I know it’s an unpopular opinion so far but this expac is pretty good overall. A lot of the newly added stuff in WoW is great. There are a few ticks that are a bit on the bad side like unbalanced classes in both pve and pvp but that is every mmo out there from RPGs to mobas.
First off the game was very playable on release. Lag? Glitches? Loading errors? This your first time on a new game release? Thats normal like very normal. But the full game was still able to be completed albeit you may have had to do a couple /reloads along the way but nothing was really restricted because of coding errors.
But overall this is perfect to me. I love the fact questing feels more like a visual novel rather than an overwhelming time grind. If classic WoW is any perfect example then it’s easy to say nobody wants to spend 30 seconds per mob doing a 4 button attack rotation to wittle down a basic and boring mob’s health and have to then kill 40 mobs and then do that again for a 150 piece main story questline plus another 200 side quests. Go in, get your quests done and head into the endgame which is the ‘real’ gameplay where all the players are at.
Yeah dungeons were definitely on the easier side before season 1 started but that was probably for the best, lot of new people who just joined WoW (and returning people like myself) who would have gotten discouraged if the content was too difficult right at the get go and just left. I don’t know if they did it for the cata re-release but when cata first released back in 2010(I think?) those dungeons were so difficult there was a near 50% chance the group would disband because they straight up could not progress past certain bosses. But the dungeons were updated and all the new players got to dip their toes in first instead of just dive bombing into difficult content they wouldn’t be able to handle which is much better for player growth.
I LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOVE the Delves. You have the option to do them as a group or go hardcore and do it solo. Doing them solo gives me the same feeling I got back during MoP when I was grinding the brawler’s guild. Getting to rank 10 brawler was no easy feat and I died a miserable amount of times to Hexos. So…many…deaths…BUT this new delve content is basically giving you the option, simple and short instances for you and your friends to travel into or make it a testament of your own personal skill and ability which is great.
This new crafting system while a bit complicated with the multiple levels of quality materials and additions to recipes to improve the effectiveness of items crafted took a bit more time to learn is a lot better than what it was before where you had to hope to god you found the recipe for the epic boots or drop an ungodful amount of gold to buy it on the AH as well as the fact that there was only the one or two craftable epic pieces per phase but now there is full armor lists of epic items you can craft. Now you just skill into it like a talent tree and BAM you can just craft an item of your choice so the only thing holding back your ability to use the professions is your willingness to put time and effort into grinding the skill.
I’m not sure how so many people are so upset with this expac because overall it’s a wonderful game compared to what it was before.