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I'm really excited about having the ability to fly through all of Azeroth, finally. I also can't wait to see the Goblin starting zone and being able to play as a Goblin has really excited me and energized me heading into the release of Cataclysm.

I am very excited to see the way Azeroth will look like since becoming Deathwing'd and how flying above all of the revamped cities will look!

I'm really eager to try out the Paladin class!

After being holy and spamming the same heals since vanilla, I'm exited to try out our new, wider ******* of awesome heals!
A cone aoe heal, a radiating heal, and the Holy Power system just makes me drool.

This is also a chance to finally try out retribution for real. With a hard rotation I can see myself playing it as well. I like challenges, and I hope this will be a fun one! :-)


I also look forward to have a chance to play beta with my girlfriend. She got in on the first wave of invites, I didn't.
She's been teasing me ever since without letting me try it out and it's driving me crazy! :-(

Edited, Jul 26th 2010 10:32pm by mollem

Should I even bother trying? Holy kazooye, where were these folks the past five years? WTB more than 50 post-users only rule?

Anyway - what I'm thrilled about regarding Cataclysm... Is the details, really. The reason I love Blizzard so much is because unlike any other gaming company, they focus on getting the feeling just right by paying attention to the absolute details of the game. The bittersweet music that accompanies the Blood Elf starting zones. The small lore quests that drag you into the game. The placement of doodads in zones.

Back when I joined world of Warcraft, I got sucked right in when I rolled my first Dwarf. I did a few quests in Dun Morogh and the zone worked so well I actually felt cold. The music was slightly lonesome yet not depressing, the quests kept me busy and my characters' footprints in the snow set the mood so well. Years later, I've come to the conclusion that the starting zones are what I love most in the entire game. Whenever I play through them, I do so in full screen with the game music up, and feel completely immersed.

With Cataclysm, these starting zones will all be revamped. That, and the graphics of the game (which are a huge factor in setting the mood for me personally). Which basically means that they're taking something I love, improve and revamp it, and give it back. Aside from the fact that I want a sneak peek at what's going to happen, I'd like to return the love to Blizzard by testing their creations.

It's not as much the talent revamps or the new raids that get me, but I want to feel 'that feeling' again. The Cataclysm beta gives me an early opportunity to do so.

For those of us playing on Chinese servers, the very best part of Cataclysm is that it doesn't seem to have any features that will cause it to get hung up in the approval process the way WotLK has. With luck, perhaps the revised Vanilla content will reach us and provide some (much needed) new content while we wait for something beyond TBC (patch 3.1.3).

Note to admins: Yes, this is a shameless QQ in hope of seeing content that probably won't reach us for close to two years; however, we're so far out on the fringe of WoW that players from Chinese servers may not be eligible to participate. Yes, I do have an account in good standing and bundled into the battle.net system -- but not on NA/EU servers.

There are a lot of things in the new expansion that get me really excited.

2 new races, completely redesigned zones, new dungeons, new raids, aquatic mounts, an underwater zone, new talent system, flying in the old world, new race/class combos, new spells, and new mechanics.

Though, the thing I am most excited for is playing an almost completely new game.

I am looking forward to finally being able to play my Worgen Druid that I have gathered materials and money for in the last couple of months. Pushing the leveling hard in hope of getting server first Worgen Druid while still enjoying all the new places and content.

But beyond all the new stuff Blizzard is adding the number one thing I can't wait for is the return of friends and guildmates when the expansion gets released.

The things I'm looking forward to the most is exploring all the new areas while experiencing a revamped leveling experience.

Well, since my main is a hunter I'm looking forward to completely relearning my class. And foxes. Finally! A wolf pet who's animation doesn't make me gag!

Oh, WHERE TO START!!!

well, I know that theres going to be alot of stuff going on at once, the fact that most of the class's i play are getting revamped and the world itself redone, its hard to pin point. the first thing id do would grind my tank to the lv cap as fast as i can,even if my guild mates arent ready to raid yet because their grinding to get to the lv cap. I can take my time to mess with my talent tree and get everything set up. ill see if any of the old vanilla raids have been tampered with (ive been grinding for baron geddons binding for eons, cant let cata stop me) and get used to the fact that im going to actualy need to watch CCs in groups.

i doubt id win the key but its worth saying this because....well......because.

I find myself overloaded with awesome and am having difficulties deciding what I would like to see and do first.

I always wanted to play a goblin, so of course I am looking forward to that, it is likely what I would look into first if I found myself in beta, leaving the fresh high level content there to be explored when the game goes live on one of my many level 80s

But when Cataclysm was announced and I found out for sure that you could play a worgen I was torn, I could finally be a goblin, but being a worgen was maybe even more awesome than being a goblin, what really sealed it for me though was when I found out recently you got your very own tophap as a quest reward, and a werewolf in a tophat is just far too cool to pass up, again may save this for when it goes live.

Appart from this I am of course looking forward to re-exploring the world and looking at the massive changes that have taken place, and trying out the new vision for the low level leveling experiance. Having recently completed loremaster on one of my characters the difference in approach to questing with each version of the game was clearly visable, whilst the old world quests were fun once upon a time and the storylines behind them are still very good the way they were executed now feels pretty annoying compared to how things were done with the WOTLK quests and even the BC ones.

Of course I have no idea what a beta test is like, if you are just given free reign on what you would like to try or if there are directions on what requires more testing since I have never been in one, nor do I know anyone that has ever managed to get in to answer such questions for me. But every time a beta is announced for a WoW expansion I always try to figure out what I would like to try out if it is a tryout whatever you like style test.

I have come to the conclusion that since things sometimes get boring the more you do them it may be better to do the thing I am least likely to want to do right after installing the expansion, it is most likely that I will take my character most resembling my main to one of the new starting zones and go "wow this is cool" get some profession training and start questing in the new zone, after doing that for a bit I will likely want to go get my top-hatted worgen organised.

So beta plan is: roll Goblin and do things, problem is male or female goblin. I did prefer the female sillys and flirts to the male goblin ones so maybe I should roll a female goblin and flirt with the quest givers so I can hear them more, and would probably roll as a warrior to maybe ease into the changes I face on my lvl 80 warrior a bit .

Also something I just remembered reading on a blue tracker was that they are testing Direct X 11 in the beta, I think it might be good to see what if any difference that would make having it turned off or on now that I have a video card with the capabilities to run that version of direct X.

Anyway best of luck to everyone, hope whoever the lucky winners of this little contest are enjoy their time in the beta test and somehow help Blizzard to make the Cataclysm Expansion awesome for everyone else.

What i am looking forward to the most! Exploring the new changes in the world of Azeroth, the new quest chains such as the one for Andorhal! I'll go back and do all of that just for the experience of it. And the goblins.. wow.. I can't wait to level one. The starting area and quests look like soo much fun! It's going to be the revisiting of old areas just to see whats new that will be the most fun for me tho, like seeing it all for the first time.. the excitement as you discover something new... Oh yeah I can't wait..

Sabz