As said by others wait till patch 3.3 lands ( in a few weeks ), or better yet as you've waited this long wait for the expansion.. its effectivly WoW 2.0 with loads of changes to the base game and a huge amount of people re-rolling.

I think you should wait for the upcoming expansion called Cataclysm. The current low level content for new players might look a "bit" old, and outdated, the expansion will be a revamp for these areas.
 

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Originally posted by cscurlock

If you are going to try it I'd wait till patch 3.3 comes out.  They are going to group the servers so when you go to group for dungeons there is a much larger pool of people to choose from.  This makes it much easier to find groups for lower level dungeons.   It will certainly seem more bland not being able to find groups for lower level dungeons if you are new before 3.3.   Getting into a good guild I think that's when things really start to shine IMO.  But I'm sure you've been there if you've played EQ. 

The above.
 

I'll level 2 new classes. One in patch 3.3 (to do the dungeons as a tank/later dps/tank) and one with CATA (as an easy/lazy huntard dps) to see the new content lvl 1-60.

.... because the grouping up will be a breeze through the dungeons and leveling process.

So wait 3 weeks for patch 3.3.

A guild is only needed for the end game really.

 For the most part guilds are really important in end game.  But a leveling guild can also be good especially one with a decent healer and a decent tank.   Makes PUGing much more tolerable.

Originally posted by coffee

As said by others wait till patch 3.3 lands ( in a few weeks ), or better yet as you've waited this long wait for the expansion.. its effectivly WoW 2.0 with loads of changes to the base game and a huge amount of people re-rolling.

Quoted for truth.  With the new patch it should be loads easier to find groups for all the low level instances.

Ignore the haters who overplayed the game.

To answer your question ..two words : HELL YEAH  

theres a free trial over at  trywarcraft.com

I wouldn't play now that they support virtual item shops. Vote no for that garbage with your wallets in games you already pay for all the content with your sub fee and box purchase. Also not to mention the game is boring easy now. Heroic 5 man dungeons are anything but heroic, they are boring snorefest AOE zergs. No strategy, not worth playing.

You should play.

Level up slow though. You may be dying for the endgame but point blank, you won't have more fun then in the beginning.

Originally posted by chamelean90

 I've played a shed load of MMO's but never WoW. I am an experienced gamer (harping back to my old eQ1 days). Is it worth me giving WoW a go? (I'm intrigued why they have so many millions of players, surely it must be a great game) or is it same-old same-old?

For a bit of background I have played eQ1, eQ2, Darkfall, Champions, EVE, Auto Assault, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, LOTRO, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Planetside, Vanguard.

Give it a try. But be aware that it can be very time consuming, and you will need a good guild if you want to see the later content.  I've been in since late beta. Its a good game up to level cap(currently 80), but then its mostly raiding and/or PvP of different types. If you start now, you might have time to get to level cap in time for the next expansion.

I don't consider you an experienced gamer if you haven't play wow but definately try out the free trial.

I agree with the "try it" crowd.

Your first time through will be fun, I know mine was, my wife says the same (she still says we should start playing again). In fact, most of the folks I know will say the same thing, it was a solid game, with a shitload of fun moments.

Originally posted by chamelean90

 I've played a shed load of MMO's but never WoW. I am an experienced gamer (harping back to my old eQ1 days). Is it worth me giving WoW a go? (I'm intrigued why they have so many millions of players, surely it must be a great game) or is it same-old same-old?

For a bit of background I have played eQ1, eQ2, Darkfall, Champions, EVE, Auto Assault, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, LOTRO, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Planetside, Vanguard.

I would suggest WoW.

Problem is, that after the game spread over X-pacs, LvLing (by means of PvE) from 10-70, had become tiresome and lame. The problem is that Players dont Do the Instances to lvl, like they did during Vanilla WoW.

So I suggest not to judge the game around these early lvls. I remember when I would always get Deadmine Invites to heal on my Pally from lvl 15-20s, yet, now it seem very hard to even find a group. As I said, dont judge the game on the early lvls.

I havnt played WoW in the last 9-10 months. I left right before they added the (Dual Spec system). So I couldnt tell you how the new stuff is (Such as Dual Spec, Exp from PvP, Mounted Combat,,other things) cause I never got to try out these new things.

The reason I left the game was because I was bored.  Please dont confuse this with meaning the Game Is Bad, like many of the Anti-WoW-fanboys seem to do. I got bored of WoW because, I played it so much (Beta Tested WoTLK also).

Also I wanted to get my real life Social life back togetther. Which is also was also another factor as to why I quit. (Which again has nothing to do with WoW being a Bad Game)

WoW's End-game is Great!

WoW has a great World PvP system. And WoW's Combat system is very smooth and responsive. The Quest and phase system in WoTLK really gets your Role Playing blood boiling!!! (I remember when I wanted to lay siege on the Forsaken after the Wrathgate Event. But I dont want to spoil to much for you.