I hate to say this, but World Of Warcraft is going to suck. It's a great franchise and the graphics look nice - but ultimately it's just another 'carebear' style MMORPG where the developers give players little freedom.
If you care more about game mechanics than eye-candy, this is the massively multiplayer online RPG to wait for:
http://www.darkfallonline.com/
They are doing everything right.