Old WOW dungeons revamped in patch 4.1

What this misses out is the fact Blizzard isn't lowering the boss count in most cases they are ethier moving them or adding to it, I know those places backwards and those changes are good changes, I'll miss the 'classic' look but the irrony is that many complain about the cuts yet wont see these instances because they're in too much of a rush to 'end game' or wont bother leveling another character anyway.

Players slate these changes and claim WoW is 'dumbing down' because it's a reason to 'hate' more, as for some unknown reason they are still suck in the 'i'm in the cool crowd of hating' from 4 years ago. TBC took it too far with rep and basically turned everything into a massive grind and Wrath almost turned into a FPS title with linar paths and less planning then 'gunning down' large groups with AOE - Cata is the biggest improvement to the game since Vanilla as it's hitting that sweet spot between 'pick up and play' and 'hardcore'.

As far as the 'dumbing down' comments go, it's only true if you just look at screenshots and not actally play the game - the talent trees may be smaller and my UI has less buttons but out of all my characters so far I'm using ALL the skills I have for the first time in a very long time, all this 'forced build' rubbish going around is kinda a moot point considing many players opted for a cookie cutter build off sites in the first place so all this 'loss of choice' wasn't true as many never wanted those options in the first place they just wanted 'the best build'.

All Blizzard has done is removed those talents players never took in the first place and as far as the passive buff situation goes, they are still there everyone has them just that with the new system there is actally less buffs you can actally stack at one time thus making characters weaker and making encounters harder.

The stat system is the same by removing 'bonus' stats and rolling them back into the core stats theres actally less chance of players 'min-maxing' and with the indruduction of mastary and reforging, hard choices have to be made as you need to trade off one stat point for another and as almost every core stat is needed for each class again, it will impact how good you are in set areas a lot more.

As I said this is hardly 'dumbing down' it is it fact the reverse, choices 'matter' again, hence the reason why Cata is a big thing, I'm no fanboi to WoW in fact I left way back just after TBC it's only because of Cata I actally bothered looking at the game again last year, Cata IS the reboot a lot of the older players that have been there at the start wanted, any 'vet' claiming the game is now 'too easy' clearly didn't know how frustrating Vanilla was nor realise how different TBC and Wrath is to the orginal game, in fact I'll come out and say it - WRATH made the game 'too easy' in the beginning but Blizzard have clawed it back in the end and Cata is putting it right back on track on how WoW was ment to be in the first place.