No Classic style talent points, No new class, no 4th specs, no big game changing features.
Covenants are just factions with garrison abilities. It’s embarrassing that Blizzard is trying to pass them off as a feature on their own.
The leveling revamp is disappointing and lazy, I was expecting a mini-Cataclysm revamp of some old world zones, I thought this was the direction they were going with the Warfronts.
Coming off of BFA, I needed something good to reassure me that Blizzard was still Blizzard and they still cared about WoW. They don’t, and Shadowlands proves it.
Ive had people tell me this game isnt for me and that I dont like to grind that is part of this game.
Someone then needs to explain why I am current grinding out the MOP farm and tiller rep on TWO characters right now after having done it multiple times already IF its me and not the content itself.
Its because the game stopped being so fun/interesting/compelling right about the time I left Pandaria and entered Draenor.
I’ll leave it up to others to decide what the exact issues were.
They are adding a talent point system through Covenents, just like they did with Artifact weapons in legion. They clearly know that people want them, but they keep adding them in temporary systems that go away at the end of the expansion.
That’s still more than BfA. Each faction only has three leveling zones here. And Legion had four level ones and a fifth endgame zone. Shadowlands is the same.