# Wow! I've started playing WOW **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [July 20, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-started-playing-wow/987315 "2023-07-20T16:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-started-playing-wow/987315/2 "2023-07-20T18:41:25Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Anyone remember playing TERA and Rift? I was playing SW: The Old Republic since beta but not anymore - it has become unplayable. I played all of those. I’d just started to get back into TERA when they shut it down. ☹ SWTOR was great and I got through the whole campaign on multiple characters but it’s basically abandonware. I haven’t experienced it myself, but I’ve heard that the leveling experience in Dragonflight is fantastic, probably the best they’ve had in WoW for many years. If you can afford it, it should be worth doing. Blizzard had kept adding more and more to the endgame with each expansion and neglecting the early game, until this recent expansion addressed that. I think if you’re not familiar with WoW and you’re just starting out, you will really want that expansion. So I think you’ll be pleased. Oh, and here is the thread on this board discussing the expansion (disclaimer; I haven’t read this thread yet): > [@World of Warcraft: Dragonflight & {Dragonflight and Beyond}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-dragonflight/975061): > > So, anyway, it seems a semi-tradition to create a new WoW thread for a new expansion rather than necro one of the old ones, thus the above. We’re less than two weeks from going live, and the new Class/Race (or RCC for Palladium fans) combo is live and leveling, as is the new UI and talent system. So far, the UI and Talent system are IMHO a huge step in the right direction, although they are equally IMHO a work in progress. Since those pieces went live last week, there’s been at least 4 micro … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-ive-started-playing-wow/987315)._