I’m level 4 on my dranei shaman (as I don’t have any 60 to go see the outlands on the euro servers) and having fun.

The zone art is awesome and one step higher than classic WoW, while I have some complaints about some minor details and character art (like hairstyles, blood elfs in particular). I also didn’t like the running animations, but after playing more I like draenei’s animations overall (and voices too!).

The launch here was absolutely smooth, or at least it was from my personal perspective (and I also play on one of those servers branded “full”). The expansion was activated without even requiring downtime, just a relaunch of the client. The server is working without an hint of lag and the starting zones have players without being overcrowded (but it’s night here).

I’m speaking way too early, but for now it’s a flawless victory. We’ll see in the next days.

Tomorrow I’ll try to take out some statistics with Census to try to figure out what’s the new population cap.

EDIT: When even on FoH you read it was a flawless launch, then maybe it’s true. But we still have to see how the population increases in the next days.

P.S.
Notice how the “secret” of WoW’s art is all in the colors. Every screenshot and zone seems to have an unique palette. And really close to a painting effect.