Would you play a new wotlk server?

[crime]

WotlK was the beginning of the end, i couldnt bring myself to play it. While the content was at its best, the game had already lost the sense of difficulty and the feel of an MMO. The welfare epics were real, they really ramped up the whole idea that once a tier of content was no longer the most recent the gear was shit and nobody ran it - Gear score was such a bad idea also.

For me, as good as the content was, as well as they made the encounters the rest of the game had already turned the corner and become not worth playing.

[Robotron]

At least Lich King had Yogg-0 and Heroic Lich King, which were the hardest encounters in the game's history at the time.

[crime]

They did get much better at content design - the first tier of Cata content was actually really good - but yet again, they released T12 - blew up all the good content and replaced it with 7 easy bosses and a redic Heroic Rag that you wiped on from boredom rather than difficulty.

That encounter was like a Wii party game where if someone else screwed up and jumped instead of ducked the whole raid wiped. Sigh.

[Robotron]

The first tier of Cata was actually the tail end of my stint in retail. I quit the game for different reasons, as I actually really loved BWD/Bastion. It just got to the point for me that if I wasn't playing in a guild ranked at least top 50 worldwide, I just wasn't having fun, and 400 wipes to Heroic Lich King followed by 8+ months of farming him with no new content burned me out to the point where I didn't want to put in the time required to raid at that level.

[Muesli]

While I like some things about WotLK (zone aesthetics, some lore), over-all it started many of the trends that made retail a shitshow (like 5mans and heroics becoming AoE fests instead of teamwork based, and later down the road the random dungeon finder, and the ability to spam heroics for badges, and the ability to basically buy entire sets just for those badges). edit: Also removed Naxx and T3.

So while I'll miss the atmosphere somewhat, I probably wouldn't play on a Blizz-like WotLK server. I'll stick to Vanilla and BC, 1x rates, Blizz-like, PvE if possible. If not, there's other games.

[PeaceHammer]

Nah. Vanilla is the only WoW I have genuine interest in. Every X-pack added and changed things which negatively impacted the game for me.

[Remember_Nostalrius]

Nah. Vanilla is the only WoW I have genuine interest in. Every X-pack added and changed things which negatively impacted the game for me.

I get that, but at the same time, the something of Warmane is sweeter than the nothing of the deafening silence in the wake of Nostalrius.

And I say this as someone who enjoyed the ridiculous hunter minigame which got blown up in WoLK and completely demolished in Cata.