I have played classic wow as it’s spanned it’s existence and I gotta say I’ve been more excited to play Cataclysm than I have both TBC and Wrath. I’m not sure what is the driving force but I’m mostly a pve player at heart and this expansion has quite a bit more of it on release than we’ve seen for both TBC and Wrath. The launch has went so much more smoothly and dungeon finder has been an excellent step up from Wrath where I’d often sit looking for a group for much longer than it took to actually do the dungeon. I never played Wrath back in the day nor Cata, I joined playing WoW on vanilla’s release in 2019 and have been playing since and I gotta say for Wrath I don’t understand the excitement and why everyone held it on a pedestal. On release you had to form groups in order to do the heroics manually which often led to frustration with the obvious tank and healer deficit that was especially noticeable then, the only raids that were Naxx which was just a vanilla raid, and then 3 one boss raid instances that were mediocre at best. So much forced vehicle combat came in this expansion through quests, Malygos, and Ulduar. The only raids I’d say genuinely shocked me through all of wrath was Ulduar and ICC. TGC was borderline a dungeon with the ease of difficulty and the fact you’d only really have to spend 20 minutes out of your week doing it unless your guild went back and kept doing Ulduar which brings me to another thing, Ulduar’s phase lasted way to long. It got to the point where by the end of the phase I didn’t even want to raid it anymore and I stopped because it was just a drag, same goes for ICC when I did that on my hpal. I’m hoping I’m not wrong and maybe I’ll eat my words but Cata has seemed like the best experience I’ve had since stepping my first ones in azeroth back in 2019.
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Cataclysm is the direction the game went to solve a bunch of the problems you and many others talk about. Many people will like it, probably.
The best way to get groups for a DPS was always to befriend a bunch of tanks and healers. When the leveling and points/badges grinding slows down and tanks have farmed all they need to for the patch you’ll see that RFD doesn’t solve the problem because tanks and people willing to tank have options that the rest don’t. Every class could tank and that wouldn’t solve the problem that speed farm tanking points/badges per hour with randoms is not fun and nobody does that if they don’t need to.
This expansion is one big loot treadmill, and as the patches go on many will see it for what it is. Like WotLK the power increases form patch to patch are enormous, and like WotLK you “play the patch” because of that. Some people will like that and some won’t.
I prefer the Vanilla and TBC way personally, especially as someone who has only ever tanked in PVE. Not only is there BiS which is a totally different concept than iLevel, but the exact gear for an encounter is not static, you would ideally have or be working on your kit all the time and that means doing all content available to you instead of ignoring everything but this patch.
If you never experienced something in its former glory how would you then understand how peoples feelings were about it?
Wrath was more than just the expansion. It was the RTS Warcraft games we played in 90s. Years of waiting and wondering finally here! let me say game of thrones “winter is coming” looked like an autumn breeze compared to this snowstorm.
Story wise - THE BEST STORY WRITING OF WOWS ENTIRETY.
I’ll die on this hill. Just try and pitch me a better 3 part trilogy based off wow stories. Even non fans would understand the movie and be hooked into the dark path the ‘hero’ takes quickly. Not many movies / stories quite like Arthas’s
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Assume he is enjoying cata.
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