A Question regarding future content.

With the release of Totc, and ICC there were a series of dungeons that were released along side the raids that served as gear catch ups.

Will these instances be released? If so, do they plan to be released with the items untouched? If the items to be untouched, will the dungeons get buffed, so that they can't be used as a shortcut through progression?

Just interested. When I played through retail, I always looked at these instances as what ruined Wrath. They were all easy dungeons, and the rewards from them were way to good for how easy the dungeons were. It was disheartening to see raids get bypassed by these easily farmable dungeons.

It's really up to the player if they want to gear up that way or not. It's not up to anyone to dictate how a person should be able to enjoy the game.

I agree. As a guild master, its just troublesome. I can't exactly force my guild members to farm Naxx for gear and not use those dungeons, it wouldn't be right at all of me to do that, because you're 100% correct in that no one should be able to dictate how anyone enjoys the game.

I just keep hearing that Lordaeron is supposed to be some kind of hard mode wrath server, and was wondering how that is going to impact the easy mode instances.

Let's stop getting ahead of ourselves, there's still nothing on Ulduar release, so I don't think we're anywhere near ToC or ICC.