Shadowlands better be Game of the Century

From a Legion fire mage, it took me FOREVER to get the bracers but I did get the Dragonhelm early so that was the style I had to use.

I saw the one covenant so far and went, man these seem silly good but:

  1. how will you balance the flavour on some of them?
  2. how will you make them different enough to seem unique without balance issues?

Legion was not great. It had a lot of downsides snd ended up being pretty average after all was said and done. Maybe slightly above.

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Actually tho!

I loved Firelands. I loved the Hour of Twilight dungeons.
I didn’t like Vash’jir and Deathwing was indeed underwhelming.

I have to disagree. The legendary weapon quests made it a blast on alts. Yes artifact power made it alt unfriendly but I loved how much story was there. And it wasn’t the BFA garbage of you have to help a horde leader and her bff you never liked to begin with. I loved the warrior quests with Odin and seeing hodir again.

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yeah man Also Uldum history line is so cool. Looks like a movie with Indiana Jones kkkkkkk

My only hope is they are holding back the key features reveal of Shadowlands until they are absolutely sure of what they are able to implement. Because if the Blizzcon trailer is everything, you’re just paying an extra $40 for a glorified patch 8.4. This is the first pre-order I’ve outright refused until they step up their game.

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If that’s the pattern, and they don’t break it, then what you’re hoping for is another terrible expansion in the future. Be careful what you wish for, as people might say.

Game of the Century? Highly unlikely. Probably won’t even vie for Game of the Year.

As Mortis said, if pattern holds it should at least be decent. I didn’t think Legion was as great as some people make it out to be because I didn’t like the systems it introduced - mob/zone/ilevel scaling, the power up this super duper thing that will be tossed at end of expansion, WQs, rep becoming mandatory, lack of player choice and agency, PF becoming even more time gated, etc.

But it was tons better than BfA. I did like class halls and profession quests that sent you back into the old world (not dungeon ones though). All this is obviously just my opinion and I know lots of people thought Legion was the best expansion ever. Shadowlands has potential we’ll just have to wait & see.

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The FF7 remakes are prob gonna take that crown

Seriously they made the Honeybee Inn WAY better

Bro dip me low and assure me true beauty is the expression of the heart and the notion of gender doesn’t matter

Anyone who lives by this theory is pretty clueless.

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it wont be … it will be a pile of crap

It’s not a theory. It’s history.

So far Blizzard makes one great expansion, gets complacent, tries to carry a new expansion with the previous one’s success, fails, gets pressured to make something good next time, succeeds, gets complacent, fails, gets pressured, succeeds, and so on and so forth.

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So, BC was terrible? I thought it was the best?

The cycle didn’t start that early.

For the first three releases it was success after success.

So shift the goalposts? Cool cool cool.

Or maybe. Just maybe it’s our expectations taking a rollercoaster ride.

Shadowlands on default will look decent due to the blatant hate and bias BFA has.

Imagine how normal and mediocre Legion would look if it actually followed a good expansion.

Either way, please don’t play off your opinion as “history”.

Fixed it for you.

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This is much, much more accurate.

You will notice that I started the cycle at WotLK.

I didn’t shift the goalpost. You tried to shift it towards the past.

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It’s honestly too early to tell what the expac will be like because even Blizz themselves don’t know what Shadowlands is yet.