General Discussion

Today, MMORPG.com's Joe Iuliani gives his first impressions of the recently announced World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

Blizzard announces World of Warcraft expansion. Chinese gold farmers rejoice. (Let's face it higher levels mean more gold, Burning Crusade proved that).

From what I can tell from what the official announcement has to say, if you have been happy with what World of Warcraft has had to offer, Wrath of the Lich King looks like a crowd pleaser. If you've been disenchanted with WoW, um, why are you still playing?

Announced Features of Wrath of the Lich King are:

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight - World of Warcraft's first Hero class.
• Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.
• Learn the craft of spell augmentation with the new Inscription profession.
• Brave the harsh new continent of Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King.
• Engage in epic siege warfare, deploying mighty siege engines to lay waste to destructible buildings in your path.
• Transform your hero's look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances.
• Explore perilous new dungeons filled with some of the deadliest creatures -- and greatest treasures -- on Azeroth.
• And much, much more...

Read the whole article here.

woot.... not impressed

Ruining WOW...

Unless you have a gajillion hours to play every month, WOW is no longer enjoyable for a large core of players.  First we worked so hard to obtain gear and attunements for 40 man raids and ZG, Ony, AQ, etc...only to have all that gear, time, and effort made obsolete by Outland greens. 

Now all the players working hard to obtain Kara gear and Arena rewards will see their efforts diminished by lvl 80 garbage.  Expanding the game is great, I'd love new environments and challenges.  I just wish they'd stop raising the lvl cap.  I'm retiring my lvl 70's and canceling my subscription, I have a real life as well and can no longer keep up with the time it involves to successfully play WoW.

I may buy it just to check out Northrend and some new features, but without me taking the time to actually grind I probably won't see much, which is too bad really.

Imagine putting all the time you've played WoW or any other MMORPGs into learning playing guitar - you could have been rockstar by now!

I really love the idea of an expansion .. But hell, I hate the fact that they are raising the level cap. God .. we are happy with level 70, Why raising it again ... surely much more Rep grinding ...

Anyway, I will try to take it the good way .. play when you can .. and enjoy what you got ... wich mean .. be happy of getting green trash better than epic ;) since you didn't got time to raid for much epic.

Oh ... Like my friend said. If you are angry about the time *lost* in the raid .. why are you playing ? you said it .. you lost your time trying to get epic. You shouldn't lost you time, but enjoying a game.

Originally posted by easttenn

Ruining WOW...

I have a real life as well and can no longer keep up with the time it involves to successfully play WoW.

Same shit as the last expansion...Not Impressed and In fact I will not be playing this lame game anymore, It's purely carebear and It's becoming more carebear every day. This game is a pure waist of time.

Honnestly, why complain that items gets replaced and a level increase? Would you rather have half of the new equipment of the expansion be completely useless to you? If you raided, you had the best Equipment for MONTHS. This expansion is not comming out tommorow. One of the key features of MMO's is to keep rewarding players. Thats why the level cap gets raised, and new equipment gets added. Would you rather have the same equipment and be the same level forever?

I'm only expressing my views on what I think, If you call that complaining then you can go troll somewhere else.