World of Warcraft

I was lucky enough to get an invite into the WOTLK beta today and after several hours of downloading and patching I got to play.

I copied my lvl 70 T4 gear hunter to "coldra" the beta PvE server (there is no PvP server). After about an hour spec'ing and respec'ing I decided to stick with my mostly MM build, untill I have time to go to ungoro and get me a devilsaur.

Day : 1

	I decided to take a boat from the new Stormwind harbor and start my adventure on the West side of northrend, I arrived in an besiged settlement called "Valiance Keep" on the coast of the Borean tundra. Impressive? and back to old skool WoW. love it.
	One of my first quests after running around Valiance keep looking for the various vender and so forth was to help kill some of nebreun (those flying bat things) who were attacking the Keep. I was given a net that I had to throw over one these beasties and bring them to the ground for a good old fasioned beating.
	I decided to go for quick look around, Just over the cliffs in the distance I could see the horde stronghold. I did a few more quests in the area, scouting a mine, buring some buildings.
	I decided to take a closer look at the horde stronghold.. this is as close as I dared get.  That floating thing in the background spawned about 50 mobs so I run like a little girl.  the shadows it caste was darn good though. I am loving the gfx improvments in wotlk.
	So What loot did I get in my few hours in the Wotlk beta? As a Tier 4 geared hunter with Season 2 PvP epix to fill in the blanks none of this loot was more powerful than I already had. So all you T5/6 guys dont worry your effort is not gone to waste.

I only got to play around 4 hours and explored all of about 10% of one zone in northrend, but It feels great, visualy its better than TBC and ofc it feel more like WoW as its not on a strange alien planet.

Haste rating on Green Gear! Awesome, :)

Weird how they have no Euro pvp server.  Theres a pve and pvp server in NA.

Originally posted by Kabbax

Haste rating on Green Gear! Awesome, :)

Theres haste rating on a lot of gear in the stating area.  Since it applies to both melee and spell haste its doubly nice for hybrid classes like paladins and shamans.

I really hate this game for all the reasons anyone who's been playing since day one would. It's tired grind heavy class unbalances blah blah. The only problem with the WotLK is that they are doing everything I thought they should have done in TBC in that this is a high fantasy genre and not Star Gate Worlds.

Let me say that the last year and change have been frustrating with this game as I play a druid who is not resto and therefore get a large tri colored rubber cock award in pve and pvp for the most part. I hate the lies they spit at me about my spec being 'competitive with the rest of the spec' which is a sure fire way to ensue the wrath of God on their lying forms. The nerfs made a few months after release are being undone now which goes to show that they were in fact over doing it despite them telling the whole of the druid community to stfu and go spec resto damn it. Leave the dps and likewise cool raiding spots of shamans. However with all the changes that represent many years of "I told you so" this xpac looks more appealing despite seige looking like a sweaty heap of manmuck. It's graphic update is years overdue and the class mechanics even longer but since it's being changed now I suppose it will make up for it despite them taxing my already pissy  wallet.

Originally posted by Delondial

I really hate this game for all the reasons anyone who's been playing since day one would. It's tired grind heavy class unbalances blah blah. The only problem with the WotLK is that they are doing everything I thought they should have done in TBC in that this is a high fantasy genre and not Star Gate Worlds.

 

Let me say that the last year and change have been frustrating with this game as I play a druid who is not resto and therefore get a large tri colored rubber cock award in pve and pvp for the most part. I hate the lies they spit at me about my spec being 'competitive with the rest of the spec' which is a sure fire way to ensue the wrath of God on their lying forms. The nerfs made a few months after release are being undone now which goes to show that they were in fact over doing it despite them telling the whole of the druid community to stfu and go spec resto damn it. Leave the dps and likewise cool raiding spots of shamans. However with all the changes that represent many years of "I told you so" this xpac looks more appealing despite seige looking like a sweaty heap of manmuck. It's graphic update is years overdue and the class mechanics even longer but since it's being changed now I suppose it will make up for it despite them taxing my already pissy  wallet.

I also have a feral druid main, and i disagree with you almost completely in any regard but arena.

Since you didn't state that you ment balance in arena specifically, i assume you didn't mean it in that way.

Originally posted by Kabbax

Originally posted by Delondial

I really hate this game for all the reasons anyone who's been playing since day one would. It's tired grind heavy class unbalances blah blah. The only problem with the WotLK is that they are doing everything I thought they should have done in TBC in that this is a high fantasy genre and not Star Gate Worlds.

 

Let me say that the last year and change have been frustrating with this game as I play a druid who is not resto and therefore get a large tri colored rubber cock award in pve and pvp for the most part. I hate the lies they spit at me about my spec being 'competitive with the rest of the spec' which is a sure fire way to ensue the wrath of God on their lying forms. The nerfs made a few months after release are being undone now which goes to show that they were in fact over doing it despite them telling the whole of the druid community to stfu and go spec resto damn it. Leave the dps and likewise cool raiding spots of shamans. However with all the changes that represent many years of "I told you so" this xpac looks more appealing despite seige looking like a sweaty heap of manmuck. It's graphic update is years overdue and the class mechanics even longer but since it's being changed now I suppose it will make up for it despite them taxing my already pissy  wallet.

 

I also have a feral druid main, and i disagree with you almost completely in any regard but arena.

Since you didn't state that you ment balance in arena specifically, i assume you didn't mean it in that way.

 

Thus why I said' for the most part'. Druid tanks are find but the scaling on cat is shat and anyone who disagrees needs to go back to high school statistics class or maybe just pull the McDonalds grease out of their face and watch the numbers not change ever. Balance is just plain undesirable for pve and most guilds dismiss them leading to your pvp sessions of frustration as you cannot kill anything respectably geared that can heal which includes warlocks.

However this isn't about Druids who are pretty much replaced at current with the Godly antics of Death Knights on the horrizen but about the overall package. I kid kinda about the Death Knight bit. The graphics and shadows as of right now look like a panty dropping sensation compared to its current state which while isnt saying much is still better than doing nothing at all. The style is back to the gritty Azeroth of timber and death as opposed to the spacey laser age with floating shiny God things that no matter how hard to wack them candy never come out. In terse its a desireable upgrade and the changes are going to be well recieved for the most part since now I don't have to wait 20 minutes when someone dies to tell them they are out of luck. I probably wont rez them anway.

meh does not look appealing to me at all.

well i hope you have a fun time exploring the other 90% of the new world :)

The first screen looks like it was from WAR. Good info on the WOTLK thanks.