Just curious what peoples opinions are. Im not looking to start a flame war, just genuinely curious how people feel the state of WoW is and what they might do to improve upon it.
In my opinion I have lost all faith in Blizz and their ability to handle this game. For the last expansion or so Blizz has been "improving" this game by subtraction which is the worst possible thing i think they can do. They have been dumbing down class abilities and spells, they dumbed down professions, they are potentially removing flying from here on out. This is just to name a few.
To me this expansion seem like a cut and paste, nothing new was added to this expansion. I understand some people will say "You got new zones, new quests,etc...., but thats not new....to me thats like flushing the toilet and adding new water. Without knowing what the next expansion is about I can tell you there will be new zones, new quests, new dungeons, and new raids.....its same shit different stall.
This game needs new innovative aspects in it than just copy and paste, for example; ive been reading a few threads about the low percentage of people who have actually finished or have seen some of the raid bosses throughout certain levels of difficulty. Why do we have 4 difficulty levels? I think this is where our dev time is wasted....the WoW community doesnt joke "that'll cost a raid tier" for nothing. I think they could combine LFR and what used to be Flex by improving the queueing system, the more people queueing with you the higher the difficulty up to flex levels, and improving the ilvl quality of gear, so if you have 5 people and LFR gear is ilvl 700 for a single que, than 5 people it would be 705 roughly.
Another area this game needs is an end game alternative to raiding. The reason i stopped raiding is that it was time intensive, not only did i have to set aside 2-3 days per week at 2-3 hours each, I had to make sure i had all the upgraded gear i could get from outside the raid, make sure i was properly spec'd, made sure i knew the ins and outs of my class and spec for maximum dps/healing/tanking. I eventually grew weary and ultimately didnt have the time to invest in that anymore. There should be an alternative....WoD was supposed to be filled with all this "World Content" and in my opinion failed, but Blizz could vastly improve upon that with dedicated and random World objectives for anyone; if your a single player looking for some world objectives you would only see single player objectives on your map, if you are a guild leader with 10 people you would see world objectives for a group of 10, and there would be flexability for the 10 player objectives up to 12 or down to 8 so that your group could finish an objective( if they know not to stand in shit or prioritize killing enemy shaman totems, etc) within 5- 10 mins, and there would be roughly 5-7 objectives on the map, and if you finished them all you got a bonus ( whatever that might be...possibly a currency or something). World objectives would be seen for 1 player,or a group of 5(with flex up to 7 or down to 3), or a group of 10(with flex up to 12 or down to 8), and maybe a few mythic world objectives for the elite guilds that require exactly 20(no flex).
Flying would only be disabled in these world objective areas....Blizz could if they wanted to instead of removing flying improve upon its system by perhaps adding traits or perks for flying mounts to utilize.....maybe have a world objective include aerial combat with your new mount traits/perks....I know i would certainly love to see my faerie dragon shoot fireballs......or set up the world objective like the flying part in the Oculus.....needing to synergize with your guild mates to complete it.
These are just a few examples off the top of my head.....that this games needs more areas improved upon instead of lazily dumbing them down or removing them....I dont proclaim to know Blizz's plan...they may have a plan or goal to all of .....this.
I'd also like to thank anyone who actually read this far down....thank you!
~Mr. X