Ranking the WoW Eras

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I will be posting my personal tier list here. This is for funsie discussion feel free to post your own tiers :slight_smile:

S Tier (God Tier can stand alone and be played forever) -
Vanilla WoW. It’s the only virtual world with unlimited replayability.

A - Tier (award worthy 9/10 expansions)

Legion - arguably the best story in an MMO expansion in the history of the genre, Class Halls, solid PvP balance, great raids/dungeon design!

The Burning Crusade - Built on what made vanilla great, difficult Heroic dungeons forced players to play better and use CC/interrupts. Goated PvP for the original Classic Trilogy.

Dragonflight/Mists Of Pandaria - Both these expansions were masterpieces for their respective generations. MoP was a bridge between Classic and modern and had amazing class fantasy, top tier raids, and content that respected your time. Dragonflight in many ways imo is MoP 2.0 being very well made all around in all categories especially when it comes to respecting the players time.

B Tier - (Not good nor bad 7/10 expacs)

Wrath - Easily the most overhyped expansion in the history of the genre replacing Planes of Power. Worst era of PvP considered by many competitive PvPers (until SoD released lul) good raids, terrible dungeons. The expansion was mostly carried by the hype of previous expansions. ICC and Ulduar carry what would otherwise be a C tier expac imo.

Cataclysm - LFR, Heroic raids, bringing back hard heroic dungeons again after wrath made heroic dungeons a laughing stock, considered a top contender for the best PvP of all time. Cons: destroyed the old world, still hasn’t been fixed 15 years later. Old world flying really made the world feel small for the first time.

C Tier mid expacs 5-6/10

Warlords - No content. Rehashed story. Turned Arena into an e sport hurting class fantasy in PvP. Scuffed player housing. Overall mediocre and cut short.

BfA - terrible itemization and a missed opportunity of making PvP war campaigns. Strong 4th war story overshadowed by weak forced Sylvanus story.

Poopie doodoo tier - Shadowlands. It was bad. Almost nothing redeemable besides mogs.

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No mounts where pretty good, and there was alot of them

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I kinda meant that with the mog comment. A lot of nice easy to acquire mounts with the covenants.

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As someone who has been around since the beginning, I stopped reading there. Rose tinted goggles are really showing strong.

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I didn’t play Vanilla, so for me –

BC, Wrath, MoP
Cata
– last of the great expansions –
Legion
Dragons
WoD
BfA
Shadows

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I don’t think it’s objectively the best; it’s just it stands the test of time in a way where no other version of WoW can.

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I did play most of ex packs, started in vanilla i did skip mop and legion, I think out of all of them the most fun i had was in Cata and BFA

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shrug I would disagree.

I dont find vanilla has any replayability, much less playability.

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I don’t play era or sod, but if I said people haven’t been playing it for decades I’d be lying.

It’s also the successor of EverQuest which kinda makes it the king of its own time capsuled era beyond just WoW imo.

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People are still playing EverQuest.

That must mean EQ is even better than WoW.

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My autism doesn’t allow my brain to understand this can you elaborate?

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Honestly, I pretty much agree with most of this list.

BfA was good for the allied races, and little else.

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Classic is the best era of WoW because its the oldest and people are still playing it. That was your implication by your statements.

You wanted to tie in EverQuest to the story. So I pointed out that EverQuest is even older and it has people still playing it. So since those seemed to be your perimeters for Classic being best, I was just applying it to EverQuest.

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Wrath, Legion, MoP, Cata, BC, DF, WoD, BFA, Slands

I didn’t play during og Vanilla, so meh

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S-tier

(roughly “tied” for me, all were excellent)

  • Vanilla (og version)
  • The Burning Crusade (og version)
  • Legion

A-tier

  • Wrath of the Lich King (og version)
  • Mists of Pandaria
  • Vanilla Classic

B-tier

  • Battle for Azeroth
  • The Burning Crusade Classic
  • Wrath of the Lich King Classic
  • Season of Discovery

C-tier

  • Dragonflight

D-tier

  • Warlords of Draenor
  • Cataclysm

F-tier

  • Shadowlands
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It seems you understand what I mean, but are trying to twist it. Like I said personally it’s not the most fun or my favorite, I just think it’s more sustainable.

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I personally agree with all of it, but put vanilla below WOD.

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There’s just no way

The “og” Vanilla game was almost magical, it is most certainly superior to WoD (plagued by content droughts, watered-down community, sub losses, etc)

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OG vanilla is kind of plagued by Classic. It was Minecraft or Fortnite before Minecraft or Fortnite. Classic was a bunch of sweats who’ve played the game for 20 years min maxing the fun out of it.

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Vanilla kinda sucked compared to newer expansions.

I dont miss perma stun locked to death by rogues

Perma sheep or feared, the water in AB? Ive drowned in it due to non DR cc

Stacking spirit for MP5 and stutter stepping every heal, having to rotate with other healers (groip 1 regened mana, group 2 healed)

Addons were alot stronger and did more. Old healbot played the game for you. Old addons were stronger than weakauras.

Having to Thottbot every quest to figure out where to go or what to do.

Edit:forgot, pre summoning stone life sucked. “LFM” spam in trade took ages.

Although Body surfing was halarious before it was patched out quickly =P