From a casual perspective I want to give my personal opinion of the raids of this expansion.
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Castle Nathria
All bosses were super interesting and fun to play. Without t sets or shards there was a great progression path through the first patch of the expansion. Our guild had a lot of fun clearing it. -
Sanctum of Domination
The maw design was fitting for the second raid but as most of the people hated the maw, we hated the artwork after some months
Bosses were not as interesting as the first one but ok. As our guild is very casual we had to bench some people during roh kalo. We really didn’t like that a huge responsibility to move the runes correctly could wipe the entire raid just because some old didn’t catch the mechanic. Usually we give important tasks to the players which are very good. Kind of disheartening moment… Sylvanas was too long but we were happy to get here done after some nerfs. -
Sepulcher of …
This raid was the worst one blizzard has released during this expansion. It was not due to the design of the bosses, which is marvelous. It was due to the difficulty spikes in the first few weeks. But not only the scuffed scaling was awful. Our guild members only joined the raid in expectation to get tier pieces. They didn’t joined because they wanted to see the bosses and enjoy the mechanics… We had a lot of frustration just because no tokens dropped at certain bosses which was awful. And with everyone gaining access to their sets we faced another problem. The raid on HC is becoming too easy just because blizzard decided to nerf everything early on. The progression path for casuals is horrible in this raid.
For season 4 we are planing to run castle again because it was the best raid over all. Hope blizzard will improve in 10.0