Mists of Pandaria discussion

[Quark]

I think the quality is about as high as it has ever been.

The fact that someone can think this scares the hell out of me. Many aspects of this game have been improved. They've done so at a cost of cohesive thought, sadly.

The low-level content redesign is a perfect example. Zones themselves are much improved, each tending to have a fairly good story and quests streamlined. What, you actually wanted to experience it, though? Too bad, halfway through the zone you leveled up yet again and all the quests are now gray.

From what I hear the raiding fights have been nifty - until they got nerfed way too early. I see guilds falling apart because they can't keep good players. There's not enough good players because why should you learn a fight when it'll get nerfed in 2 weeks?

Why bother raiding before the inevitable nerf at all? Just get half your gear through dungeon finder, wait for the complete nerf of content, and then get easy epics to finish off your set. And certainly don't bother spending time in the previous tier raid. It's been made totally irrelevant by badges. (Remember when they said ToC too early and making Ulduar irrelevant was their biggest mistake in WotLK? Oops!)

Talents right now are probably in the best shape they'll ever be, I admit. Too bad they're ruining that in 5.0.

Nothing is thought all the way through, and that is the biggest difference between WoW now and every other Blizzard game.

On the bright side, it appears they found a way to release expansions quicker. They cut 1.5 tiers of raiding from Cataclysm.