What is your favourite expansion?

[Grimbold of Skullcrusher]

I really liked WotlK, cos in my opinion it had the best aesthetics... From gameplay pov, I think MoP will be the most perfect one...

[Malignant]

TBC>vanilla>wrath>mist?>cata

[PizzaSHARK]

I see a lot of players saying "BC was the best" or "Wrath was king", and also a fair share of "WoW died with the lich king" and "cata is the death of WoW" etc etc. I'm interested in what everyones favourite expansion is and why. I personally loved bc/wrath, I loved cata as well, but I did enjoy the ol' days better
Thanks in advance, and please keep the bagging of cata to a minimum, i'd rather hear what you like rather than what you hate.

Wrath of the Lich King.

Wrath started off poorly (/castrandom Gladiator DKs, woo!), but they managed to mostly fix things by the middle of it, and while Naxxramas was absolutely awful, Ulduar remains the high-water mark for raiding, and heroic Lich King is still probably the most entertaining encounter in the game. Trial of the Crusader was a nice experiment in a trash-less raid. Wrath brought us the Dungeon Finder tool and Wintergrasp was fantastic, and still is.

Been playing since closed beta, so this isn't "oh he didn't play during TBC." No, TBC was good, but overall, Wrath was better.

[Keske]

The burning crusade. It's in fact the only real good expansion. WotLK was god awful, absolute horse piss. Yes, Ulduar is the best raid released to this date HOWEVER all the other raids, sucked. Naxx for all those months? But this isn't about how bad WotLK it is about how good BC was. It was the best simply because it was the most interesting. The raids were good, questing was massivly improved compared to classic (wich is awful by todays standards). Heroics held my interest and there was some proper hard content for everyone.

[PizzaSHARK]

Cata could have been the savior of WoW - it started strong, but Blizzard didn't pull it through. I don't think MoP will change anything. I lost hope for WoW, but I'm wondering how they are going to position Titan and how it is going to affect the orientation of WoW.

Cata brought a lot of really great changes to the game: raid finder, revamp of the currency systems (JP+VP, HP+CP) and a dramatic shortening of the PvP honor grind, and a partial return of the Isle of Quel'danas with the Tol Barad dailies.

However, they also did a lot wrong: they were way too hands-off with PvP in this expansion, rarely making significant changes during a PvP season, and they never came through with their stated goal of revamping the dispel system. Additionally, while they met their goals for healers and mana use in the first half of the expansion, Intellect becoming a god stat results in healers being straight up overpowered in the latter half.

Blizzard also got burned by the player base when they did what they said and made the heroics more difficult, to please the hardcores and rose-tinted TBC nostalgia people. The problem is that the player base has changed a lot since then - after a full expansion of easy-mode Wrath heroics, the majority of players lack both the patience and the skill to be able to tackle harder heroics. Where Magister's Terrace was once considered the gold standard of dungeons, the majority of the player base would now consider it too hard, to an almost unfair degree.

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The burning crusade. It's in fact the only real good expansion. WotLK was god awful, absolute horse piss. Yes, Ulduar is the best raid released to this date HOWEVER all the other raids, sucked. Naxx for all those months? But this isn't about how bad WotLK it is about how good BC was. It was the best simply because it was the most interesting. The raids were good, questing was massivly improved compared to classic (wich is awful by todays standards). Heroics held my interest and there was some proper hard content for everyone.

ICC was overall a high-quality raid and Lich King was fucking amazing. The hell you smokin, son?

[sharkwouter]

I loved cata for giving us the ability to queue for something challenging, atm we can only do challenging content once a week
Cata was the best and became the worst with patch 4.3 unfortunately. Not much to do outside raids except for old content or farming boring stuff for points every week.

[PizzaSHARK]

I loved cata for giving us the ability to queue for something challenging, atm we can only do challenging content once a week
Cata was the best and became the worst with patch 4.3 unfortunately. Not much to do outside raids except for old content or farming boring stuff for points every week.

