Is shadowlands worse than WOD?

[Thorland-gnomeregan (Thorland)]

I have little to no interest in playing Shadowlands where as I enjoyed and wanted to play WoD.

[Burgok-wyrmrest-accord]

No. WoD was raid-or-die and SL is not. And garrisons existed. WoD was and will probably always be the worst thing I’ve played.

That’s about all it took for me.

[Kidcriticus-baelgun (Kidcriticus)]

I Liked WoD. It had some issues. If it had gotten its proper patches i think it would have turned out differently.

I played everyday during wod. Shadowlands i have played about 25% this time so far.

I have a little different opinion of the expansions, I really didn’t like legion and i hated Suramar. But from everything I have seen this time around a lot of people dont like SL.

I hope this next expansion doesn’t just cater to Raiders and Mythic+ but unless they replace ION I dont think it will change. I think his idea of content for casual players would be Heroic+ and LFR + and extremely tedious world quests for time gated welfare gear.
Instead of just giving back player power and adding content to the open world and not making open world content tedious with 50+ ilvl difference requirement from instanced content.

Anyways im rambling, Liked WoD more then SL.

[Slambang-blackwater-raiders (Slambang)]

I’m a solo player. Health reasons. Long story. But WOW keeps leaning toward Raids; more and more. Up to BFA world quests were plentiful and rewards were good. In fact I think BFA was one of the best expansions! Much better than SL. I sure hope 9.2 is a little more friendly to the world quest casual players.

[Ândor-moon-guard]

Err, Wod had Cata gearing system and classes (with cut limbs but still the core of the classes didn’t change), that alone makes it better than Legion/Bfa/SL.

Wod was contraction rather than an expansion but it didn’t mutilate the game. Legion had tons of content but most of the class revamps were… pretty questionable, to put it nicely.

SL could have actually been an ok expansion but they put their monetization/data- time played science above everything and kinda ruined it so maybe WoD is better accidently, just for the things it didn’t do.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

I hate it more than WoD, so there’s that.

[Sasarai-blades-edge]

I think it depends on what you’re looking for and what you rank higher.

I agree the story is really stupid in both expansions, but story doesn’t matter to me so I don’t care the shadowlands is awful storytelling (and it really is). I think shadowlands just beats Warlords of Draenor simply from the content perspective.

This is a very sparse expansion to be sure but it has a lot more going for it that blizzard had time to improve upon… Treasure Chests, command tables, etc.

[Ixenn-area-52]

IMO the difference is simple.
WoD had little content, but what was there was great and you wanted to do it.
SL has a bounty of content, but what is there is mediocre and you don’t really want to do it.

It’s quality vs quantity, but in both instances neither quality or quantity is anything to get excited over.

But if I was to break it down:

Leveling:
WoD >>>>>>>>>>>>> SL

World content:
SL > WoD

Raids:
WoD >>>>> SL

Dungeons:
WoD > SL

Class design:
WoD > SL

Gearing up:
WoD > SL (Despite mission table gear)

Story:
Who cares both sucked

[Emirasha-area-52]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

@Emirasha-area-52

At least In WOD you could level Alts easily. Now If they brought back bonus Exp to Heirlooms then I would be a little nicer to SL.

You do understand that it is dramatically easier to level alts now, and that the bonus exp from heirlooms was basically applied to everyone so you lost nothing?

I disagree on what you are saying. I was able to level Max amount of characters In WOD with the heirlooms compared to only having 8 leveled to level 60 In SL.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

Heirlooms have nothing to do with that though. Alts literally gain more experience now than they did before Shadowlands with full heirlooms. You leveled a bunch of alts because there was nothing else to do in WoD.

[Vaeana-area-52 (Vaeana)]

The existence of the selfie patch makes WoD the single worst expansion in the history of WoW.

[Totesmlotes-thrall]

Borrowed power is worse than a selfie cam patch.

[Shadina-gorefiend (Shadina)]

At least WoD had good PvP. So in my opinion, yes. Shadowlands is worse than WoD.

[Emirasha-area-52]

@Nightfyre-cenarion-circle

I made a lot of gold in WoD through the garrisons. Definitely felt more isolated though.

The Gold I made from My Garrison tables & Legion tables has allowed me to not have to pay for this game at ALL.

[Vaeana-area-52 (Vaeana)]

How does it feel to be that wrong about something?

It’s gotta hurt, right?

[Totesmlotes-thrall]

I wouldn’t know.

[Emirasha-area-52]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

Heirlooms have nothing to do with that though. Alts literally gain more experience now than they did before Shadowlands with full heirlooms. You leveled a bunch of alts because there was nothing else to do in WoD.

Wrong again, I leveled Alts to get my tables going to make gold so I wouldn’t have to pay for this game. I have paid for game time since the tokens came out & Ex-pacs too.

[Heretodie-emerald-dream]

SL is like WoD done better, but still very off in similar ways–imo.

[Moomoose-moon-guard (Moomoose)]

The issue is that when you remove content from players they don’t say, “Thank you, sir. May I have another?” DPS hates tanks in PvP. They want their job of fighting in the road to be super easy.

I think PvP should be grouped by roles. Tanks only, healers only, DPS only. That would be the most fun.

[Volley-khadgar (Volley)]

Seeing as how Ashran 40v40 was the most fun I had in this game, WoD is definitely better, and WoD also gave us the beautiful Blood Elf model we see today.