What do you miss? (But let's not be mean about it)

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  • Gladiator Warrior
  • Wintergrasp/Tol Barad style PvP and their raids
  • Mission Tables (WoD style, self-generating resources)
  • Old Glyphs/JC
  • Old Quests (pre-cata)
  • No scaling
  • Frost DK Tanking
  • Survival Hunter. The REAL Survival Hunter.
  • Pet Talent spec/trees
  • Being a Class, not a spec
  • Torghast (but it needed way better rewards and to be optional)
  • H. Visions
  • Heart of Azeroth + Corruptions
  • Artifact Weapons
  • Local Server Communities (or even players)
  • Alterac Valley (old), Deepwind Gorge (old), Strand of the Ancients
  • Have Group Will Travel
  • Useful Heirlooms (the XP bonus)
  • Slower Leveling
  • TF/WF
  • Non-RNG Legendaries, or Legion style ones
  • Actual useful toys from Rares that can be soloed, like MoP before Timeless Isle.
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Reforging gear

challenge mode dungeons

the old profession system

survival hunters as range

garrisons (technically not removed)…It would be nice to get actual player housing in the Main cities to start with Org/SW

windfury totem

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  1. my ranged survival hunter
  2. 10man end game raiding / guilds. destroyed my wow family / guild upon removal at end of mop.
  3. old professions
  4. bonus rolls
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Pre-Legion professions.

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The garrison mission tables, legion class hall tables. Fun stuff to do for you and your alts. I spent so much time doing these activities compared to anything else I’ve done in the game. It was fun min/maxing things, gave us a very good reason to level alts. BfA and DF were/are a complete snoozefest. I took a break a few months into DF and came back about a month ago and I’m already bored and feel like there is no reason to log in and do anything. My alts are still level 60 I just can’t bother leveling them.

Edit: One more thing I really dislike the professions this time around with the insanely timegated “mechanics” or whatever you want to call them with those skill points. The older professions were much better.

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I miss when Blizzard had to balance our classes, not our talent trees.

I also miss the grittiness of WoW and darker stories. I’m not really sure why they thought happy go lucky friendship time had a place in WoW. This isn’t a Kids Nickelodeon special.

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A bit controversial take, but I miss how you acquired legion legendaries.

There was always a reason to do something in legion. Time to do world quests for my daily at a chance for a leggo, kill the world boss, raid time, m+, heck it gave us a reason to do the old raids. Like when nighthold came out, go do the emerald nightmare raid for chances at leggos.

I know people hated how random it was for the leggo you got and I do agree with that part, but man nothing was more exciting then hearing that leggo noise!

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  • I miss the small communities of individual servers. Building a reputation. Randomly running across people you randomly ran across before. Seeing the same names gather as you all work to take down the dragon in Darkshire.

  • I miss having to be smart and patient in dungeon pulls. Marking individual mobs for crowd control - sheep diamond, sap star, etc. It felt dangerous. It felt like you had to be smart to survive.

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Why didn’t I think of this.

One of the things I was genuinely looking forward to was professions the way they were. Then we got Knowledge Points. Worst change I’ve seen to this game in some time.

Talk about disrespecting your players with some weekly mandatory crap on top of all the other maintenance crap we have to do. Gone are the days of leisure farming. New are the days of “Your off and on time ultimately means nothing.”

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Server community. Where you saw the same people day in and day out. You had a reputation on your server be it good or bad. That gives MMOs a sense of a virtual world. Now server imbalance ruined it.

I know the changes with cross realm, and sharding, were all made as quality of life improvements. And they do the job of making the world feel busier. But for the most part, the other players are just Player#724.

I dont have the solution. And constantly merging servers most likely wouldnt have solved anything. And keeping the factions balanced, wouldnt have solved it either.

But I remember back in Vanilla and TBC. I was Alliance on Elune server. There was a priest named Benlaggin. He would get Battleground groups going on the weeknds. And when you got into a BG and you saw that on the Horde there was Hecow and Shecow, a Tauren warrior and Druid, you knew you were in for an epic battle. This little micro feud really had me looking forward to weekend gaming. I miss that. But also thats nostalgia.

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Augmentation evoker stacking :). Bring on the hate

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Sadly that community created cliques and isolated a good number of folks. It was certainly positive if you were somebody but meaningless if you were nobody.

With sharding and all that we’re all nobodies lol.

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Maybe a hot take?

I preffer the mop - SL talent system more, granted I’ve been on BFA mostly, and my class doesnt exactly have the best talent trees currently, but my feelings with the new tree are:

A bunch of this stuff was baseline of the class, and there is little REAL choice to be made here.

With my bFA talents i recall that for a lot of them, the 3 choices in a row were pretty viable, even if there was a certain “best” one.

Also Xuen wasn’t mandatory.

Maybe i would like the current tree more if I could actually rock 2 or 3 different windwalker monks each with a different build.

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I miss KFC Twisters and the old McD’s chocolate shakes.

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I miss the sense of exploration and wonder. Say what you like about the tedium of running the length of darkshore or the barrens on foot, but it certainly made you feel like you were on an adventure.

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This is going to sound a bit contradictory but I enjoy the fast pace of wow today but I miss the simpler rotations and simpler boss mechanics. I still like a good tank n spank boss fight.

I think it’s been said, but I miss class halls. Seems like such wasted potential. We could continue to get class specific quests/content but it was just dropped.

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I think what I miss most is the feeling that there were tons of us all enjoying the game/world. I feel like trade, guild chat, any forum, most podcasts are people griping about what’s bothering them. I want to bump into randos in and out of game that are doing goofy fun stuff, and having fun. We all know it sucks your bow didn’t drop this week again, but we all have that variant… Do you like the game?

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Honest, my answer is “no”. If my friends weren’t playing I probably still wouldn’t be playing because they make the game a lot more tolerable. I took a half a year break, and then about a year of a break before that iirc.

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I miss pre-Legion WoW, when the game still felt like WoW and not a Diablo-esque mobile lobby game.

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I miss gearing for the old attack table as a tank, when we got to see the table (miss, dodge, parry, glancing blow, block, critical strike, crushing blow, and ordinary hit chances) and fine-tune our gearing for defensive stats that are most beneficial to that tanking class, and getting as close to 102.4% avoidance as possible.

We not only had to consider our normal health, but also our “effective health” - how much raw damage you can actually take, assuming all your defensive chances failed (needed a mod to find this out).

Later on, gearing as a tank got so boring - just stacking stam and armor.

I also miss some of the old gear/gear-sets that made for nice mogs. I never heard of an MMO removing gear, even worse when it is nice-looking ones, but yet continue making ugly looking gear.

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