No it’s not, everything is timegated. No arena, no M+, no raids (not that anyone, but the devs care about raiding).
So you suffer through a super outdated boring linear story only to hit a brick wall of either m0 dungeons or honor farming. The balance is always terrible and everyone is anxiously playing hot potato with whatever fotm build/spec is over performing.
People are really toxic about rng just so they can have some temporary advantage and exploit it to its max potentially before the devs nerf it. Point in case BFA s1 rogues could 2 shot people bc of a scaling bug + TERRIBLE balancing. People just trained with it on alpha/beta got it ready for season to start spammed the hot potato build then coast of the gains for the rest of the season. Something like this happens every time.
Probably over 95% of you have no association with the inflatable esports army (W1st, MDI, AWC, Boosting/“Coaching” (yeah make sure you use your moves), or gold rmt businesses, so the frenzy isn’t really warranted.
Objectively you might as well just come back once catch up mechanics are in and the devs have given up throwing around the hotfix potato so you can just coast to whatever mediocre difficulty benchmark you have in mind.
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Its only fun watching the game temporarily break for a few minutes due to the stress of all the players.
Reminds me of how often the indiana jones ride at disneyland has to be shut down for an hour or two because there’s a lot going on in that ride
Change “start of a new xpac” to “start of any new patch” and I’ll agree.
Who said this? I think it’s the exact opposite. I think the expansion becomes more fun as it becomes easier to gear alts, there is more endgame content after a few patches, and several bugs have been worked out.
Shadowlands was not fun at launch. I got weaker and all my friends quit playing the first 45 days. I see nothing exciting in dragon expac. The vault, low loot drops, and too much trash in raids will still happen. dragon wings does not make up for that.
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for me it’s only fun the 1st week after that it start getting old.
Actually it sucks because it’s not very fun finding out what the devs removed and how the loss of borrowed powers negatively impacts my class along with the broken promises.
Remember the class unpruning? Yeah nobody does for obvious reasons.
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It’s fun for normal people. There is enough to do at launch.
New zones, new stories and sometimes new races or a class.
Shadowlands was great for the first few weeks. Then I stopped until they added catch up renown and the covenant campaigns were fully unlocked, did that, then quit till 9.2.5.
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I love the start of expansions. The zones are full of excited people, and everything is new. I mean, they always pass me by since leveling for me takes a few days, but I still love to see it. 
Warlords was the only expansion where I quickly got to level cap, so as not to miss out on the core hound mount. Otherwise I tended to linger on in the previous expansion while bugs were fixed and addons got updated.