Beta Stuffs

So I recently got into the WotLK beta. Here's some first impressions:

Northrend looks awesome. It's as if Blizzard's art department is trying to atone for the abomination that was outland and its contents by making northrend so jaw-droppingly amazing that even the green quest rewards will draw a few "wow"s. From what I've seen, they succeeded. Flying in to Warsong Hold was like the first time I set foot in BRM. Everything is huge, intricate, and badass.

Death Knights are really cool. So cool that I feel they deserve their own post.

Quest design has been kicked up a notch. Sure, there are plenty of the same old "kill x of y" quests, but there's also a quest where you fight along High Overlord Saurfang. Need I say more?

Expect what happened with MC epics < TBC greens to happen again. Northrend gear all looks very well itemized so far, and as I mentioned, most of it actually looks good, so hopefully it wont be so painful when I finally have to dump my s3/t6.

Overall, blizzard seems to have pulled out all the stops to deliver a killer experience in WotLK. If what I've seen continues through level 80 endgame, WoW will have recovered the soul that it lost in TBC, but without most the sucky things that it also lost.