12-21-2010, 05:55 PM
Cata is pretty fun so far. There's a lot to do, even as a non-raider. Heroics are actually challenging and there's a shit ton of questing and achievements to mess around with. The LFG tool (creates 5 mans with random players from other realms - think BGs but for Heroics) is probably the single best thing Blizz has added to WoW since the game's creation. Also, the leveling experience is like 100x better since Vanilla Zones no longer suck balls.
That's not to say it's all amazing. It's still WoW, so many of the old downsides still apply. Bad players are still bad, grind-fests are still grind-fests and there's no shortage of Blizzard implemented changes to complain about.
I don't recall if you had ever gotten Wrath or not, but if you did, there is currently a free trial program implemented for Cata. You can sign up for a week and have access to everything that you would if you had a full version of the game (you're capped at 1 xp shy of level 81 though). If you like it, you can upgrade. If not, nothing lost.
That's not to say it's all amazing. It's still WoW, so many of the old downsides still apply. Bad players are still bad, grind-fests are still grind-fests and there's no shortage of Blizzard implemented changes to complain about.
I don't recall if you had ever gotten Wrath or not, but if you did, there is currently a free trial program implemented for Cata. You can sign up for a week and have access to everything that you would if you had a full version of the game (you're capped at 1 xp shy of level 81 though). If you like it, you can upgrade. If not, nothing lost.