Dear everyone in this thread,

I hate you all. Because of you, I've been forced to download the World of Warcraft trial, and give it another shot.

Since they're re-doing all the starting areas for the expansion I'll wait 'til it's released to start playing again. I don't really want to play a DK any more, and I really miss my old (and hacked!) shadow priest.

...they're smart enough to make you not require the new expansion to get the new starting zones, right? The whole reason for them being re-vamped is for more customers.

New Azeroth is for everyone. Worgen, Goblin, and 80+ zones are Cataclysm only, if it's anything at all like BC/WotLK.

Yea the face lift is for the whole game, not just the expac. So if there's anything you want to see and are unsure if its going to change I'd see it/do it now. The chances of it being changed/revamped in some way is very likely.

Still need to finish my pally tier2. Sucks the only people who do BWL are pallies looking for t2, so you've 20 pallies rolling one drop, and that's if you're lucky.

l2solo. ^.^ Or find yourself a healer friend and maybe a dps/tank friend.

Can't solo Vael, or probably Chromaggus.

It's a shame that no one has yet to create a good enough graphical MMO to capture every aspect that other games specialize in. I suppose, though, that that's just how it works - you can't have a jack of all trades that is especially good at everything. IRE MUDs are amazing at in-depth RP and combat mechanics - unbeatable if you were to ask me - but obviously, they fall short in the graphics, and for good reason. But sometimes you want to see your character, so you go for a graphical game.

I do have a game that I kept my eye on for quite a while, it was introduced as a sandbox-MMO. I played it early in beta and it just released a month or so ago. Beta didn't have much to show for it, but I don't think it should've been in beta. Nowadays, it looks like it's a lot more fun. The only problem - and this is where WoW has come out on top - is that it requires quite a nice machine to run it. It's probably geared more for the PvPer, but if you'd like to check it out it's Mortal Online (found at mortalonline.com).

Concerning the WoW jargon: I agree, it's pretty complicated. But, having just come to this game, I was completely lost in anything said on the forums - especially by the hardcore pkers. Anything that was said in any thread I couldn't understand at all because it was all abbreviations and acronyms and what-not. I'm starting to pick it up now though, and I imagine the same happens with any other game for other people as well! Basically, in my post what I said was Druids > any healer except Priests, and Blizzard nerfs everything in turn and it was just Druids' turn this time.

Lusternia is better at in-depth RP -because- it's not graphical. Well, partly that and partly Estarra's A++ tier setting design/writing skills. Trying to RP in WoW feels like RPing in a chatroom with dorky avatars standing there or something.

I already disagree that the combat system is better than graphical MMO's, but I will concede that it's at least possible for the model to be better. On the one hand, you can have stuff like telepathy, telekinesis, fleshcrafting and (sorta) paradigmatics/aeonics that are way easier to portray if you don't have to draw them, but on the other hand being much harder to visualise exact details makes it very hard to implement any kind of deep tactical positioning-based teamplay like GW (or ostensibly WoW arena but I don't know much about that.)

I won 3 drops and a token tonight. That bumped my GS up to 5600. ^^

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it just a measurement of the statistics that determine how good your character is at WoW, i.e the numbers that make up your damage, health etc.?