spazzertech asked…

“What’s going to happen to the world with Cataclysm drops and the expansion isn’t purchased? In Burning Crusade, you couldn’t enter Outland without the expansion. In Wrath, you couldn’t enter Northrend. So what about Azeroth in Cataclysm?”

The old world changes will impact everyone, whether you have the expansion or not. Brand new players with nothing but vanilla WoW will still see the new level 30 quests in the Wetlands or whatever. They will not, however, have things like worgen and goblins. They also will not have the new zones like Hyjal.

Cataclysm is meant to bring 2004 content up to the 2010 level, and breathe new life into the world. The old world is pretty dated, so it’s probably needed.

David asked…

“Anyone know of a good Enhancement Shaman blog/website out there? My searches have been coming up blank so far.”

My favorite one is actually a general melee blog. Big Hit Box is great stuff, I highly recommend it.
Cocles over at Loregy.com (who I actually got to meet the other day — good guy, and check out his license plate) has an interesting idea about something he spotted in the information about the Cataclysm zones the other day. Thousand Needles is getting a revamp, including possibly a new instance, and Cocles says that could mean something awesome: the return of the Grimtotem clan (just a warning: there is a more serious spoiler later in that post).

I’m in. I love the “dark Tauren,” and would love to see more from them. Plus, while we’ve seen plenty of troll instances, Cocles says we haven’t seen a Tauren instance in the game (and all we can think of is good old Mr. Smite). And we haven’t really heard from the Grimtotems since that whole issue with the spirit beast taming. It’d be nice to fight some cows for once.