How has Phase 1 been so far? An honest look.....| Cataclysm Classic 

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I’m loving how alt friendly it is, and levelling with the dungeon finder and heirlooms is an absolute pleasure. I wasn’t expecting to be playing as much as I am.

Transmogs ended up being more fun than I expected

Didn't think I'd enjoy it but it's the gameplay for me. It's absolutely brilliant. Healing especially is fantastic this expansion.

Cata has been great so far, sort of remembering why I felt cata was my favourite expansion of all time. Honestly, at his stage in life I go to the gym 4-5 days a week, have a girlfriend and a life outside of video gaming - so having the ability to just leave the game for a day or two and not "miss out" on anything is great.

I LOVE being able to raid log. It's why I don't really do retail anymore.

Cleared the raids a few times and yeah, nah, logged out 3 weeks ago and haven't bothered to go back

I started playing cata on a private server back in 2012, so fucking fun, now being in the real servers its been a blast, enjoying a lot the raids, pvp and professions

I’ve really enjoyed Cata. You hit the nail on the head about being able to play other stuff, while still enjoying cata. I’ve been prepping for The War Within while still popping into cata and enjoying myself immensely

Firelands was one of the best raids in WoW imo. It will be fun to prog that on Heroic :)

We cleared everything in 10man, now its really trying strats

My only complaint, which is small, is that I can't use old heirlooms after lvl 80

I really gave it an honest try- I leveled, ran heroics, did a raid or two. It just doesn't scratch that "classic" itch for me. Which is on me, not the game- there are a lot of things Cata got right, but enough core Classic elements are gone. I suspect many of the "OG Trilogy only" fans feel a bit homeless at the moment, having played all 18 versions of Vanilla but nothing in sight in terms of new TBC or LK servers.

Haven't played in years and I'm thinking of resubbing when firelands comes out! Does anyone know when the best time for that would be?

When is the next phase coming?

From gameplay point of view Cata was always a great xpac… the biggest problem and the thing people remember is underwhelming Dragon Soul and over 1 year being stuck there 😅

Enjoying Cata for sure, but the lack of attention it has been getting from Blizzard is extremely concerning. We've been trying to get an answer for why we haven't been able to mog GM gear for 2 months now and we've heard nothing. We've also had one blue post in the last two weeks and that was them saying they fixed the bounce achievement in Hyjal...

Enjoying pvp and a bit of raiding, got 2 characters at 85 and being able to catch up on valor and conquest is great

replaying it casually. I raid 2 times a week on a couple toons and spend the rest of my time outside of wow. my journey on official wow started in original cata so everything is familiar but fun. still..i dont see myself doing t11 till october. guess im gonna take a break for retail and come back for the firelands patch.

I’m having fun ngl

If zul aman is exactly like the tbc raid I'd do a run every day😊 za just felt so chill back in the day

I too would like to see them adjust the strumph of loot.

Make secondary professions social , group fishing group archaeology group first aid activities, they have so much to refurbish yet they don’t see it. Make the game more social besides just the combat related stuff.

Having fun. Feels better than wotlk phase 1

I haven't raided yet just enjoying the leveling experience again and haven't touched my 80 level toons just so i can start fresh and do all the new quests since the world has changed.

Man, your editing just keeps getting better and better.

been having a good time in our 10 man. Nef, council, and sinestra were fun challenges to prog through and work on. That's not to say everything else was a cakewalk, but i enjoyed these 3 bosses actually posing a good bit of challenge. Still having a very good time logging in with the bois and smashing 10 man once a week.

I absolutely love PVP in Cata and MoP. I’m like 6 characters deep fully geared with professions trained. Highest is 2100 in 3s and everything else is between 1900-2100. We’re chillin having fun and just reliving some memories. ❤

Knew what I was signing up for, haven’t had a single complaint. Always said it was wrongly criticized, happy to see the warm reception to what I always considered one of the best raiding tiers for progression

I'm enjoying it to be honest, been getting a few characters up to max, been raiding heroic, my server (mirage raceway EU) is pretty busy all the time. I always was and still am waiting for MoP because it's one of my favourites, but this is decent enough, i logged on retail the other day for the first time since the start of dragonflight and the world just felt empty, i felt alone to be honest and just went straight back to classic. As for SoD, i played a bit on P1 but i have no interest at all playing it at all.

I really like Cata so far! i just hoped they added little more drop rate to the legendary staff or let firelands last a little longer. i recall firelands being an awesome raid

I’m one of those people who quit like 5 raids in. Been playing since classic started. I just felt like it was a chore to attend raids. I would rather enjoy summer and play single player games that I can just pause as needed. Really happy about my decision.

