So I was looking at the latest news for patch 6.0 and came across something interesting about the new raiding structures. There has always been a tiered system but they appear to have added a new forth tier for 20 man raid guilds. After attempting our first flex raid last week I assumed Blizzard was going to be moving towards a more casual system and that the larger scaled raids were a thing of the past.

So, why not stay at 25-man only? Well I would say It’s very slightly easier for a 10-man guild (who are the majority of the raiding population) to transition to the new size, and 20 people is about as low as you can go to make sure you will have a specific class present for a mythic-only mechanic. Some people are of the opinion that 15-man would have been a better compromise, but Blizzard thought it would be too small of a size in order to guarantee at least one of every class.

How do you feel about a new 20 man only tier?