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I am really looking forward to the new stat changes, as well as talent tree redesigns. The core changes to certain classes (such as warlock soul shards) are something I'm really looking forward to experimenting with. And as somebody who has played since vanilla, there is no way I can forget about all of the redone zones. I can't wait to see how the phasing makes all of the zones morph as the stories progress.

This is a tough question. I've played my Paladin Merenwen as of March 2005. I was there when kill rotation went like this: Recast blessing of Might as it had probably gone off already, cast seal of Command, find a bad guy, reach deep within and begin to auto attack with my "The Unstoppable Force!" Then promptly alt-and-tab out and browse the forums for the 30 seconds I had until I need to recast my seal. Even with the problems I found myself entranced by this game.

When Burning Crusade came around I found myself very excited at finally having our own strike to bring justice to our enemies. It was not without it's high limitations. The seal system was still messy and I found myself drinking water more than I was killing. However, stepping through the dark portal for the first time and seeing that sky made it worth it. Again, Blizzard had managed to create a game that did such a fantastic job at amazing me with the level that they had taken it too.

Then, there was Wrath of the Lich King. "This is the expansion to top all expansions," I had said at the time. The questing was interactive. The zones were unbelievably beautiful; the first time riding the boat into Howling Fjord was an experience altogether. And finally, my class had become respected as fulfilling what I had always hoped: smashing faces in not just groups but in raids too. However, as we reach the end of this expansion, I was a fool to say that Wrath was the best Blizzard could do. I was a fool to say that when I saw the previews for Cataclysm.

I have never been more excited for a video a game in my entire life - and I am quite an avid gamer. I am most looking forward to getting to see the new direction my class has undergone and bringing her to all parts of Azeroth. Being able to fly over the new water and redesigned zones will be just like entering Howling Fjord for the first time. I want to have that experience again - The magic that can only come with a Blizzard game.

What makes me most excited about cataclysm is the changes to warlock and the chance to have a cool race to play them on for ally. I love my lock main but soul shards are annoying, and you can run into trouble in short fights with getting dots up in time. In cata it looks like a lot of that will be fixed. As well currently you get to play a human (I do that enough in RL thank you) or a gnome (look I'm short and every idiot with a keyboard makes fun of my race) neither really cool looking classes. Now a worgen lock that's just sexy.

I am most looking forward to on my shaman :
Main Spec
Healing Rains
Gnome totems
Golbin Totems

Offspec
Primal Strike

Worgen starting area was SO much fun at Blizzcon, dark victorian, beautiful
Goblin just looked like all fun and craziness to play.

I'm excited at new class/race combo and new talent system and new lvling experience
I'm going to roll tauren DK/warrior/druid/pally tank
and tauren priest/shaman/druid/pally heal!!!

I guess apart from the new raid content im looking most forward to testing the new guild leveling system and the UI that comes with it, as well as the new upgraded water mechanics. However i am extremely excited about finally being able to get a a bird's eye view over the new Azeroth.

Three things I'm most looking forward to:

1. The new lore, particularly surround Deathwing, Mount Hyjal, and Vashj'ir. New stuff is always cool, and these carry on storylines dating to the War of the Ancients, and even the return of our friends from ZA. That, and there's rumors of a certain demigod (or...5) returning. Sounds delicious to me.

2. The "new" leveling experience from Lv. 1 to 58. After leveling 4 toons thru the current Azeroth, the change is welcome. I'm actually saving at least two characters on my main server for the new experience, since it's fresh and hopefully less of a boring grid with ridiculous quest flows (ask ANYONE who did the "It's a Secret to Everybody..." chain about going Un'Goro => Winterspring => Tanaris).

3. The changes to class mechanics, especially hunters (my main is one). I've long had gripe with Aspect of the Viper being a huge dps loss, to the point of learning to "Stance Dance" (of sorts) between Viper and Dragonhawk for high-damage shots. Now that viper is gone, though, I'm extremely eager to get my hands into Cataclysm early so I can get my head around a completely new resource for my class. It's gonna be a new learning curve, and while I imagine it as an energy/rage hybrid, managing it effectively is a different animal.

I am most looking forward to seeing what new vehicles and mounts Cata brings. I've seen on the Wowhead Cataclysm site a "GoblinHotAirBalloonVehicle" skin, and I really want to see what happens with that. I'm hoping it's a mount =D

I'm most excited about the new quests. For leveling alts and having some new quests to do on my main as well. Excited about pretty much all of it though.

What i'm looking forward to the most in Cataclysm is being able to play as a Tauren Pally. I've really like playing the Tauren, most of my toons are. I've tired playing a pally on just about all the other races, and never get very far. Just the whole idea excites me, i'm also interested in seeing the changing to the Tauren starting region and how the Paladin is gonna be worked into the Tauren way of life.

REALLY looking forward to the new soulshard-thingy for warlocks, will make my life alot easier. Also looking alot forward to the fancy new felflamespell for warlock's :D And the new mounts. I could go on forever with this x)

I've been playing since vanilla and I am most excited about seeing all of the new changes. We'll be going back to many of the old zones and looking at them through new eyes. I can't wait to have to rediscover familiar places and explore all the new zones. I think what I like most about WoW is the attention to detail of the zones. Being able to see all of the old zones from the air is so exciting. There are so many places I wanted to explore but I could never get there but soon we'll be able to!! In the words of the Barenaked Ladies...Everything Old is New Again!!

I'm looking forward to the revamped leveling experiences and new zone changes.