It's funny how people who played WoW and finally quit, resubbed, quit, resubbed, quit again, resubbed again, quit again are so proud that they have finally quit for the last time. They have no urge whatsoever to play Wow. They have kicked the habit!
It's funny how people who played WoW and finally quit, resubbed, quit, resubbed, quit again, resubbed again, quit again are so proud that they have finally quit for the last time. They have no urge whatsoever to play Wow. They have kicked the habit!
(And by "they" I mean "I")
Yeah, I thought I did too.... back when I got sick of Burning Crusade. Then my friend's started playing and dragged me back in. But hey, what are friends for?
It's funny how people who played WoW and finally quit, resubbed, quit, resubbed, quit again, resubbed again, quit again are so proud that they have finally quit for the last time. They have no urge whatsoever to play Wow. They have kicked the habit!
(And by "they" I mean "I")
Yeah, I thought I did too.... back when I got sick of Burning Crusade. Then my friend's started playing and dragged me back in. But hey, what are friends for?
Target Practice...or Dinner....or both depending on preference !
Well it's like this, the people that told you to play the free trial gave you the correct answer lol. Everyone esle, well ... not so much. The game is populated so thats not going to be an issue, plenty of alts are rolled so worrying about lower level content shouldn't be a concern either.
I personally couldn't get into it, a ton of others found it fun for w/e reason though so it must have some redeeming qualities that I'm just not able to see. With as many that play WoW it is definitely worth doing the free trial though because there seems to be a good chance most that try it will like it.
I figured since I'm waiting on GW2 I'd play GW1 again and start getting names reserved and stuff into my hall of monuments so that it's ready for me in GW2.
It's funny how people who played WoW and finally quit, resubbed, quit, resubbed, quit again, resubbed again, quit again are so proud that they have finally quit for the last time. They have no urge whatsoever to play Wow. They have kicked the habit!
(And by "they" I mean "I")
Yeah, I thought I did too.... back when I got sick of Burning Crusade. Then my friend's started playing and dragged me back in. But hey, what are friends for?
Target Practice...or Dinner....or both depending on preference !
"Mmm, what are these delicious little appetizers we got here?"
Personally I would wait till the expansion drops to start playing that way things will flow better and you wont be thrown for a loop when it does drop.
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
I would go ahead and start now with Cataclysm beign a month and a half off. It will give you time to learn the basics of the game and your class .... which isn't alot. But the more you know the better off you will be. Plus you will get to see the major changes coming to Azeroth ... in supposedly 3 game events before the realease of the game. You can have fun and take your time and alot of people will be rerolling worgens or goblins int eh expansion so there should be a decent amount of people around pre TBC area.
Now would be the Worst time to start. The game will be more EZ mode than ever, the old world content will be ruined, all of the fun you used to be able to have will be dead. Unbalanced classes, Battle grounds are not as fun and world pvp is dead, servers half empty, homoginized gutted classes that are a shell of what they used to be. That and you will be a new guy on an old game thats less than half of what it used to be. It would be like starting Ultima Online when Mondains legacy came out, the glory days are long over, the skill taken out of the game, and old players treat you like a class retard.
Now would be a fine time to restart. People will be trying to deal with the changes and once you hit level 15 you can use the dungeon tool and always get a group for an instance. Depending on the server you may actually find some decent people just avoid the raiders as they are worse than convicted sex offenders in terms of social skills.
To have not played WoW is to HAVE had a childhood.
I fixed it for you! I suppose you can apply this to any MMO. It's getting harder and harder for parents to get their kids to go outside and play ball. People forget that these games are supposed to be a distraction and entertainment, not 1/3 of your life. I know people that play these games 4-5 hours a night after school/work and 8 hours a day on weekends. That's just sad.
Not if they're having fun. I've played with RL friends before for a few years and we had tons of fun. I'm not sure if we played THAT much together but a significant amount of time nonetheless. I understand that there is a line between fun and psychological addiction and I have crossed that line before and paid the price. Regardless, I've learned to manage my time and set my priorities much better now. I just graduated college and got a new job today as a matter of fact.
I was 33 when WoW was released. I guess I totally missed out on having a childhood. But I wouldn't necessarily say that it is entirely the fault of kids that they don't go outside. A lot of parents seem terrified of risk these days, and your kid isn't going to get abducted, fall off a wall or nail their hand to a plank if they are safely cocooned in some electronic fantasy world.
