the fights are super healing intensive

firelands is indeed quite difficult. mostly because the fights are super healing intensive.

the unfortunate part is that the fights are so healing dependent that if you have all-star healers you can clear out the content with sub-par DPS.

the flipside of that is, if you have subpar healers but all-star dps, you won't down the content because your healers can't keep up.

It's worse in 25man, because the fights aren't really tuned properly. there's tonnes of 10man guilds on my server that are 6/7 normal mode, mainly? 10man is a lot easier than 25man. a good example was using tier11 as a comparison.

our 25man guild was 7/12 heroic, but euwowgold.com the same 10man was only 4/12 heroic. no roster changes between tiers, the difficulty of the raids changed though.

now our guild is 3/7 25man and the same 10man guild is 6/7 10man.

this in itself causes great disparity, because now not only do 10mans get the same gear that you can get in a 25man, they also come by it(MUCH) easier. in 10man you can just flat out ignore mechanics and still down content, in 25man if you even ignore one simple thing you get screwed.

I'll use bethtilac as an example, in 10man it doesn't matter if the drones get healed by spiderlings because they die a lot faster. it doesn't matter if bethtilac eats spiderlings during the transition because she doesn't do enough damage to kill your raid even if she gets all the way to 100% you can still burn through her with relative ease.

not exactly fair. firelands in general to me is a joke, it's hilariously overtuned in 25, and yeah you probably do require good heroic gear. our raid dps is close to 20k and we have 6 pretty decent healers and 2 very solid tanks. but baeleroc will not die, there's just too much damage going out. if you're paragon it's easy, but if you're run of the mill average guild? have fun.