Yesterday was the first day when the first wing of the Tomb of Sargeras raid was open, the Gates of Hell. I have raided in the past, the way back past of Burning Crusade, and I got to where I enjoyed 10-man raiding (Karazhan and Zul’Aman). I had done larger raids a couple of times but found it too confusing to be enjoyable.
Despite this, I decided to queue up for an LFR run in the Gates of Hell. I believe it ended up being a 25-man raid (if I was counting correctly) and it really was a lot of fun. There wasn’t a ton of trash to fight through, which was nice, and the bosses were interesting. (It does make me wonder how “nerfed” the bosses are for LFR compared to even normal mode.)
I did get a piece of tier gear from the final boss. Sadly it is about 15 ilevels below my current gear, though Pawn shows it as a slight upgrade from my Holy off-spec. I will definitely need to do some research about how set bonuses figure in gear rankings, i.e. how much do set bonuses offset a lower gear level.