I cancelled my subscription this morning and this will be a post attempting to explain why I am leaving WoW for the time being. Please understand, I am not speaking for some group or the community. I am speaking only for myself. I am attempting to leave my final feedback as to why I am no longer interested in playing World of Warcraft.
That said, here is my feedback, in no particular order.
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Mythic Dungeons
First off, my main issue with Mythic dungeons is when they are required as part of the story line. The reason I have a issue with them is that I don’t always play a “vital” group role, IE Healer or Tank. So when I play a DPS, I am in competition with all the other DPS out there for one of those three coveted spots. Worse, I am almost never in BiS gear or high ilvl or even one of the desired DPS like ranged or melee, depending on the dungeon. So instead of a automated system pulling 5 people together, I have to deal with people always wanting the “best” comp. for the dungeon. “Good enough” just isn’t good enough anymore… and that makes requiring Mythic dungeons for story completion a major sore spot in my book. -
“Forging” gear and the RNG that goes with it.
When daily quests give out gear that is ilvl+, daily quests no longer become optional until you get the highest possible “forged” + possible for the reward. Of course, add in the RNG aspect and it becomes a daily grind. Grinding is not fun. There is virtually no difference between grinding daily quests today then there was in grinding out mobs in Vanilla because you ran out of quests to do. It’s boring… and boring isn’t fun. -
Dungeons in BfA
The dungeons in this expansion just make me cross eyed. They are so un-interesting. Not only that, some are packed so tightly with large packs of BAF mobs that it’s just one huge giant AOE spam fest. To me, none of these dungeons are fun. If they aren’t fun, I don’t feel like doing them over and over and over again trying for that particular drop or achievement. -
Crafting
I actually think I’d need a plethora of 10’ poles to address this subject. Crafting was messed up enough in Legion and you somehow took that horrible change and didn’t just double down on it, you make me just want to throw up my arms and scream, “Everything about this is WRONG WRONG WRONG! FIX IT NOW!” Like, there isn’t just one or ten things wrong, IT’S EVERYTHING IS WRONG! -
No Flying
Seriously, stop with the damn Pathfinder. I supported a change in Warlords, until I saw what you actually did. I somehow tolerated it in Legion. I just can not deal with it anymore. I want to fly and I don’t want to wait until the near end of the expansion to do it. Having to keep ground pounding on alts until you decide to let us fly in content we’ve already gotten tired of… I’m just done with it. -
The actual narrative of BfA.
Look, where is the battle for azeroth? Where is this war between Horde and Alliance? So far, you make me feel like a traitor, not a Warrior. As a Horde, not only am I having to choose to follow a Warchief or a Traitor, but now I’m trying to win the support of a insurgent faction of Trolls in open rebellion, nay, civil war against their own kind? So am I a insurgent of a insurgent for a Queen who is a insurgent in her own right? ARGH! WTF Blizzard? The way you’ve “written” this expansion the Alliance should win hands down and destroy the Horde and everything about it. That’s HORRIBLE story telling. And it’s yet another reason why I’m leaving. I just can’t play like this. -
Trolls
I don’t like Trolls. I don’t like troll zones. I don’t like to play troll characters. I just am sick of seeing trolls in every expansion. So now, we are allied with trolls that up until this point have been the enemy since Vanilla? And troll city that is nightmarish to navigate around? Just churns my stomach logging into my Horde characters. And of course… Our ancient Troll enemies have enemies of their own… Blood trolls. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF stop with the damn trolls! /quit -
Reputations
I’ll try to be brief here… is there anything in this game that ISN’T tied to a rep grind? If I’m honest with myself, the answer is no. It’s rep grinds for everything. Even crafting recipes. Hell, probably even crafting materials are gated behind rep grinds! Unlocking Allied races are even gated behind rep grinds… which brings me to… -
Allied Races.
You know, even when my interest was fading, I still had a spark of interest thanks to your cinematic team and their excellent content. I so very much wanted to roll up a Mag’har Orc and try to make a warrior that would be honorable and hold to their values like Saurfang. But… I hadn’t done much with my Horde characters and thus, was no where near even a lvl cap let alone a rep cap Horde toon to make a Mag’har Orc. Understanding yet another long grind awaited me if I wanted to make a new toon and then tromp through content up to 14 years old yet again, I just couldn’t do it. -
Fun
World of Warcraft just isn’t fun for me. Add up everything above plus all the things I didn’t list and it all equals cancelled sub.
Class Fantasies that Blizzard dictates instead of what I want my class to be.
Transmog issues
Armor designs
Zone designs
No interest in island expeditions, warmode, BG’s or hell, even raiding.
This long read is at an end. I tried to provide a glimpse into why I’m leaving. If it matters to one person that it was worth it. If nothing else, it mattered to me.
I really wish Blizzard would turn this ship around, but I don’t see it happening. The ship is turning, but I don’t see it turning towards where I want it to go.