Sorry, even after so much time I still don't get what people see in this. Ok, some added units are fine even if a bit underused during the main campaigns, some character developments are amazing to watch (particularly Sylvanas Windrunner turning into the intelligent dominatrix the Brood War Jean Grey...sorry, I meant Sarah Kerrigan wished to be stealing the show in that regard), some of the missions are insanely difficult etc. Etc. Etc. But generally speaking this whole package is really underwhelming: lore retcons abound (apparently, Archimonde was not the one who forged the Plague in the first place, hence you fighting him at the end of ROC had no point whatsoever...WTF?!), characters act or evolve in strange ways (Arthas now is an apprehensive wife of the Lich King while Kel'Thuzad is Arthas' Majordome...????) and the ending tail reeks from a mile of the fact that Blizzard was clearly at this point mostly bored with the RTS side of Warcraft, in particular the three (!) missions of Arthas going through the Ancient Nerubean Kingdom look like they're put there just to tell you "see? This is what we're into now, boring online dungeon crawling missions after boring online dungeon crawling missions!", adding to the ending boredom of an expansion that, like Brood War, at that point had overstayed its welcome enough (and, once again, thanks the cheats for the relief they gave me). And don't get me started with stuff like overpowered - at least when they're not under your control - races (The Naga) haphazardously put together with underpowered ones like the Blood Elves because reasens otherwise I would not stop until the end of the year. Really, at the end of the day the most I save of this expansion are the absolutely, totally loveable Sylvanas in her new and supermegasexy role (I save HER and HER alone, not the Banshees, as units they're pretty useless and the devs knew it too) and the fact that yes, you're going to have a good time with this...for a while, but other than that this is still not ROC level of excellency and I guess it will never be.
