I think this will be the big WoW announcement. Some of commented that the trademarking came at the same time…roughly…that Blizzard trademarked Wrath of the Lich King. I think there will also we an announcement of the new MMO, which I have had two ideas of where it falls.

World of Starcraft or WoW2. Both make sense really. If it is WoW2, I believe it will try and reinforce the fact that your character is one of the greatest warriors of their individual races, which would be awesome. Coming back to places like Thunder Bluff and actually having interaction with my tribe in the advancement of Tauren affairs and have it just be that place I go to get a hoofprint from Cairne.

World of Starcraft also make a ton of sense as the MMORPG world still has not really perfected the SCIFI area of MMOs which leaves it open for Blizzard to dominate an area once more and Starcraft has about as much lore as Warcraft does, and is very much beloved and has some very interesting possibilities.

I’d love to see updates for old engineering stuff, like foo-reflectors (SO funny to see a mage blow himself up with that gymungus trinket-talent-fireball…). Inventing, where you make items and put them together and get something random specific to you. (I put together a thorium widget, an adamantium frame and three elemental blasting powder and get a small robot bomb, you do the same thing and get a little hovering pet that occasionally explodes, he does it and gets one-shot rocket rollerskates) An updated version of the Force Reactive Disk shield for AOE tanking. New addons similar to the sharpening stones, like a rocket that mounts on a hammer, so when you swing it it has a chance of firing and making you hit a lot harder. For the engineering fail chance, it could end up spinning you around (a non-damaging whirlwind = stun) for a moment.

A differentiation between ‘physical modification’ and ‘enchantment’. There’s no reason I can only put a weapon chain OR some magic on my weapons. An enchant OR a shield spike.

Long, epic quest lines that do things for your class. One concept that I liked from Lord of the Rings Online was the epic quest; you got one when you first started, and it went on and on and on, as you leveled, more of the story opening as you go. One enormous questline. Maybe druids could specialize even deeper into bear, getting a different model and preventing the use of the cat form but being even better tanks, mages deep specialize in frost and can’t cast fire spells but get more frost and side effects… that sort of thing.

Flight in Azeroth would be nice, but they’ve said it’d be just too long a process to fix… But let us use our own mounts on the flight path. Pick one of the flying mounts randomly, or let you specify which. No other effect, just instead of $GENERIC_WINDRIDER, you get to see your netherwing dragon as you fly from Org to Ratchet. Let us use them as ground mounts. I love seeing my big proto-drake running along the ground.

More portals. At least one from Shat to Dalaran, it’s pathetic that I have to port to Org, run halfway across the city, and wait for a blimp to get back to Northrend if my hearthstone is down if I want to do the fishing daily in Terrokar. Yes, it makes the world seem smaller… but I’ve seen it. The first fifteen times I flew from Moonglade to Thunder Bluff was cool, with all the swoopy over the scenery… the other ten thousand times, not so much. I just want to get where I’m going, not spend literally fifteen minutes reading a book or something while ‘playing’ a game.

Make fishing less mind-numbingly boring. Add in little mini-games that pop up sometimes that get you more fish with one cast. Not necessarily every time, but goddess, click, wait, click, loot; over and over and over and over… As with the travel above, a game that one plays for enjoyment should not require you to have something else to do in the middle of it to prevent dying from boredom. (See how often people say “Oh I just watch TV” or something while they’re fishing. This is a Bad Thing.)

Add in AI mercenaries. Rather than spending hours in the trade chat spamming ‘lfm healer’, hire a healer. The game has the AI in it to do that, there’s a quest in Grizzly Hills that it works pretty well in.

For that matter, make the trade channel a trade channel. I personally would like to see any bozo crapping a chuck norris ‘joke’ into it get beaten with baseball bats covered in fire ants by a team of blizzard commandos with a streamed video feed, but I’d settle for a general worldwide channel that they can spam with peener ascii art and I can turn off and not be bothered by. When people who are actually trying to trade things in the chat are told ‘lol u nub tat not what trade is for lol’, that’s a load.

How about a central message board in the game that people can post on? “We’re going to be running 25 man X on Y date, need this, that and two of the others, sign up below’ and the person who posts it gets an email with the people who signed up. Or ‘want to buy’ ads. “I want to buy 100 Small Eggs, paying X per” with the ability to send mail from there and be paid immediately. Preferably for partial ones, like a lowbie came up with a stack of 20, he sends them to you and gets a 1/5th X payment kind of thing. Rather than having to spam the trade chat constantly, being unable to do anything but stand around in a city. Aion has the ability to set your character up as a trader… the character sits on a stool with a flag over their head that you can put words on, and others can click on you and see your inventory that you have to sell. Even something like that would help.

Bigger friend lists and a better organized way of adding notes. As is, if you put a note more than a couple of words on someone, it ends up running off the side of the window and looks rather dumb. Something like guild info for each person, saved on your computer.

The faction transfer is apparently going to be just ‘pay money, poof you’re a whatever’… but it’d be cool if it was a long questline that converted you. Even if it cost the money too. Maybe you get charged a little less if you go through the whole thing…

As a hunter, I want my pet to run along with me again. The game knows the difference between flying mount and ground mount. It’s possible to set up macros that will put you on a flying mount in a flyable area or a ground mount if not with one click… have the pet despawn if you mount a flying mount. Shouldn’t be that hard if the functionality is already built into the game… I liked having my chosen pet run along with me.

I have to admit, I like the new druid forms quite a bit, although it’s going to be odd to get used to them… I’ve always been a white cow, and now I’m going to be changing to a red one. :P

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So a Paladin then? ;)

Death Knight – Same as it is now (starting level etc) BUT it should ONLY be a Tank. It should be able to level solo the same way a prot paladin does but in Raiding/Heros it should only be a viable Tank. 3 Talent specs – 3 different ways to Tank.

The next Hero class should ONLY be a viable Healer. 3 Talent specs – 3 different ways to Heal.

For example – Vampiric healing (similar to Shadow priest but the % of damage to hp is higher. So it doesn’t need to do much damage to do much healing (thus not being a damaging class)

Standard healing similar to holy priest/paladin

HOT healing like a druid? or maybe a new mechanic.

I think Hero classes at the moment are too much like normal classes so I think to make them actually different it would of been wise to make them more specialised. This would of also stopped every Tom, Dick and Harry rolling one as only people prepared to Tank would of rolled a Death Knight.