The calm after the storm

And then the OP went and edited their typo :p

I don't think Wotlk is such a bad grind, BC was far worse. All those attunement quest, heroics which bascially took ages. People just didn't know different at the time so probably everyone went along with it.

Maybe my only complaint, after Blizz allowed people to reach their gear limits a lot faster, they should have added a new timesink to the game apart from PvE or PvP.

I am not talking about housing (don't think that would work well) but just give players another option to expand their characters.

I think the "grind" is in the eye of the beholder! I came back to WoW from Aion and the grind there is mind numbing....

I quit WoW the day Wrath dropped. I was waiting in line at midnight to buy wrath and said... "screw it, I'm done." I didn't play anything for months then started playing the Aion closed beta in late June. Aion was fun for a while but when the quests died out after the mid twenties, grinding the same mobs/instances over and over became the only way to level. When I came back to WoW a couple of weeks ago, it was refreshing. Aion, for all that it is not, gave me perspective. I'm sure, because I've heard over and over, that there are games with a far worse grind than Aion. So I don't think that Aion's grind is the ultimate grind. However, nothing about WoW seems like a grind. This is why I'm playing again, and I'm happy.