Somehow I missed this thread until today and just read through the whole thing.

I'm very surprised. I'm still having a great time playing and am enjoying the PvE portion of the game. This expansion is definitely more challenging, figuring out all the new tradeskill upgrade paths cheaply is difficult, there is quite a bit to grind, rep takes a long time to get, heroics are probably too long, but these things make accomplishments that much more meaningful to me.

I think Blizzard has done a great job with this expansion. We were kind of like teenagers partying with the parents away during the last stages of WotLK, but they have added in so much depth with this expansion. Heck, I never even knew what half of my abilities were on all my different toons before, and I was soloing ICC! Now I have to actually CC, interrupt, dispel, purge, move with a purpose - it is like a whole new game. I'm not saying there weren't times of frustration, or that Blizz couldn't help us a bit by adding an epic to the final bosses in heroics, but the game does seem richer than it did before.

Tol Barad dailies, heroics, achieiving rep levels and the new gear that goes along with them, farming epics off mobs in BoT, figuring out how to down Argaloth in Baradin Hold - it all seems rather fun to me.

Anyway, I hope you guys find exciting things to pursue. And if not, that you find some of the fun in WoW I have when you come back!