Originally Posted by
Elestia
Have to agree, Cata zones and dungeons are perhaps the best content designed. The release raids were also superb. Firelands unfortunately began a downhill spiral. The Firelands raid, while epic, was only 8 bosses long. Add to that the fact the Abyssal Maw raid was scrapped, which included 5-8 additional bosses, in addition to lore content involving the fate of Neptulon. Its sad really. The instance portal still stands agape waiting for us to come rescue the Tide Hunter.
Finally, what should have been the ultimate apex of WoW, being the Deathwing fight, was horrible. DS single handedly killed the xpac, as has been mentioned. To add insult to injury, Blizz cited LFR development for draining resources. Not only that DS had more bosses created and ready that were cut since noone wanted to tune and test the encounters. The raid itself was a disaster. Going from butthole to butthole in the snow, fighting disgusting abominations, then flying up a tower that we've been to a million times during Wrath, and that's it for a raid? That's not a raid, or an experience! That's going to two buttholes and a tower! There's probably a sex joke in there somewhere!
And then you have the Deathwing fight itself! Granted two fights made things more epic. Granted spine was difficult, and epic because it was difficult, does not make how Deathwing died okay. Roll back to the first time you watched the DS trailer and just thinking "Oh fuck." Now take that thought, and look at how Thrall kills him. (That's the other irksome thing, fucking Thrall kills DW, not you the raider. Although the same can be said about Velen showing up at the Sunwell, Maiev killing Illidan, Tirion killing Arthas... fucking Thrall trying to kill steal Garrosh, players NEVER get to kill an end boss.) Thrall kills DW with a disk and some shiny light because he's an "Aspect." Aspect my eye. HE'S AN ORC. Orcs don't even belong on Azeroth, and yet the dragons are cool with it. Alexstraza was enslaved by the Dragonmaw ffs. All dragons view mortals as dirt, and orcs are beyond contempt. Her blessing Thrall at the end, ridiculous. So there ya go! We got robbed of duking it out with DW in a direct stand off, and once again Thrall's the showcase of WoW = terribad.