Some of WoW's hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that's on purpose, developers say

Some of WoW's hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that's on purpose, developers say "People are a little bit more willing now to say, 'Well I'd like to try out tanking. I'd like to try out healing.'" World of Warcraft's developers are making some subtle shifts in dungeons and raids to help players with its more-difficult content, in the hopes that a variety of knock-on effects result, including increased participation in the game overall and a better balance of tanks, healers and damage dealers. In the case of WoW's timed-dungeon Mythic Plus mode, it was a matter of making it just a bit easier to get to the mythic-level rewards of the weekly vault, says Paul Kubit, associate game director in charge of the Midnight expansion. She scored one measly point against Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel in Unreal Tournament and was, exceedingly briefly, top 50 world in Halo.