For me probably the most exiting thing is to finally get back to the place that lured me into the World of warcraft in the first place, the good old Azeroth with all the breath taking scenery, all the awesome World PvP and most importantly the dungeons with stories, with all the different routes to go through and the challenge.

God i can't wait!! give the realease day so i can start my digital counter :P

So looking forward to rerolling worgan Druid and racing for the realm first 85 worgan Achi!!!
*sigh* not looking forward to the lowbie gankers but... loving the idea of Azeroth flying mounts!!

While there's so much in Cataclysm that seems so exciting, what I'm most looking forward to is the changes to raiding.

I recently reactivated my account after a year away from game. I canceled for one reason - my guild broke up. It was an old guild, and very well known. It was consistently one of the top guilds on the server, although it rarely got first kills. The members were very respectable, and when I joined not long after WOTLK came out, I was welcomed into the fold, treated as a sister, and, of course, we kicked butt and took names. After the long-time top guild on the server transferred off (a legend in and of itself, as they would spend thousands of dollars in real money to leave, only to have free transfers off the server being offered only two weeks later :P), we found ourselves at #1. We would get the server first 10m 3D Sarth kill, we would get the first "The Immortal", and we would be the first on the server with Black Proto-Drakes (and, if I remember right, we were the only Alliance guild on the server to do so). Despite our guild's mantra, that we didn't have to prove ourselves to anyone, we got a lot of attention, and attracted new people to the guild.

That wouldn't last, however. When Ulduar came out, a bunch of transfers to our server, that had organized a guild and nearly caught up to us in pre-3.1 content, began grinding Ulduar progression eight hours or more a day. My guild, being one full of adults with lives outside the game and could only afford four hours a night, quickly fell behind. The people that we had attracted to the guild via our pre-3.1 successes left, because they only wanted to be a part of "the best". Some older members also became discouraged, and we would see them less and less often as we attempted to push hard modes. The leadership began to run on fumes, and finally, it was over, just under three months after Ulduar was released. We stopped getting enough people to come to 25-man raids, period, never mind hard modes. Our recruitment dried up completely. Our final raid as a guild was a 10-man Glory of the Ulduar Raider run where I and a couple others got our Rusted Proto-Drakes.

The interweaving, for lack of a better term, of 10 and 25 man raids, having them share the same timer and allowing you to switch between the two during one lockout, and the sharing of the loot between 10 and 25 man could have saved the guild. Sure, we'd have still lost our #1 spot - that wasn't a big deal to us. We didn't have to prove ourselves to others, as long as we enjoyed ourselves and gave it everything we had. We would have had enough of a core in the end, however, where we could have focused on getting geared up in 10-man, while rebuilding the guild for 25-man raiding.

In addition, I hope that this will bring more challenging 10-man raids, much like 3-drake Sartharion was in the early days. It was tough, but it was a fun encounter, and once we had it down, it was amazing.

I accidently created a new thread instead of replying to the Beta Key thread, my bad lol.

Edited, Jul 29th 2010 1:52am by cataclysm1

Because rogues will be OP again, of course. Also, I need to become familiar with the quests before release so I can not only guide my friends though leveling, but also focus more on ganking alliance.

I would love to be able to play the beta of cataclysm because I play a Death Knight and I'm interested in how they changed up the new rune system/talents. The new rune system has me concerned for if i will be playing my class in the live version or if I'll just go back to my old main (mage). As well the new talents seem very useful in that they finally seemed to have "fixed" the problem with trying to adjust every talent tree to respect either pve/pvp/tank/dps and made it just like every other talent tree in the game where its specified for tank/duel-wield dps/2-handed dps. As well I would like to experience the new worgen race because that would just be fun to try out the newest race in the WoW franchise in all its glory.

Another great thing that I cant wait for when cata hits is the 10 man loot system being the same as the 25 man (with the exception of the amount of drops). This makes me happy because i can now raid with the tight group of good players I have accumulated along the way, so this is another great aspect of being able to play the beta which is I would be able to have experience in the new instances that come out in the beta and have a little bit of a heads up on getting my friends and I guild's name out there :P

Thank you and i appreciate your time

I have been playing WoW since February of 2005 and have made alts of every class. Some of them didn't make it to max level (whatever it was for that game version/expansion) because I got bored doing the same quests over and over.

So I guess that means, I am most looking forward to the new look for the old world, flying mounts in Azeroth, and playing through the starting areas for the two new races. Whether I keep one of them as a "main alt" (as I call it, since I have TONS of alts, but only my "main alts" make it past level 70) will be determined after launch. :)

I want to raid in 10-mans and get the same loot as 25-man content, and I want to do BRD-themed raids again. And I am excited about the changes to professions, especially Engineering.

I am looking forward to the changes to the talent trees, for the most part, though I am a bit worried about being locked into one tree for most of the leveling experience. I would enjoy testing this out and giving my feedback to the developers on whether I feel it works well or not.

I tend to try to get into places I shouldn't, and since preventing that is one of the objectives of Beta testing, I feel that I am somewhat qualified ;)

All in all, I am looking forward to just about everything that has been announced so far for the expansion, so singling out one or two aspects is a bit difficult, but I think I did okay. :)

basicly i am not playing wow for a long time now its almost been 1 year but i have made some good progress in PvP and i want the beta key so i can get a grip of PvP in cata and report any bugs

Bloodyy 80 lvl undead rogue http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&cn=Bloodyy

Edited, Jul 29th 2010 12:03am by bloodeh

I want the beta key because i want to explore more and make a new character,see the new guild,and thats all i have to say :D

I really want to the beta key so that I can see the new lands. Azeroth is all destroyed and the first thing I'd want to do is explore the land as much as possible. I'm really interested in how classes and new abilities have taken a new level. I want to see how World PvP is (Lol), but I also want to try my class a Rogue. Combat, and Sub have really taken a drastic change for the good. It would be aweosme to see how good both are before Cata, I'd love to test them out! The new talent trees seem a little iffy but I'd really like to check them out and see how different they are. I did play in Vanilla where talent trees were such as small. It seems like a really odd change, but it may be for the better. Worgen seems like a fun and new way to play the game. The racials are really sick. I'd like to level as one for a bit to see if I like it. Most of all though I do really enjoy PvP. I would be doing this to understand how level 80+ PvP is and how its taking a turn for the better or the worse. It would be great if I had this chance, although this opportunity is amazing. Thanks for the chance!

-Acrobatics

As a focused pvper, I'm hoping to try the new talent system for deathknights and see how different it is from the old system. DPS is going to be a factor that will change, especially with the new twist on the rune system. This combination of changes will definitely hit most people hardest, and adjusting to these changes fast will determine how well one can operate in the new PvP battlegrounds.

right on!

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 9:18pm by LKidd

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Edited, Jul 28th 2010 8:52pm by Selviaa