BlizzCon '09: Blizzard Announces WoW: Cataclysm

[Blood_Lined]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

 

[samsonguy920]

What got me to leave WoW was always the same old thing...with Blizz throwing the same old thing out the window, I want in!

 

[Kajt]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

 

[Cowabungaa]

All classes available to all races - ... Seriously? You've just killed "the flavor". I give up... Cant wait to see a 40 man raid made entirely of Elfs...
Oh wait! 40 man raids have been dead since the previous expansion.

That's just not true. Shamans and Druids are still limited, for example, tauren still can't roll rogues just to name something. But a lof of new class-race combo's make sense. Why couldn't humans roll hunters for example? A whole outpost in Grizzly Hills is run by human hunters! Same with undead, one of the most difficult outdoor raidbosses in vanilla WoW was an undead hunter! Why can't a gnome choose to follow the Light? Same counts for a tauren.

 

[McNinja]

This makes me want to start playing again... but there's no way I'm going to start paying $15 a month again.

 

[TheCameraman]

So it was true. Hats off to Blizzard for actually moving the story onwards and killing off a character with that much drama surrounding it. Also, bringing back life to the old world seems a good thing to do as well. Ah well, I won't be returning anyway, the time is up for the old.
I shiver when I think how it will be on RP servers now with the Worgen though. Let's just say that I've seen some people getting a bit too much into their roles earlier...

Also, I have to post this, just because it's win(Cookies to whoever gets the reference).

Spoiler

 

[Blood_Lined]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

If people want to name their freaking characters after LOTR, SO badly, then why don't they just go and play LOTRO? I find myself asking this question many times. Corpse campers need to be fixed as well.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Hmm...maybe I'll pay WoW a visit some time in the future. Would have been nice if Pandanas where the new Alliance race though. I know the Chinease would go mental but still...

 

[Kajt]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

If people want to name their freaking characters after LOTR, SO badly, then why don't they just go and play LOTRO? I find myself asking this question many times. Corpse campers need to be fixed as well.

Even more annoying are the DKs named "Arthus". Seriously, ever heard of creativity?

 

[stormcaller]

Bad Blizzard bad!

Ok, you know what I can tolerate and even like most of the stuff but please do not give us Garrosh, I even prefer Varian to Garrosh. If he actually kills Cairne I'm going to renegade and make the new,new,new Horde.

...What am I saying, I'll play it and love it. Blizzard you sneaky motherf- meanies.

 

[Blood_Lined]

All classes available to all races - ... Seriously? You've just killed "the flavor". I give up... Cant wait to see a 40 man raid made entirely of Elfs...
Oh wait! 40 man raids have been dead since the previous expansion.

That's just not true. Shamans and Druids are still limited, for example, tauren still can't roll rogues just to name something. But a lof of new class-race combo's make sense. Why couldn't humans roll hunters for example? A whole outpost in Grizzly Hills is run by human hunters! Same with undead, one of the most difficult outdoor raidbosses in vanilla WoW was an undead hunter! Why can't a gnome choose to follow the Light? Same counts for a tauren.

Because a tauren is a member of the Horde. The Horde is EVIL, Paladins are lawful good, and can be lawful good ONLY, so an evil race playing as the most holy of all classes makes absolutely no sense at all to me, which also applies to the blood-elves, they should not be allowed to play as paladins either.

 

[TheCameraman]

-Snip-

Even more annoying are the DKs named "Arthus". Seriously, ever heard of creativity?

Still doesn't beat LegolArthas.

 

[Blood_Lined]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

If people want to name their freaking characters after LOTR, SO badly, then why don't they just go and play LOTRO? I find myself asking this question many times. Corpse campers need to be fixed as well.

Even more annoying are the DKs named "Arthus". Seriously, ever heard of creativity?

Well apparently not the throng of twelve year-olds that make up WoW's community playing on their father's servers.

 

[Amnestic]

You know what? I'm actually annoyed that they put Worgen into the game as a playable race who aren't on their own faction.

Hey Blizzard, what happened to the massive fuss you made about them being isolationists who don't want help and don't want to give help?

Furthermore, how did the Worgen curse get over the Greymane wall if no one could come and go? Arugal started his work on the Worgen years after the Greymane wall was constructed and finished (which was just after the Second War) so he couldn't have had any influence in the events.

The fact that there's been no word from inside Gilneas would suggest that they're blocked to teleportation spells, before anyone says anything like that.

So...yeah, come on Blizzard, we've already had a lorelol with the Draenei and the Sargeras retconning farce, what on earth are you playing at with the Worgen?

New racial classes? Meh. If I wanted to look like a human hunter I'd pick a night elf and do something not allowed by the Terms of Service. It's not as if anyone would notice me model changing my NElf to a human. New racial classes are not new content. I daresay this change probably took the least amount of time, switching a few 0's to 1's.

They're retooling some of the old fan favorite dungeons (Heroic Deadmines, Heroic Shadowfang Keep are mentioned)

This isn't new content either. Unless they dramatically change the way the boss fights work for Heroic mode, these instances are going to be so boring it's ridiculous (with the exception of the Arugal fight who is surprisingly complex for a low-20s boss). It's also a lorelol that I've just gone and slain Ragnaros, defeated C'thun, killed Illidan, forced Kil-fucking-Jaeden and his steaming hot coffee mug back through the Sunwell, bashed Kel'Thuzad's skull in again, 'killed' Yogg-Saron and even broke the Lich King's power (yes, still to come, I know) and then I'm going to trot off to save Westfall from a bunch of bandits who barely know which end to hold their daggers.

Watch out guys! He'sa chargin' his fireball! My very presence kills the Defias. Exactly why am I, one of the strongest heroes to roam the land, reduced to a task like this? It's not half beneath me.

