree, and have decided to release primordial stones in .7 as a sort of temporary borrowed power.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/en/wow/t/feedback-onyx-annulet-ring-and-primordial-stones/1517335

Of course, by the time they are released a lot of people will simply have quit, too little too late. I still do commend Blizzard for releasing this stuff, and I hope they do not listen to the crybabies who don´t understand the importance of borrowed power due to the massive skill gap that now exists within our game.

I also personally believe that Blizzard need to adjust raid gearing to make it relevant, or make raiding significantly easier. Guilds are stuck on Heroic, especially if they do not do M+ on the side. I have been talking about how M+ is honestly just a poorly implemented power system for raiders at the moment in the following thread (yes I have a thread for everything)

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/en/wow/t/dragonflight-the-m-or-die-expansion/427172

The numbers are out. Check that post, all the evidence is there, we can all theory craft but the numbers dont lie.