I've been having fun revisiting Vanilla WoW and leveling up again. Cataclysm has semi-captured the feeling I got when I first leveled up on a brand new server when WoW first came out.
There's a lot of bugs right now (as to be expected), specifically with certain quests and where one has to stand to initiate a scripted quest with events that are sensitive to your positioning. Also, it's getting really confusing not being able to judge distance in the underwater environments. There should be some better way to display depth and distance underwater in WoW, but I don't think they've quite gotten to the best solution yet.
Don't get me wrong, I love the underwater area in Cataclysm. It's not perfect, but it is extremely well done on a grand scale. It got my excited like the first time I swam in Super Mario 64. It's gaming experience you just can't find elsewhere.
Just a personal opinion type of thing to add in: I hate the fact that Thrall is single handedly controlling the Maelstrom between Deepholm and Azeroth. I'm sorry, Thrall is not that badass. That's pretty much god like right there. The whole world pillar breaking when Deathwing escaped is a bit hard to swallow as well. It's all doped up, but it's kind of a poor excuse and or bad story telling. It just doesn't fit well into the storyline from my perspective.
The expansion is making me realize how badly I want to update the GPU / CPU in my PC as well. I'm running a Phenom 9850 BE at 2.5 GHZ right now with a Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870. It's sufficient to play the game, just not like I want it.
So the question is, do I splurge for a next gen. card or get another 4870 and cross fire? I have an AM2+ mobo. so I think it's best if I go for the flagship Phenom II 3.4 BE 125w with 6 MB of L3 Cache. What's killing me on the old Phenom is the lack of L2 cache. It's only 2 MB if I remember correctly, which is paltry. It's bottlenecking my entire system at this point I think.
I want the aforementioned items, another large HDD for redundancy, and a 64 - 120 GB SSD for my new boot drive. That would be nice <3.
Anywho, nerd post is done for the night. Back to sleep.
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