It is confirmed by Blizzard that the new expansion will come out on November 13th!

Features:

Level cap raised to 100, new level 100 talents

New world: Draenor of a parallel past, homeworld of the orcs and the last refuge of the draenei. (7 zones, 1 PvP zone)

Player character revamp for the pre-Cataclysm races
Changes to stats - removing hit, expertise, dodge, and parry; and adding new (Tertiary) 'fun' stats such as movement speed and cleave

Build and upgrade your own garrison
Dynamic Primary stat on Armor
Item squish

Inventory updates

Group Finder - a new feature to find players and form groups for 5-40 player activities. The new tool for finding groups for all types of group events, including dungeons, raids, scenarios, battlegrounds and arena. Cross-realm capable.
Adventure Guide - a new feature that will suggest what to do each day and what you might like to do based on your character's gear, progression, and such.
A level 90 character upgrade. Players will be able to instantly boost one character to level 90, which may be a pre-existing or newly created character.
New permanent ability bonuses
Refined quest log and system with hundreds of new quests
8 new dungeons, 3 for leveling and 3 for max-level, as well as a revamped Upper Blackrock Spire
Restructured raid difficulty structure, with expanded use of 5.4's Flexible Raid scaling technology:

Raid size changes
Raid Finder (10-25 players).
Normal (10-25 players, roughly equivalent to 5.4's Flexible difficulty).
Heroic (10-25 players, roughly equivalent to 5.4's Normal difficulty).
Mythic (20 players, roughly equivalent to 5.4's Heroic difficulty).

PvP
Upgrades to battleground systems, including objective displays, scoreboard upgrades and new rewards
Ashran - a new sandbox PvP zone featuring bases, vehicles and quests in an uncapped and dynamically changing battle
Skirmishes readded for 2v2s and 3v3s
Tarren Mill vs Southshore - a new 100v100 "team deathmatch-style" battlground, available only for a limited time

War Game changes

Tournament Mode gear available just for War Games

Others in the organizing player's party can spectate the match

All mounts will work as ground mounts.


Any of you gonna be playing?

Wow I haven't played this game in years. I do really miss it though, is it still good?
I last played not long after cataclysm had been released, I enjoyed that.
It really does suck your life away though
Oh I did play a free trail of the panda expansion pack too.

Agreed

I dont think anyone can ever just be a ''casual'' player, to play it properly you need to be on it legit every day.

I havent played seriously since WOTLK in my teenage years but i really want to see what WOD will be like

(Mist of pandaria i had 0 interest in)

Yeah I didn't think Mists was very good at all.
WOTLK was back when I really, really loved it. It is honestly ridiculously difficult to not play it every day, especially if you wanna put effort into it and play it properly.

I haven't played since cataclysm I decided to give up this game since I treated it like a religion and spent way too much of my life on it. When I say I treated it like a religion... I lived this game, breathed this game, no one could separate me from it. If I was in the middle of a dungeon or a raid, good luck trying to get me off my computer If my friends wanted to hang out...good luck convincing me that what we would be doing is more entertaining than beating someone's ass in a PVP battle

Now that I look back, it was so sad But the game was so freaking addicting

The original WoW remains the best one yet. I was SO hooked back then.

I played for a month before mists came out. It was pretty good but I'm not sure I'd go back anytime soon. Thinking of GW2.

Well MoP was actually better then Cataclysm tbh but they were still nothing compared to WotLK or BC.

For the new expansion I am really excited about, every class has been revamped and look much better plus we're going back to basics, you can't fly in the new zone's and the damage is scaled back again to how it used to be before, you won't be doing half a million damage anymore cause that was getting rediculous.

It's very casual friendly now. You can do all the raids without a guild, you can queue for all group content. I think in many ways Mists was the best expansion because of all the improvements for casual players. There's so much you can do now on your own, in your own time.

I only raided hardcore during vanilla and TBC, and after that I became strictly casual, only playing a few months here and there. The jump from Cataclysm to Mists was definitely the biggest improvement from my point of view.

I'll definitely be playing WoD, it looks quite good.

That's nice to hear, esp. the no fly zone and the rescaling of the damage. But how's the situation withthe pvp? I mean, the players will have a lot hp but the damage will be lower? Maybe I should check mmo champion. Haven't been there in year(s).

Hearthstone is awesome guys, check it out

Well I don't watch streams but my boyfriend does and from what I've been told everything seems to be really well balanced this time, in beta at least.
No, everything is squished, players, mobs, bosses, it's all gonna be roughly, starting point 40.000-45.000k dps, so WoTLK level and going towards mid Cata lvl, gear/ HP wise.

I haven't subscribed for quite some time, but depending on the release date, I may have a look.

I haven't played for 9 months either but I think they will release it in November but that's just my guess.

I played breifly for alittle bit earlier this year, the Looking for raid is good, and so was timeless isle but it was so easy to get gear now its like you dont even have to work for your gear anymore
Even still with the LFR and all the casual player benefits they added in mist, i still feel you need to play more than just casually to REALLY get the most out of this game.

Making the game too casual and limitting the interaction between the players to the minimum is what drove me and many people away. I still hope that they will bring the old talent system back.

Same, I got really bored, I mean I also played in Vanilla and BC so this new wellfare gearing was kinda a turn off

I tried to play this once. All of my friends spent their entire lives on this and I just couldn't. I can't.
I'm all about being a casual player and this is not for me.

Updated the OP with more information

Tempting. I have a week off for Thanksgiving, maybe I will jump back in then.