Hey there. I just wanna guage the opinions of the community. I wanna start by saying your milage may vary. And I don’t want to sound like a baby-back !@#$% but it’s hard to not sound like a cry-baby with the problems in phase-2.
In phase-2 - To me I felt the following…
1: The leveling wasn’t as fun / engaging. Quests weren’t really feasible and dungeon grinding until my eyes bled in SM felt yuck to me.
2: Discovering runes wasn’t fun / engaging either. The runes were just kinda annoying. It almost felt like WoW Dev team just had a whole wheel like a create your own adventure book and every time they spun the wheel, they landed on a new step to be added for getting a rune. After embarking on the ‘epic rune quest’ known as the bane of shamans, AKA Maelstrom Weapon. It left something to be desired along with the other runes. They just didn’t seem creative and just seemed thrown together.
3: Gnomer raid was a disappointment. I honestly am kinda shocked by this one, it seemed like the raid wasn’t very challenging at all. Just annoying. I also don’t really care for the way they’re doing the tier tokens either. IMO they should just do it how they have it with Naxx 40 (Each token has 2-3 classes that can use each token)
4: Professions are beyond tedious. Don’t get me wrong I am glad they’re ALL useful in some capacity this patch I think it’s a step in the right direction for sure but holy mother it’s a grind and a half to get any meaningful progress (Especially if you don’t got super deep pockets.)
5: Class Balance: It kinda just feels like EVERYTHING is just super OP (Fingers crossed the balance changes coming this week fix that? It’s obviously still early so who knows what will change) [I know no one wants their favorite class nerfed but everything just feels out of hand right now.]
6: PvP event feels like a ‘swing and a miss’ - It’s just pure unadulterated chaos. There’s really no method to the madness it’s just kinda madness. The event feels super short especially since you can just opt out of it. And while some rewards are decent - I feel like there should’ve been many more rewards / more targeted rewards instead of a few random bits and bobs that are kind-of useful for some classes. [I feel a little bias here since the shaman rewards are pretty mediocre so take the loot part with a grain of salt. Your mileage may vary]
7: PvP in general just feels awful. Kind-of going back into the whole class balance thing, everything just feels super overpowered / over-tuned and it’s not really creating a fun experience as far as PvP goes it’s just agitating. It doesn’t feel good to win. And it doesn’t feel good to lose. (It also seems like virtually nobody wants to play Healer either.) [This may have to do with the fact that Shadow Priest is insane, and no-body wants to play Holy Paladin when they can play Ret. Shaman has a similar issue with Enhance/Ele]
I’ve tried to keep things constructive without ranting but I still wanna know you guys’s thoughts and feelings… Am I insane? Did I miss something? Or did I hit the nail on the head for the most part? Let me know what you think.