I've updated second placeholder post (
post #4 in this thread) to include a list of more specific topics that need to be addressed and where my priorities are with them. Please continue to say things not on that list, but please keep an eye on that list so you know if I'm not responding much to your specific posts that I might be aware of the issue and discussing some other things first. It's a lot to cover.
That all said, let's discuss the "spires buffs" briefly. A few fights in Spires were changed. Some of them were too easy. Some of them were fairly low on mechanics. Some were both. It's desired that the fights have some amount of mechanics and are also not something a Tier 7 raid could do. Further discussion of that is probably best left to a case-by-case basis. After all, Researcher Thek`rak didn't get changed (unless I'm mistaken) as it was tier-appropriate and had a reasonable level of mechanics involved. The other fights should follow this trend.
The Void Worm, in particular, was probably as easy as early Yclist if you had a casters that could sneaky cast underwater and a bard for dispells. The debuff that affected AE damage was made to be more of a pressing concern during the encounter and the damage was increased a bit to make it a fight that is around Tier 10-11 in difficulty. I believe these changes are good changes in intent and on paper.
I do hear the comments of "this fight is too hard", but I'm having difficulty interpreting those comments. Do you mean that there's just too much damage going out for a late Tier 10 or early Tier 11 fight? Do you mean that the tank is taking too much damage? Do you mean that the debuff should necessarily be removable from everyone by a bard or two without further effort or else the encounter just sucks? Do you mean that removing the debuff requires too much time of the healers that should otherwise be spent healing? Do you mean that you can't remove the debuff, and so the fight is effectively impossible with the large AE damage increase the debuff causes?
Answer "yes" to any of those "Do you mean...?" questions is a valid response, and I believe that we can handle the problems that a "yes" answer to any of those questions would indicate. I haven't watched the fight be attempted since it was changed, so I actually don't know the problem. It looks fine on paper, so I could use some input. That's what this thread is for (your input). Please provide this input
nicely and with the mindset that I'm actually listening and very interested in this phase of balance.