Originally Posted by
Tojara
WoTLK was pretty shit.
To explain it's the only expansion I felt like quitting a month after it released. There was absolutely nothing to do once you hit max level. Literally cleared every single heroic and normal mode raid the first or second week, with maybe the 3D variant taking another week?
I realize that some people might have actually found it challenging (lol), but you literally had six months of a moderately hard boss by today's standard (Malygos), and a hard boss depending on whether it was 10 or 25 man (Sartharion). That's it. Clearing Naxx with leveling gear and TBC epics was an absolute joke. WoTLK basically gave a giant portion of the raiding community the feeling of what it's like to be a top tier guild that clears content in a couple weeks, but without the actual grueling schedule, preparation or difficulty of doing it.
It fucking sucked. Ulduar saved the expansion for me because it was a fantastic raid, but looking back they did a a complete 180 on design. They went from the easiest tier in history, then one of the harder tiers six months later. For those who grew accustom to what Naxx was, I imagine it was a huge shock stepping into Ulduar. If you didn't raid, what exactly did you have to do in the Ulduar patch? This was also the era of WoW patches where major patches usually just meant raiding content, completely void of anything else. ToGC was kind of the opposite, giving lots of dailies and outdoor stuff, but in turn giving you only 5 bosses to chew on. Raiding wise ToGC kind of tricked people into thinking their was a lot of content because you could do the instance FOUR times.
So yeah. While a lot of people like to look at WoTLK like it was the glory days, all I remember is this shit Blizzard pulled with the first tier. Over the entire expansion WoD certainly had like zero content, but at least the raiding content was good. WoTLK basically didn't have raiding for the first six months, Ulduar was awesome, ToGC was gated and was short, and ICC was pretty good, but again was gated. For all the shit that WoD gets, WoTLK, if you care about raiding was probably the worst.