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Raiders respond to 25 man caps

Since the announcement of the new 25-man raid caps for the Burning Crusade, there has been much debate as to how the new limit will affect guilds. Of particular concern is how will the new cap will affect hardcore raiding guilds with regular 40-man rosters that will now either have to be paired down to 25 or split into two groups by adding a few more recruits.

Of course the well publicized rant by Death & Taxes guild leader Xi has been all over the Interweb, but 1up.com has an interesting interview with some representatives from hardcore raiding guilds getting their thoughts on the pros and cons of the change.

The responses are very well thought out and surprisingly reasoned and calm relative to some of the expletive-laden diatribes we have seen in the past, however in the end I think they all end up making a stronger argument for the new caps than against them.

Of course the breaking up of large raiding guilds is unfortunate, but in the long run the new caps will help more people access high end content.

Personally, I feel the only reason this is such an issue is because the Burning Crusade has taken so long to be released, with so many people sitting at level 60 for as long as a year and a half, a sudden change of this nature was bound to catch them off-guard when all they have known for over a year is 40-man raids.

Hopefully the time between expansions will be significantly reduced from this point forward to reduce the stagnation when people hit the level cap and get a little too comfortable.