Originally Posted by
TheVaryag
That'd be subjective, for some people content Is PvP, to some It's just story.
To me, "Content" Is story progression and raids with some PvP Improvements, a mix of all 3. Something new for everyone, but sadly that doesn't apply much these days, as most people are casuals and there's not much Hardcore content so to speak. Everyone can do anything In Legion. I believe In the older way of doing things, from Vanilla, TBC and wrath.
Namely TBC & Wrath, you dedicated and you got rewarded, you ran dungeons, then raids If you liked. If not, you PvPed. If neither of those, you did RPing even though there's few who do that In the large playerbase of WoW, but some still do.
It took time, dedication, teamwork, a guild most likely and some friends alongside luck. Now any random sod can have Mythic level gear, or better just by running a ton of Mythic + dungeons, or even pay money for It and get boosted.
And Legion's "Content" Is nothing but grinding upon unrewarding grinding so far, the 80 souls Illidan quest, got a pair of boots that Is probably a downgrade for you already because you ran tons of world quests and mythics. LFR Nightmare dropped gear that was also a downgrade, cause world quests gave you better, that whole LFR became useless. Artifact Power Is grindy as hell, a -must- for hardcore players, and then you dump It Into a generic 0.5 % damage upgrade 4th golden trait. Which btw Isn't going away In 7.2, It's returning with the new traits.
So far, TBC/Wrath remains the best expansions when It comes to given content, story, raids and PvP. Both were lacking many things, no expansion Is perfect not In the slightest. But TBC and wrath were close to being perfect If only Blizzard didn't go Casualcraft In Cataclysm.
And that's not even mentioning the horrificly bad Legendary system nicked from Diablo 3, the story that so far seems to be nicked from Starcraft 2 with Warhammer-like demonic space ships, totally not ripped from Chaos Ships who can now apparently warp around as they please and took 12+ years to build, as they weren't anywhere to be seen during the 2nd Invasion (Aka Warcraft 3) & finally the lack of real content so far, I mean 7.2 Is the first large content pack. It has a timeless isle-style area, broken shores (Again, lazy development, a timeless Isle thing should just be the entirity of the expansion zones, with added quests and storylines, I mean you have phasing tech since Mists, that's not hard to do now surely, and make It more open-worldy like In Vanilla, but better) a raid that will come weeks after launch and PvPers get... wait, what do they get? Oh right, nothing. Really, you couldn't come up with any PvP content? There's this whole Alliance are mad on the Horde cause they think the horde betrayed the Alliance at the shore thing? Nothing PvP-oriented around that? Or Greymane X Sylvannas again, where's any of them? Where's Anduin (Who got a new model but that sure as hell wasn't used well yet), where's Jaina? Turalyon and Alleria, nothing on that? (Still don't buy the whole "They were fighting a galactic war for millenia, but time passed different for them" explenation. Might as well call them Jedi)
So many potential In Legion, and they squander It by making It a casual mess, with a butchered lore, the entire expansion made to be a Nostalgia fest and heavily rellies on that, giving players what they wanted so long ago, but only give It to us now cause their subs are so low and WoD was such a failure (Aka Illidan, Demon Hunters, Vrukuls, Xavius and the nightmare, the Nightborne basically being the blood elves of this expansion) so on and so on.
I'd like content to be not re-used old content, story similar to the last expansions (Or their other games) and not relly on Nostalgia. Not to point fingers, but Mass Effect Andromeda has shown Itself to be different from It's previous trilogy. Same universe, but different races, another galaxy to discover and explore. Just do that with WoW, Innovate, new ideas Blizz. Not old. I see no bone of originality In Legion so far.
You made up reasons for the Legion to return and Illidan to appear as the good guy despite killing millions. You can make another planet appear and be relevant, a completely, new planet. New creatures, new race, new characters, new everything.