Having fun is secondary. Play is an opportunity to exercise, imagine, interact with the physical world and learn. I spend a ton of time outside trying (and utterly failing) to build a fort from scrap lumber. But we didn't have WoW. We didn't even have the Net. And broadcast TV... not that great.
RE: the OP
Back in May (or one of those months around there), I started playing a new WoW account, having only played briefly right after release before. It still isn't my cup of tea, but it's definitely worth getting a buddy key and checking it out to see if it is YOUR cup of tea. Jump in, check it out.
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
1) The expense is not so great as you think as you can buy the battlechest that contain the basic game + TBC and use that for a good while (unless you hitch to play the new races). All the new changes to the "old World" will come to you regardless of your expansion.
2) Dungeons never lose importance, I have experienced people always going to instances, they are just fun and give great rewards usually, so they are always full. Raids.. well it will varies, but even in WOTLK, you had DEDICATED guilds to run the level 60 (or the level 70) raids. Some of them even ask you stop your levelling up to 60 and do not buy any of the new items, so you CAN still have the vanilla experience (or the TBC experience) if you so want.
Beside those, yes, Raids get skipped and it is a shame that Blizzard make all this content just to see it abandoned in a few months time, but that is the nature of the game and there is always some new stuff coming on.
3) as for catching up, There isn't much to it. With Cataclysm, all classes are changed, even radically, so everyone will be learning again. As for levels, the system always work that you can obtain points to buy the equipment of the previous Tiers from running heroic dungeons usually, that, at least in WOTLK, could be run in dungeons blues to start with so you do not have to go through the whole raids chain... you can just jump in and with some effort be ready for the next one.
4)There have been countless games in the past 6 years that could have been "the very best next thing", latests where WAR and AoC and while they have their good points and are good games in their own right, they do not have the popularity of WoW by a few thousand miles. There is no guarantee these new games will not be the same. In addition new games usually come with very little content (SW:TOR MIGHT be an exception... then again the devs have been quite silence about details of end game..) and might be plagued with lots of bugs...
Plus... everyone here will tell you SW:TOR is WoW with a star wars paint on it, so by playing WoW you get SW:TOR experience too! Right??
5) Finally and most importantly, you cannot know if you like it or not until you try it. There is a trial, you can get it and you will already see the new world with the new starting experience (that is incredible.... much much much better than the original starting experience, they have learned a LOT in 6 years of MMoing and it SHOWS!)
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
It took me a little over a month to reach 80, playing a few hours a day. Once you get to a level to do the 5 man raids, you get tons of experience and good gear. I skipped most of the quests and just did the 5 man. It was easy. Now I am bored because you cant get into 10 and 25 man without a high gear score. Mine is at 5011 because of frost emblems. You only can get 2 a day if you do five man. I just got a sweet pair of gloves with 50 frosts which just put me over 5k.
It is all about gear score now, that is why I got bored.
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
It took me a little over a month to reach 80, playing a few hours a day. Once you get to a level to do the 5 man raids, you get tons of experience and good gear. I skipped most of the quests and just did the 5 man. It was easy. Now I am bored because you cant get into 10 and 25 man without a high gear score. Mine is at 5011 because of frost emblems. You only can get 2 a day if you do five man. I just got a sweet pair of gloves with 50 frosts which just put me over 5k.
It is all about gear score now, that is why I got bored.
LOL Cataclysm changed that. You earn Justice Points now. You can do randoms all day long and earn enough points to outfit a character in t9 and 10 gear in just a couple of days. That means right now on live servers people are running randoms and earning Justice Points and Honor Points by the hundreds. It really is that simple. Now there is no excuse for people to be left out of ICC raids. They'll all be geared!
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
It took me a little over a month to reach 80, playing a few hours a day. Once you get to a level to do the 5 man raids, you get tons of experience and good gear. I skipped most of the quests and just did the 5 man. It was easy. Now I am bored because you cant get into 10 and 25 man without a high gear score. Mine is at 5011 because of frost emblems. You only can get 2 a day if you do five man. I just got a sweet pair of gloves with 50 frosts which just put me over 5k.
It is all about gear score now, that is why I got bored.
LOL Cataclysm changed that. You earn Justice Points now. You can do randoms all day long and earn enough points to outfit a character in t9 and 10 gear in just a couple of days. That means right now on live servers people are running randoms and earning Justice Points and Honor Points by the hundreds. It really is that simple. Now there is no excuse for people to be left out of ICC raids. They'll all be geared!
