So what reason do you actually have to run 10 man raids?
We're trying to get our guild into progression, and as it was back on retail, Naxx 10 was your entry level raid. It is SUPPOSED to be where you go after your guild gears up in Heroics. However, these last few days we' attempted to run these dungeons as a guild with a pugged DPS or two to get a feel for the direction we will be heading, and I got to say, I don't think I understand the decision here.
On retail, during patch 3.0.3 10 Man Anub'rekhan has 2.3 or 2.4 Million HP. As of right now, he has 7.8 Million. More HP than he had in 25 man during the launch patch (Which is supposed to be 6.9 - 7 mil). We took our raid into OS 10, which btw is supposed to be a loot pinata, and noticed similar issues with Sartharion.
We spent about 2 hours taking shots at Anub'Rekhan, subbing out Tanks, different healers, changing group comps, different DPS types, with players of what is supposed to be APPROPRIATE gear levels. Everyone is sitting at 3.5 - 3.6k GS. All Heroic geared. All Gem'd and Enchanted. We had an over geared healer at 4.3k GS, and also used an over geared tank as well on a few attempts. These are experienced players mind you. Our healer has experience in a world top 16 guild healing, and the rest of us hanging around US top 125 guilds when this content was relevant. We did not down him. We got him to 30% On our best attempt. He spent the entire encounter slamming our tanks for 60% of their health every auto. Our over geared healer even struggled keeping him up.
Now, geting him down to 30%? If this was back during patch 3.0.3, we would of killed Anub'rekhan TWICE with the amount of HP we burned through on 10 man.
I like a challenge, I really do, but if entry level raids are buffed this absurdly, what are we supposed to do? Just bypass 10 mans and go to 25? Are they that much easier here? We had our druids stealth into 25 man and check his HP and he's in the 20 million range, and that is quite a bit higher than its supposed to be. I understand there were talent changes and such that did increase how much damage some classes could put out, but I don't believe the changes were that huge to warrant a buff of this size.
So, what i'd like to know from you guys, what level of gear were you finally able to get through Naxx 10? Because I keep hearing from some of the guild masters on this server, they had to gear up in 25 mans before 10 mans were clearable. We'd like to continue playing here and pushing along, but as of right now, we're feeling a bit blindsided.