That's the word that best describes my coming back to WoW last night. I don't know why I decided to check it out again... I guess I was bored and thought it might be fun.
First of all, it took over a half hour to patch it. It doesn't matter what size a patch is, it always takes at least five minutes for the patcher to go through every file. And I had to download at least 4 patches. And while this is going on, you can't cancel.
So once I finally got past the asinine patcher, I had to reinstall Cosmos (after remembering after 2-3 failed attempts that Cosmos has to be in the WoW folder... nice job there deciding to have your program say "Done" instead of giving an error message when it doesn't work, geniuses). Granted, I can't really blame Blizzard for Cosmos issues, but it added to the frustration.
Then once I finally get in the game I find that I logged out in the inn near the AH in IronForge. Holy shit man, the lag is at least twice as bad as it was before. Running toward the bank makes everything freeze for like 30 seconds. I tried to catch a gryphon out of there and it takes like 2 minutes to get a damn dialogue box. It's pathetic! I haven't seen lag this bad in an MMORPG since the AO beta.
Also, I found out that everyone in NNN has been kicked. What's up with that? Roy (Ledeanna) is the only one left (besides Cronk, though Rob plays on a different server now, last I heard). Even his alts were kicked. The only reason I knew what happened was because Roy told me. Poor Roy, being in a guild all by his lonesome.