Supremely evil dragon Deathwing - remember him from Warcraft II? - is the Big Bad of this expansion, like Arthas is to WotLK. Everything looks pretty damn cool.

This is mildly surprising, as I thought for sure that it would be Queen Azshara. It looks like they plan to build on the Nexus War and Infinite Dragonflight lore from WotLK. Hope Cam Clarke gets another role to play because he was awesome as Malygos, Nexus Prince Shaffar, Medivh and...uh, every Blood Elf Male player character.

The Worgen (werewolf)-cursed humans of Gilneas are beset by the Forsaken and are approached by the Night Elves - remember the whole Scythe of Elune chain? Yeah - to join the Alliance.

Yeah. That's a terrible explanation. 1) Isolationist attitude anyone? 2) The Forsaken have bugger all numbers to their name. They were already one of the lowest population races (lorewise, not gameplay) and since the Royal Apothecary Society revolt which not only had some rebel and flee from Sylvanas' domain but also had a large number of Forsaken fall in battle their numbers are even lower. Pretty damn sure the Forsaken are in no position to be attacking anyone right now.

I hope Metzen's got answers for these because (even though I'm not a roleplayer) the story of Warcraft is still something that's important to my game experience and if it's being butchered it's definitely going to put me off continued play.

Still waiting on the Caverns of Time: Caverns of Time raid instance to be announced. "You have to go back in time to save Nozdormu from Nozdormu who is trying to kill Nozdormu as a last ditch effort to stop the Infinite Dragonflight, a dragonflight created and led by Nozdormu who is also trying to stop Nozdormu from killing Nozdormu."

It's got more potential for changing battle locations than Yogg-Saron's brain room.

 

[Kajt]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

If people want to name their freaking characters after LOTR, SO badly, then why don't they just go and play LOTRO? I find myself asking this question many times. Corpse campers need to be fixed as well.

Even more annoying are the DKs named "Arthus". Seriously, ever heard of creativity?

Well apparently not the throng of twelve year-olds that make up WoW's community playing on their father's servers.

And that community is why I'll probably quit before the next expansion is out.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I've just had a look at the expansion site. There's animated pictures of both the Worgens (that look pretty awesome) and the Goblins (which luckly have recieved a reskin from the average npc goblins). They both animate really well, but I think the Worgens sniffing around every few seconds may get on my nerves.

I have to say from look at the trailer the reshaping of Azaroth looks...quite simply awesome. This means Blizzard are finally doing what we've been asking for since the first expansion; providing lots of new content for people below level 60. It looks like they're going to completely redo huge chunks of the level 1-60 content and quests, at least on the west side of the map. All this reshapping...does this mean players will resieve this without even getting the expansion? Or is they somehow going to devide up expansion owners with instances?

Anyhow, this may well be something that gets my Dwarf Hunter and Draenei Paladin back into action.

BTW....Taurin Paladins?! How does that make any sense!?

 

[Blood_Lined]

Meh, I'm getting bored of the game. I'll probably quit before the expansion comes.

I miss the old, non-fucked up Warcraft.

THANK you, I am glad that I am not alone. People need to start playing gnomes people! They are the least played race, and blood-elves are incredibly over-used. Human hunters? Tauren Paladins? Come on people, this is ridiculous.

I can see the future of WoW, thousands and thousands of human hunters named "Falcorn".

Or perhaps thousands of elves with "iixxLegolasxxii" I seriously saw a player that had that as their name.

I've seen dwarves named Gimli.

GIMLI!

If people want to name their freaking characters after LOTR, SO badly, then why don't they just go and play LOTRO? I find myself asking this question many times. Corpse campers need to be fixed as well.

Even more annoying are the DKs named "Arthus". Seriously, ever heard of creativity?

Well apparently not the throng of twelve year-olds that make up WoW's community playing on their father's servers.

And that community is why I'll probably quit before the next expansion is out.

I quit during the Burning Crusade expansion era, once I noticed that there were nothing but Blood-Elves. I took one look around and went "well, this is original" 'Log off'.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Because a tauren is a member of the Horde. The Horde is EVIL, Paladins are lawful good, and can be lawful good ONLY, so an evil race playing as the most holy of all classes makes absolutely no sense at all to me, which also applies to the blood-elves, they should not be allowed to play as paladins either.

I beg to differ, if any race is not evil, it's the tauren. The whole Warcraft universe isn't as black and white. It's just that the orcs saved the tauren, or else I'd never even imagine them being a member of the Horde. They're docile, nature loving Cherrokee, they should be best buddies with the equally tree-huggy night-elves.

No no, besides I wouldn't call the whole of the Horde really evil anyway. The undead just want to be accepted (with a splinter-group being really evil, in the traditional sense of the world, as seen in the frackingly awesome Wrath's Gate questline in WotLK), the orcs just want a home after freeing themselfs from the Burning Legion's leash.

And the Alliance isn't all goody-two-shoes either, the humans were often massive bigots vs orcs and undeads, Wrynn being (in my book) a complete asshole (all he cares about is his personal vendetta, screwing it up for everyone, he's an awfull king). All that makes me happy, I don't want a black and white universe, and Warcraft definatly is not a black and white universe.

 

[Abedeus]

"So, what's new this expansion?"
"WEZ ADDED TEN MOAR LEVULZ"
"..Okay, cool. Pass."

Give me another Diablo 3 class, now!

 

[Cowabungaa]

"So, what's new this expansion?"
"WEZ ADDED TEN MOAR LEVULZ"
"..Okay, cool. Pass."

Give me another Diablo 3 class, now!

Yeah...that's exactly what this expansion is not doing, wich I'm pretty glad about. It's not just more of the same. I still want another Diablo 3 class though, I want that game so much...