Somebody needed to attend a better school. Homie must be an Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy alumnus with aim like that.
Lorewise, the entirety of WoD was a jump the shark moment for me. All of it so that they could have Gul’dan come back.
I’m still into the lore, but that whole thread was Med’an-worthy.
mid-vanilla
THey gave up on it not because of the movie . They gave up because they were too far into working on Legion because they were planning on WoD being the first expansion to last only 1 year.
That plan did not work out .
This is from November 16, 2013 8 days after WoD was announced
THis is from June 2016 about 2 months before Legion launched .
It is a recap of a Legion Developer Q&A.
All those systems people thought were caused by the lack of content in WoD were actually the cause of the lack of content .
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Ah, that’s true. I forgot about the yearly expansion flop.
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Too much armor pen. Needs more expertise
In theory we all thought cool but knew it wouldn’t work . To be honest they could of thrown a little cut content back in instead of SELFIE CAM.
Now SL might be WoD 2.0 but with 3 main patches . Denathrius raid , Sylvanas raid and Jailer raid. Anything past that would most likely cut to close to 10.0 pre patch . They should of stuck with the 77 day patch cycle of Legion .
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Lets face if there is a butt to Azeroth ,Desolace would be it (insert common trade chat post here )
For me it was the dailies at MOP release where it started. It was the first time where I started to feel the game was moving towards a much higher playtime for less rewards. Now that backfired and only showed up again in Legion, but that definitely was the point where I started to get worried.
Now it is out in full force and I hate what the game has become.
TL;DR - Say what you will but i personally think its with WoD (while i liked the zones, the story was a reach and filler, proof is in the minimal impact it had on the overall story, bar the Gul’dan being a catalyst for Legion (but honestly any bad guy could have filled that role).
To me, each expansion had its ups and downs, but WoD had a funny story and the whole “stay in your garrison all the time” thing.
My personal experience:
Vanila/Classic - best leveling experience and world building / endgame sorta lacked for me.
TBC - Loved everything, maybe the story was a little confusing and the order of the raids felt off (BT before Sunwell, but Illidan was marketed as the big bad of the expac, but, surprise! it was KJ all along!). It was vanilla but with extra sprinkles on top. It added what was missing.
Wotlk - Good story, great setting, lots of things to do. / They really went too much with currencies here, like bags were full of em if you did both pvp and pve.
Cata - Loved PVE and PVP, leveling was disjointed and the first part of the dungeons being a bit too unforgiving and needing a bit of coordination, then being nerfed because of the outcry was what soured my experience.
MoP - Loved PVE and dailies (timeless isle was super fun) hated the leveling experience due to zones feeling a bit dull at times. Too much grass man. I get that they are bears, but geez.
WoD - Story got me to ask “but why, tho?” for a couple of patches. Garrison was okay, but it felt like a prison. Stopped PvPing due to PvP starting to bore me. Also at this point the game started overtuning and cutting the RPG aspect and going “everything is menu’s route” (i know that a lot of it happened in cata, but WoD really pushed it over the edge).
Legion - Loved the leveling zones and Argus, story was kinda okay-ish, hated Surramar with a burning passion. ( “we are mana addicts, you must help us get more mana crystals man, like, ill cut you, if you dont!”)
BFA- Loved the setting, story was cool, endgame felt like a chorelist that i had to complete not to miss out on things.
Shadowlands - Dislike the story, zones and the setting of this story dont sit well with me. Endgame feels like a hamster wheel at this point and im too old to be chasing a carrot on a stick, i just want to have fun in my games and to have it feel rewarding.
Sorry for the long post.
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FYI WoD was before Legion.
Obviously WoW jumped the shark by having the night elves join an alliance with the filthy humans who despoiled their forests in WC3.
See, this is implying that Wrath had a good story. And while Wrath was a good expansion in many ways, its story was mind-bogglingly stupid. Particularly the sheer number of times that the Lich King popped up when we killed one of his minions, said “I’ll get you next time, bwahahaha”, and left.
(I suppose, given the revelations of Shadowlands, it’s possible that Arthas threw the entire expansion on purpose…)
Erm… what did you think was the point of WC3’s campaign?
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According to gd it was BC.
No wait wotlk.
No wait cata.
No wait mop.
No wait wod.
No wait legion.
No wait bfa.
No wait shadowlands.
Hold on, maybe it will be 10.0 2 years from now?
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WoW should have been a 4 faction game. Horde, Alliance, Night Elves, and Scourge.
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Ha! And people say that factions are imbalanced now. That’d be a nightmare.
Balance is a unicorn. You’ll never capture it or even see it.
Making things fun and a good RPG is way more important than this elusive fairy tale of “balance.” Same goes for new classes.
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Spaceships. And those happened a long time ago. If a civilization with spaceships is having trouble with some jackasses with swords…
Nah, swords aren’t really swords… as in clunky pieces of metal to hit stuff with. They are part of the spell casting. Magic is the equalizer. Weapons are conduits for casting magic for all classes. It’s like complaining that computers are useless in battle because they are just bricks.
Wow jumped the ship at BFA. Even WOD with a lack content felt good because garrisons were new, the lore was great, dranor was immersive, and PvP was top notch.
They had idea for BFA, but it was just a absolute train wreck. It is the only expansion to ever make me rage quit. There was so much grinding and reused content, alot of the burnout in shadowlands is due to BFA. BFA killed my immersion with the game. WoW is no longer this amazing immersive world, it’s just a OK game.
Wow jumped the shark in any expansion that you enjoyed. If you enjoyed the expansion, you remeber it as being bad. If you were frustrated during the expansion, you remember it fondly. You come back to WoW because you have blue balls for the content you tried to F, but which has put you in the friend zone. If you managed to f it, you remember it as being too cheap and slutty.