The good news is that Blizzard are aware of it, and if MoP is anything to go by, it looks like they're learning how to give us stuff to do after we've capped our VP/CP for the week.

[laptops4college]

Burning crusade is more fun..

[Blinks]

I went with WotLK but BC is right behind it. I just liked the overall feel of WotLK. Overall I'd probably say WotLK>BC>Cata...

Didn't play Vanilla so I won't even put it up there.

[Matson]

Blizzard also got burned by the player base when they did what they said and made the heroics more difficult, to please the hardcores and rose-tinted TBC nostalgia people. The problem is that the player base has changed a lot since then - after a full expansion of easy-mode Wrath heroics, the majority of players lack both the patience and the skill to be able to tackle harder heroics. Where Magister's Terrace was once considered the gold standard of dungeons, the majority of the player base would now consider it too hard, to an almost unfair degree.[COLOR="red"]

Yeah actually that is a huge problem at the moment. And if you check the votes , you see that half of the people still think BC was better than Wrath. Half of the people like the dungeons to be bit challenging. It's not that the same guys who were yelling during wrath that the dungeons are too easy are the same people who said that the dungeons are too hard in start of cata. They probably enjoyed the game then and thats why did not spend their time in forums crying for difference. If they now really go to WotLK mode heroics the issue won't be fixed. Then those guys who cried during wrath for challenge ( including me ) will be there crying once again and blizzard wonders again why the customers aren't happy and the number of them is dropping. They should find some golden middle way to please both of us evenly.

[tohyatvc]

Yeah actually that is a huge problem at the moment. And if you check the votes , you see that half of the people still think BC was better than Wrath. Half of the people like the dungeons to be bit challenging. It's not that the same guys who were yelling during wrath that the dungeons are too easy are the same people who said that the dungeons are too hard in start of cata. They probably enjoyed the game then and thats why did not spend their time in forums crying for difference. If they now really go to WotLK mode heroics the issue won't be fixed. Then those guys who cried during wrath for challenge ( including me ) will be there crying once again and blizzard wonders again why the customers aren't happy and the number of them is dropping. They should find some golden middle way to please both of us evenly.

They did, meaningful rewards for doing difficult achievements...

... But then ruined it by ramping up ilvls too high in the same expansion, keeping old achievements and rewards in the game even after they were easy, and constantly nerfing content. Not exactly hard to see.

[Huntardicus]

I've played up to 87 so far on the beta and have to say the questing experience there is out of this world compared to previous quest content. The balance of fun/flavour quests and kill/collect quests is perfect, and so many original mechanics.

[travelocity]

Wotlk. I never pvp'd and pve had less problems than in other expansions, so it worked for me.

[Blimey]

Was TBC for me, Wrath had it's moments... Cataclysm is horrible and I'm guessing MoP will be no different.

[Poban]

Burning Crusade, because, after 6 months of not having a clue as to what I was doing in vanilla, I finally got the hang of the game in BC. The game was still pretty new for me, so that just added to the excitement. Zangarmarsh and Nagrand are lovely places as well .

[Azithul]

For me, WotLK was the best. I did get to experience a lot of the content, especially on the raiding side of things.

However, I have high hopes for Mists of Pandaria and I think it will be one of the best expansions to come. The zones look nice, the music is brilliant, but the main thing for why MoP will be the best expansion to come is all the content it will be providing us all with.

[Velorian]

Mists looks like it'll be the best one yet. Cataclysm is my favorite one so far though.

[Snakez]

He's probably still butt hurt because he couldn't complete 5 man heroics or something. Move along, nothing to see here besides another terrible casual.

I don't care about PvE.

WotLK pvp > Cata pvp > BC pvp

[PizzaSHARK]

I don't care about PvE.

WotLK pvp > Cata pvp > BC pvp

Hmm, this. Cata and BC are kinda equal - both were pretty decent for the first half, but season 4 was just as bad as the current season was. Anyone remember warglaive rogues and completely fucking immortal SL/SL locks? Good times, right?

I'd say Ulduar-era WotLK was the best PvP's ever been.