Blizzard experiments with 5-player raids for World of Warcraft

Today marks the beginning of a new experiment for Blizzard Entertainment in their massively multiplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: five-player raiding.

Warcraft dungeons have required five players since the game began, but these days, those dungeons’ design largely attempts to get participants in and out in well under an hour. They’re simple, designed at easier difficulties to be completed by groups made up of total strangers, and offer some of the easiest group content in the game.