Serious question. Even years later there is still a lot of hate sorrounding BfA on the forums and I can understand why, but saying that it’s worst expansion feels like an exaggeration. Yeah, it wasn’t nearly as good as Legion but it had enough of the good qualities of it to keep me playing. The questing was good, the story was okay (up until “The Horde is nothing”), upgrading the Heart of Azeroth was a satisfying mechanic, the hub cities looked great with Boralus still being one of my favorite cities, and we got playable Zandalari Trolls and Dark Iron Dwarves too. If anything, Shadowlands deserves the hate that it gets and more.
It’s definitely not my favorite expansion, but I still liked it for what it was. Does anyone else actually like Battle for Azeroth, or is it just another forum hivemind opinion?
I liked the zones, leveling and the capital cities
the Azerite grind got old real fast and the old god stuff felt forced in aaaand Ashara deserved better than she got.
So did Nzoth for that matter
It has the feeling of get rid of all the loose ends and be done with the old gods so we can do what we want instead ( and that got us shadowlands - SHUDDERS)
BFA was not very good at the beginning due to azerite power and armor, but at the end with the nyalotha patch and corruptions it was pretty cool.
Storywise it was way better than shadowlands or DF. But that’s not hard because SL ruined half the mythos of the universe, and DF has the least interesting story of any warcraft content from wc1-WoW.
Asmongold is correct that the best follow-up to shadowlands would have been that in actuality N’zoth killed everyone, your vision of defeating him was an illusion, and you have to return to a void-ravaged azeroth.
I loved it at first, but things got annoying quickly. That they were trying hard to slow us down and it became so obvious that it broke immersion. So many stupid terrain puzzles that made little sense.
By the last half we were doing nothing but jumping through hoops. Going to get the thing that unlocked the other thing that was two continents away and once you got there you got the thing that let you travel somewhere else to do the stuff that might give you something to go towards getting a cool thing. Then you went once again to get the thing that unlocked the other thing that was two continents away and once you got there you got the thing that let you travel somewhere else to do the stuff that might give you something to go towards getting a cool thing.
I just chose to log out until Shadowlands was in beta.
It had its bright spots. Kul Tiras in general is good (sans the quillboar part, screw that) and Boralus is easily one of the best xpac capitals in recent history. Alliance got boatloads of good transmog from it too (dat alliance plate).
The xpac as a whole would’ve been fine if they’d kept Artifact Weapons instead of replacing them with Azerite gear, which was literally just Artifact Weapons But Worse, and ended up consuming an inordinate amount of dev resources to fix, which is almost singlehandedly responsible for BfA’s delayed patch schedule. Oh, and there was no reason to leave behind class halls… those should’ve also stuck around.
BFA leveling zones were generally pretty good, actually. The problem was everything else around them.
The faction war sucked. Azerite sucked. Essences sucked. Corruptions sucked. Visions of N’zoth were actually rad, but guess what, they made it suck by making you grind currencies to do them.
Yeah it had its flaws like anything (too much nathanos nonsense I agree), but overall the story was more engaging than most expansions, the new kul’tiras and troll zones were great, the n’zoth content was mostly great, sauerfang arc was great, bigger focus on faction warfare was great, etc.
I think BFA more interesting and memorable than WoD, SL, MoP, DF, and cata easily for me. Legion is the best of the modern expansions (no surprise), and vanilla/TBC/WOTLK are in their own league.
Tiragarde Sound’s charm lies mostly in its night version, IMO. Its night is darker than that of many other zones and it’s very nice to ride around in gathering herbs.
The island as a whole’s highlight is definitely the mountains though, which are not only somewhat realistic looking but can actually be climbed, something that was rare in prior continents.
