The more I think about it, the more convinced I become that it is Blizzard’s intention for people to continue in Ulduar with the release of the new zone. Not only will there be only 5 bosses (well…10 if you count hard modes?), but Blizzard is only unlocking one boss a week for 5 weeks and the hard mode bosses have a limited number of attempts. Additionally, it was just announced that you won’t even be able to access the hard modes of the bosses until you have completely cleared all 5 of the normal mode bosses. So at best, the first hard mode boss won’t be available until week 6. To me, it seems that at least later into the zone, it will be kill this week’s dude, go back to Ulduar. Right?

There’s something rather Sisyphean about reaching level 80. You hit the big eight-zero and you think “yay, now I can access all that cool endgame content I keep hearing about” then you realize that no, first you have to quest in Icecrown until you have enough gear to do Heroics. Then you have to do heroics until you have the right gear to do Naxx, but of course now the only reason people want to do Naxx is to farm it, which means they only want to run it with people who are *already* in Naxx gear, and once 3.2 comes out the same will be true of Ulduar. You get closer and closer to endgame but never actually reach it.

I might just have to wait for the Maelstrom.

But I totally know how you feel. I just feel so…overwhelmed right now.

Here’s hoping that new BG has like 80 million bugs that take forever to fix before going live, right?

So, who knows? I guess we will just have to keep chuging along and wait and see what comes to fruition.

It just makes it worse that they stretched Naxx out so long and Ulduar is better than Naxx… I really do wonder if we are supposed to be running Ulduar with the nest instance. *sigh* But then why take out the drake?