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I’m a sucker for new content, so any time a content patch comes out I’m happy.  So when a full expansion hits, I’m like a fat kid at an all you can eat cake party.  There is a lot to love about Wrath of the Lich King and if you’ve read a review or two, or played it yourself you already know all the good things I could say about it.  So instead I’ll point out the few things that piss me off.

• The new level design is amazing, they especially went for more dramatic elevation changes.  In other words, they spent a lot of time designing places I would fall to my death from.  Everyone has parts of the game they suck at.  For all of you leet teenagers out there with inhuman reaction speeds and encyclopedic knowledge of the game, the part you suck at is interacting with your fellow human beings.  So don’t bother commenting about how wrong I am and how perfect you are.  It’s a social game and no one likes you.  Including your mom.  It’s true, go ask her.  Anyways, back to me.  One of the things I suck at, is I seem to suffer from some kind of in game vertigo.  I’ve never met a cliff, bridge, tower, or elevator that I haven’t fallen off of.  From level 70-74 I’ve pulled every elite in sight except for those cool looking storm giants in Howling Fjord.  I’ve solo’d every group quest I’ve gotten.  In all that time I’ve died about a dozen times and only one was to mobs (tried riding through a bad guy town).  The other deaths?  They are marked by a series of craters stretching across southern Northrend.
• No one sells recipes anymore?  I always got a kick out of talking to NPCs and discovering the butcher hidden over in the corner that sells all the coolest cooking recipes.  Now vendors are only good for selling crap to.
• Early alchemy choices suck.  Alchemy gets kicked in the face quite a bit with the expansion.  With the new potion sickness rules, the ability for an alchemist to profit off of his profession is pretty poor, but what I find to more frustrating is that most of the early potion recipes you can train suck and they all go green almost instantly.  Am I going to have to level using only flasks?
• People whining about mobs getting tagged before they can hit them.  Look, short of millions of immature little wow junkies waking up this morning as mature, polite members of society, there is always going to competition for mobs.  Especially named bad guys that finish quest lines.  Add in the rivalry between horde and alliance and the inability to communicate (except for the alliance’s love for emotes) and people are going to screw each over 24/7.  So stop complaining and learn to tag faster.  Plus, being on a very imbalanced server, there’s nothing I love better than riding up to a spawn point camped by half a dozen alliance and landing a frost shock on the next spawn.  Bring on the spit emote!
• Why do Taunka women have Tauren faces while the dudes have the ugly bison features?

Give me a few more days to play it, and I’m sure I’ll find something else to bitch about.