So I haven’t been following WoW in a long time. Is the expansion actually good?
-Zones are varied and well done.... you may think "Its all underground so its all long tunnels, but its not. Hallowfall may be the best looking zone they have done period.
-All classes are viable and all 3 specs are generally viable as well with outliers getting tuned next patch (October). The hero talents ended up being impactful and vastly change playstyles even within specs
-Dungeons are greatly varied and make use of flying and multiple routes that are left up to the players. They are challenging for the casual player at m0 and scale quickly for the sweat lords
-I haven't done it but from all accounts the 1st raid has been given high praise like most raids. The Race To World First is still ongoing so at the highest difficulty its HARD.
-Dragonflying is still dope
-Lots to do weekly for the average player. I play more then most and I am not ever sitting in town afk.
-Story is probably what people focus on cause its easy to throw cheap shots. Blizz showcases everyone big/small/color/etc. I don't care about it at all, but some people pretend to care, WoW was never about the story regardless of Rosecolored glasses. Its more noticeable in FF14 cause the story is the game.
-Delves have been well done and provide challenge to all types that are into it. Needs more iteration but its a great start.
-Seeing lots of Earthen, so people like playing a stone dwarf.
-More of a DF thing but the Evoker class is A+, they really nailed it. The dragons look stupid but they knocked that class out of the park.
-Altholics seem to love warbands and they have been universally praised. I think people here underestimate how requested that feature was.
Better then: Dragonflight? Apparently. Shadowlands? God yes. BFA? Miles. Legion? Aestetics aside YES! People forgot the Artifact grind and the terrible legendary system that bricked characters. Legion was the STORY expansion with great raids. This is the shit to do expansion with better mechanics.
There's a forum guild that keeps logging in. I am sure there are many not in that guild on here that play too. I am having fun more or less within 5 man / solo content when I am not dipping down to keys I shouldn't be doing and playing with people who drive me bananas. I do not feel ripped off of 40 bucks or whatever at all.
I try to think of why people love TBC and WoTLK so much and compare it to this. I think shit took longer back in the day and there was less people doing high end raids so you could see someone with IDK Kil'jaden shit in TBC and be like wow they are awesome. I think WoW Classic TBC and WoTLK really jaded people cause EVERYONE had that shit, and it was all gamed out. People dont play WoW the same way anymore even when given the option to, they were GREAT expansions for 2007 and 2008 but compared to what WoW is now, its very simple, very easy and very grindy. A m0 dungeon now would have caused people to quit over the difficulty if it existed back then.
Like woo Sunwell gear so cool, I can go get into a GDKP pug and clear everyhting with minimal effort and buy everything. Yea game was real hard there fellas. We all just sucked at it, Great expansion guys.
