Horizon

So there has been some cool things mentioned in the last week in Cataclysm, the most I am excited about is the announcement that 25 and 10 mans will share the same lockouts. There will be 2 drops on 10 man, and 5-6 in a 25 man. We will hear, and already do hear, "This will slow progression!" Or "It is so stupid that the people who work harder don't get better things." I must say I very much enjoyed the news.

The rebuttal so far has been that in 25 mans more gear will drop so progression will actually be faster. I tend to think with the same I level and more loot for te people blizzard is trying to balance progression between 10 and 25 and also make it so people don't blow through the content 2 weeks after its release. To the other point of having more stuff because you have more friends, I think that with the achievement system and, in Cataclysm, the guild leveling system, the rewards of putting 25s together will still be great, all though they will be in form of better guild rewards, titles, pets, and probably mounts. Sure if they get an uber mount I'll be jealous, but not enough to want to change from my casual ways.

It is great that we can do a 10 man or 2 10 mans and feel like we are just as good as other people. 10 mans will be the same fights as 25, though, so it may be harder to bring down those baddies, but it will make us feel, I think, great and just as epic as the people who have 25 regular folks around. Blizzard stated many times they want every player to feel like they have their place in the world, and I think this is indeed a great move forward.

Now for the REAL point behind my post: Starcraft II July 27th!! This is a WoW blog, and a casual WoWer's blog, so I will throw it out there: Raids are SO gonna dwindle in July! Servers will be more sparsely populated, and I suspect I will see some tumbleweeds flying around Dalaran. Can't wait to try that new game, even though I suck at micro managing! Hate it! I also wonder how evil Blizzard will be, maybe the prepatch for Cataclysm will come in August so they can see where our devotions lay (l-I-y...Say it right in your heads right!, and if I picked the wrong form I want to hear it!) I'd Love to hear people's opinions on anything Cataclysm or SCII related. Post 'em here, I work in the office after school is out and usually have nothing to do!

Happy Waiting!
Ais