[jcamaro]

I think the let down was from not having one giant new area. With TBC, we got Outland. With Wrath, there was Northrend. These had a brand new feel to them because nobody had ever been there before and it was like exploring a new game. In Cataclysm, the new zones are spread out with the old zones. Sure, after the shattering, everything seems new. But its still stuff that we were familiar with already. The new stuff is too spread out.

I'm generally happy with the expansion. The only thing I don't like about it is the difficulty of the heroic dungeons added to the randomness of the dungeon finder. I've had plenty of instances where there was no viable CC class put in the group. Mainly Grim Batol. You need to have a shaman or a warlock but the dungeon finder doesn't care to give you one. Raiding is just fine, though. It is difficult but thats a lot more fun than the push over that ICC was. I liked the epic feel of the frozen citadel, but the fights were easy. I PUG'd my whole way through Wrath. It was only at the end that I got in to a raiding guild that was doing 5-10 PUG members in their 25 man raids because of low participation (due to Cataclysm launching within months). Now I'm part of the #4 guild on my server, 10/12 bosses cleared with just Nefarian and Al'Akir left (Nefarian should go down this week).

My wife plays with me but she doesn't have the time to raid like I do. She goes to night school 4 times a week. We play when we can, but most of the time we just get frustrated with the idiots you tend to find in random heroic groups. Of the past 20 times we've been in them together, we've completed the entire instance maybe 7 or 8 times. We try to be as lenient as we can, but sometimes you just can't help bad players not be bad. Then we go off to farm old content, do daily quests, or play StarCraft 2. We still enjoy doing heroics together, I'm a DK tank and she has a Holy Priest. But the random dungeon finder gives us way too many bad apples.