Anyone else like this expansion? I loved the music some of the best ive heard in a while. More prople liked legion i guess but bfa was special imo.
My favs from best to last. Wod felt like i was in jail lol.
Wrath of the Lich King
The Burning Crusade
Mists of Pandaria
Battle for Azeroth
Legion
The War Within
Shadowlands
Dragonflight
Cataclysm
Warlords of Draenor
From a artistic point of view BfA definitely was special, the music was ok but the art style of different buildings and doodads has always been top tier. Even in the worst of times the WoW art team is second to none.
I didn’t play during BfA, only quested there during Shadowlands after the level squish, and I liked the Alliance side. Horde side? Meh.
I didn’t experience the endgame content like Mythic, raids, warfronts or whatever, so I can’t comment there, but I enjoyed the levelling and story (of Alliance side)
The only Horde side I really liked was the first area (Zuldazar?)
I loved it.
My favorite, hands down
I liked BFA, but that’s very easy to say now that I’m out of the weeds of azerite grinds, Heart of Azeoth ridiculousness, RNG titanforging, and corruption.
For me:
Dazar’alor is the best city art they’ve ever done. And the soundtrack in the city is a banger too.
Edit: and if zandalari troll male run animation didn’t look like he had arthritis in every joint, I would be playing them.
Nazmir is the best work they’ve ever done, along with Zuldazar before flying is available.
There will never be another Nazmir, because they’re designing everything around the astronomical flight speed of Dragonflight.
This will be the second time that flying destroyed all world immersion.
I liked BFA. I liked the addition of the Allied Races and how and why they joined their respective factions. I only disliked a couple of things, the tree burning and mostly the gameplay systems, such as Azerite. Otherwise, it was not really the worst expansion ever. I think the only people who disliked BFA just dislike what WoW is in general and probably shouldn’t even be accounted for.
I wish they would have stuck to their guns for WoD. It’s not like their reversal on flying saved how that expansion is generally viewed anyways.
The cinematic with Jaina calling the fleet back was serious hype.
It was my favorite expansion to explore and level in, by far. Everything about Kul Tiras is breathtaking, I still go to Boralus all the time. One of my favorite candidates for future housing, making a spooky witch hut in Drustvar or a cute cottage in Stormsong would be a dream.
I always open up with the two things that bugged me about BFA: Azerite grinding, before they capped it. Nothing like re-earning the same powers just because you got a better piece of gear. And then- “The Horde means NOTHING!”. Such an incomprehensible turn of events to wind down the Horde/Alliance war.
That said, Battle for Azeroth was a huge win in so many ways for me. Beautiful vistas full of culture and soul. Charming, fun, and creepy side stories. Fantastic casual activities, great raids and dungeons. Thematic adventures everywhere you went. Naz’jatar/Mechagon was the largest mid-expansion patch ever.
The Music! I could lounge around Kul Tiras all day and never get tired of the sea shanty inspired overtures. Ditto Stormsong’s anthems and Drustvar’s strings. The snowy peaks backgrounding the fjords… I wish it were available as a housing location.
The story-telling could reach immense heights, and root out lovely valleys as well. The Tortollans made me feel like I was at my grandparents again. Warbringers, ESPECIALLY Daughter of the Sea, may never be topped for impactful animatics.
Visions, at the time, were the best solo content ever invented, letting casuals experiences Mythic+ like challenging content, with commensurate reward, without the toxicity of groups.
Azerite Gear was eventually great, and I think they should return to the concept, with tweaks. Tiers Sets and set bonuses are stifling, can make or break your class tuning for a whole patch. It’s also impossible to ignore them, or mix and match gear, and difficult to gear out of 4-set after the patch turns. Beyond that, stats are boring. Just having variated, selectable powers on individual gear pieces needs more exploring.
And after the abomination of Legion Hunter, they started towards a more serviceable Marksman spec.
An all-round fantastic expansion that’s been severely, unfairly maligned by the population at large.
I didn’t like BFA initially as a returning player who did it in Chromietime, but BFA has grown on me in the times I went back. I look forward to…BaAzmix??
I adore BFA. The political intrigue and inter-faction conflict of BFA kept me hooked.
Also loved learning about the Zandalari and Kul’Tirans.
However, disliked how they didn’t commit to the Fourth War and instead descended in void conflict with N’zoth who deserved his own expansion imo.
Things I liked in bfa. The questing, I really liked the questing on both horde and Alliance. The zones felt fun and still to this day I find the first bfa Zones to be the most fun in the game. Bwomsamndi and the troll lore was fun, and the witchy old god creepiness of the alliance areas was also a blast.
The original dungeons were fun and still some of my favorite.
BFA was the last time I really got into the lore of the game and those zones definitely played a part.
The OP power scaling at the end was fun as well. And I really liked the player choice of Sylvanas loyalist or Rebel, as well as letting us keep or cleanse the gift of N’zoth. (Of course, it would have been a lot better if any of that actually payed off in a meaningful way)
There are things I dislike, like the whole Azshara plotline was a bit boring, the Azerite power grinds felt like a much worse version of the legions system, and of course the fact that they really gave us the old “chekhovs gun” with N’zoth only to do absolutely nothing with it.
I’ll admit I still adore the music and zones of Zandalar, even if I don’t look back on BfA particularly fondly.
yes, BfA was a really interesting xpac
Dazar’alor “City of Gold” literally exists.