Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
Difficulty is still average, perhaps overall easier. E8S stands out as being one of the harder fights we've had in a while but that was mostly for early clears due to the dps check and it's a definite outlier in the 8 fights we have so far. Third floors used to be difficult but are jokes right now in comparison to last expansion.
Alexander was average for an ultimate.

Healers had their skill set gutted and nothing to show for it. I think E8S is the only fight this tier that'll push you to gcd heal, kinda sad.
Aggro is no longer something you need to manage either. Everything has been simplified so much and I'm not even sure it's achieved the purpose of getting lower tiered players into raiding. Wonder how that debrief is going at SE currently.
E8S is hard due the ungodly combination of several one-shot mechanics in a row and the way ping works in this game.

The more one shot mechanics the less healing actually matters since, you can't heal or shield through insta kills.