Wow has lost its touch. Is cata responsible?

[zenga]

Cata is a blast. Yes questing sucked ass but overall its a great expansion

Agreed.

After december I was 12/12 and felt that raiding was pointless. Though i did like wotlk more mostly because rets were a blast for me.

There is a huge difference between the normal modes and the hard modes. It depends of course on the guild you raid with and on your personal skill, but we had no real problems with any bosses on normal mode, but it can take use quite some time to knock out a new heroic boss. The difference is immense on at least half of the fights, so I don't really understand why progressing through hard modes would be pointless? Even the very top guilds needed several days to get a kill on a new hc boss.

According to wow progress about 400 guilds killed nefarian before 2011. Iirc you were on illidan us, so you must 've been in one of the the top 3/4 guilds on your realm, which are basically all world top 150 guilds. Looks pretty weird to say that it's pointless to continue after clearing normal modes when raiding in such a pro environment.