World of Warcraft

I left WoW 2 years ago before the "Burning crusades" arived... And played many many other games EQ2, Vanguard, Lotro , AoC (only beta) Warhammer  and Spellborn (early Beta and now wayting on release).

I am one of those players that loves to play the leveling up content and do some PvP (preferably instances) but I hate it when i need to do the same thing over and over again (Endgame content)...So the possibiliity of playing a death knight offered me the chance to play the remaining content of WoW..

And there is on thing that does WoW better then all these other games....It immerses me intoo their world like no other game does...I don't know exactly why...but the immersion is actually there and i love it after having been gone for more then 2 years....

Welcome back,

You'll be amazed how much better the old Wow became after patch 2.3 (november last year).

You choose your playing style and get rewarded. The old ever redoing raiding grind of old Wow has gone.

Originally posted by bodypass

 

You choose your playing style and get rewarded. The old ever redoing raiding grind of old Wow has gone.

WoW is still the same gear/rep grindfest it has always been.  however every new patch brings wonderful changes.  my most recent return saw PvP marks no longer taking up inventory space (hooray) and now mounts and pets don't either.

If you never played BC then you'll be in for a lot of fun leveling up.. sort of.  BC had some really nice  instanced content, with the grind for heroic keys reduced (and useless, because no one will be running heroic pugs with Wrath content to move on to)

and so after the 60-70 content which is actually pretty quick, you'll still have the new 70-80 content.  once you hit 80 I suggest you hit up every instance and then quit again.  If you didn't like the grind of old WoW, you won't like the grind of new WoW.  the raids are down from 40mans, and now you get tokens to turn in for gear, so you don't get stuck with drops for the same class over and over (for tier gear anyway).

but most of the good gear you see will be from rep grinds and instance grinds, and arena grinds.  thats not to say you won't enjoy the 70-80 content, so far it seems well done, though I haven't tried it horde side yet so I can't speak for their quests.

overall its some nice new content, and I'm sure you'll get some enjoyment out of it.  but don't expect WoW to have changed deep down.  the game keeps getting better, but at its core, WoW is still WoW.  despite what some rabid fans will say.

 From all the grinds around, I choose you WoW, oh grind of mine.

Glad you're enjoying it OP!

As to the other comments ... of course there's a grind.  What themepark, or for that matter most sandboxes, mmo doesn't have a grind associated with it's gameplay?  I can't think of any.  The difference between games is whether you enjoy the grind (or story-lines).