Is this a good thing or is it going to too easy? I am a hunter and have no idea what is going to happen to my gear when they take mana away. Everything I have is high agility, but mana plays a big part on how many actions you caan take before you run out.
Is this a good thing or is it going to too easy? I am a hunter and have no idea what is going to happen to my gear when they take mana away. Everything I have is high agility, but mana plays a big part on how many actions you caan take before you run out.
At this point they are just trying to keep people entertained for the next two months til Cata comes out. The people who are bored of doing ICC every week will not benefit or be hurt from this change, but for those playing catch up, this will help push them thru LK content before it becomes obsolete.
It's never too late to start WoW, especially since you can max out in a week, yet endure ninjas taking stuff they can't even use just to watch you virtually fume. It's probably a good time to start since Cataclysm is on it's way, and since they are redoing a vast majority of Azeroth, it would be good to experience the game from scratch with all the new details. If I were still playing, I'd totally dig a Tauren Paladin when that expansion launches.
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
People playing wow will tell you it is worth, people not playing wow will tell you it is not worth it. In my opinion, it is worth to wait for any of those 2 games, guild wars 2 and SWTOR. And if you have some games that you haven't played yet... play them. Mass effect 2 for example is awesome and you will loose a really good game if you dont play it.
Well....I'm going to go against the expected response to the question then.
I do not play WoW any longer. However....I did play it from release Nov. 23, 2004 to February 2010. I played other games in ADDITION to WoW during that time as well, back when I could AFFORD multiple gaming accounts.
Personally....I think ALL GAMERS....yes, ALL....should play WoW. I think it's just an experience that no gamer should miss. It's like someone that has never had a BigMac saying, "Gee....I hear people talking about BigMacs all the time, but I've never had one. Should I try it?" OF COURSE YOU SHOULD! (Or substitute any other hugely popular item here, for those that are offended by the McDonald's reference...I don't intend it as an insult...I intend it as being as shocking as not having tried WoW. It would be equally shocking to most if someone had never eaten a BigMac.)
I believe that any experiences you can have in life of trying new things.....whether it be WoW, surfing, sky-diving, or alligator steak.....are worthwhile. It's an experience that only that particular product can offer. There is ONE WoW. It is a game history making game, whether for good or bad is a debate, to be sure, but....it is STILL a history making game. Why would you want to miss at least trying it????? I can think of no reason whatsoever. And who knows....you may love it. You may not. But you can't determine that from what OTHER PEOPLE think....you're NOT "other people"....you're YOU.
I say absolutely try it. If you don't like it....or even if you DO....you can always play something else later if you so choose.
What do you guys think, I am actally very sad I wasent part of original and tbc wow, now with lots of hype because of cataclysm lunch I am thinking of trying it but... I am not sure is it worth it.
For example expense of buying wow + tbc +wotlk +cata + monthly fee is not small.
All original, tbc and wotlk dungens and raids lose all importance and most people will skip these and rush to lv85
6 month from now gw2 and sw:tor will arrive that have chance to become next best thing + it is new and exciting
have some great games that dident have chance to play yet like mass effect 2.
I have desire to play it but game is old now and it would take me ton of time to catch up if I take it slowly to max proff, explore the world , solve all quests ect
It took me a little over a month to reach 80, playing a few hours a day. Once you get to a level to do the 5 man raids, you get tons of experience and good gear. I skipped most of the quests and just did the 5 man. It was easy. Now I am bored because you cant get into 10 and 25 man without a high gear score. Mine is at 5011 because of frost emblems. You only can get 2 a day if you do five man. I just got a sweet pair of gloves with 50 frosts which just put me over 5k.
It is all about gear score now, that is why I got bored.
LOL Cataclysm changed that. You earn Justice Points now. You can do randoms all day long and earn enough points to outfit a character in t9 and 10 gear in just a couple of days. That means right now on live servers people are running randoms and earning Justice Points and Honor Points by the hundreds. It really is that simple. Now there is no excuse for people to be left out of ICC raids. They'll all be geared!
Is this a good thing or is it going to too easy? I am a hunter and have no idea what is going to happen to my gear when they take mana away. Everything I have is high agility, but mana plays a big part on how many actions you caan take before you run out.
