Thus far, people seem to regard these as the two worst expansions. Which one do you prefer and why?
Bfa and for me it’s not even close.
I know this not popular on this forum but while it has plenty of flaws overall I’m enjoying Bfa.
Whereas wod was just boring and uninteresting for me. To the point where I did nothing but level characters.
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Terrible as WoD was for everyone, it’s still ahead of BFA for me. Again, BFA is still ongoing and has potential to improve so i can’t say until BFA is over.
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People were willing to stick it out with WoD because at least the classes/specs were more fun.
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wod had pvp vendors and pvp was good as well as had good class design.
bfa is just a pile of trash of an expansion cant wait for classic.
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WoD still felt like it wanted to be fun, leveling was immersive and used unique elements, the storytelling was much better even if the overall story felt from out of nowhere, exploration was heavily encouraged and rewarded, treasure meant something of worth.
I feel bittersweet about WoD, it had amazing potential and was on track to be a blast but then they dropped so much content and tried to get away with so much take away from the players that it just left everyone bored and angry at the end.
BfA, I am still bored and angry at blizzard but there wasnt even potential at the start to enjoy it with all the classes pruning and changes and leveling is more of a trudge than enjoyable. It has a chance to right its course by the end but as it stands BfA is the bottom of my list.
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for class design WoD>>>>>>>>>>>>Bfa
And because of that everything in WoD felt more enjoyable. Doesnt matter how much content is in BfA compared to WoD. Because the class design blows and it makes all content feel awful
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WoD was way worse. Bfa actually has content. Granted it’s hit or miss, but it’s better than the nothing we had with WoD.
that and some like myself had some fun building up their garrisons xD
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Exactly. We also were able to use macro’s. The GCD has killed BfA as far as classes go. If they would have made the classes far better in BfA in the first place, maybe even the absence of macro’s would not be so bad.
I am not talking about one shot Warrior macro’s btw.
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Didn’t WoD have like…the largest sub crash in WoW’s history?
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Maybe. Theyve since stopped counting subs so for all we know BfAs could be worse
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I mean. Sure. But I wasn’t really looking for a specific numbers comparison.
Only that…clearly…people weren’t willing to stick it out with WoD.
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But the topic is about a comparison. So its hard to use #s as the argument when we dont know BfAs since theyre unwilling to release them
To me it feels like people arent really playing either of those dumpster fires
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WoD had much better pvp , with honor and conquest vendors and gear scaling to pve standards in battle, also it rained gold , I made more gold this expansion than all the others combined, so WoD wins over BfA imo.
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The class design in WoD was bounds ahead of BfA. I HATE my class for the first time ever this expansion, so WoD is going to take the W for this one.
8.2 might change my mind… might.
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WoD was definitely better in my book.
As a few have noted, it has one CRITICAL advantage over BfA:
At least the gameplay was still fun.
BfA, despite avoiding the “lack of content” issues that WoD suffered, is mortally wounded by the gameplay changes. If you are not having fun just playing the game, it does not matter how much content the game actually has.
And to top it off… even the time-travel shenanigans associated with WoD are more interesting than the current plotlines.
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Yes, but it also had the large launch surge of subs in WoW’s history as well.
Basically WoD hyped up enough to get ~4-5 million players to come back for the launch (and players who got the free promo sub from the Warcraft movie) and then all those players and more left within the first 6 months because Blizzard cut out around a years worth of content and much of that content was part of the original Hype.
Two 25 man scenarios that never vary in outcome.
Copy/Paste 3 man scenarios that only vary in scenery.
Leveling quests reused as “dailies”
The two main rewards from all the above being completely boring:
- reputation which is only needed at Revered for flight (after a year) or Exalted for a mount or continual farming after Exalted for extra bonus .005% droprate RNG rewards
- Azerite which adds very boring passives and boosts that generally can’t be felt and only seen with a dps/healing tracking addon
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Class design will always be more important than content. With only a little content, I can still enjoy playing my class, at least. But even with lots of content, I can’t enjoy the game if playing my class is unenjoyable.
WoD > BfA by a long shot. Give me back my class.
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BFA was better then WoD. Problem with WoD is once you hit max level and did all heroic instance to get your gear ready for Highmaul. There nothing else to do for content out side of raiding. 75% of your time you sit in your garrison afking lot.