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WoW Cataclysm
Aug. 22nd, 2009 01:01 pmThe expansion has been announced for those of us who are interested (and by interestede I mean obsessively screaming like Christmas has come and Father Christmas has been replaced by a hit guy in black leather with a bag full of kinky toys and a lifetime supply of baileys in a manner that rather disturbs non-wowish partners).
I am actually quite happy with the expansion. Scratch that, it looks SHINEH
Reworking Azeroth
ABOUT TIME! Seriously, 80% of the game is completely ignored by 70% of the players. It’s all about 80 and Northrend at the moment. Azeroth needed some love. And at last we can fly over it!
New players get to see new content - but us old players who will go berserk if we have to level our alts through it one more time get new content as well. It’s also important that the canon gets updated - badly. How about the world acknowledging that Kael’thas was evil and is now dead? The death of Illidan, of Vashj (or at least the defeat) the death of ARTHAS. I mean, the plaguelands, would they even be the Plaguelands? The Silithid are so last year’s threat and the Iron Dwarfs - and why is the Missing Diplomat Chain even THERE any more?
And they get to implement phasing - major phasing - everywhere
The canon needed an update. Seriously. About time!
Archaeology & Reforging:
Sounds shiny -but late. I mean it’s about time they DID something with the Explorer’s league - but we just kinda cleared Ulduar? Isn’t Archaeology fairly REDUNDANT when you can talk to Mimiron, Freya, Thorim and Hodir and access the data archives there?
Reforging will REALLY help let several classes use the same gear and keep your gear balanced (nothing hacks me off more than seeing something that is a great upgrade but I can’t afford to drop the hit/defence/mp5 at the moment)
New Races
I’m actually fairly blah here. I mean both races look good and shiny and I agree with the goblins and worgen -but new races don’t interest me as much as what they’re doing to what we have. I’ve had my Shaman from year dot, I don’t want to change him. Still kudos on the Goblins finally PICKING A DAMN SIDE and Gilneas being opened.
Class combinations
Shiny - and I can explain all but the Dwarf mage lore wise. Well I can kind the mage too. Nice to see it opening up but *cries* I ALWAYS WANTED A NELF MAGE!!!! And now I have a Gnome mage at 80...
Stat Simplification
No spell power, no ap, no armour pen, no defence, no mp5, haste is weird and there‘s this odd Mastery thing... Not sure where I stand on this, but I’m withholding judgement until I see how it works - naturally the classes are going to be majorly reworked for this. I’m also unsure with this Titan path thing and the new talents.
On the whole I’m going to express a careful thumbs up. We have the classic 5 stats. Then we have haste (which, the way it is now, always makes me think “but isn’t that kind of what agi is for?) then we have hit. And crit. And spell penetration. And MP5. Then armour penetration (and where did THAT come from?) Suddenly gearing becomes a great feat of MATHS and we’re still reeling from a guild drama where a priest needed on some epic MP5 trinkets which caused the Paladins and Shamans to humph and growl “want some SPIRIT on that?” and the Priest declare that it’s BETTER than any spirit trinket she has.
Let’s get back to skilful playing rather than endless number crunching
Random squee
Thrall is Guardian of Trisfal! MALFURION IS BACK! We get to fight Aszhara and Deathwing!!!!
I am actually quite happy with the expansion. Scratch that, it looks SHINEH
Reworking Azeroth
ABOUT TIME! Seriously, 80% of the game is completely ignored by 70% of the players. It’s all about 80 and Northrend at the moment. Azeroth needed some love. And at last we can fly over it!
New players get to see new content - but us old players who will go berserk if we have to level our alts through it one more time get new content as well. It’s also important that the canon gets updated - badly. How about the world acknowledging that Kael’thas was evil and is now dead? The death of Illidan, of Vashj (or at least the defeat) the death of ARTHAS. I mean, the plaguelands, would they even be the Plaguelands? The Silithid are so last year’s threat and the Iron Dwarfs - and why is the Missing Diplomat Chain even THERE any more?
And they get to implement phasing - major phasing - everywhere
The canon needed an update. Seriously. About time!
Archaeology & Reforging:
Sounds shiny -but late. I mean it’s about time they DID something with the Explorer’s league - but we just kinda cleared Ulduar? Isn’t Archaeology fairly REDUNDANT when you can talk to Mimiron, Freya, Thorim and Hodir and access the data archives there?
Reforging will REALLY help let several classes use the same gear and keep your gear balanced (nothing hacks me off more than seeing something that is a great upgrade but I can’t afford to drop the hit/defence/mp5 at the moment)
New Races
I’m actually fairly blah here. I mean both races look good and shiny and I agree with the goblins and worgen -but new races don’t interest me as much as what they’re doing to what we have. I’ve had my Shaman from year dot, I don’t want to change him. Still kudos on the Goblins finally PICKING A DAMN SIDE and Gilneas being opened.
Class combinations
Shiny - and I can explain all but the Dwarf mage lore wise. Well I can kind the mage too. Nice to see it opening up but *cries* I ALWAYS WANTED A NELF MAGE!!!! And now I have a Gnome mage at 80...
Stat Simplification
No spell power, no ap, no armour pen, no defence, no mp5, haste is weird and there‘s this odd Mastery thing... Not sure where I stand on this, but I’m withholding judgement until I see how it works - naturally the classes are going to be majorly reworked for this. I’m also unsure with this Titan path thing and the new talents.
On the whole I’m going to express a careful thumbs up. We have the classic 5 stats. Then we have haste (which, the way it is now, always makes me think “but isn’t that kind of what agi is for?) then we have hit. And crit. And spell penetration. And MP5. Then armour penetration (and where did THAT come from?) Suddenly gearing becomes a great feat of MATHS and we’re still reeling from a guild drama where a priest needed on some epic MP5 trinkets which caused the Paladins and Shamans to humph and growl “want some SPIRIT on that?” and the Priest declare that it’s BETTER than any spirit trinket she has.
Let’s get back to skilful playing rather than endless number crunching
Random squee
Thrall is Guardian of Trisfal! MALFURION IS BACK! We get to fight Aszhara and Deathwing!!!!