Would love for WoW to intentionally skip a raid tier in the future to clean up the myriad of small problems the game has, but that aren’t enough of a priority to solve in a patch.
The rational being that a lot of the bug fixes, old raid mechanics, or QoL chnages will serve more of the playerbase than raids will. And if Raids take up this much time. And serve a smaller playerbase every year, then maybe the ROI isnt worth the effort.
Well Ion did say player housing could cost us a raid tier and since we’re getting that in Midnight…
Fingers crossed! 
They could just use the end of the expansion season to rerun of previous seasons for that. Otherwise they just risk losing the raiding player bases subs for 6+ months. I know I would let mine lapse if there were no raid content.
Hasn’t this essentially been a thing since SL (referring to S4)
If it was, then what are they doing with their time
We skipped a raid tier on WoD and that did the opposite of fixing problems
It gave us Legion
Is it really different than prior expansions? During what would have been the DF or SL S4 prior to those, there were just long content droughts, while they worked on the next expansion.
The xpac that introduced borrowed power and endless grinds that people still complain about today
Youre saying Legion was bad?
As mentioned two posts up…
Raids serve a smaller playerbase every year because Blizzard continually makes M+ infinitely more lucrative for the average player despite it having 0 lockout and requiring almost 0 coordination other than interrupting at the levels that reward the highest rewards.
Of course the harder, longer, more logistically demanding content that gives worse loot AND less loot is not going to have great participation numbers in comparison.
It’s not even a fair comparison at this point because Blizzard has made 0 effort to tone down M+ or help Raid compete.
I think you greatly overestimate the amount of people interested in old raids.
It would kill WoW in one patch. People would unsub in mass if there is not new things to do. Getting a person to return is harder than keeping them.
I sure am
Has one of the worst launch states in the games history
Legion is overrated.
This here. Took Legion 1/2 the expansion to be decent, ended up good at the very end.
It was also the xpac that gave us artifact skins, class mounts, class titles and Mage Tower.
While they may have been some bad that came with Legion, it also had some good in it.
Also known as weapon appearances, the thing every xpac gives
The super unbalanced thing where some classes got 3 mounts and others for 1 that just changes color
Yea that was good
Which is unique to classes, was unique to spec at first so it follows the "class matters’ concept.
If I had a nickel everytime I saw a ret pally using Ashbringer.
Sucks for classes like Monk but I love it on my Priest, Warrior, and Mage. Blizzard should’ve stepped it up or hopefully they attempt another formula like Legion regarding the class stuff they’ll make sure all class mounts have 3 skins to use.
Mage one should let you pick which one you ride, like the other classes with multiple skins. Being stuck based on spec is lame.
I want to use the frost version of the DK mount
But I dislike frost, so I never get it