For one....hunters won't NEED mana any more, they're going to focus instead. Secondly....all gear can now be "reforged." You need to read the updates. Hunters will not "run out" of the power they need now as frequently or as quickly due to the entire premise of a hunter's power source being re-worked.
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It's funny how people who played WoW and finally quit, resubbed, quit, resubbed, quit again, resubbed again, quit again are so proud that they have finally quit for the last time. They have no urge whatsoever to play Wow. They have kicked the habit!
(And by "they" I mean "I")
Yeah, I thought I did too.... back when I got sick of Burning Crusade. Then my friend's started playing and dragged me back in. But hey, what are friends for?
Target Practice...or Dinner....or both depending on preference
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Well it's like this, the people that told you to play the free trial gave you the correct answer lol. Everyone esle, well ... not so much. The game is populated so thats not going to be an issue, plenty of alts are rolled so worrying about lower level content shouldn't be a concern either.
I personally couldn't get into it, a ton of others found it fun for w/e reason though so it must have some redeeming qualities that I'm just not able to see. With as many that play WoW it is definitely worth doing the free trial though because there seems to be a good chance most that try it will like it.
I figured since I'm waiting on GW2 I'd play GW1 again and start getting names reserved and stuff into my hall of monuments so that it's ready for me in GW2.
"Mmm, what are these delicious little appetizers we got here?"
"Lady fingers"
"Ah.... oh, whats this? Birdshot?"
"Probably"
Personally I would wait till the expansion drops to start playing that way things will flow better and you wont be thrown for a loop when it does drop.
I would go ahead and start now with Cataclysm beign a month and a half off. It will give you time to learn the basics of the game and your class .... which isn't alot. But the more you know the better off you will be. Plus you will get to see the major changes coming to Azeroth ... in supposedly 3 game events before the realease of the game. You can have fun and take your time and alot of people will be rerolling worgens or goblins int eh expansion so there should be a decent amount of people around pre TBC area.
Now would be the Worst time to start. The game will be more EZ mode than ever, the old world content will be ruined, all of the fun you used to be able to have will be dead. Unbalanced classes, Battle grounds are not as fun and world pvp is dead, servers half empty, homoginized gutted classes that are a shell of what they used to be. That and you will be a new guy on an old game thats less than half of what it used to be. It would be like starting Ultima Online when Mondains legacy came out, the glory days are long over, the skill taken out of the game, and old players treat you like a class retard.
Now would be a fine time to restart. People will be trying to deal with the changes and once you hit level 15 you can use the dungeon tool and always get a group for an instance. Depending on the server you may actually find some decent people just avoid the raiders as they are worse than convicted sex offenders in terms of social skills.
I was 33 when WoW was released. I guess I totally missed out on having a childhood. But I wouldn't necessarily say that it is entirely the fault of kids that they don't go outside. A lot of parents seem terrified of risk these days, and your kid isn't going to get abducted, fall off a wall or nail their hand to a plank if they are safely cocooned in some electronic fantasy world.
Having fun is secondary. Play is an opportunity to exercise, imagine, interact with the physical world and learn. I spend a ton of time outside trying (and utterly failing) to build a fort from scrap lumber. But we didn't have WoW. We didn't even have the Net. And broadcast TV... not that great.
RE: the OP
Back in May (or one of those months around there), I started playing a new WoW account, having only played briefly right after release before. It still isn't my cup of tea, but it's definitely worth getting a buddy key and checking it out to see if it is YOUR cup of tea. Jump in, check it out.
1) The expense is not so great as you think as you can buy the battlechest that contain the basic game + TBC and use that for a good while (unless you hitch to play the new races). All the new changes to the "old World" will come to you regardless of your expansion.
2) Dungeons never lose importance, I have experienced people always going to instances, they are just fun and give great rewards usually, so they are always full. Raids.. well it will varies, but even in WOTLK, you had DEDICATED guilds to run the level 60 (or the level 70) raids. Some of them even ask you stop your levelling up to 60 and do not buy any of the new items, so you CAN still have the vanilla experience (or the TBC experience) if you so want.
Beside those, yes, Raids get skipped and it is a shame that Blizzard make all this content just to see it abandoned in a few months time, but that is the nature of the game and there is always some new stuff coming on.
