BFA gets a lot of (relatively rightfully deserved) hate, but there is one good thing that often gets overlooked: the expansion gave us as much raid content as Legion with the exception of one boss, and more than Shadowlands, WoD, and Dragonflight. For context:
This doesn’t automatically make it a good expansion, and I’m definitely not out to try and defend BFA overall, but the amount of raid content is at least worthy of some praise.
…Also, in putting together the numbers I just realized how little Dragonflight actually had to offer raiders compared to past expansions.
Yeah bfa was like a 7 or 8 out of 10 imo.
I had a lot of fun with it.
Plus the zones were beautiful and the story was amazing (early on at least. It did get a bit random at times such as casually falling in to the sea and fighting Azshara… that was different)
BfA gets a lot of silly hate. No one in their right mind plays a game they hate.
Maybe you play if your a little disappointed with certain aspects of the game but to actually hate a game and still pay the company to play it? That’s makes no sense at all.
BfA had a fairly interesting campaign on the Alliance side, Mechagon and Nazjitar in one patch and EP was a good raid, and then we got Visions and Nyalotha plus corruption to end it all off. For me it was the later half of BfA that kicked it into overdrive and rocked.
I was practically asleep in the first half of it though.
I didn’t play at the start of BFA, but once I picked it up I simply enjoyed it. Definitely don’t have many major complaints about it, no matter how many raid bosses it had in comparison to other expansions.
BfA was a fun and solid expansion plagued by Legion’s horrendous “spec-redesign” for artifact weapons we lost after the expansion.
If Legion didn’t screw up specs and tie everything into a one-expansion wep, BfA would have been much better received at the time. So it’s really Legion’s fault why BfA is considered “bad.”
The largest dislike for me was the slowest trickle of content ever that they gave us at a time during the actual expansion. I sort of just checked out by the time nazjatar came out.
I remember being excited for a patch and it was like 3 quests of smuggling Jaina’s brother to her. Lol
BFA was horrendous and poorly received because of the ridiculous azerite and heart of azeroth system where you had to farm specific armor with specific things on it, feeding the beast only to then have to regrind when replacing it. They then went on to change that system mid stream multiple times due to how silly it was.
and then the raid drops were dogwater because they were handcuffed by the silly heart of azeroth system.
The fact that you’re omitting one of the worst concepts in wow’s history which was poorly received and caused mass disinterest in progression as a result is baffling.
couple that with the ridiculously bad island expeditions which were an absolutely tedious grind (hurr durr best way to get neck juice) and those silly whatever fake pvp outpost farms with that fake-feeling “contribution cycle” (that I wanted to gouge my eyes out over because priestess’ moonsaber) you have an expansion that felt more like an experiment to see what they could get away with.
On top of that the sharding w/warmode and the goofy/phasing/broken bounty system to “bring world pvp back” aka “camping a tiny little area” … mmmmkay
With more time and thought it might have clicked.
But hey, a turtle made it to the water and uhhhh crazy hidden quests and uhhhh bee mount
ALL that said, it felt like WoW, the theming was pretty great. I think that’s why what they did with it was a bit meh
I mean the writing was downright atrocious due to the writers favoring Sylvanas HARD while butchering her character at the same time and retconning a lot of stuff.
And Azerite Gear can burn in hell for all eternity.
Plus that expansion had several features being failures and downright abandoned, being Warfronts and Island Expeditions
Id call DF a “filler episode” when it comes to Expacs. Its not really game chaning or gravity defining. But its a nice breather where we all just have a quick break. A Vacation arc of sorts in Anime.
Azerite gear was pretty bleak at launch, but it really isn’t any different from targeting bis gear based on stats. Despite Heart of Azeroth being another “borrowed power”, the 8.2 traits were really great, and AP grinding in BfA is forever better than the nonsense AP grinding in Legion where you were literally spec-locked because AP only went on one weapon.
Nothing revisionist about pointing out Legion’s failures. Tying all of our spec power into one expansion and then not carrying it over is entirely on Legion.
