One of the most disappointing things about the Cataclysm expansion is watching Blizzard finish neutering elite outdoor mobs. In vanilla WOW you made sure to avoid an elite mob if you saw one wandering the game world. In tBC you might solo one or two of them if you had gained 2 or 3 levels. in WotLK you could solo most of them once you were 80. Now, you solo them for quests as you are leveling. It's sad, really. Elites are no longer elite.Originally Posted by kate
I was going through my EQ screen shots last night, and I saw one where my druid, having dinged level 35 just before, had soloed and killed Grimfeather. That was payback for all of those times that the bastard had slaughtered me as I was fighting mobs in a level 20 zone. That was EQ in a nutshell-- lots of danger and lots of risk which provided lots of excitement and lots of frustration. Few things could get your heart racing like running through (level 10-15) Nektulos forest on your level 22 character, knowing that if you weren't out of there when night fell, you'd be swarmed by an army of level 30-35 undead badasses just waiting to get their claws on you. When you got out alive you felt like the most awesome person on the planet. When you got whomped you knew you were going to spend the next XX minutes waiting for daytime to arrive.
And another thing that I wish WOW would take from EQ is the wide zone borders. Sure, lots of EQ zones would have one tiny entrance and exit. But some of them (the Karanas, for example) had a full open border and you didn't have to run over to the northeast corner in order to go to the next zone. Are there *any* zones in WOW that are like that? I don't think that there are, most zones are enclosed by mountains, or water, or space, and you have to go to a specific location to get to the next zone. This has changed somewhat with the ability to fly, but overall it really feels artificial.
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