Finally, the face of Azeroth has been burned and reborn anew in the fires of Cataclysm. Patch 4.03A has been released to live servers and with it brought all the changes to the 1-60 content. I always enjoyed the questing process but after 6 years and 9 different characters I really didn't want to go through it again. The world isn't completely changed but the questing has been vastly improved and I am having a blast.
In the excitement of Cataclysm Beta I gobbled up as much info as I could, trying to get a taste for what is to come without spoiling to much. All the starting area's have been greatly improved but the new undead storyline had the most talk. I decided to roll a new undead hunter. Currently I am at level 17 and I am really impressed. Blizzard made a lot of attempts to make the starting quests easy to learn and fun to play. The story has also been vastly improved on. My favorite parts of the game are the in game cut scenes. Every so often your character will walk into an area or start a quest where the camera takes over and a conversation starts that is fully voice acted. As part of the forsaken you are an agent of the Banshee Queen and you enjoy doing her dirty work.
My best friend also jumped on so we decided to roll trolls on a new server. The Troll starting quests are just as amazing as the undead. You start of on training grounds where you see an army of trolls just honing their skills. The questing brings you to Vol'jin, leader of the Darkspear trolls, and he shows you what happened between him and Garosh and the tension that is rising in the horde. You continue your journey that leads to an epic showdown where vol'jin fights by your side against a naga boss.
I am only 17 on my undead and 8 on my troll so their is a ton of zones that I have not gotten to. Also when Cataclysm does ship I will be rolling a Worgen Druid and a Goblin Rogue. All that will take a back burner to my true love, Bladez the Paladin. When I stopped raiding I had some of the best gear available so I really couldn't do much with him in the last couple months. I would log on him to try out the new talents or play a special event. As of December 7th all will be pushed aside to get him to 85. Out of everything leveling my characters and gearing them out is probably my most favorite. I can't wait to start replacing my epic level 80 gear with new blues from dungeons, quests and heroics. Looking at gear again and deciding what is best to get, leveling my blacksmithing and finding new pieces to make. I will start optimizing myself to start running all the new raids.
As far as end game content goes I'm not sure how I am going to handle raiding. I defiantly want to raid but I don't want to go back to what I used to be. I don't want to be on a strict schedule of having to be on a certain times multiple times a week. I want flexibility and choice but that really doesn't exist to much if you want to take it seriously. Also I am currently engaged to be married and I want my life outside of WoW to always take priority over raiding. I am afraid of myself. I have an addictive personality and I might see myself falling into the same trap.
I am a huge fan fo the lore in warcraft. As such I have read the last couple of books. Arthas, Stormrage, and most recently The Shattering. The shattering was such an amazing book and did a reall nice job of setting the stage for Cataclysm. When the expansion was announced there was a lot of head scratching with some of the story elements that were chosen. Garosh becoming the new Warchief, the death of Carine Bloodhoof, the council of three hammers were all perplexing at the time. After reading the shattering I can say that they had explained all of them, were entertaining to watch them play out and will be interesting to see where they go with those characters in the future of the game.
In the excitement of Cataclysm Beta I gobbled up as much info as I could, trying to get a taste for what is to come without spoiling to much. All the starting area's have been greatly improved but the new undead storyline had the most talk. I decided to roll a new undead hunter. Currently I am at level 17 and I am really impressed. Blizzard made a lot of attempts to make the starting quests easy to learn and fun to play. The story has also been vastly improved on. My favorite parts of the game are the in game cut scenes. Every so often your character will walk into an area or start a quest where the camera takes over and a conversation starts that is fully voice acted. As part of the forsaken you are an agent of the Banshee Queen and you enjoy doing her dirty work.
My best friend also jumped on so we decided to roll trolls on a new server. The Troll starting quests are just as amazing as the undead. You start of on training grounds where you see an army of trolls just honing their skills. The questing brings you to Vol'jin, leader of the Darkspear trolls, and he shows you what happened between him and Garosh and the tension that is rising in the horde. You continue your journey that leads to an epic showdown where vol'jin fights by your side against a naga boss.
I am only 17 on my undead and 8 on my troll so their is a ton of zones that I have not gotten to. Also when Cataclysm does ship I will be rolling a Worgen Druid and a Goblin Rogue. All that will take a back burner to my true love, Bladez the Paladin. When I stopped raiding I had some of the best gear available so I really couldn't do much with him in the last couple months. I would log on him to try out the new talents or play a special event. As of December 7th all will be pushed aside to get him to 85. Out of everything leveling my characters and gearing them out is probably my most favorite. I can't wait to start replacing my epic level 80 gear with new blues from dungeons, quests and heroics. Looking at gear again and deciding what is best to get, leveling my blacksmithing and finding new pieces to make. I will start optimizing myself to start running all the new raids.
As far as end game content goes I'm not sure how I am going to handle raiding. I defiantly want to raid but I don't want to go back to what I used to be. I don't want to be on a strict schedule of having to be on a certain times multiple times a week. I want flexibility and choice but that really doesn't exist to much if you want to take it seriously. Also I am currently engaged to be married and I want my life outside of WoW to always take priority over raiding. I am afraid of myself. I have an addictive personality and I might see myself falling into the same trap.
I am a huge fan fo the lore in warcraft. As such I have read the last couple of books. Arthas, Stormrage, and most recently The Shattering. The shattering was such an amazing book and did a reall nice job of setting the stage for Cataclysm. When the expansion was announced there was a lot of head scratching with some of the story elements that were chosen. Garosh becoming the new Warchief, the death of Carine Bloodhoof, the council of three hammers were all perplexing at the time. After reading the shattering I can say that they had explained all of them, were entertaining to watch them play out and will be interesting to see where they go with those characters in the future of the game.
