Considering how much the NPCs in your garrison sound like companions from The Old Republic, I was disappointed when I found out you can't bring any of them along as party members. My first thought was they would be nice group filler for people boxing under 5 chars. Gear changing to your spec sounds good also.

I'm a bit interested from whats been revealed so far. So depending how things turn out I might come back and try wow again. At least with the free 90 most of the time can be spent playing rather than leveling.