What is your favorite era of WoW and why?

[Fostracize-frostwolf]

TBC and BFA were both S-Tier eras for me.

[Kaljariin-moon-guard]

I liked vanilla prior to the pre-Burning Crusade patch. I also liked Legion a lot a few patches in (that was the last time WoW actually felt like WoW, my opinion YMMV). After that, it’s probably TBC, WOTLK, and … whatever else… in that order (I haven’t really liked or have just felt “meh” about a lot of the expansions, honestly)

[Nocturnè-pagle]

@Brawnlet-doomhowl

Vanilla - Wrath was the golden era, imo. Late Wrath and Cataclysm were alright in and of itself, but it began trends that led into modern WoW, such as LFG tools and thus players becoming less social.

Everything afterwards was just trend-chasing and ended up hurting the game in the long run.

Nobody would’ve ever thought of WoW as an E-Sport in those early days, fast forward to today, and you’ve got M+ and people defending it saying it’s the only reason they play anymore.

Also, the seasonal model.

Not sure what else Blizzard could do to retain players, though.

I feel for people that never got to enjoy WoW in its heyday, it felt like a steal for how much fun we got in relation to the cost, lol.

I feel like no later WoW expansion, or any game really, came close to the value you got from buying Vanilla in 2004-5. There was too much game for the price.

That’s why I don’t play retail as much. M+ wasn’t bad at first, but they pushed it way too hard, and I don’t like how the gearing process focused on timed dungeons rather than raids. If anything, they could have kept Challenge Mode dungeons and put epic transmogs sets or weapons on them.

It’s all good though. Some people do like it, I just don’t. But that’s why we have Classic. Really thankful to Blizz that they gave us the older versions

[Paladina-kargath (Paladina)]

I started playing in October of 2006, right after “Make love not Warcraft” aired.

BC was my fav, had friends and a cool guild.

[Eärlindë-ravencrest]

@Beaupeep-draka

They weren’t, that’s why they nuked them.

No, they were, and no, they didn’t “nuke” them out of a lack of scalability. But feel free to pull up whatever information you have to prove me wrong.

@Beaupeep-draka

I know what the word means.

How you’re using it proves you don’t. You’re simply trying to sound intelligent. It’s not working.

@Beaupeep-draka

The old trees weren’t, which can also be proved by simply visiting Classic

Playing Classic proves nothing of the sort. You’d have to apply those old trees to an expansion post-WotLK.

@Beaupeep-draka

I’m moving on now.

Sure you are.

[Silverbolt-shadowmoon (Silverbolt)]

Probably MoP.

I think that MoP was a golden middle of WoW lifetime where it smoothed out all the roughness of vanilla, but mechanics haven’t gotten too complex yet, and the game was still buzzling with all kinds players of all skill levels, it wasn’t as sweaty yet.

Reward systems made sense. There was none of that scaling M+ nonesense and tryharding for mythic gear. Most people would run around in normal/heroic raid gear and mythic gear was god tier, because you couldn’t raid mythic cross-realm. And that made lower item levels more relevant as well.

Leveling was still not scaled. Weapon damage for melee wasn’t normalized as well. So you could actually feel the power when you got your upgrade in those leveling dungeons, or PvP.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

Content that I like to play over and over again would probably be classic zones