Holy Shit, You Mean Desolace Doesn’t Suck?

One of the cooler things about WoW: Cataclysm aside from the new content promising to ensnare my mind for another couple of years are the reworked original continents. Anyone who has played WoW will tell you that levels 1-70 are a pointless grind at this point, punctuated by bitching and moaning. We can’t fly in Azeroth, QQ. We’ve seen the Bad Lands a thousand times, QQ. And I’m just as whiny. But let’s face it, the fucking map has been static for almost five years. It’s about god damn time something actually HAPPENED in the world.

It was cute how for about two days prior to WotLK Blizzard actually tried to give the semblance of a breathing universe. But with Cataclysm, Blizzard’s giving all of us greybeards a chance to explore areas we had forsaken since around 2006.

Changing around continents gives us a reason to explore older areas on our capped characters, and it also may mitigate the misery that is grinding from level one on your fifteenth alt. For the first six months or so.