Seeing as lava is the entire gimmick of Cataclysm...

I remember when I was young, when we walked bare-footed over the Burning Stepped to fish for epics in a pool of lava known as the Molten Core. Back in those days, lava really did hurt. If you were stupid enough to fall into the lava, you were most likely going to die.

As we increased in levels and hit points, the lava really didn’t do its part. It’s still kinda level 60 and hasn’t done much to level up these 5 years. As a result the damage it deals is pitiful, trying to die in a pool of lava as a level 80 is a very slow death, just imagine how it’s going to be when the player’s hit level 85 and the health pools will be measured in 6 digits.

They really need to spice up the lava. A good thing would be to let lava be instant death, you fall in the lava, you die, game over, finito, time to corpse run. Just imagine how nasty that would be, it would sure cause players to be afraid of the lava, and it would actually make the Cataclysm seem a little dangerous.

They probably won’t do something like that though, but at least make it deal damage based on a percentage of your total health, possibly ignoring fire resistance. Say a third of your health every second, which gives you 3 seconds to get up from the lava, sounds fair right? I mean its friggin lava, it’s pretty darn hot.

At least that would be nice, as it is now, the lava in World of Warcraft resembles a cozy, hot bubble-bath.