I had a blast with the D3 beta. I finished it on a level 9 wizard and I think the underwhelming feeling (For me at least) comes from how easy it was. I cleared the beta content without dying once. The last boss fight, while amazingly fun and epic, was nothing more than cooldown and potion rotation. Maybe that's just how this type of game is and I was blissfully unaware of it 10 years ago.

Up until I got beta access to MoP I was hating pretty hard on MoP. The IRC regulars will definitely vouch for that. I think my main apprehension with MoP is it's another expansion where they're going to take my class/characters in a direction I won't like. Once I spent a little time with a priest in the beta it completely changed my mind. I'm pretty excited for MoP. I spent the last part of Wrath and all of Cataclysm PvPing. I've done raid finder DS and I've done the first TB raid boss once or twice. Past that I haven't done any raiding in Cata. I think I've finally reached a point in the PvP part of the game where I'm not having fun and I'm not able to progress in a method I'm willing to devote to. Whether that method is changing the group of people I play with or the amount of time I play. I'll probably go back to being a dragon slaying PvE Hero come MoP.

The best thing I've done in a really long time is take a break from WoW. I don't really spend the same amount of time on other games as I do WoW. I never got into the Elder Scrolls games or any of the call of duty, halo, battlefields, etc type games past the very casual experience.

Tera Online is the first MMO that has really made me doubt WoW. MiRai and Crum got me into Tera since they were playing the Korean version. I played the closed beta for the US Version and was blown away. We recently just played through the open beta which we will carry over these characters through to the live version of the game. There are so many things that make Tera great. Finally a game that doesn't punish you for grouping. You get a 20% bonus for grouping in Tera. Most of the quests are kill quests. The quests you do need to gather a resource from a node: if the group members "use" the node at the same time, everyone gets the quest drop. This means half the required nodes for a 2 man quest team. Looting is amazingly easier since everything is just dropping on the ground and you "use" it to pick it up. The game is absolutely beautiful as well. We're running around questing and you just look around at the terrain, the mobs, the visuals are just stunning.

I realize Blizzard has a tight grip on my soul. I'll keep playing WoW, I'll play a good bit of Diablo 3, and I'm going to spend a lot of time in Tera. What I've learned in gaming diversity is good. It's going to be a good gaming year for me.