Patch Notes for "The Burning Crusade"?

[Arnulf]

Your complaining that your gear won't be the "the best" anymore?  What do you want Blizzard to do: forever limit players to level 60 (an arbitrary and unsatisfying number if you ask me) and never create any new items?  That makes absolutly no sense.

It's not like they are just going to raise the cap and leave characters there with no way to compete against it.  New, even better, items will be created for characters above 60, just like it happenes every other time any cap was raised in any game. 

I'm not complaining that it won't be the best, but that it will be almost useless. Why should I put time and effort in acquiring those when facing enemies that are 10 levels above me?

There are other sets beside the Lightforge and the Lawbringer sets one can get for paladins earlier in the game. Scarlet Crusade has one of those. But noone on my server for example uses this set. That is because a set that is designed for a 40ish character takes way too much time and effort for collecting when it will be obsolete as soon as the character turns 54 or so. Which is a shame.

Now you can get the Lightforge set with some persistence and patience just by visiting the high-end instances. But the only place to get the Lawbringer set is by organising 40 people and raiding Molten Core. Which after the expansion came will be just a pass-through instance. Noone will have the incentive to raid Molten Core on a regular basis after the expansion. Not to mention the now high end instances like Blackrock Spire, Scholomance, Stratholme.

I just don't see the point in saying that the addition of *new* content and *different* things to do would push you to want to leave the game.
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I'm not against new places, new items, and new races. Leaving the Blood Elf thing aside which just feels wrong to me. I think that it is a cheap way out for Blizzard just to raise the level cap with 10 more levels. I know, I know, they're not renowned for innovation. Blizzard usually takes concepts that are tried and true and refines them and combines them in such a way that the resulting games are addictive and still special in some way.

The talent system as it is now will be completely off the rocker. I don't claim that it is balanced now. Which it is certainly not. But as it is now you cannot just fill up one of the talent trees and then put 10 more points into another tree. I have no idea what they will do about this.

Now it is clear to me. Blizzard is going the same route like SOE and others. Putting out expansion after expansion which will raise the level cap just another 10 levels each year. People who refuse to buy the expansion will be locked out and stop playing because they're not in a competitive position with people who bought the expansion.

Whereas the expansions for Starcraft and Diablo II felt like completing the original game this just feels like cashing in on their customers.

-Arnulf