While I was hesitant to pick up Cataclysm because of the lack of exciting details there were for me, and more specifically the lack of Frost DK's available, I decided to suck it up and buy it. Now it has been a few months and I have drawn a final conclusion on how I feel on Cata. And that reaction isssss, it issssssss, meh. I mean ,while there are things that I do like about it, there's nothing that I REALLY like about it; like I did in BC and WoTLK. With the nerfing of my deeps, the nerfing of the healing, and the nerfing of most tanks, other than death knights which are insanely over powered at the moment.
Shortly after receiving it, I went, leveled Toshi to 85 and then he just kind of sat there for a while, with the heroic grinding quickly becoming boring. I started playing a bit more recently though because some one in my guild said that in the new patch something amazing is going to happen, frost death knights are back!!!!
For those that don't/didn't know, frost dps was almost completely killed at the beginning of Cata and other than low geared PvP players, no one really used it, favoring unholy deeps much more. Currently I can pull around 13k unbuffed on a dummy and up to 17k on a boss fully buffed with time warp and all that good stuff., but in frost I was only pulling about 8k, which is the line in which some tanks may decide to kick you from a group for being to low. However, they are buffing frost alot in the next patch, and in the PTR i'm pulling about 16k against a heroic boss which is looking promising, hopefully when it goes live and I have some more time to get back in the groove of frost I can get back up towards 19-22k like I was pulling before frost got nerfed so hard at the end of WoTLK.
All in all I guess that it is more of a net gain in Cata than I originally expected it to be, and maybe its because it is so new, that I haven't really found content that I enjoy that much. Hopefully though whenever they unleash the hellfire raid and zone it will be something that I enjoy, since the water/vash'jir was one of my least favorite zones ever because of the fact that I hate water and it was really annoying to get around. I think that with this new zone, and all the new raids and heroics coming out in the coming months between zul'gurub, and zul'aman, firelands, deathwing's descent (or w/e the proposed raid name for the "final" confrontation of cata is).
P.S. I am just really hoping that they don't do the same thing they did in WoTLK where they were hyping up the last raid being with the lich king, and then before anyone could really defeat him, they added a new raid that all the super high level geared people wanted to run so no one wanted to run the instance where newer people could actually learn something about the lore and have alot of fun too. (BTW, I realyyyyy hated Ruby Sanctum in the first place, I mean really??? an exact copy of O S w/o the drakes??)
With games coming and going so quickly its hard to really look at one of them and be that excited for it, but to put it bluntly, this thing looks freaking amazing. If you have played the original portal game I'm sure you know what I mean.
Portal is a physics-based puzzle game developed by valve, the same people who brought us half-life, Team Fortress, and many others, that received critical acclaim for its beautiful graphics, thick backstory, and challenging puzzles.
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Believe it or not, to complete the puzzles, you use a portal gun, given to you by a computer inside of Aperature Science's portal testing facility. I don't want to spoil anything but, at the end there's a large explosion and you (Chel in game) are knocked out, and put into a stasis for hundreds (perhaps thousands) of years. This is where Portal 2 comes in.
Aperature as a company has been gone for years, and you can see that the lab has been over-run by plants and animals, that is, until you wake up your old friend GlaDos, the robot that helped you through the puzzles in the first game, and you are whisked away while you watch the lab get comepletely rebuilt, and you must try to save yourself once again from the secret evils that lay dormant inside of the lab.
All and all Portal one was probably a gam e that would go onto my top games of the 2000's, especially in the PC genre where so many games have been dumbed down to reach a wider audience that could "understand" them better, with this ones rich and complex and odd backstory, to fully "play" the game you have to do research as to why your character is even there, and you have to do all this unless you just want to play around with a portal gun for 5 hours, which can be fun too.
Oh, Be Tee Dubs, its out Tuesday April 19th.