The game has been great so far. The only negative is a personal one - I'm constantly tired and struggle to keep up with 'chores'. But I'm not really suffering for not doing it, all so that's good - I'm still raiding and still blasting the meters.

1:50 tbc had worse content than cata? Just to be clear, you are saying the content in cata is better than Karazhan?

I was hoping for more of a prepatch experience, but cata has been fun for sure. I havent even started raiding yet, im just enjoying the new zones, a few dungeons, but mostly, I've been hunting achievements.

Way more engaging that wowlk phase 1. Only part I hated was archaeology but once I simply stopped trying to get the sword I started to enjoy the game a lot more

I would have liked if this phase was quicker to clear the raids. 4 hrs to full clear with some heroics is a lot of time across multiple chars.

eh my guild was boring and wouldnt prog heroic even though the entire guild was over-geared for norms. I got bored and quit.

4:34 what is Free Five Free gear???

Cata is just perfect im really enjoyed it

Having fun with P1 so far. Only raiding one 1 toon atm but I am also raiding in SoD, so I am very ok with less to do in Cata. Especially with P4 in SoD dropping tomorrow, the last thing I need is a rep to farm or something.

8:35 they will WHAT?????

Only raiding as Spriest, no alts, still enjoying cata but agree not much else content wise. However I've taken to solo speedruns of old raids (Kara, MC, AQ) which is great fun to route and even challenging - cannot quite clear AQ40 yet!

Clearing 8/13 HM on 3 characters in pugs. Leveling my mage. Pretty much enjoying the game. Would be cool if they dropped Firelands in October and DS in January

While I'm overall enjoying, the glitches are ridiculous. I don't remember this many the first time it was released, and now, years later, they can't get it right? I still like it, despite that, though!

Having a blast

Having more fun in arenas so far than all of WOTLK

Massive. Hey mate big fan.

My 10 man raidgroup is currently at 9/13 Heroics. Hopefully we will get 10 or even 11 done today. Our Gear is also looking good at around 361ish averaged. The amount of loot is pretty disappointing on the other hand. Especially if we DE one or even both items that drop, there isnt much of a progress... hope that will change

I think it's pretty fun because PvP is incredible tbh, it has something for everyone, I am a very CASUAL PvPer but I'm having fun gearing and playing with my friends. PvE has been accessible but I don't know.. I haven't raided yet. I'm gonna probably hop on SoD on Thursday because I enjoy the aesthetic of Classic raiding more.

cata has been amazing so far

TBC-Cata-Wotlk. Cata was fun now it’s dragging probably wait until firelands than I’m done. Curious what direction we going after, maybe panda and that’s it hopefully, we need era servers and seasonal cycle of vanilla to wotlk or something

I know for me, there are SO MANY different things I'd love to level up and play both in PvE and PvP that I don't have time to do it all... I'd prefer it if things weren't rushed. What I love about this expansion is there are not endless grinds and there is minimum upkeep; you can play as much or as little as you have time for. I spend WAY more time doing things I actually enjoy than spending time on what amounts to chores so that hopefully I can get to have fun in a game.

As someone who just came back to the game a few days ago and started a brand new character because my previous server was locked and dead, I’m personally kind of worried with how fast the schedule is for Cata. I’d love to atleast see all of tier 11 in LFR/Normal if possible before tier 12. But being a normie I don’t have a ton of time to play

I like having time to do other things like right now I'm doing the Remix, and I've never played retail before so it was def an incentive to try it out, and honestly it's a lot of fun. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get to that like the Cinderella story but surprisingly enough I wasn't a complete slave in Cata and got my main and an alt set and my professions on several alts done. FYI I do really like Cata bc of the updated areas and going back to older dungeons with harder content is great! My main complaint is stats getting rid of Armor Pen, really???? Uggg but other than that for the most part I can commend the devs for all the hard work they did after WRATH and you can see on many aspects that they thought about a lot. It's kinda crazy to go into retail like the Remix right now and see where all this goes...think ima go for the best of both worlds and try to swing both.... hopefully I will continue to have time for both I still have a raiding toon on SoD but im not going to push that envelope. That one is def the time sink, so for anyone who thinks there isn't anything to do right now just wait for SoD as I'm sure u will be grinding till ur eyes bleed lol.

This patch was always one of the best in the history of WoW. Cata crashes hard in Firelands when everyone is hard stuck at 6/7H, and hates life farming molten front dailies on their 5 alts they leveled because leveling got nerfed so hard.

