World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC & Mac) (Expansion Pack)

Its wow what can u say its great!
shame all postal pre orders are waste time 2nd day after release still no copy (if not here tomorrow im canceling and digi copy buyin)
Thats only reason im giving it 4 stars is due to play/blizzard/RM sucking at delivering on time.

I have played WoW for nearly 6 years now and this expansion is by far the worst.
Blizzard have now bought into the idea that if your gear isn't rated high enough then you are automaticaaly barred from areas of the game. An idea introduced by gearscore morons in WotLK.
If you aren't a tank or healer you are going to wait 45 mins to get a randon instance group and do you know why? Because no one wants to play tanks or healers. Why? because they take all the abuse from other players when things go wrong and that abuse can be really bad.
Blizzard's idea of tackling this is to make healing virtually impossible and so the abuse comes rolling in. Virtually all healing classes have been destroyed.
Others have mentioned the raft of other problems with the game now so I won't go into it further. Suffice to say, today is the last day of my subscription after 6 years and I have uninstalled the game and intend never to return

With the recent destruction of azaroth at the hands of deathwing, the ensuing cataclysm has changed most of the zones in Azaroth with the shattering patch, which has run upto the release of Cataclysm, which will finalise the expansions changes.

With this expansion, not only has blizzard added new areas, but also completely changed the old content for the better, with this expansion you have hours of new content, and the new ability to fly in Eastern kingdoms and Kalimdor! Yes, you heard me right.. you can now fly everywhere, as long as you are level 60 and have the ability to fly in azaroth.

So, why is this the best expansion yet? It's because it adds a ton of content, it may not have a new world, or continent like BC and WotLK but it has made so many improvements and the new zones are bloody fantastic, and this is coming from someone who has played on the beta, that it justifies not adding a new world or content, the amount of detail and effort that blizzard has put into this expansion is staggering, and i highly recommend everyone (Not just those with a level 80) to get this expansion, to have every feature this expansion is adding, including the ability to fly in EK and Kalimdor, as well as the new profession Archeology as well as to become an illustrious grand master at a profession.

I have given this 5 stars, and it's worth everyone of them.

I have played WoW since day 1 about 6 years back. Despite a few times when I got bored of it or just too tired to be bothered, I always found myself going back to. I have played AION, AoC, LoTRO, and so on, always going back to WoW. When you go back you notice how poor it is these days. I really looked forward to Cataclysm as I did with all the expansions, but this one is just the most banal spoon-fed dross ever. Don't imagine for one moment you can go to a new area ahead of being sent there, if you do, you will find no quests and nothing to do. You must be sent there first. Also, if you do move on and decide to come back and finish off all the quest you will pull your hair out trying to find where you where up to if you dropped all the old quests.

Mob grinding for those that like such things is frowned upon now and it is quite difficult. If you are a healer, especially a druid healer, expect to have a really hard time. You will have to have groups prepared to CC properly as wading in will 100% get you all killed. Healing is now an exercise in topping up and if the group is intent on agro pulling you will oom in no time at all in all fights. Priests fair a bit better, but druids are seriously damaged now.

There's a new game called RIFT due out, it looks similar to WoW and people are raving about it. If I can get along with that I'll be very happy indeed. I'll never go back to WoW this time, even though there's 4 months prepay left on my account. It's been weeks since I played it and I'm glad. Heed all that's been said before me, you will need a good group or guild to get anything done now.

Given that World of Warcraft is 5 years old now, Blizzard can be forgiven for sticking with the same graphics engine for the majority of this expansion, but what they have done with the old game is stunning, the overhaul has breathed new life into it.