It’s not sunday.
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I liked BFA, but I feel they should have held off on Azshara. She should have gotten her own expansion.
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Not really a controversial take tbh, BFA zones were definitely in the “BiS” category for ambience and aesthetics
It wasn’t until Dragonflight that we got a fresh set of “open and sunny” pretty zones again. SL zones were bland and depressing imo, especially Korthia/Maw though 
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This may be another hot take… But IMO the open Azeroth zones since SL have fallen short of BfA’s. I think this also has to do with story and lore tie-ins, as well as the bold and variable biomes in Kul Tiras and Zandalar, which also flow seemlessly between zones and have points of interest everywhere. Combine that with the top-tier music and ambience too… As others mentioned before, BfA also had cinematics, novels and other venues advertising and investing players in the “hype” even before the release. I miss 2018-2019 
and still replay Zandalar every year or so levelling a char.
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Yeah, seemed like they put a little more effort into the zones back then
Each individual zone had it’s little “climax”, complete with a custom cinematic. You could tell they went above and beyond, examples:
- Zul cinematic at the end of Zuldazar campaig… the first time watching it felt intense with fighting everywhere and then a “final” 1-on-1 epic duel involving King versus Zul atop the pyramid
- Jaina cinematics “intertwined” throughout the Kul Tiras campaign
- Nazjatar and Mechagon cinematics were top notch
- etc
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Yes! I loved how both stories had political intrigue, local exploration, and 3 cinematics.
Kul Tiras is great… but I just love Zandalar way more.
In-fact, I DEEPLY regretted swapping to Horde only after a patch and a half lol
I know I’m deeply nostalgic when it comes to MoP, Legion and BfA…
But they truly felt special to me. Maybe it had to do with that time in my life too. BfA dropped as soon as I was outta highschool and working, so I had the time to grind daily like I mentioned in my first comment. I was thus able to enjoy and maximize all aspects of content like never before… or after really (in uni). It just felt so magical and fulfilling.
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Legion has a special place in my memories for sure
I dunno man, something about the Legion “atmosphere” and immersion of the questing was just top-shelf quality stuff 
For example the Class Order halls and the little “side-storylines” were 10/10 immersiveness
Playing thru the questline to get the owl flight-form for Druid, it’s like… you get a “loregasm” the immersion just hits different 
compared to their more lazy quest design more recently
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Oh, Legion was TOP tier, and many would probably agree with us here…
To me, it had a lore and worldbuilding sense of danger and urgency… almost sci-fi while still mostly being Azeroth-focused… along, of course, with the wonder of exploring ancient elven ruins, the city and the magic. (I revisit Suramar regularly, and actually may do an academic project on it lol)… this was all exacerbated by the fact it had dropped just as I started 11th grade and got really busy 
so I remember having to juggle studying with doing World Quests and Suramar story every day… Looking back, it was great. It was just a bit too much for me to grind, so by the time I caught up I didn’t have time to get as difficult PvP and PvE achievements as I did in MoP or post-Legion. I loved the raids regardless and still farm them to this day.
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I agree BFA zones were great.
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Nazjatar was great when we could fly
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The graphics, artwork, and music were great. The story and gameplay were so bad I quit for three years.
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No, Stormsong sucks.
Last expansion with some decent open world content. Legion also. No expansion since can beat Legion invasions, and BFA faction assaults for non-instanced content. Nazjatar was only good for bots, or mass multiboxer teams.
BFA remains my favourite expansion (up until Nazjatar) despite the drawbacks.
Not to say Legion wouldn’t have topped it had I experienced it.
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Well yeah, best thing BFA had going for it was its aesthetic/vibe.
It was so good that content outside of WoW use music from BFA.
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Nice! Been along the whole journey?
Actually it was " terrible " until Shadowlands came along, literally making any bad expansion now actually decent lol
Eh no. Shadowlands was not that great, to me, Oribos sucked, Revendreth is pretty much a zone with amazingly designed building on a poorly designed environment and vibe, Maldraxxus is not my vibe either, The Maw was terrible, Korthia was fine actually for the gameplay but yet again in The Maw so eh. Zereth Mortis was actually good but that’s all
Ehh… Mechagon had an almost permanent backpack to fly around everywhere, Nazjatar had something for that too but by then most people had flying or were close to
You are correct. In BFA when Blizzard had not become a low effort company yet.
I agree about the zones and music. BfA killed it in that department.
Even the islands looked really good to be fair.
Solid Transmog by the way, looks nice.
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Thank you! You should see my rogue, I passed hours on it to match the shoulder and headpiece
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