Already seen many guilds fall apart because of everyone has to choose 10 OR 25 man raids

My only issue with the game right now is strictly RNG. Ive cleared every raid with my 10 man team every week since they released. But somehow ive only gotten 2 drops the entire time. Plus our raid comp isnt exactly the best it could be, but we still clear everything every week. But unfortunately the only plate that ever drops seems to be Holy Pally stuff (which we dont have). Plus being a Blood DK means I have to roll against almost half my roster for my tier gear plus 2 warriors for weapons... and using the MS>OS+1 means nobody is prio on gear. Ive basicalylly been stuck at 355ilvl for the last month and a half... And since no melee or plate gear ever drops, we cant really do a majority of the heroic bosses because our DPS is lacking. Love this xpac but rng is royally screwing our team 😅 weve got a ton of enchanting shards tho lmao

Sucks that nobody ques for bgs anymore. Only bracket I’ve been able to PvP is the 10-14& 15-19 brackets. Anything after is unavailable que times. Up until you reach lvl 80+

Here I am still waiting for the other heroic boss tips and tricks :X

Just feels like Blizzard is doing the bare minimum. We never really got those #changes that they 'announced' at blizzcon besides a few quality of life changes that were just rolled over from wrath and store trash. We could have had more raids like the water one, or a redone deathwing but its just going to be more of the same, with predicted classes rising and falling.

i dont care that there isnt much to do. i know what to expect and im ok with mostly raid logging

To this day, I believe they should’ve included ZF into the mix with the ZG & ZA raid

Its been fire i like it alot

Im glad the cata hate is going away. Ppl are realizing how good Cata is and how good most specs feel. Been having a blast in areans.

I would be having more fun if my guild hadn't fallen apart 😢

Im enjoying it but i wish we had a few more quality of life changes

What id like is seeing XP bonuses for leveling alts, speaking as an altoholic of course, but that would keep me playing more than I am currently just raid logging.

Cata is the best after vanilla and tbc imo. The combat is great (as in, rotations/abilities etc), the raids/fights are amazing (at least until DS lol) and the pvp is actually really good. But a lot of people really don't like Cata and it's starting to show. Our guild is struggling to keep up 25 man and we are probably transitioning to being a 10 man guild, because for the first time since the guild launched in vanilla we are having too much trouble recruiting new people to keep up with the attrition. The playerbase is shrinking. The biggest downside for me is that there's just nothing to do outside of raiding/pvp. Vanilla and TBC always had shit to do for me. Cata just has me raidlog much more than Vanilla/TBC ever did :P I'm really enjoying Cata, I hope everyone reading this does too

My main problem with Cata is there are only 7 new dungeons. Seven! Compared with the number of dungeons in all the previous expansions, that is just sad. They have gotten boring pretty quickly honestly, not even cause they are bad or anything, they are fine, but they get repeated so much that they have already worn out their welcome (Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep don’t count as new dungeons btw, just cause they are newly worked and made into a heroic doesnt mean they are new). Besides that, I do find the raids fun, dont want to come off as just being a downer on Cata, and i personally find alot of enjoyment mog farming

Cata is a blast. Very underrated expansion. I'm done raiding in p1. I'm just here to experience all the content at least once.

So far Cataclysm has been my favorite xpac. I never played it back in the day, and I'm loving it.

Xpacs are always great its usually the toxic community that ruins it for people.

I like it

I play super casually but I feel like there is a lot of gatekeeping going on for raids. New players struggle to get into raids because everyone wants the highest ilvl and achievements.

I really feel like they should have just let people do 10 and 25 on one toon. IMO I don't think any of the content should be out for more than 3 months. I mean in WOTLK I feel like most of the content was out way too long.

I enjoy not being pressured to be forced playing the game. It's fine how it is, but i dont see myself playing Dragonsoul that much. I dont think people who struggle with 365 gear in Hc will kill them with 378 or higher, since some bosses are not gear dependent, like Council or Sinestra.

my cata experience is ruined. guild loot council became corrupt and lost my legendary staff spot for officer alts

Alot of people quit i feel like my guild has same number of people but we had 15 ppl sign up to a raid the next week we had 7 i think alot of people wanted to play with people but the player base is super unfriendly. Trying to run a raid but i have 359 gear and cant do heroic with out heroic exp. So getting into a group is so hard without exp. I’m m behind the curve… then i go into a pug and kill like 6 heroics. The players were super un welcoming and if people didnt get a spot early it was hard to find one. I think alot of people grinded to max lvl then didnt have a raid spot reached out couldnt get into a raid. Or tried to raid then quit. Idk i had to perservere some bad raids and bad attitudes and probly like four u don’t have heroic exps. It was a super grind to raid wothout a group or team. I can see alot of solo chara just stop logging in

