Summarize your Battle for Azeroth experience

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Let’s have a little bit of fun here.

Summarize your feelings about the experience you had with the Battle for Azeroth expansion, for good or for ill, in whatever format you choose. A brief statement, a long rant, a list of pros and cons, a video, a picture… anything and everything is on the table. Well, within reason of permissible conduct on these forums.

As for myself on the subject?

BLOW IT UP!

And good riddance.

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Stockholm syndrome.

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8.3

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meh
/10 char

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8.0 day one - well this isn’t to bad
8.0 - week 6…my god what happened to wow
8.2 /8.25 - hello darkness my old friend
8.3 - UwU my friends we Vulpera shall rule this land with an iron fist.
8.3 - after a month…where everyone go!!! Hello…anyone

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Mind-numbing. I don’t mind all the grinding for literally everything from flying, gear, Azerite, essences, and everything else. On one character. When you have alts, and you enjoy having and playing alts, all of the constant repetitive grinding is just maddening.

I’ve taken several month+ long breaks this expansion because grinding for everything constantly isn’t fun. I know Blizz wants their time played numbers up and that the game is designed to force you to keep coming back and “playing” if you want to get anywhere, but this expansion just wasn’t fun.

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BfA was my introduction to World of Warcraft. I entered endgame content in 8.2.

8.2 - Started and got comfortable with the game. Got benithic armor to catch up to the player population. Felt a very comfortable in the game with slotted benethic armour and enjoyed doing dungeons and content. Made a raider character for my current guild and we nailed EP.

Pretty enjoyable introduction to the game and I felt it was easy.

8.3 - Feels like it is designed to be made only for a couple of characters. Daily systems have a longer navigation path to them and don’t have big catchups like Mechagon or Nazjatar had (aka pet battles that give 250 rep items and reputation from unique rares, along with bonuses for levelling followers).

I do enjoy the systems themselves though - allows me to do a lot more with my class.

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Checklists with zero meaning or fun + creativity put into it.

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I hope they don’t ruin the Forsaken.
I really hope they don’t ruin the Forsaken.
They ruined the Forsaken, abandon ship.

Then Nyalotha: It just works. Entire raid laughing as our monk not only gets stuck in an infinite loop of falling through the floor, dying, and being sling-shotted around the map, rezzing, and falling through the floor again.

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My experience after just getting one character to 120 and playing through most of the expansion…

:-1:

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That’s the face I make anytime someone asks me this.

On the real, and jokes aside, BFA’s not good. I dislike it. I’ve voiced it more than once, and people (I would think) might have a clue as to what I dislike about it as I’ve made my stance clear more than once. So here, have some cliff notes.

  1. Too much RNG.
  2. Simming required.
  3. Failed systems.
  4. Too many failed systems resulting in systematic overload that is bad.
  5. PvP vendors went on vacation, and never returned.
  6. PvP balance team went on vacation, and didn’t return for over a year.
  7. The removal of class sets.
  8. No real trophies from the expansion.
  9. The gutting of the arena system, and instant rewards instead of end-season rewards.
  10. Warmode incentives. There shouldn’t be any.

Of course, there are some good things. Allied races are neat. The art team nailed it like usual. Old Gods are cool.

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An ill conceived, ill executed, poorly considered mistake, confused, shallow, and senseless.

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  • Grind reputation to unlock multiple new races.
  • Don’t do any current instanced content.
  • Run old instanced content for gear appearances.
  • Lack of desire to get geared up in any way due to the excessively random nature of gear compared to how it was at the pinnacle of my raiding enjoyment during Burning Crusade.
  • Level up various characters in my spare time in case I return to the raiding scene in the future and want to have a variety of options ready to go.
  • I miss unique tier sets per character class.
  • An uninteresting experience for me thematically for the expansion.
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grindy korean mmo style that gives you hype when something new comes out, then makes you more tired than your irl job just after a few days.

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BFA made me return to SWTOR but I still lurk in the WoW forums out of memories of better days…

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It’s been a lot of fun getting back into the game. Haven’t played since early Cata, so I’ve missed a lot. Sucks I wasn’t around for MoP & Legion, but I’ve still enjoyed BFA as a fairly casual player. Looking forward to what Shadowlands has to offer!

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BFA felt like nothing changed from the end of Legion gameplay wise. The story it told wasn’t my favorite either. I didn’t enjoy how we had to unlock the allied races which had been a big part of my own excitement for the expansion.

I suppose I could have gotten more involved with all aspects of the game for a fuller experience but I truly just felt like it wasn’t getting more interesting within the different levels of difficulties. Was the same stuff without a whole lot else to get into.

I was missing a farm, or a class hall, or a garrison even… something else to dig into.

I am ready for shadowlands! :blush:

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I feel at this point this is probably the case for most who started this game earlier than WoD.