$20 cata today on amazon. (and your opinion on cata please)

[flux1]

Not looking forward to paying $37 x4 just to get my needed copies of wrath. Why hasn't it went on sale yet?!?!

Maybe all the rumors and news of wow hitting a sharp decline outside china aren't as unfounded as people claim and cata keeps going on sale to try and lure more ex players back in hopes of getting them hooked again.

I've noticed deals on the expansion for months now where you can almost always get it cheaper than wrath.

[MiRai]

Not looking forward to paying $37 x4 just to get my needed copies of wrath. Why hasn't it went on sale yet?!?!

It did... 2 months ago at Best Buy. I've got my fingers crossed for an Independence Day sale. Everyone else
should cross their fingers as well.

[HomoDoctus]

so, just ordered 2 copies of the battle chest and cata from amazon.com (no sales on .ca). i tried to get wrath at $34.99, but they wouldn't ship it to my area for some reason. very odd, hope i can find it cheaper than 49 here in town.

[MiRai]

so, just ordered 2 copies of the battle chest and cata from amazon.com (no sales on .ca). i tried to get wrath at $34.99, but they wouldn't ship it to my area for some reason. very odd, hope i can find it cheaper than 49 here in town.

Digital copies of Vanilla/BC are both 9.99 through the Blizzard store for a total of $19.98 with instant delivery of
the keys.

EDIT: Not sure how that prices out in Canada?

[Akoko]

From a multiboxer point of view. or hell, from a soloist point of view. Would you guys say that the above sample review is still an accurate state of the game?

This is just one opinion, of course. I'm only posting in an attempt to go against the "impending doom" that a lot of posters here like to convey. But my feeling is that this is the best expansion by far in for both solo play and multiboxing. In regards to there being "nothing to do", I disagree. There is LESS to do, but that can be a good thing as well. I sure as hell don't want to run the same raids twice every week (10 and 25 mode) like in Wrath. The content is better quality, but less in quantity, and thankfully means I feel less obligated to spend so much time playing WoW.

I disagree with your comments about tanking and healing. I single-box raid as both, and using ALL spells in the toolbox for every class is much more amusing than Rejuv blanketing the entire raid. Wrath healing was very spammy and didn't require much thought.

While the "questing on rails" thing might be horribly annoying with phasing for us multiboxers, at least there's some "story" that can be followed for each zone. I don't know about you, but I like the story aspect much more than the ease of getting 10 gold for a "find me 8 boar hides" type quest over and over again.

I also posted a little something about my opinions on the new talent trees and class design: http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthrea...876#post337876

Admittedly, some aspects of the game are more difficult than in Wrath, like 5-man heroics. But isn't that why we multibox? For the challenge?

[HomoDoctus]

hmm, still can't get into the blizz store to verify those prices, assuming you are right I should cancel my amazon order and just get the digital copies. thanks for the heads up

anyone able to access the store/account pages yet? curious if its my browser or just random dumb luck I can't.

[MiRai]

hmm, still can't get into the blizz store to verify those prices, assuming you are right I should cancel my amazon order and just get the digital copies. thanks for the heads up

anyone able to access the store/account pages yet? curious if its my browser or just random dumb luck I can't.

After I made that statement Blizzard announced you can only buy Battlechests now. If you have existing
Vanilla keys they are now automatically considered a Battlechest. Still unknown if you have only a BC key.
See the other thread.

[Umbaalo]

It did... 2 months ago at Best Buy. I've got my fingers crossed for an Independence Day sale. Everyone else
should cross their fingers as well.

Well darn. I'll be crossing my fingers this weekend then.
On a semi-related note, newegg is having an Independence Day sale but I don't have a clue yet what kinda gear they will be offering up.

[Khatovar]

We had a rather busy, 17-page thread going with a lot of back and forth on Cata. From my point of view, Cata was a massive disappointment. All my accounts have been closed since February. My husband has sworn off WoW and it would take something pretty massive to get him back. I, on the other hand, have been waiting for anything at all to bring me back and I'm still waiting.

I need a Cata upgrade for my 5th toon, since I was running with my husband when Cata came out and when I go back, I'll need to replace him. I *know* I'm going to need the expansion at some point, but I just can't convince myself to buy it. As much as I LOVE {I really do, I'm masochistic} leveling new teams, the idea of going through the Cata zones and dealing with those craptastic quests again makes me ill.

I love multiboxing and really, really miss multiboxing in WoW. I get ideas in my head for things I want to try or changes I want to make to my setup and I get all giddy about it, but then I think about actually logging in and remember how friggin bored and annoyed I was with Cata. Everyday I look for a Blue post that hints that something worthwhile is happening, but patches are insanely slow to come out this expansion. At this point, I'm starting to think it's going to be Brewfest that brings me back and not anything new.

So, babbling aside, if you intend on playing WoW at any point in the future, it's worth buying, cuz you'll need it before installing the next expansion. It's always worthwhile to avoid paying full price for half an expansion.