
Animations in wow are very cartoony and exagerated, and are the one of the best i've seen tbh, they are 100% hand animated, without motion capturing, to achieve this cartoony, fluid and exagerrated look. But combat animations are lacking in any race xcept nelfs and belf males. And even i fthey werent, theres 3 attack animations for the different weapon types (one handed long, daggers, 2 handed, polearms/staffs) 2 regular attacks and one (!) for "yellow" attacks, which gets boring pretty fast tbh.
On the other hand, AoC has realistic motion captured animations, without that much character, but convincing nevertheless (at least they look convincing to me). Also Aoc has combos. And also blood. And mutilations. And tits. And if other aspects of the game do not fail big time it will be something really nice.
I really dont think that making one start zone for all is a good idea tho. Even though all my chars are leveled in durotar, i know a lot of ppl who cant stand to lvl an alt through a zone they've already done.
P.S.
I dont see anyone mentioning that wow launched without battlegrounds...and after that for a long time you had to sign at the battleground gate and wait for long long hours. Wonder why ppl forget stuff like that...