Admittedly most of the our current raiders did raid at a high level in wow You do have a point about this being the first raids, and we all know that balancing raid difficultys is a pretty tough job (even for blizz). Must admit I'm a little disappointed though. Let's hope tier two will be released sooner rather then later, and that they learned from this.

So our guild started venturing into hardmode operations last night, 8 man, after completing them on normal for two weeks without much problem (aside from some weird platform bugs on the last boss in EV). We were quite undergeared (or so you'd think) since we had to take a couple of friends in the guild because of afk's. We were hoping for a night of progression on our first hardmode, and maybe even some cool loot. What we got was a robot with the exact same abillites, more hp and more dmg who went down with the same tactics as the normal version. We did have to pop a cooldown at the end and bunch up for the healing, but that was it He also dropped the same loot. Is this what we can expect as we dive deeper into hardmodes and eventually nightmare mode or will it actually become, well, cooler at some point? My first time reading this forum really, and I did see some other posts that adressed this (or similar) issues. Would be happy if someone with endgame raiding experience could enlighten us how this first tier of raiding works Cheers!