I’ve been playing a fair bit of this over the last week. My old account is tied to an inactive email address and the requirements for changing it are silly, so I started a new account, which meant I could download the trial and play for free. Hooray!

Much as I wanted to see some new stuff I couldn’t bring myself to play as the Alliance – I just can’t, they’re the enemy! – so I played three new Horde characters. An orc warrior, who I got up to level ten before deciding that warriors are quite astoundingly boring to play, an orc warlock, who’s up to level eleven and is now my main character, and an undead mage, who I started simply because the game was crashing when I tried to play as either of my other characters. I played him for a short while, then tried my warlock again, who loaded without a hitch. (Seems like the trial has big problems with its dynamic loading system when you zeppelin across to a new area.)

I had a lot of trouble doing my voidwalker quest solo – going up against loads of opponents with voidwalkers when you don’t have one is tough – but my Fear and Curse of Agony spells got me through in the end. Now I’ve been sent to The Crossroads, where there seem to be about a billion quests waiting for me to do.

Which is nice.