For me, this single change puts a huge damper on the entire expansion as a whole and dramatically reduces my ability to get excited about any of the other features/changes, because this 20-man restriction looms over it all in the back of my mind. The reasoning given by Blizzard that it "makes balancing easier" and "allows for more mechanics that don't need to scale across raid sizes" sounds like complete horseshit and simply an excuse to make the design process easier for the development ...
UPDATE: As of May 10th and build 15677, some of these have been addressed. Click for details. This is a direct copy of a post made as feedback for the current state of Mistweaver Monk healing in the MoP beta, but I'm re-posting it here for posterity. >
Updated 05-10-2012 at 03:15 PM by Kulldam
It is common pop-culture myth that as human beings, we utilize a mere ten percent of our brains. Yet while most modern individuals know this claim to be baseless fiction, I find it serenely comforting to know the world around us is rapidly evolving to allow those true sub-ninety-percenters among us to procure a psuedo-normalcy, even if this requires wearing a bib and always carrying around a tippycup with which to entrap any rogue dribbles or drools that may attempt desertion from the confines ...
There can be little doubt that Blizzard's now infamous command for the World of Warcraft playerbase to "bring the player, not the class" is likely seen around the Irvine offices as a colossal PR headache -- it is no wonder Ghostcrawler found it necessary to cease posting to the Battle.net forums recently and instead communique is frequently relayed down a one-way street of blog posts and announcements. ...
Originally Posted by Albert Einstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Nearly two years ago, like thousands of Guilds in the WoW community, Vox was gearing up to begin raiding in the newly released WotLK, and we were presented with a unique decision: How best to manage our raid roster? Certainly this isn't a decision unique to just Vox Immortalis, but it was unique for us at the time as we were drastically transitioning from ...