I miss shadowlands purely because of the memes people made. It had a lot of good meme content.
4/5
The current patch is a bit underwhelming to me, but overall I’m pretty happy with the expansion as a whole. It feels like a well crafted breather from the end of the world scenarios we usually face.
Positives:
- Dragonriding is a blast!
- Artwork is superb.
- The changes coming have me really excited.
- Talent trees and UI revamp. I love all the choices!
Negatives:
- They made professions more interesting, but ruined it by going overboard and overcomplicating things, which is unfortunately something this dev team often does.
- Renown grinds are just relabelled rep grinds. I lose interest in them quickly.
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Based on that, for me, I’m going with around a 4.6/5 or very close to it. The story is the only thing dragging it down for me, and even then just barely. They are wish-washing the lore and that kills it for me, but the aspects getting their powers back/renewing their oaths kinda did it for me after Cata end.
Crafting could do with a catch-up and then crafting is back up to perfection for me.
Dragon riding is another plus. I get it’s not for everyone but I like it. I’ve only used flight paths a handful of times, and the dynamic world quests where you fly through rings or bugs is fun. The kalimdor cup is also a really fun addition to the game.
Unpopular opinion but I loved everything about SL except the macro story and the second raid. Sanctum would have been awesome if we didn’t grind the maw/torghast for 6 months prior on every toon though. Aesthetic was novel before they used the assets literally everywhere.
5/10 in the grand scheme
It’s 9/10 compared to Shadowlands.
Hoping it downgrades to 2/10 compared to 11.0
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It does amuse me that after SL we still have people posting how DF might be as bad/worse/slightly better than SL.
Of course it launched with it being a breath of fresh air, was correcting mistakes, etc. I didn’t play it so I can’t have a serious opinion of it, but my impression was it was decent mechanics-wise with a still laughably bad story, albeit not as lore shattering like SL was.
Can’t wait to see TWW launch and see the cycle repeat. The riot MMO is roughly on the horizon, it will launch partway through their three expansion story arc. If they haven’t done a bang up job by the time that goes live they gonna be in trouble.
10.0 is a 5/5. 10.1 is a 1/5. 10.2 is a 4/5.
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Yeah, some of the voice acting is questionable.
If I never hear Chromie speak another line, I’ll be just fine with that. Seriously, Dawn of the Infinite is probably one of the worst experiences in game, and it’s specifically because of the annoying voice overs that you can’t skip, you can’t ignore, and she just keeps going on… and on… and on. And the dungeon comes to a stop multiple times just so that she can talk some more… it’s horrible.
On the other hand some of the voice acting was pretty incredible. I loved characters like Naleidea Rivergleam and Elder Honeypelt.
Yeah that tencent microtransaction mmo is gonna be the wow killer, sure.
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I think 10.0 was really good rest was ok
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It really did
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I tend to agree with your “just somewhat above SL” comment, here’s my own personal rankings list:
S-tier
(roughly “tied” for me, all were excellent)
- Vanilla (og version)
- The Burning Crusade (og version)
- Legion
A-tier
- Wrath of the Lich King (og version)
- Mists of Pandaria
- Vanilla Classic
B-tier
- Battle for Azeroth
- The Burning Crusade Classic
- Wrath of the Lich King Classic
C-tier
- Dragonflight
D-tier
- Warlords of Draenor
- Cataclysm
F-tier
- Shadowlands
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I just can’t see the riot MMO making waves like people are expecting it to.
Dragon flight did a bunch right imo, and is expanding on really good evergreen gameplay systems (dragon riding) that a lot of the player base is happy to carry forward.
Riot mmo is going to have to launch with a huge variety of endgame activity that keep interest as well as a solid casual offering to keep sub money flowing.
Casual subs are really what carry this game. We wouldn’t have near the volume of stuff we do without the daily loggers.
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It’ll be interesting to see how they balance that game out because having seen what they’ve done with LoL over the years…oof.
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No I’m not. That is my opinion. Feel free to disagree but I don’t care.
Dragonflight for me was a step in the right direction generally speaking, but not including the story part. World feels nice, Dragon Flying feels nice, plenty to do outside of PvP, Raids, and Dungeons.
Story wise I can’t give my take on given I stopped paying attention for lack of caring back in the start of the Battle For Azeroth expansion. The downside is I at least have not felt excited or pumped up so to speak about any upcoming content, but at the same time, I don’t feel bad about any of it either if that makes sense.
Overall, I like Dragonflight and feel that it has done more good than not. At least as compared to Shadowlands, where in that expansion I left within the first 2(3?) months and never came back until the Dragonflight Pre-Patch.
This just be my two coppers, as I don’t do numbered ratings.
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Dragonflight is a good 4/5. I enjoyed most of the new features added, there’s more content being released at a nice pace. I like the zones, the mogs, and stuff. Points deducted due to main story of it (not much happened) and professions are too complicated. I just can’t see the dragon aspects having a huge role again for a bit. Seems like we will leave them behind until we need something again and probably don’t even need them tbh. Lol 
I like the organization and formatting of that 
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soy dragons and forgettable music carried this expac?
7/10
It’s just a very safe and laid back expansion closing up some stories and clearly setting up the World Soul Saga but to be fair after Shadowlands think that’s what WoW needed.
Although side quests in this expansion definitely get a 10/10 with some quite serious and more mature quests that I really enjoyed especially the sit awhile quest with the old red dragon and a similar one exclusive to Dracthyr involving a Green Drakonid.