| The initial barrier to raiding was two-fold. One, Gruul and Magtheridon were pure assbeat in their initial incarnation and they were direct successors to Saphhiron/Kel'Thuzad levels of raiding and not Karazhan Prince raiding.
Secondly, your average guild tried raiding with 3 ret paladins, a handful of frost mages and some BM hunters as DPS with a fury warrior who slapped on a shield to try to tank.
Problem one has been alleviated. Blizzard has promised to make sure each new expansion has a slightly more new-guild-friendly raiding curve. Problem two however has not been addressed and I doubt Blizzard will do anything about. Raid/class composition now matters far more then it did previously. | 