Honestly, my favorite thing about this expansion has been the tortollans. Their quest lines are enjoyable from a lore perspective and I love doing their world quests. Interacting with them just makes me happy.
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I didn’t like a damn thing about this expansion. This expansion may have killed WoW as a game for me at large. Haven’t pre-ordered Shadowlands, and I’m tentative about buying it when it DOES launch.
Being able to play a Brown Orc instead of a Green Orc already makes BfA worth the money.
Rep grinds are never fun though, glad they’re easing up on that restriction come Shadowlands.
Rank 4 essences. I love the grind relating to them. Gives a purpose to play the game. Gear means nothing in the long term but the cosmetics that you get from doing content matters.
Every individual system is clever.
It’s the compounding of those systems that was a pain.
Mythic+ is getting boring since they’re all the same up to +9. I’d move the seasonal affix forward to lower difficulties.
The fact that opposite factions had different rewards, honestly? Why?
The perspective story telling of BODA was amazing and it’s easily in the top 10 of best raids ever.
I never understood that. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter but it felt bad that the rewards weren’t equal but neither is the faction imbalance between horde and alliance, I think lore-wise the Alliance out number the horde but the in game numbers are polar opposite.
Maybe the Alliance should have better rewards to encourage people to move to the Alliance side just like how the horde have the best racials encourages all the try hards to go horde.
I think that was one of the most novel raids we’ve ever had in WoW. Swapping from one faction to the other to see their perspective and being able to use their racials was really awesome and could be a way of integrating both factions into the narrative of raids in the future.
What are they doing to the requirements? I’ve refused to grind rep to have a cosmetic change and a new racial.
8.2 Killed the game for me with the essence grind that could have been account bound and the fact they’ve only increased the cost of obtaining them from Mother leaves an equally foul taste in my mouth. They literally dug their feet into the ground and refused to budge on this issue despite a VAST MAJORITY of the community wanted them to be account bound.
I’m trying to enjoy the last patch and see what the raid is like, I’ve killed every boss on heroic but n’zoth and don’t even feel any desire to use my lockout to pug a group for it. Normally I’d be pugging and raid leading multiple raids a week across all my max level toons to help people get their AoTC and whatnot but literally have had no desire to do anything this expansion because of no tier gear and it’s damn near impossible to trade loot you don’t want to someone that desperately needs it because it’s an ilvl upgrade for your character but a dps downgrade for you.
So many things about WoW are broken atm and hopefully they fix all the issues they’ve been ignoring from the community. Either give us ML back or make it so we can trade gear and help each other complete goals we have. Artificially extending our playtime in your game is only going to create burn out and kill the game.
I believe that they are lowering the amount of rep needed down to just revered? That’s what I heard anyway.
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The allied races. That’s it. I had no motivation to do anything else because of how tedious the expansion was.
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Absolutely nothing it’s a dumpstefire only reason I played is buyers remorse when you feel ripped off so try make something worth while anyways.
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Do you think Shadowlands will be good? I’m kind of hoping it’ll be more player/alt friendly without so many systems on top of systems on top of rng on top of yet more systems.
Not trying to be a smartass, but how will the cosmetics attached to abilities bound within a renta-gear necklace work in the long term? Won’t all of that be lost in the next expansion?
“Q: What will become of the rank 4 essences we’ve acquired in 9.0?
A: We’re going to try something different i.e. not deplete it. As you move to the Shadowlands, your connection to the heart will be depleted. It will be functional in other areas.”
https://www.wowhead.com/news=296022/blizzcon-2019-world-of-warcraft-q-a-liveblog
Also for this: https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=13779/phenomenal-cosmic-power
That title, “Azeroth’s Champion”, just screams competence. And for me it feels like a redemption at not playing the game for all the cool removed things early on (hand of adal, champion of the naaru, ZA war bear, black/plagued proto, undying/immortal, ToGC, MoP/WoD CMs, etc).
Power is temporary but cosmetics are forever. If you look at my profile you can take an easy glance and see that I am a heroic player that should be really progressing in the early stages of mythic Ny’alotha (I am 478 in bag). Right now I have 9 rank 4 essences. Realistic goals for me is all 15s and rank 4 breath of the dying (up to 11). Mythic azshara would be the next stage. After that, the pipe dreams are 2400 and mythic nzoth.
I know it sounds lofty but those rank 4s have given me ALOT of reason to play the game beyond just player power. Its the true metagame imo. And for a classic player reading my post they likely won’t understand because the metric of importance in that game is the strength of the character. For me getting strong is only a means to an end to get the prestige/intangibles. Although the irony of chasing clout, inevitably leads to nothing in the end.
I’ve truly enjoyed most of BFA, the list of things I dislike is much shorter:
- Island Expeditions
- Lack of story focus on the Fourth War
- Mind bogglingly stupid military decisions and tactics
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This sounds an awful lot like “You can still have fun using it in Timewalking and irrelevant content if you don’t mind equipping an inferior necklace.”
I’m glad that you’ve been enjoying collecting these though. I really hope they figure something out to make it worth the effort you’ve put into it.
Not really, I think they may do a white/blacklist sort of thing that enables the essences when you are on mapIDs pre-9.0. Also I forgot to mention another thing, I really hope they implement rank 4s as “cosmetic option” on top of similar “shaped” abilities/spells. Just like warlock green fire. Imagine being able to transmog your solar wrath ability into rank 4 purification protocol. Or arcane explosion into rank 4 blood of the enemy.
So many different ways to they can have it to customize yourself.
Hmmm thinking thinking, oooo will get back to you when I think of something.
I wish they wouldn’t remove past accomplishments, for example they’re removing legion legendaries from the game. It made timewalking bearable and fun to do and as per usual, fun detected must destroy source of fun.
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raids are ok, dungeons are so-so, the rest is hot garbage.
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Vulpera, Mag’har, and Zandalari. Took a while, but we got them! Otherwise I love Zul’dazar. Leveling was top notch for both Zul’dazar and Vol’dun.
Always a fan of invasion content also.
From what Ive seen and what I know of blizz track record expect everything they have done this patch in some way being in SL at launch grinds time gates time played metrics.
So alt friendly not at all they have locked convent sets behind them so you cant join one wear another cosmetic.
The main feature is basically horrific visions with a timer on it which they claim was needed because classes with hero/timewarp would just wait out the cd and keep using it.
So we are being punished because they just didnt disable hero in the stupid tower.