Is BFA really worse than WOD?

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You’re delusional if you think WoW is anywhere near 3 million players. The wowhead leak from legion placed WoW at around 2 million or 1.7 to be exact and it’s clear the population has dropped since then. Also, if the current 4chan leaks are true then WoW is truly under 1 million subs and until Blizzard themselves come out to prove it wrong I believe it.

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Nothing, not even WOD is worse than BFA.

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:rofl::grinning:

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yeh i dont think you should have to convince anyone anymore tho man, they just gotta look at their offline friend list. lol

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Well i will resume my 8.2 experience in Nazj.

  • Introductory quests to basic mechanics -Magni- -Mrrl- -flute- bodyguard
  • Other quest, the feathermoon with the child friend

Then, a timegated quest for bodyguard. So, to do it, you need to grind dailies for bodyguard rep. So, forced dailies.
Other, World quests.

After completing the timegated bodyguard quest, i get maybe less than 10 quests and then, another bodyguard timegated quest.

So now i enter to complete dailies and wq only.
Is this better than WOD? Don’t think so.

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That’s a good take.

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I enjoyed leveling FAR more in WoD, the story was immersive and I felt like my actions mattered even across zones. The stories of some of the BfA zones felt just sorta thrown in to take up a zone or not as impactful as they may have wanted it to feel (I.E. Tirasguard Sound).

Zones in WoD were more navigate-able and felt intuitive to traverse. They felt natural but not overly cumbersome. BfA zones are like hilly mazes in way too many places or just sheer cliff cutoffs between areas.

The secrets/treasures and immersion easter eggs were spectacular in WoD. Finding things was fun and rewarding and you got a lot of side story and extra lore from exploring around. BfA feels devoid of that entirely.

Raids I really enjoyed in WoD and BrF is still one of my favorites, but some of the choices in them werent my favorite, like Kargath willingly rejoining the arena he sacrificed his hand to escape from just to fight us. BfA raids so far arent bad but not really memorable, to me, either.

WoD’s biggest flaw was the cut content and thus rushed/changed endgame story. If they had finished out the content they planned I strongly believe that WoD would be a fondly remembered expansion. Minus Pathfinder, of course.

BfA started out bumpy, rough, and feeling unfinished from the get go and I dont feel it has ever found its footing with failed systems, bad writing, and dragged out grinds. It isnt finished yet but my hopes for a better ending are minimal at best.

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  1. That leak wasn’t during Legion, it was during BfA.
  2. The way the leak supposedly worked, it would have only reported for our Region. Meaning that 1.7m figure was NA only, if it was even true [the original poster deleted their post].
  1. Lol 4chan
  2. Again, if true, likely NA only, meaning as a total the game is probably still 2m+
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Keep telling yourself that, dog.

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Same to you, I guess.

I totally acknowledge that the game is declining. But you seem to want to jump into “game’s dead” territory right away because you’re unhappy with things.

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If Blizzard isn’t throwing almost all their effort into a complete reset of WoW to go along with the level squish . . .an expac so massive that it is really close to a new WoW? If THAT isn’t why BfA is so terribly dull? Then I’m not sure what to say about the state of the company.

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At least in Warlords, the classes felt pretty good. I PvPed all the dang time. Multiple characters, just constantly. Now, I don’t even feel like logging in. Early PvP in BFA felt like trash and considering nothing has changed, I really couldn’t care any less. 8.2 brought more of the same and considering I’m not a collector, never cared about mounts and pets much, and I don’t feel like grinding rep for pathfinder, there isn’t really anything for me to do.

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Game is clearly not dead. WoW will be dead when the game as whole idea and concept is gone not when people stop playing it. Classic is around the corner and it’s going to bring life into the game again. People will still buy the new expansion whatever it is even though it’ll probably be worse than BFA is now, and in general this game will still be around for years and years.

WoW isn’t dead but I’ll tell you what it is. A dying, sad, depressed and complete dog game that is slowing being forgotten and being drowned by other more successful games.

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Yea classes were fun, pvp was fun and IMO the questing wasn’t bad there. It had some good dungeons and interesting raids. The daily content was pretty lackluster and yea 6.1 was probably the biggest joke of a patch ever.

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Warlords had Ashran, which was my favorite place to PvP in the post Classic/TBC era, although BfA has brought it back–it’s not the same without the events or the open-world access it used to have.

I’d say BfA is the weaker expansion only because of the terrible class mechanics and awful storytelling and unlikely plot devices–a few horde catapults cannot light up a World Tree, or else the Burning Legion would have used their fire against the Hyjal Tree during the Third War.

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I hated the “fill the bar” end game world mission mechanic and the prominence of garrisons and its mission table garbage.

Content was lacking and the story just got butchered.

There were some good parts but overall, I still view WoD as the worst expansion.

If you want to slot BfA in there, I think you need to see the expansion as a whole before saying it is worse.

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So far they are both pretty equal.

We need to go back and redo a lot because blizz sucks the big one right now.

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I always enjoyed WoD. Hunting the rares and gathering followers was super fun for me. Not to mention upgrading my garrison with the harbor, (I basically sat for hours just watching my ships) But I was also in a close knit guild, so that made things even better.

I also loved the mission table way more than I do in BFA, I felt like my missions actually mattered in WoD, in BFA not so much.

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At this point I just feel like blizzard is purposefully trolling us to make me appreciate classic before.

8.2 is a huge failure

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BFA made everyone I know, myself included, finally move on from this game. Even WoD didn’t do that, so yeah, its definitely worse. Only fun I get from a Blizzard product now is to browse the forums while playing another game.