TBC fresh when

As a PvPer cata used to be alot of fun but man does it suck and show its imbalance now. A active MS effect and a retri can instantly heal for 80k, thats some bullshit. Some of these offheals are way over the top. And being a shadowpriest its pretty dishearthening to see how shitty our heals are when we need to use them compared to others, even hymn is ass. They still have major balancing to do to some spells

LFR would be nice 😅

Feels better sod after p3

Played the launch/did heroic dungeons and quests, got to ilvl 350 and then quit, didn't feel like raiding 6 to 8 hours per week, waste of time

The only thing blizzard should do to make classic great again is adding Mythic +.

Everyone had an alt in TBC, most raided as two characters, but Cata is something else in that department as people, even in the sort of casual guild I am in, have 5 or 6 characters they’re raiding on. A couple have 15+. So far I’ve found Cata to be incredibly mindless, excruciatingly boring, and overall just an endless slog. The leveling content, if you bothered to do quests, is bad with its entirely self contained zones filled with ham-fisted references and armies of mobs that pose no threat to even a naked character starting out. An added bonus to how mindless everything is is that you can simply fly over everything. The dungeons are entirely linear which is something that didn’t begin in Cata (TBC was bad here as well as WotLK) and everything inside of them feel spongy as grinding them is countless hours of rotational "fun". Then comes the raids, which not even accounting for the buggy mess the lockout system and boss mechanics have been, have given off extreme Ulduar vibes, where each encounter requires a brand new set of issues for your raid to deal with, and I don’t mean mechanics, I mean figuring out how to drag your weakest members through them. None of the fights are fun or interesting as the shear amount of mechanics for every fight kind of keeps you on edge the entire time kind of locking out any enjoyment. Finally, the loot is real blah, the stat changes and homogeneous nature of everything makes all the loot the same-ish, even if you don’t get mega BiS you’ll be fine, just go to the reforger and you’re 99% of the way there on item level alone. I am willing to believe that I could be alone in these sentiments, but I think it’s more likely that I am not. I have really not been appreciating Cata and that the rot that has destroyed the foundation of the game that began in TBC but accelerated in WotLK has been amped up further here to the point where the more "casual" players will completely abandon the game as the only reason they kept playing was for hanging out with their friends, but their inability to track ten mechanics a fight has each other at their throats.

We started as a guild… every single one of us stopped playing by now. Cata gameplay and class balance is awesome… the content and the playerbase is absolute trash sadly

Always said the big downside for classic iterations of the game (outside of Vanilla) is there is nothing to do outside of raid except pvp. Mythic+ was the greatest thing ever to be added to the game. MoP started to add additional things to do but prior to M+ this is just the game.

doing arena on 5 toons, raiding 2

fun good

Glad to see people are enjoying it. SoD has been a massive disappointment to me. P1 was aight. Found a non-blizzard server that's doing something more akin to Classic+ and that's where all my time is going now.

dragonsoul gonna crush all this positivity real fast

I'll give you the reason for low kills on those bosses, 100% psychological barrier. Enough people say its hard, people think its hard, they try it and find it hard because they're expecting it to be hard. They get some time on it, learn the 3 mechanics, realise its not that hard and start farming it. Just takes some groups longer than others because of weak links and/or misinformation.

Cata is already starting to be world of chorecraft

Was fun but now just raid log. I wish phases would transcend quicker or atleast give the option to advance in the next phase while others catch up. Phase 2 is gonna be boring. Slight upgrade on gear and boring raid. Cant wait for Firelands in phase 3.

cata is retail and the playerbase reflects this

Bamm!

I liked Classic Cata, but I am not sweaty enough to bother with one of the good guilds, and anything other than those guilds is just far too much of a struggle to maintain a guild roster. Its a continual recruitment roller coaster of getting people, gearing and training them up and then they leave for "better guilds". On top of that, the community is just crazy toxic. This has been the case since Classic first came out. This shit isnt that hard if you have a full raid with moderately competent players, but such a high percentage of people are such ridiculous min-maxers that it just isn't all that fun. I made some great friends along the way that I will be raiding with in retail once War Within drops, and we had some good times. So long Classic WoW.

Cata is probably a lot like TBC for content, but with all the grind and dungeon difficulty nerfed since then, it's all over very quickly, and everyone is just raid logging.

Missing TBC & Wrath bad personally Cata never appealed to me