Cata not so MB friendly

[Alemi]

Even so, getting to level 80 in March is not really "joining the party late".

Not to defend his point, but - yes it is. That was 2 weeks before the Ulduar patch. By the point you dinged 80, there were 4 bug/class balancing fix patches. To your point, however, I never did regular dungeons - except when farming the stupid defense trinket from Loken.

I'm not one for nostalgia, but I do look forward to BC/vanilla difficulty again. Wrath just wasn't as challenging, imho.

[offive]

Been playing beta, messing around with some macros just not /click. Servers are down right now, but I will see what I can test out when they come up. Yes there are required collection quests, just a fact of life.

I do know that cast sequence still works just fine. I also know that when I went through Twilight Higlands I was dead if I pulled more than one mob... fun fun fun. Doesn't help that none of the quests in Uldum or TH give gear.

It looks like ret pallys can be played with a handfull of keys, however holy power is a combo point system so your holy power dump keys (Templars and Divine Storm) should be seperate from your normal rotation. Art of war doesn't allow for inst cast heals anymore so you will need to get used to new timing of heals.

I have run HoO, Grim Batol, and even tanked Blackrock Caverns and I will say that most of the fights look manageable for boxing. There are some tricky things in boss mechanics and Grim has tons of trash, but I don't think it will be a show stopper.

The daily quest hub and wintergrasp replacement (Tol Barad) is interesting and I wish I had my team with me for the quests! I have a feeling daily questing in Tol Barad will be overloaded with people.

Anyway, I will report back on what I find out with the /click. I think there is a new build soon. Things change a lot... of course.