The poll options are somewhere along the lines of
BEST THING EVER.
WORST THING EVER.
meh
From what I see so far, it will be a solid expansion.
This is essentially what I did, except now I don't have the time for the catchup I'd need to do : (
Yeah I realise I haven't got the clearest vision on the topic since I disappeared for a while but I do have a housemate who's played the whole expansion so it's better then nothing. :P
gonna make me new thread with 1-10 kind of poll. discuss if you like on this, the new im gonna name Cataclysm: the best or the worst NEW.
Wrath was good but too easy and too repetitive. Raids layout were shit, reused content and one boss raids were not good. Raids were too long, too many equipments, to many shared models, too many reused equipments.
I mean, Naxx was reused, Ulduar was very good, only thing that was very well done in this expansion. ICC have 3 lore bosses everything else is just dumnb shit, also nerfed from the beginning but still competitive in hardmodes. Then we had Malygos sartharon, halion, onyxia, all one boss raids with reskinned bosses and some new tactic. Its just not enough IMHO.
I prefer short raids with 5-6 bosses. And Cata got them
I prefer having lesser loot with unique design, and 10/25 being more similar. I got 10/25 sharing loot and difficulty/lockout and hence lesser loot.
Cata is really looking awesome. I am looking forward to it and to the beta.
I hate when people complain about Naxx being reused content. If you cleared Naxx 40 back in the day, then that's fine, but so many people missed that, and it had a place in WOTLK from a lore standpoint. If you didn't clear Naxx 40, then it was new to you, and why do you care?
unlike wotlk, cata is going to be changing the way the game is going to be played in so many ways.. which will make it a fresh and fun experience...possibly the best expansion yet
I think Cataclysm is going to be the best expansion pack so far. The amount of ground-breaking changes speaks for itself.
The only thing that bugs me is the massive and way too excessive scaling of stats and gear over the course of a mere 5 levels. Gear-Reset is good and all, but going from 26 Haste/1% to 192 Haste/1% in 5 levels is just retarded.
Blizzard has said that even though it is only 5 levels, it's a big enough leap for 10 levels. They don't want 100 to be the next expansion, or Cataclysm would have been 90.
Look at 1-60 compared to 60-70
It's the best right up until it's been released for a few months, and then it'll be the worst. Once a new expansion has been out for a few months, it'll be the best again.
Removing talent tree fluff and bloat in favor of more meaningful choice? win
Redesigning trees and rotations and ability usage across the board? win
Reducing reliance on global spamming in healing/dps? win
removing AoE-only focus and returning to CC and decision making over faceroll? win
redesign of outdated quest content and level progression? win
two new races and many new class/race combos? win
bringing back choice and skill and coordination in tanking/healing strategy? win
the only thing I feel bad about is that all the scrubs who only got into raiding/heroics in Wrath are going to be so terrible of players in Cata when things go back to more like they were in BC.
random dungeon pugs are going to be a nightmare for a while...
Tank - "Ok, Mage sheep the Moon and Rogue Sap the Star, DPS focus fire on Skull then X."
DPS - "Wut? Lol noob I gotz AoE's scrub lawlalwla rofl."
*wipe*
Dps - "wtf lurn to tank nub!" "l2heal scrub healerz!"
Tank/Healer - "..." *leave group*