A new mode for WoD...

So I spent the past few days trolling the MMO-C forums like usual.  I came across what I considered a troll post about how Blizz is trying to kill off casual progression raiding, and it was filled with the usual suspects, people talking out of their asses and not making much sense.

It naturally started with how Blizz is making 10man guilds second class citizens.  The LFR crowd bitched at how they aren't getting real loot.  And the people that never raid complained at how their dungeon gear can't compete.

However, there were the shining few who explained the reasons why Blizz was changing raid size formats and stuff.  Mixed in between all of that, an idea sparked in my mind.

It’s a warm summer evening, circa 600 BC, you’ve finished your shopping at the local market, or agora, and you look up at the night sky. There you notice some of the stars seem to move, so you name them planetes, or wanderer.

Just kidding, but I love that scene in BBT where Sheldon tries to teach Penny physics.

So Blizzard has a lot of different types of content.  You have three man scenarios.  Five man heroic dungeons.  Ten to thirty man for LFR, normal, and heroic raids.  Twenty man mythic raids.  On top of all these, differing levels of rewards.

What if, maybe as filler content between raid tiers, they could develop ten man content.  This content would let them showcase other story lines away from the main raid content.  They could make the rewards equivalent to LFR, so it isn't required for Mythic raiders.  It would be something that is a higher challenge than heroic dungeons and LFR, allows them to explore more lore, and is completely optional.  They can periodically release new ten man content after each raid tier to give more stuff for people to do.  This could be very helpful at the end of expansions, where there are huge amounts of time with players getting bored.  They could release little zones, tuned at a slightly higher difficulty than LFR, so coordination would be required, but being twinked out wouldn't be needed, nore would it require everyone to be the perfect raider or have the perfect group comp to complete.

This would give the casual audience, the lore audience, something to do that wouldn't require set days or times, something that could be completed within just a couple hours if one-shotting.  You would have to be in a pre-formed group like our current Flex model.

I don't quite know what I would call this mode yet.  But that is my idea.