Imagine being able to raid without having to have a second job. You just show up, play an amazing series of boss fights or even just a single over the top well designed boss fight for an hour or two 1-3 nights a week, and every few months the creators patched in new raids, bosses, dungeons, and you could play Torghast if you wanted but it wasn’t necessary and it was just for rewards that were unrelated to gear.
Imagine just doing the stuff you want to do and none of the tedious chores that this game forces you to do in order to reward you with allowing you to do the one thing you want to do.
Imagine just having your stuff done for the day/week and having a myriad of other stuff you could choose to do or not and just hanging out with your friends doing stuff that isn’t related to an endless treadmill but is still fun and supported content that is also challenging but not absolutely necessary for a raid-or-die person.
Imagine if the developers respected your time like at all.
There’s a free trial for FFXIV where you can play it till level 60, unfortunately you have to get through a main story quest that is 100x longer than shadowlands but its infinitely better designed, paced, and the writing is so vastly better its basically like watching a TV series until endgame. Also you can do endgame stuff as a low level player and you will make lots of friends playing with level capped players long before. Also you don’t have to do the main story more than once because you can play every class on one character.
Imagine if WoW’s devs weren’t cynically trying to force /played time to be as high as possible and they just constructed content around what’s fun and just doing that for 10 hrs a week instead of blizzard sprinkling the fun things into a schedule of 40 hours a week with 30 hours of mediocrity, frustration, tedium, and a total lack or respect for its players.
I gave shadowlands a chance, finished the story, but once again its endless world quest grinds, torghast sucks and is a very bad version of FFXIV’s deep dungeons. This is just BFA 2.0. Get out before you spend two years again waiting for it to get better.