This is just a PTR for the upcoming patch, not for Cataclysm, so some features such as Old World Flying, levels 81-85, zones that did not previously exist, and some others are not there. The Worgen starting area exists, and so does its associated city, but there are no NPCs or Mobs there. If you'd like to see the troll flight form, however, you can find it on youtube here.

Does anybody know if when you buy Cataclysm from the Blizzard store if it just pops out an activation key or does it automatically attach it to your account or what?



Edit: Never mind I guess. Won't go into details but I beat the system. In your face Blizzard, I gave you my money despite your best efforts to thwart me.

Warrior tanking got nerfed. Again.

Am not amused.

Im gonna go roll a freakin DK now. Hopefully by the next time they recieve a crippling nerf, warriors tanks can be level 85 and thus playable again.

Vanilla through WotLK for cheap. It was way too easy to justify to myself getting WotLK when it costs a little more than lunch.

What'd they do to warrior tanking? They require you to press more than 2 (vanilla) or 3 (TBC) buttons now or in Cataclysm? (I stopped near the end of TBC, so not sure how things are now, just heard tanking's too easy in Wrath)

Warrior tanking is only for the truly dedicated. You have to press like 5 buttons!

I don't know, I'm pulling 7k single target dps on boss fights in prot, and its not even my main set so I'm sure they're fine.

If you're referring to pvp then I suggest you learn to play the actual warrior pvp spec, which is and has always been arms. Prot was like the paint by numbers pvp spec.

The revamped old world quest chains are a delight.

Silverpine Forest went from "meh" to "HOLY SHIT I AM FIGHTING WEREWOLVES AND HANGING OUT WITH SYLVANAS AND DRUNKEN ORC SAILORS ALL THE TIME FOREVER!"

I've seen it but when I don't like playing the class then the flight form isn't going to be much of a selling point.

My friend was raging over the warrior tank nerf. I play a paladin anyway but I have my own challenges with the return of CC. Hammer of the Righteous now hits everything in a 10 yard range rather than being limited to 3 targets so it looks like I'll be using trusty ol' Crusader Strike.

I started up a shadow cow and after we discovered my wife had a bunch of granted levels saved up that we forgot about, went from 16 to 41 sitting in Ragefire Chasm. I should be hitting Outland by the end of Saturday.
Eastern Plaguelands is very nicely done too. Excellent quest chain that takes you through the entire zone.

This is what I'm most interested in :dance:

From everything I've seen, Blizzard has thrown out amazingly written quests now.

having everybody on a different quest "instance" really opened up a lot of room for much more creative quests, especially since they can greatly and "permanently" affect the game world.