Ballistics Report

Pros

Amazing new zones
Large, good mobs, great gear, TONS of quests. This goes for all four newbie zones and the seven in Outland.

Quests
The quests are generally brief, they stack together, the rewards are great and they chain nicely. What more could you ask?

Gear
All you need to know is that within 5-6 levels you will probably begin to replace even the best gear available vanilla WoW, at least if you do instances in Outland. And those levels come fast!

Quality Control
Bugs, performance, and gameplay issues are almost non-existent. Only once have I had to open a ticket, and that was for a stuck quest giver mob.

Graphics
The cartoon graphics of WoW were never bewildering but they weren’t meant to, they are designed to last the test of time. It is the style that matters and it is as valid today as it was two years ago.

Instances
For the most part short, simple, and enjoyable, the instances in TBC will make you cringe at the thought of ever having to do Gnomeregan, Sunken Temple, or even Dead Mines ever again.

Cons

1.20 drops before TBC
Blizzard for some reason decided to drop Shaman gear for the Alliance and Paladin gear for the Horde before each faction had its respective class unlocked. This wasn’t fair to casual players, never mind raiders.

Mod issues
For reasons that we can’t quite accept, the scripts and code was revised to disable many interface features. Much of this functionality has yet to return and never may. Moreover, the changes in subsequent update patches have made it difficult to keep mods up to date after months of stability in 1.19.

Uneven leveling
If you start a Draenei or Blood Elf toon, once you move past those starting areas you have 40 levels of slogging through original content before you get to the good stuff again. Yes, you will notice the difference.

Looking For Group system
The new LFG system isn’t bad, the problem is that no one uses it. To make matters worse, people now spam the Trade channel with LFG requests.