Blizzard has confirmed that the third expansion for World of Warcraft – Cataclysm will change the landscape of WoW forever. It’s a sadness that many of the beloved parts of the original game will be lost, but more importantly Cataclysm is going to erase some of the worst parts of World of Warcraft, and that is something to truly cherish. Here is my rundown of the top 10 things I definitely won’t be missing by the time Cataclysm sunders Azeroth for ever more. 1. Desolace The zone of Desolace has to go down as one of the most boring and tedious zones to ever be approved by Blizzard. The name is apt because Desolace is depressingly bleak. Not dark and mysterious in a cool way like Darkshire, just horrendously, eye-gougingly bleak and truly desolate of content. Working your way between levels 30 and 40? Send your character to the lush jungle of Stranglethorn Vale, or the open expanses of the Arathi Highlands. For the love of God, don’t punish yourself by going to Desolace. Not only is Desolace dark and boring, it is huge, with quests that force you to run around seemingly forever, making the zone unnecessarily long and arduous; particularly in vanilla WoW when you could only get a mount at level 40. Added to this, Desolace is also home to my nemesis instance, Maraudon, or “the unnavigable maze” as it is otherwise known. Cataclysm will see Desolace remarkably changed: “Familiar zones across the original ...