I was hard on Legion for its faults even though I thoroughly enjoyed the expansion from 7.2 on.
I hopped on my lvl 102 rogue and noticed that the zones have a much more Warcraft universe like feel than BfA. They’re smaller, but the music, mobs, and so on feel much more WoW-like.
Same thing with WoD for that matter. BfA felt fresh while leveling, but now it feels foreign and I find myself already nostalgic for the Broken Isles.
I was, at least until I was farming paragon rep and I heard Sira Moonwarden’s voice-over offering me a quest while calling me a champion. Then I remembered stabbing her repeatedly to death in the name of God-queen Warchief Sylvanas killing her and it made me feel a little guilty…
I miss my weapon. It was a fun system that should’ve continued with BFA. All those people that whined about no more weapon drops, when the easiest solution would be to add weapon transmog skins to raids, dungeons and vendors.
I feel you with Drustvar, that’s about it. Drustvar runs with the whole witch theme throughout the entire zone (something that’s in a way a positive as all the other Alliance zones have giant chunks that feel meaningless), but it’s like the most generic form of “witch” they could have possibly used. You know, the whole green skinned crooked nose childrens’ storybook witch. It doesn’t feel Warcrafty at all. I think the “Jade Witch” back in Pandaria felt more Warcrafty than these generic Drustvar witches and thats… Pandaria.
The rest seems fine though? Stormsong’s main story doesn’t take up nearly enough of the zone, but nothing there feels particularly un-Warcraftish. Same for Tiragarde.
I haven’t played the Horde side of their continent, but that’s mostly trolls, dinosaurs, and desert, and jungle yeah?. That seems all fitting enough. I don’t see anything too standoutish about Vulpera or Sethrak.
So, while I do have some issues with the zones, especially Drustvar when it comes to “feeling like Warcraft”, I kinda have to think it’s just you feeling like the whole Burning Legion thing is “prime Warcraft”. And to some extent it is. But personally, I’d already seen enough of the Legion by the time we actually got Legion, and I don’t like the direction the story was going since it required us to basically conquer planets in space. I like a more grounded Warcraft.
Edit: To be clear, I think Drustvar has the best quest flow for Alliance, I think the general -atmosphere- in the zone is very well established, I just don’t like the whole witch thing.
A few months ago, the game was radiant. The jewel of the MMORPG genre. World of Warcraft. Our players prospered for years. Until… BfA came. Entranced by the potential it offered, Blizzard betrayed us to the ruin of the game. As destruction drew ever closer, a decision was made, to conjure an azerite system with thought that it would continue the glory days. It didn’t work… months passed without a good system. Without fun. To survive, we turned to farming old content, a font of fun in the game’s heart. Slowly… it changed us. And ultimately, drew the bad in BfA once more to the forefront. Blizzard offered us a trade. Test the system, see how we like it, for our time. As the devs planned their ‘changes’ in beta, some of us rebelled (by angry forum posts). We failed. Now BfA has taken World of Warcraft. And by the curse of Azerite, we are damned to wither away…as our…game… burns.
(I don’t mind BfA all that much, but enjoyed Legion waaaaay better, personally. This, however, was way too much fun to write.)
I still think if there is a next expansion and they go with this AP/Azerite grind again . The new stuff should be called Crapperite. Because if we have to do it for a 3rd expansion every one is probably going to go what is this crap.
The Broken Isles and the leveling/questing were freaking awful in Legion. Absolutely hated the zones and hated traveling them.
Zandalar is a masterpiece, in my opinion. I’ve leveled through it a few times now and I haven’t got sick of it yet. I really, really love the new zones. They’re much easier to traverse than the Broken Isles and they feel more immersive.
I enjoy doing WQs because the environments are not only beautiful but I don’t have to look at the map several times to guess how to get to the location of the WQ due to shoddy zone design.
This is something I can agree with you on. I also fancied Nazmir, Drustvar, and Voldun(but I enjoy desert zones personally and know many others don’t).
I did like Stormheim though in Legion all around, personally.
I wouldn’t call it nostalgia I’d just say I had a LOT more fun playing legion. Truckloads, boatload, tons of more fun.
I had a cool weapon, cool legendary items, cool tier, and multiple class stories to play through.
Legion was souchbetter than this. Play through BfA once and you realize how half baked it is. One boring, quick story and a broken excuse for a replacement of all your gear utilizing AP and azerite. Take away all of the cool options on legion and replace them with three pieces that I continually have to unlock traits over, over,and over again that I had access to at level 110 but oh wait I can’t use it at level 120 until I shoved 5 million azerite into a useless neck piece.
Most boring system ever, most boring expansion ever, most heavily drug out crap ever. Don’t advertise allied races a year before release and then a year and a half later say, “animations aren’t done on PTR hurt Durr.” And then every shill on these forums says, be nice. DO YOUR JOB blizzard and fix your game.