I know a lot of people complain about BFA, but in all honesty I don’t think it’s really THAT bad.
There is a variety of activities outside of raiding/dungeons to do at end-game, I mean there’s World Quests to do, then you have your warfronts and PVP has the brawler thing from time to time which spices it up a bit.
I think the main problem though is that Blizzard perhaps played it too safe, in making the end game structure of BFA perhaps too similar to Legion, like the same structure of world quests/emissary (not that I mind) as well as the same grind with the amulet but in a way it just felt less rewarding to what we had in the past.
But there’s still a lot of rich lore that interests me, the whole N’Zoth and Azshara story line is awesome, finally these characters are getting the lore they deserve.
The biggest problem is the RNG factor, that you don’t know where the rewards are, and I think that’s the real issue, if you have a reputation with set goals, that you get exalted with a faction and get certain mounts and pets that makes being out in the world more fun, but hopefully 8.2 will fix all that, I’m waiting to see.
At least there’s story line at end-game, and we are getting reasonably regular updates compared to what we had in WoD.
It has more to do. Which is to say, it has anything to do. BFA has many problems but even now it’s still nowhere near that complete dumpster fire of an expansion.
BfA is better than WoD strictly because you actually have stuff to do outside of raiding and PvP. Unless you consider sitting in your garrison 80% of the time “engaging content”.
If WoD has M+ and WQ it would have been 3000% better than how we remember it now.
alone the differences in class design make WoD the superior expansion by miles, I don’t care for the amount of content being thrown at us, I didn’t even like Legion for the same reasons.
To me, it’s not. Gameplay was far better in WoD. I’d rather have a whole lot of nothing to do while having fun gameplay than have a lot to do and hate every bit of it.
WoD had like, 70% of it’s planned content cut and had better class design.
What we got out of BFA was mostly what they wanted to give us, that’s the distinction.
WoD has an excuse to be bad, WoD is objectively the worst thing to happen in this game. To even be on the same level as WoD is a failure that should put any company to SHAME.
BFA has no excuse, it’s a rushed mash-up of misguided design choices. Nothing more.
WoD had a lot going for it, but in the end most of the non-raid/PvP content didn’t matter since we outpaced it quickly gear wise (Dungeons), found out it was a waste of time to do (Dailies) and the rewards were crap (Reputation and Gear vendors). 6.2 was a valiant effort, but in the end it didn’t change much other than funnel everyone into Tanaan for a year.
The most efficient use of time was sitting in the Garrison milking the mission table(s) for everything we needed, the only other 2 reasons to leave the garrison was to trap some beasts for Savage Blood (for crafting) and to do each of the Stable mount quests once, and even then it wasn’t worth it if you had one of the 10 recolours of each mount type already.
To a point class design is crucial, but if theirs no worthwhile content to do your class isn’t gonna matter.
Well WoD was considered the most content light expansion by far and I’ll sign that too but I still had more fun than in Legion and Legion had a ton of content and some of that was pretty qualitative too like Mage tower and suramar for example.
I disagree. I played the crap out of Warlords. I loved my Garrisons, had a great time leveling alts, had more zones to choose from, enjoyed the storylines much more, as well.
This one? I have one 120. One. I would rather walk through broken glass covered in lemon juice than level through this crap again. And I can’t even get through the Horde campaign at all, I’m so bored and uninterested.
They should have baked every artifact trait into every spec. Then did the stat squish like they did. So we could have some fun things still or added a new talent row.
We really need a new talent row we have grown 20 levels and gained nothing.
WoD has the potential and seeds of greatness that never bloomed. BFA did not. Class design was good but nothing to do. Ashran, as much as people rag on it, was actually a pretty decent Battleground but it needed some work. The story and content was good but it felt so…disjointed. BFA never had the potential WoD had but BFA could still be said to be better. On a personal note WoD and Legion were actually pretty fun.