What gameplay features do you miss?

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This is a topic from the EU forum. What do you miss? Some items mentioned were:

  • Brawler’s Guild
  • Torghast, as optional
  • Mage Tower
  • Dungeon Challenge Modes
  • Warfronts
  • Old specialized gear working in older content and timewalking (Heart of Azeroth, legendary weapons, etc.)
  • Reforging
  • Customization of old talent trees
  • Glyphs
  • Archeology
    • Older style of professions
  • Profession perks
  • Reputation tabards
  • Class questlines
  • Garrisons - Although I still use mine with personal & guild bank access, Transmogrifier, portal, and pet battles.
  • Old hunter pet system
  • Hunter bow/gun sounds
  • Hunter arrows and bullets with increased damaged (I do miss making them as an Engineer)

I also hate the changes made to hunter this year. No Barrage, no hunter pet in Marksman without a point, etc. From the time I made my first hunter in classic, I have enjoyed my adventures with my trustworthy hunter pet by my side. Hunting, fishing, and sitting by the fire, making arrows for my bow, and cooking dinner.

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I miss MoP Demonology Warlock.

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I miss when Demo was about having one really good minion instead of standing in a puddle of mediocre minions.

BM too.

Who’s idea was it to make all pet specs about having as many models on screen as possible? They should not have a job anymore.

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MoP/WoD Deathknight and Reforging for sure

Edit: adding Archeology and the old profession system

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Class Questlines is probably the biggest one for me. I’m not a roleplayer but I do appreciate story and story that specifically works with my individual characters. Because surely my druid isn’t saving Azeroth for the same reason my DK is. Even a couple class quests can really give you more of a sense of purpose in the expansion. It also makes leveling a different class more worthwhile.

I miss the pvp gear of WOD. The kind where pvp gear was much stronger than raid gear in pvp. And vice versa as well, raiders gear was much stronger then pvp gear in pve.

I do miss glyphs and wish more customizations could come into the game.

Finally, I miss when raid gear was more themed around the class then it was the raid. For a made-up example just because we get an “ice” raid doesn’t mean every set needs to look like “icicles”.

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Glyphs, reforging, first aid and aecheology. :upside_down_face:

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Wow, I have good news for you!

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My additions:

mission tables (although NPC work orders have more-or-less satisfied that itch)
emissary quests (I’m not really a fan of the elite finisher quests TWW is using)
Pandaria farm

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  • Reforging.
  • Class Halls and class specific content.
  • Scenarios (But Delves are a good replacement)
  • Hunter pet happiness.
  • Archeology.
  • First aid.
  • Glyphs.
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Major and Minor Glyphs. Every time they add a new piece of gimmick gear with special abilities I want to scream “this is just Glyphs!”

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i know i’m in the minority, but i loved advancing through all the borrowed power systems and their associated campaigns. all of them from Legion through SL, particularly the Artifact system.

and i miss when zones didn’t scale to your level. and had faction-specific hubs and questchains.

and then i agree with many of the others already mentioned: glyphs, reforging, archaeology, brawler’s guild, class-specific content (mount questchains, class halls), and old professions.

most of all i miss the time when Blizzard was more focused on providing a quality experience rather than maximizing profit.

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Have Group, Will travel. Summon any sized party to your location.

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Maybe an unpopular opinion:

Garrison and Legion Artifacts.

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Alterac Valley Weekend!

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Have Group, Will Travel

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Always thought these were items and not “gameplay features”

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Artifact Weapons should have been a permanent addition to the game.

The idea of having a parallel talent tree was good, they should have expanded on it.

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Probably just glyphs. I’m not sure why the glyph system was abandoned, I think the glyph system goes against everything modern Blizzard is about which is time gating and compartmentalization.

You can’t compartmentalize or time gate glyphs, it’s already a perfect system. They tried with Conduits and people didn’t like it. Also Conduits were lazy, glyphs were actually ambitious.

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Feral stealth tippy toe run animation
Incarnation Body Armor
Werecat mode
Symbiosis

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I like the rest but Symbiosis was super thumbs down for me, I was tanking but we didn’t have a DK or Monk in our group so I had to make due with Lightning Shield. :roll_eyes:

I grabbed Consecration one time by putting it on our Ret Paladin, and he was like, “Oh. What do I get? Wait… WRATH?!? What the hell am I supposed to do with this!?”