02-24-2007, 01:51 AM
What does everything think of the expansion now that you've had a little time to experience it?
I've been playing my Tauren Druid Kayvee and am about to complete my last instance quest. I'm a little torn between moving on to the heroics or going back to one of my other characters. Overall, I'm very happy with the expansion so far but am a little uneasy about what is to come.
Things I've liked:
- Broad acceptance of the value my character brings to a group (not just "we have a resser so you can come heal")
- Lots of new instances which are generally well done
- Decent quest variety
- Absence of excessive travel quests
- Meeting many new players (vastly reduced guild cliques while levelling)
- Lack of PVP gear gap.
Things that I think could need work:
- Tradeskills - just not enough reason to take these or spend the effort farming mats to make items that no-one wants just to get the skill up. Could use more recipes with random stats in particular.
- Druid itemisation. Several quest reward greens need their item budget checked since they're far to strong for the difficulty of obtaining them. On the other hand, having set items we'd actually want would be a plus.
- Druid class power (presumes the current poor itemisation isn't intended as the balancing factor). I feel Bear threat and survivability are fine, Bear and Cat damage are a bit high. Healing is fine, but Tree of Life needs a non-combat res (with 41 points in the tree they shouldn't need to bring another healing class just for the res). No experience with Moonkin.
Things that aren't a problem now but that I think will be in future:
- Less opportunity to meet new people as raid schedules return.
- Return of the gear gap. Current itemisation includes a 25 level gap (Heroic 95 to Tier 5 120). Black Temple with Tier 6 will be the next major release.
- Gold inflation. I have 10k gold already and haven't even been really trying for it.
I've been playing my Tauren Druid Kayvee and am about to complete my last instance quest. I'm a little torn between moving on to the heroics or going back to one of my other characters. Overall, I'm very happy with the expansion so far but am a little uneasy about what is to come.
Things I've liked:
- Broad acceptance of the value my character brings to a group (not just "we have a resser so you can come heal")
- Lots of new instances which are generally well done
- Decent quest variety
- Absence of excessive travel quests
- Meeting many new players (vastly reduced guild cliques while levelling)
- Lack of PVP gear gap.
Things that I think could need work:
- Tradeskills - just not enough reason to take these or spend the effort farming mats to make items that no-one wants just to get the skill up. Could use more recipes with random stats in particular.
- Druid itemisation. Several quest reward greens need their item budget checked since they're far to strong for the difficulty of obtaining them. On the other hand, having set items we'd actually want would be a plus.
- Druid class power (presumes the current poor itemisation isn't intended as the balancing factor). I feel Bear threat and survivability are fine, Bear and Cat damage are a bit high. Healing is fine, but Tree of Life needs a non-combat res (with 41 points in the tree they shouldn't need to bring another healing class just for the res). No experience with Moonkin.
Things that aren't a problem now but that I think will be in future:
- Less opportunity to meet new people as raid schedules return.
- Return of the gear gap. Current itemisation includes a 25 level gap (Heroic 95 to Tier 5 120). Black Temple with Tier 6 will be the next major release.
- Gold inflation. I have 10k gold already and haven't even been really trying for it.