It’s definitely worse now though, every spec feels exactly the same. Legion was the start of that, but damage profiles were still better than they are now, and I agree that the changes generally make it a bad expansion but I almost feel like the title is off because the expansions just somehow get worse and worse.
I enjoyed the zones, questing, raids, etc of Legion, but I definitely agree with your criticism about class design, borrowed power systems and legendary items.
I maintain to this day that WoD was better than anything that came after it on account of not having borrowed power systems and pointless legendary grinds (until the last tier anyway). I have always played a paladin and a priest, and in WoD both of my characters were equal in power. Now one character always lags behind the other because of the stupid AP grinds and legendary grinds. I sometimes think about leveling other alts, but then I realize that when I hit max level I’ll need to grind AP/legendary items and just don’t bother. This in turn causes me to unsub after clearing the content that I want to do while waiting for the next tier.
I think borrowed power and “legendary” items are the worst thing to happen to the game.
How can I live in a world where convoke exists and kills my hunters pet with out even targeting it and 5938 boomkins are farming my spots so hard blizzard hot fixes them with out noticing Druid’s and getting triggered as they zoom past me in mount form when everyone is stapled to the ground in the maw
This is fine. I wouldn’t argue with someone for saying that. I like MoP more than Cata too.
I just want someone to give me a reason with substance on why Cata was bad. The only reason I have seen is “it ruin meh classic.” I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to call the entire xpac bad.
You forgot the worst part of it. The level scaling. They turned they leveling experience from feeling stronger with each level into feeling nothing. The exception was when you first hit level cap. What that happened things you were able to kill some what easily would annihilate you.
You’re really just describing why I don’t PvP. Did it quite a bit in Cata but disc priests were super OP at the time so that’s the only reason it was fun.