People still play this? I quit years ago.

I'm not a big fan of the pre-expansion patch because I find it gives me a big case of WoW blue balls. Once the novelty of shiny new spells and talents wear off you're still doing the same old content for the next 1-2 months. It was the same for BC and WOTLK x.0 patches.

Fucking hell.

"  as a long time player, i am happy for these changes to come about.  i dream of a WoW where i don't have to fuss over spreadsheets or visit Elitist Jerks to figure out how to play my character.  "

That second picture is pretty good. Kudos.

This sounds, at least to me, like Blizzard fears the impending release of Guild Wars 2 and/or Star Wars: TOR. 
 
That they'd overhaul their old product (even though it is their flagship game still) this much speaks volumes for how much Blizzard is actually worried about upcoming releases.

WoW is now fully catered towards casuals. Enjoy! 
 
I'll remember the good old days where I gave up my life to raid a handful of times per week! And when the dog couldn't be walked because I was in the middle of something. NEVER FORGET!

" This sounds, at least to me, like Blizzard fears the impending release of Guild Wars 2 and/or Star Wars: TOR.  That they'd overhaul their old product (even though it is their flagship game still) this much speaks volumes for how much Blizzard is actually worried about upcoming releases. "

And I feel fine..................

DAMN IT! And I was just about to feel great about uninstalling WoW for at least the next two months. *SIGH* will I never be free?

Very stupid question here, but is there a way to test my Internet connection to see if it would be able to run World of Warcraft properly?  I've run it before so I know there are no system problems, but I'd like to know if my shabby Internet speed is going to be enough.

Curious to see this as right now I'm using the prepaid card which should go through Hallow's eve which should be enough time to see these changes firsthand then decide if I'm even going to bother with getting the next expansion (and even then I'll only keep playing wow for a few months after getting that expansion...there's too many other good games out there to play).

" @riffingt0n: Ghostcrawler has said they're bringing back crowd control for Cataclysm, especially in 5-man instances.  I've heard a number of people assert that "heroics are back"; we'll see about raid dungeons. "

Can't wait for my patch to finish downloading so i can play

" @trav3ler:  Blizzard  makes like 150 million per month on subs alone.  You're right, they must be terrified. "

" Everytime I get nostalgic about the old days and consider resubbing I just look at the most recent patch notes and realise there's almost nothing left of the original WoW I loved. Then the urge subsides. "

So tempted to resub when Catacylsm hits ...
 
Worgens, Goblins and cool hunter changes.
 
MUST RESIST!

Jesus christ, they just made me want to play my Warlock again. 
 
The bastards.

Glad I dropped that habit a while back!

MMOs always looks good until I download the clients and try to run them on my laptop.

The patch is 4GB, so if you are updating, be ready for a LOOOOOOOONG day. 
 
Despite all that, I quit playing WoW about a year+ ago.  Nonetheless, the one thing I've heard from all my friend that makes them giddy with joy is the return of old-school dungeon style, where you'll need to use CC and actual SKILL in order to clear shit rather than faceroll your keyboard and roflstomp through any raid.  That makes even me smile.  = D

They got rid of soul shards? Nice.

" @Vorbis said:

" Everytime I get nostalgic about the old days and consider resubbing I just look at the most recent patch notes and realise there's almost nothing left of the original WoW I loved. Then the urge subsides. "

Nostalgia is nostalgia. Vanilla WoW was a terrible mess of a game. "

" @Vorbis: I am sure you would find the new WoW much more fun than the old vanilla version. When you first play it is all seen through eyes that thing everything is new and exciting, you remember it much more fondly due to it being something fresh and new to you at the time.   My best MMO experience was the first months of playing EverQuest due to MMOs being all new to me, but I think that WoW is a far better game than EQ ever was. Making a new EQ char now would be boring compared to leveling up a new char in WoW, and no MMO can ever have the amazing freshness factor again for me.   After your first char in any MMO people tend to become analytical in how they play. Any location you meet is now just a variation of walls compared to the awesome fire-zone or the scary as hell mansion you considered them to be on your first character.  "

" Downloading patch now, but it's taking hella long. So this new patch includes the redesigned Talent Trees, or is that not until Cata comes out? "

" Nonetheless, the one thing I've heard from all my friend that makes them giddy with joy is the return of old-school dungeon style, where you'll need to use CC and actual SKILL in order to clear shit rather than faceroll your keyboard and roflstomp through any raid.  That makes even me smile.  = D "

That is a bad-ass looking bulldog.

 
If only they hadn't embarked upon their x.0's dogma: fighting min-maxers by crippling spec options.
 
Granted, after Wrath of the B Team's jerking class balancing around like a bull roarer making even pure DPS classes collect mulitple sets of gear...
 

 Nostalgia is nostalgia. Vanilla WoW was a terrible mess of a game.

What is this WoW?

" @jakob187 said:

" Nonetheless, the one thing I've heard from all my friend that makes them giddy with joy is the return of old-school dungeon style, where you'll need to use CC and actual SKILL in order to clear shit rather than faceroll your keyboard and roflstomp through any raid.  That makes even me smile.  = D "

CC is back? Oh FUCK yes. I'm tired of mashing my 1-5 keys as a mage and having to heal overzealous pricks as a priest. Now we'll have to work together instead of "I'm gonna pull everything, so heal me / AOE the shit out of these. kthx."  [Moon] / [Star] are BACK BABY! "

so still no dance studio? im sick of the crappy dances half the horde have. i want new dances, or atleast the undeads dance for my tauren and belf

Great caption about the water effects. :)

I'm very much a WoW player, more casual then I used to, very pleased with Cata and the fact that I can purely focus on 10 mans with my group of friends. Looking forward to try this madness out !

Can't wait for the European servers to come back up this afternoon!

Pretty interested in most of those changes. I think my favorites are the skill tree and the removal of some confusing and redundant stats. 
 
MP5 was always the most bizarre stat in my opinion. I mean why not just break it down per second?

Still makes me wanna go back and just try out the new talents - seem way different

That's good that they fixed the emblem system, which basically ruined WoTLK. I'll hop back in once Cataclysm is out, since there isn't anything much I can do sitting at 5000 GearScore. I need ICC to upgrade, yet I can't get into ICC. So I dunno. Hopefully Cataclysm makes endgame a little less terrible. 

Installing this is bringing my computer to its knees!
 
Also...longest install ever...

" @jakob187 said:

" Nonetheless, the one thing I've heard from all my friend that makes them giddy with joy is the return of old-school dungeon style, where you'll need to use CC and actual SKILL in order to clear shit rather than faceroll your keyboard and roflstomp through any raid.  That makes even me smile.  = D "

CC is back? Oh FUCK yes. I'm tired of mashing my 1-5 keys as a mage and having to heal overzealous pricks as a priest. Now we'll have to work together instead of "I'm gonna pull everything, so heal me / AOE the shit out of these. kthx."  [Moon] / [Star] are BACK BABY! "

Haven't played in a year but as soon as this was announced I knew I would be back in once it came out.  Looking forward to it.