oh i boosted a shaman… i regret that heavily i didnt get far at all with him. But not enough to actually judge any TBC content if thats what you mean.
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now that i think about it, the one thing i did love about TBC was seeing so many players in the old zones. That made me happy and is something retail wow is desperately missing. I felt alive in the world, perhaps that is why people are against dungeon finder cause we would just sit in cities and que up. Which i’d quest and que at the same time but i’ve sat and qued before and still do.
The last several expansions might have been good too!
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Yea, it’s the only thing classic really had… running into people, other factions seeing them and debating, “should i let them live” it was fun for a little while, but i can’t just stay in the past.
My boyfriend was a priest who made it to 43 like that and gave up. Waiting for mana was the big deal.
Nah. It’s because so many people have quit. Some of them are pretty much done with everything they wanted to do and no longer see any point in investing effort into leveling more alts, even though they hang around doing a little bit of this and that.
Blizzard has had expectations since Legion that if people don’t have anything to do they can just level alts. They rely way too much on this, especially considering they really don’t want people to try to play lots of alts.
Ion Hozzikostas was placed in a new role “Lead Game Director”; he is doing fine job. Those 6 years didn’t go to waste, because he was learning the ropes and gaining experience on the new responsibilities and management necessary to fulfill the World of Warcraft’s many demands & the players’ many demands (and countless other demands part of his responsibilities).
Do not fret and allow him to show us how well he has grasped those 6 years of learning and experience. From what I’ve seen and heard it looks like he has learned much moving forward in to Dragonflight!
Which is why i support people who make threads of “WoW needs something like gold saucer” or making older content relevant in WoW. It would be great if we had a gold saucer that wasn’t dark moon faire or evolve the dark moon faire to be like the gold saucer. They have no problem with copying other games ideas. Torghast is fun when people do it willingly and not forced to grind it weekly. Expand on that, people found island expeditions fun (it was ok) expand on that. Warfronts were fun, i’d love a pvp mode (expand on that). Ashran… was somewhat fun but wintergrasp was a blast, but its so imbalanced, fix that. Legion and some of BFA had puzzle world quests bring those back. Even if they aren’t as world quests. I’d love to have something like the leap of faith on FF14 on WoW. (Jump on platforms and other things that might make you fall if you dont do it right to point b from point a) There is so much potential Blizzard can do if they actually put the effort into it.
Player housing is another thing Ion even said the dev team is interested but dont have the man power to do it. If Activision Blizzard isn’t putting WoW on maintaince mode and bring it back to the MMORPG king undisputed then they need to hire a lot more people to do more projects. Have the classic team brought back after they are done in WOTLK to work on the old world, remake the zones, make content in those zones, upgrade models. Bring another team in / hire them / contract them to make player housing. Throw money at people to get them to fulfill these things.
But hey if they don’t wanna throw a ton of money or just listen to the 1% and only focus on raid or die then reap what you sow.
I agree he has improved. Also maybe if he played the game himself and started to think a bit outside his perspective. Not all of us have 60+ people online all the time etc. I was perfectly happy before Legion. Because I wasn’t forced to do PvE.
Same here on the PvP. I have to admit though, I have been feeling a serious pull to play some PvE/M+ on the side of my ‘main course’ aka Random Battlegrounds.
I’m super happy we are getting equal ilvl conquest gear again (with no strings/requirements attached: rated play or rating).
to be honest i can honestly say it is because of borrowed power that started from Legion.
i mean borrowed power felt great until blizzard kept taking it away only to replace it with another kind that just felt bad.
and Shadowland had the worst one yet, but to be honest my faith in a good expansion died with Shadowlands, the lore was bad and the game play only started to get ok after the last patch.
by that point i just have no faith in Dragonflight and for the first time ever i truly feel like i don’t even want to buy this expansion.
but i putting those feelings in “wait and see” if enough people talk good about it ones it is out then maybe.
This is a dumb question. Of course Blizzard thinks every expansion they put out is good. Do you think they intentionally put out crap? What kind of a business strategy is that?
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This is true and has happened to many others. I have asked will they try Dragonflight from the get go and answer is hell no. Their biggest gripe including me is that after their absolute last patch of the expansion game is relatively out from beta state.
This has happened too many times. If they treat Dragonflight in similar manner it dies after first patch. Im still extremely baffled how HOTFIXING Guardian Spirit bug in MoP took over 3 patches to solve. How is it possible? Ghostcrawler MAINED HOLY PRIEST during that time. LEAD MAN.
It’s worse than that for me. I just want to keep enjoying Shadowlands and dread DF throwing out everything they’ve built. It’s the first expansion I want to delete and have never come.
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it was complacency i guess.
happens in a lot of relationships 
now theyre on their toes again, maybe…
MoP was whatever is the opposite of hype.
The release trailer fell flat.
And 20 years doing anything makes it less fun and interesting just by it being so familiar.
all those bad x pacs made blizzard a lot of money.
focus on e sports over subs and misrepresenting x pacs features until after launch has worked well…
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To be fair, Jaina’s storyline and the faction war’s culmination in the Battle of Dazar’alor were both really cool. So the marketing didn’t lie in that regard.
It was the war campaign, Azerite shenanigans, and Sylvanas that brought the entire expansion down.
MoP, lol.
Legion has been the best campaign I ever did, period. Maybe just my taste but a lot of work has been done to brought it in-game.
As much as I loved Vanilla - TBC I’ll never get back to it, it’s done, end of story.
WoD had good points but really nothing but I could categorize in the top 10 game I played.
I skipped BFA (time was badly missing) and just came back 8 days ago, I wasn’t sure at first because of the streamers always saying bad stuff about Shadowlands and I came to realize that these streamers were only looking at something to cry about.
Not saying that Shadowlands scored a 
, I like it so far.
From what I understand the fans really like dragons, I prefer undead & demons, unfortunately I’m waiting Diablo 4 because I’m saturated of D3, so, while I wait I’ll get on WoW next xpack. The fact that the next xpack involve mainly dragons will not make me depreciate what the game will have to offer.
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Honestly, the perfect balance to me would be Blizzard using the excuse of bringing back old dungeons in M+ to bring both wings of Scarlet Monastery and Scholo back for the M+ rotation (as well as UBRS). Just lean really hard into the Vanilla-era nostalgia since Blizzard is claiming this is a “Return Home”.
Those 4 dungeons plus Uldaman would be a real blast from the blast, roaming around Eastern Kingdoms doing dungeons there. Its funny to me that Blizzard mentions a “return home” but then name-dropped “shado-pan monastery” as if that is something fans of the original trilogy want to play.
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