Have you all forgotten the 6.1 content patch where the biggest feature they added was the selfie camera?
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They were behind on content delivery and casual players were upset there was no casual content.
Iirc “orc fatigue” was used to explain Hellfire Citadel being the final raid. The original plan was ogre raid->orc raid-> demon raid -> orc raid, with Grom Hellacream being the final boss of the expac. The original demon raid was going to be Shattrath and the final Orc raid Hellfire Citadel, but Shattrath was cut entirely. They didn’t want to do two Orc raids in a row so they repurposed HFC into a demon raid, hence why Grom is redeemed despite being labeled as the final boss in WoD pre patch.
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Around the time WoD was released, the original creators, many of them, were moving on.
That was also around the same time the Warcraft movie was coming out.
So I think a lot of changes were happening, had been and people were ready to move on from this game.
I think that’s what happened with WoD. Other than the flying debacle, WoD was pretty good.
Short, but good.
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Slightly tweaked MoP class design (not you, demolock) but little to actually do. I wanted to play all the specs, but it was very raid or leave.
All I know is that Alternate Universe Outlands felt like all Bizzarro Worlds: an abomination.
I quit the moment they axed flying and didn’t return till BfA.
Don’t regret that one bit.
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The only negative about WOD I remember was no follow through with garrisons and the mass production of endless piles or herbs, fish and things with no way to sell any, and how it was way to much time and tedium to get an auction house, which I gave up on.
it was abandoned because so much effort and time had to go into getting the borrowed power of legion working as well as it did. yoy can see for yourself that since then they have not had the time to work out the kinks and it’s gotten worse and worse.
Well, because for certain types of casual players, there was no casual content. So they left. Never to return.
WoD was proof that the dev team had absolutely no idea what motivated a large percentage of their subscriber base to log in every day and spend time in the game their fantasy world. It was absolutely astonishing to me that a multi-billion dollar a year company had no idea what motivated their customer base to stay subscribed. For years in some cases, through the ups and downs of class balance, and various expansion foibles.
Edit: Prior to WoD, WoW was a world. After WoD it transitioned to a game.
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Your late man. It was Cataclysm that killed the world and there hasn’t been a world ever since. You can’t have a world with stories that are locked into a single zone (I.E. legion, bfa, cataclysm revamp)
it only awarded the level of gear that you had completed. if you didnt do any raiding, it didnt go above LFR level. you had to do normal to get normal and so on. i have alts that i havent run any of the raids for mog runs, and i still only get LFR level gear.
Are… are you forgetting the Twitter Selfie patch?
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Orc fatigue I can’t say I recall that but Troll fatigue I can say I’ve seen people say “Oh another Troll xpac” quite a few times.
If you purge from your mind class balance, covenants, systems, anima, legendaries, pvp, time gating, pathfinder and all of those sorts of things that are commonly talked about on the forums the WORLD of Warcraft is pretty cool. Like honestly everything is really cool but we spend our time talking about the aforementioned things 
I don’t know, maybe my table was bugged. I just remember having access to the normal raid missions yet I never entered a single raid during WoD.
I just thought it was tied to adventurer ilvl.
Mostly from Alliance players trying to stay alive in Ashran.
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On a more serious note, you heard it from some people mostly at the end of the expansion, but it was usually drowned out by the much louder - and more relevant - criticism of the expansion’s lack of content and communication from the dev team.
Draenor was cool, it had a ton of great dungeons, interesting places to go, great storylines, some neat new features, but… it was too long without adding anything good or new, or updating. So people got burned out and bored.
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Probably. But the lack of anything to do outside of dungeons, and raiding played more of a part in it. Biggest gripe with the flight thing was just a month, or two before mop ended they were peddling(advertising) either that flying bat mount, or the new dragon looking mount with jet engines on it’s wings knowing good, and well they were planning to remove flying from future expansions.
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Can’t be true because I never did normal but got the entire Paladin set that was the Tier 4 remake. LFR was just a basic looking set.
Past that OP " orc fatigue " was definitely a complaint back then. You had " green Jesus " in Cata, Garrosh in MoP, and then entire zones and events based around orcs. There is a reason there are very few in Legion outside of some basic interactions with artifacts.
At the time it was stated that Legion and WoD were being developed at the same time and they chose to go with WoD first. I have always stated I didn’t really believe this, I think Legion was the plan, but they wanted to tie in with the movie so they pushed out WoD last minute and when all of that fell apart they had absolutely no reason to keep pushing the expansion.
Ultimately WoD’s failure was that they had little to no content ready to go, they cut and shoved everything into Garrisons and then reworked TJ and the raids to make them fit in with Legion. That’s the reason the story with WoD is just a mess.
Most of the complaints I read about on the forums was that people didn’t like their Garrison seclusion from other players, time travel stories didn’t hit big with the fans and the lack of content at end game.
However, PVP was on point and one of the best times I’ve played. I couldn’t get enough out of playing my Shaman, Mage, and Warrior. My Hunter was alright but the specs were boring and bland.
they mighta walked that one back. i remember complaints that people who didnt raid would get raid gear and Blizz saying it wouldnt go above what youve completed. for sure they did the naval table like that. i quit right after the “selfie patch” and twitter integration as WoD was a steamy pile of you know what. and i for sure remember seeing “Raid Finder” on boxes, but maybe that was just the naval table…