BFA was better

BFA was the worse xpac and this one claims the title by a knockout.
Mechanics not working right. Classes not even close to being balanced . Drop rates are horrible in dungeons.
Having a hard staying motivated to keep logged in. Hope they get this mess fixed. Would be nice if the game worked right.

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Personally I am enjoying Shadowlands more than BFA.

BFA had massive chore lists that were overwhelming for me, which just demotivated me to play at all most of the time.

Shadowlands still has busywork, but a lot less of it, and I’ll take low drop rates actually playing the content I enjoy over mountains of hoops to jump through before I even begin.

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That pretty much describes Shadowlands to me. If you’re not pushing Mythics or raiding, there is nothing other than the chore list.

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I will admit that’s a fair complaint! It would be nice to have more casual content outside WQs.

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No… not even remotely close. I’ve never dropped an xpac as quick as I did bfa. Shadowlands I’m actually actively raiding again.

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So far I’m loving Shadowlands because I can level each of my characters to 60 and its not a slog fest through so many levels. I also enjoy the fact that it feels more alt friendly.

BfA I didn’t mind the leveling experience but I couldn’t level all that I wanted to, because I got bored of it really fast. And then towards the end of the expansion there were just too many layers to get anything done. It was loaded with so much to do but so many barriers to do it.

Shadowlands isn’t gonna be for everyone, but so far I’m loving it. I did however take almost a year break from WoW to play other things though, just coming back every so often for patch releases to keep one toon caught up. :3

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I enjoyed the questing experience in Shadowlands. I despise the endgame. The story was good from 50-60 but unfortunately combined with the Maw intro not good enough to make me want to do it several more times. For me I would say Shadowlands is a loser overall. I have 5hr left on my sub. I am happy people are enjoying it though, it just the game and Blizzard in general no longer rings my bell.

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Sticking around until Christmas Day to take whatever I’m getting for Winterveil and unsubscribing.

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The leveling experience this expansion is a positive for me.
The other things not so much.
Boss fights do seem original and that is another positive.

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I liked BFA’s zones and zone questline. The war campaign was ok but didn’t make much sense. I really didn’t like the corruption nonsense.

I haven’t gotten very far in the new one, but I am rather enjoying Bastion and their story so far.

The max level stuff leaves me very confused at best.

Oh and I liked the mounts in BFA better, so far I have yet to see one in Shadowlands I am willing to trackdown.

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I like SL story and asthetic… I love Necrolord Covenant…but sadly I can only put certain classes in that Covenant…because of abilties like Condem that are so good for Arms I am forced into Venthyr…

Its one thing if its within 5 percent or so but some of the abilities are vastly superior to the point where there is no room to choose another option.

Covenant abilities are where SL fails hard…class balance is seriously bad and it has alot to do with the Covenant abilities in many cases…

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You’re opinion is 100% wrong. Every change that has been made from BFA to shadowlands has been a good change and it’s a far better game than it was. PvP is enjoyable, dungeons are enjoyable, raids are enjoyable, legendaries are enjoyable, choosing conduits is enjoyable. I reallly don’t understand how you think azerite gear “customization” is better than shadowlands systems. Wow

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Maybe I am wrong. Hard to tell when things don’t work right. Perhaps they should have waited till the game was truly ready for launch.

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I disagree. Love the graphics and artwork is absolutely fantastic (bfa art was good to).

Maybe not so much alliance, but as a hordie, bfa story started out absolutely horrible. Committing genocide by burning down the tree, plagueing everything in sight was just so off-putting for me.

At least the story doesn’t make me want to convert all my toons to alliance.

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I think the people who dislike whichever expansion it currently is actually just don’t like this game anymore.

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I really didn’t like BFA. The essences, the azerite, the corruption. It was a huge mess. But I would pay money to play BFA over what we currently have in Shadowlands.

What they’ve done to gearing: not fun.
AOE Cap: Not fun
Covenant abilities and their blatant unbalance between game modes: Not fun
Lack of flying: Not fun
Zones being so split so you have to fly through the damn main city to get anywhere every time: Not fun
Broken legendary system ( I don’t know all classes but serious that BM legendary is the stupidest thing ever): Not fun

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Unbalanced covenants is the worst feature. Its better but the improvements were basically just getting rid of bfas failures. Azerite gear, essences, corruptions, and heart. So how much has it really improved.

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ditto…

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BFA was better…at being the worst expansion ever.

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These “I miss BFA” posts are such bad forms of trolling legit

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