Yeah, that was the only thing WoD did very well. The zones and questing was really good. Not really my style, but very good…
but that’s about where the positives end for me lol…
Even just the whole concept of the expansion I had trouble buying into. I don’t like time travel stuff. It’s confusing and overused.
I’ve never actually played Vanilla properly
Well I’ve got news for you then pal, and this may be a shocker… I don’t think you like this game.
Wrath of the Lich King. Hands down. Cataclysm got me excited beforehand to be back in original mainland Azeroth, but it turned out to be lackluster, IMO. I really only liked Twighlight Highlands.
its wotlk.
it will always be wotlk.
TBC.
Everything after that was simply increasing levels of “meh” trending towards horrid.
You mean when the game started becoming non social? That dungeon finder didnt help besides allowing people to stay in cities and queue dungeons forever.
Loved everything up to Cata when our guild had been together the longest and did the most endgame together. Really it’s the last time I did 2 nights per week raiding regularly.
MoP we all kind of drifted apart but starting a new monk main gave the game a whole new life for me. I loved the class and the world they made in Pandaria.
WoD is really where the trouble started and I started taking breaks for longer and longer periods of time.
Pretty into BFA at the moment, mostly revisiting my original main, this toon. It’s not my fav but there’s good stuff to find in it. It’s the same story every time, read enough QQ coverage and the current expansion is usually characterized as the worst yet.
They’ve all been good in certain ways but not enough to help them overcome the stuff they did wrong. The most fun i had in a while was mop pvp on the timeless isle.
The Burning Crusade
I’ve never been a fan of cross realms or dungeon finder, but wotlk to me was the best mix of story and gameplay.
it was the most active (for a casual) i’d been and the most fun i’d had in the game by far.
i liked the dungeons, the atmosphere, the gear sets, the world questing and ICC was great fun even for a casual druid (resto/balance) once word got around you were worth an invite. also had an alt frost DK i had a blast with when i needed a break from being a tree or chicken.
this was on…Gundrak maybe? can’t remember.
server transferred to Barth thinking high pop would be better and had to name change. if there’s such thing as regrets in video games, that’s my biggest.
After wrath, Cata was kind of a inbetween. I enjoyed the beginning-middle area but after firelands to dragonsoul it wasn’t as fun for me, pretty much quit from then until MoP for awhile. I still love Cata for Deepholme though, one of my favorite zones because of the crystals.
I actually did enjoy MoP, I think it’s the last expack for me I genuinely enjoyed without some kind of problem(even if the daily’s were kinda annoying in the beginning).
Legion was…ok? I really didn’t care for the systems WoD started with the “fill the ap/Azerite/etc bar and do world quests but your rep is timegated” aesthetic. And mission tables/ titanforging.
I think what really got me over the years is how homogenized and pruned the classes got. I put up with it for awhile but it really did in my enjoyment of classes I used to main like Hunter.
I can’t even play ranged sv anymore. : /
IMO the only good expansions where TBC and WOTLK, and they were both great. Everything else since, to me has been meh, either not worth investing in once at max level, or not worth playing at all.
Ouch, scathing come-back!
I am shocked, shocked that you would consider the end of the original wow good.
Cataclysm was garbage, and ruined WoW.
Technically BFA is a good expansion, it’s kept me entertained, if we’re to simply use good to mean doing its job as a video game. The last good expansion that had any traceable DNA of the games roots was Wrath.
Vanilla - > Wrath is basically what I’d call WoW. Cataclysm -> Present WoW2
Also this ^
I never played EQ (WoW’s inspiration) but one of my friends did. I remember him selling me on getting WoW to play back in 2005, telling me how its so much better than EQ because you could track quests easily (! and ? were revolutionary), and you could solo level your character to max level, etc.
I would venture a guess that is one of the main reasons, and a large main reason at that, WoW became so popular back then.
This is because the core ideals of old school MMO’s are the same across all of them.
Your reliance on the community and the investment of time in your character.
Another major point of WoW was that you could solo to max level and do quite a bit of group content with pug’s without needing a guild or permanent group.
That really cut down on the exclusionist attitudes that earlier MMO’s had.
For me the last great expansion was WotLK, and I’d say that applies up to Ulduar and it drops off a bit after that. TBC was the last one that was great all the way through.
I didn’t really care too much for Cataclysm as a sum of its parts, but I liked the stuff they added (new race/class combos, Worgen and Goblins are rad, etc.). I can’t comment on MoP since my first quit was in Cataclysm (more a result of burnout than quitting out of spite). Never felt encouraged to engage with WoD and I only got into Highmountain in Legion before I got bored again. No interest in BFA what-so-ever.
I’d say WoW’s goodness peaked mid Wrath and went downwards a lot, up a bit, down words a lot, up a bit, and you get the idea. Speaking purely subjectively, of course.
Like many I found Wrath to be the best Expansion as it has been down hill since. I have enjoyed parts of the other except Cata….shudder…that one caused me to quit WoW for over a year!