Now that DragonFlight is done, Rank Wow Expacs

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Here goes Mine

  1. Vanilla
  2. TBC
  3. Legion
  4. DF
  5. MoP
  6. Wraith
  7. SL
  8. Cata
  9. BfA
  10. WoD
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Two 9s is a bold choice

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I joined in wod so ill go from after that

  1. legion
  2. battle for azeroth
  3. dragonflight
  4. shadowlands

Wod doesnt get ranked as i joined closer to the end.

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Vanilla WoW wasn’t an expansion.

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fixed it thx

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Only ranking the ones I played.

Vanilla - 10/10
TBC - 10/10
DF - 8.5/10
WOTLK - 7.5/10
SL - 5.5/10
BFA - 3/10

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This is the obvious ranking.

1.tbc
2. Wrath
3. Legion
4. Dragonflight
5. Vanilla
6. Cataclysm
7. Mop
8. Bfa
9. Wod
10. SL

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I came in at the beginning of Wraith but I didn’t really get hooked until much later. Wraith was just ok for me

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Wrath
Legion
Pandaria
Dragonflight
Warlords/BfA
Cata/BC
Shadowlands

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Best to worst:
DF
Legion
SL
Wrath
TBC
Vanilla
MoP
BfA
WoD
Cata

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DF number 1. Nice

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I’m ranking them by the most raw fun I had in the expansion not necessarily by any kind of quality measurement:

  1. TBC
  2. MoP
  3. Legion
  4. WotLK
  5. Vanilla
  6. DF
  7. WoD
  8. BFA
  9. SL
  10. Cata

It’s hard for me to quantify what results in fun for me, but I can judge which expansions I had more fun in.

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Hmmmm… 9 and 10 are tough because there are a lot of things I like about each expansion, but overall didn’t love them. Cata and WoD are the only two expansion I took more than a few days off and unsubbed, everything else I played through fully and barely took more than a day or two break

  1. MoP
  2. Legion
  3. Wrath
  4. TBC
  5. Vanilla
  6. DF
  7. BFA
  8. SL
  9. Cata
  10. WoD
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  1. WRATH
  2. LEGION
  3. everything else…
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Wrath
Cata
BC
MoP
BFA
Didn’t play legion but I’ll assume it’s here
Vanilla
WoD
SL
DF
and assuming at this rate, TWW will be here. Let’s hope it isn’t.

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I’ll have some fun here:

Not Played Tier

  • Cata - Got bored towards the end of WotLK, left and missed the whole expansion. Questing was fun at least, but I’m always looking at this one as “I played it after it was relevant.”

  • DF - Waiting until it’s baseline, actually curious. Dragonriding in MoP Remix has been fun.

Garbage Tier

  • SL - Missed it when it was current, but… goddammit, that questing experience was horrible!!! By far the worst of any expansion, to the point I won’t give it a pass to the “unrated” category Cata got. If not for MoP Remix, which was a purely a fluke, I’d have already left again. Though I’m pretty much done with Remix, I am having some fun reliving other expansions and collecting transmogs during the meantime.

  • BfA - Pissed me off enough to quit the fame for years, only came back recently for a nostalgia trip and to sate my curiosity.

Bronze Tier

  • TBC - While I had fun at the time… in retrospect, this is when the more free-form fun I had during Vanilla started to unravel. It was also the start of building the game to lead everyone into endgame content, which I didn’t get into at the time; though my dislike of it didn’t solidify until much later.

  • WoD - The only expansion where I raided with a guild. Had a lot of fun doing that… but things started to shift after clearing HFC normal. Heroic wasn’t as fun, and I wandered off in early Legion.

Silver Tier

  • WotLK - Looking back, it’s obvious that WotLK was riding on WC3 lore and the success of WoW in general. It’s the culmination of what came before… and oof, it’s age shows. Still had fun during it, but it felt more “regimented” and the steering towards raid content didn’t end.

  • Vanilla - New to MMOs, not a damn clue what I was doing, but a mind for exploration and experimentation. Latched onto affliction warlock for fear-kiting elite mobs to solo them and wall-hopping into inaccessible areas. Got good at both… at least until Blizz changed things. WoW hasn’t been the same since.

Gold Tier

  • Legion - I had a lot of fun during this expansion, but mostly because of Lore-related stuff… and the Mage Tower. But yeah, some of the systems introduced were not so fun; especially when they were doubled down on for BfA.

  • MoP - The more I look back, MoP is when I had the most fun. Fun gameplay throughout, better-than-expected storytelling. I actually enjoyed LFR (my first exposure to it), mostly the Lei Shen fight, and the Legendary Cloak was a great addition (why did they ever remove it?) apart from that one PvP step. Shame it ended on SoO, which was merely “okay” in my eyes. Still great to revisit.

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TBC, Wrath, MoP and Legion kinda set the bar for me.

Vanilla was good too, just wasn’t an expansion.

Everything else is just beneath those four.

DF is pretty good though, it would be in the middle of the list somewhere.

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DF
MoP
Cata
SL
Wrath
BFA
Legion
Classic
WoD

(did not play TBC)

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Lol

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Grossly overrated, especially on these forums.

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