3) as for catching up, There isn't much to it. With Cataclysm, all classes are changed, even radically, so everyone will be learning again. As for levels, the system always work that you can obtain points to buy the equipment of the previous Tiers from running heroic dungeons usually, that, at least in WOTLK, could be run in dungeons blues to start with so you do not have to go through the whole raids chain... you can just jump in and with some effort be ready for the next one.
4)There have been countless games in the past 6 years that could have been "the very best next thing", latests where WAR and AoC and while they have their good points and are good games in their own right, they do not have the popularity of WoW by a few thousand miles. There is no guarantee these new games will not be the same. In addition new games usually come with very little content (SW:TOR MIGHT be an exception... then again the devs have been quite silence about details of end game..) and might be plagued with lots of bugs...
Plus... everyone here will tell you SW:TOR is WoW with a star wars paint on it, so by playing WoW you get SW:TOR experience too! Right??
5) Finally and most importantly, you cannot know if you like it or not until you try it. There is a trial, you can get it and you will already see the new world with the new starting experience (that is incredible.... much much much better than the original starting experience, they have learned a LOT in 6 years of MMoing and it SHOWS!)
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
It took me a little over a month to reach 80, playing a few hours a day. Once you get to a level to do the 5 man raids, you get tons of experience and good gear. I skipped most of the quests and just did the 5 man. It was easy. Now I am bored because you cant get into 10 and 25 man without a high gear score. Mine is at 5011 because of frost emblems. You only can get 2 a day if you do five man. I just got a sweet pair of gloves with 50 frosts which just put me over 5k.
It is all about gear score now, that is why I got bored.
LOL Cataclysm changed that. You earn Justice Points now. You can do randoms all day long and earn enough points to outfit a character in t9 and 10 gear in just a couple of days. That means right now on live servers people are running randoms and earning Justice Points and Honor Points by the hundreds. It really is that simple. Now there is no excuse for people to be left out of ICC raids. They'll all be geared!
Is this a good thing or is it going to too easy? I am a hunter and have no idea what is going to happen to my gear when they take mana away. Everything I have is high agility, but mana plays a big part on how many actions you caan take before you run out.
At this point they are just trying to keep people entertained for the next two months til Cata comes out. The people who are bored of doing ICC every week will not benefit or be hurt from this change, but for those playing catch up, this will help push them thru LK content before it becomes obsolete.
It's never too late to start WoW, especially since you can max out in a week, yet endure ninjas taking stuff they can't even use just to watch you virtually fume. It's probably a good time to start since Cataclysm is on it's way, and since they are redoing a vast majority of Azeroth, it would be good to experience the game from scratch with all the new details. If I were still playing, I'd totally dig a Tauren Paladin when that expansion launches.
Well....I'm going to go against the expected response to the question then.
I do not play WoW any longer. However....I did play it from release Nov. 23, 2004 to February 2010. I played other games in ADDITION to WoW during that time as well, back when I could AFFORD multiple gaming accounts.
Personally....I think ALL GAMERS....yes, ALL....should play WoW. I think it's just an experience that no gamer should miss. It's like someone that has never had a BigMac saying, "Gee....I hear people talking about BigMacs all the time, but I've never had one. Should I try it?" OF COURSE YOU SHOULD! (Or substitute any other hugely popular item here, for those that are offended by the McDonald's reference...I don't intend it as an insult...I intend it as being as shocking as not having tried WoW. It would be equally shocking to most if someone had never eaten a BigMac.)
I believe that any experiences you can have in life of trying new things.....whether it be WoW, surfing, sky-diving, or alligator steak.....are worthwhile. It's an experience that only that particular product can offer. There is ONE WoW. It is a game history making game, whether for good or bad is a debate, to be sure, but....it is STILL a history making game. Why would you want to miss at least trying it????? I can think of no reason whatsoever. And who knows....you may love it. You may not. But you can't determine that from what OTHER PEOPLE think....you're NOT "other people"....you're YOU.
I say absolutely try it. If you don't like it....or even if you DO....you can always play something else later if you so choose.
President of The Marvelously Meowhead Fan Club
For one....hunters won't NEED mana any more, they're going to focus instead. Secondly....all gear can now be "reforged." You need to read the updates.
Hunters will not "run out" of the power they need now as frequently or as quickly due to the entire premise of a hunter's power source being re-worked.
President of The Marvelously Meowhead Fan Club
Hahah, that really made me lol ^^
The best time to start playing WoW would be now or when Cataclysm hits. Because going on now there will be events/happenings prior to Cataclysm.