MoP was good but the lack of other asian cultures was really a bad move, also every plot point was around pandas only because of the chinese market and the faction war ending was really lackluster
To this day Mists of Pandaria is still one of my top 3 favorite expansions of any game and will remain like that for a long time. Everything about it has always stayed with me. Every zone is simply beautiful and how they handle the story in the zones was perfect. I enjoyed Garrosh as the main villain and each raid was a blast to go through, except maybe the first one. That wasn't as great. Aside from that, I will always remember how much I enjoyed Pandaria and will always visit.
I’ll occasionaly play a MoP private server from time to time.
It still has professions that meant something (skinning gave crit etc etc)
Classes were by far the best
Dailies weren’t all that bad
Flying at max level
The reps were interesting. I grinded them all to exalted because it wasn’t mandatory
The raids were beautifully made
PvP was awesome
Do people make threads like this really meaning what they say or just to keep away millions of potential players who want to come back?
It had the smallest, most boring raids with the least inspired bosses.
It had the most ridiculous themed dungeons that could belong in a children's cartton.
It had the most obnoxious know it all characters who were so naive it was cringeworthy to experience.
The music was so repetitive I turned off music in WoW for the first time since I started playing, it was just that painful and bland to listen to. That one theme that got repeated every. single. fucking. time. anything. of. note. happened.
It turned pandaren from the mystical creatures they were introduced as in WC3 into fat, dumb, useless pieces of copy paste china folklore/kung-fu shit.
China. China fucking everywhere. Every. Single. Zone. From the Great Wall to the last grain of rice.
I can't remember a single fucking thing of importance that happened in that expansion, because NOTHING of importance happened. They couldn't even kill Garrosh for christ's sake. Instead we battleed our emooooooootioooooons and "DA THUNDA KING OOOH THUNDA SPOOKY".
Fucking pandaria and its "overwhelming majority of players wanting it". No stats to support it to this day whatsoever. None.
I miss Pandaria a lot. Would like some elements of it back.
Raids were awesome except maybe Heart of Fear. Throne of Thunder is easily my most favourite raid of all time.
Class design was decent still and not watered down.
Pandaren were awesome rolling all over the place as a Monk and Dragon Turtle mounts were quite cool.
Pandaria itself has some pretty beautiful scenery. Especially Kun Lai and Valley of the Four Winds.
The lore itself wasn't so bad. Had it's weak moments but overall was somewhat decent.
MoP had the perfect system for loot, but Blizzard had to go in the direction of infinite rolls to play off the whole carrot-on-a-stick mantra to the extreme come Legion onwards, that is to say uncapped Titanforging, to which I loathe...
I don't, Pandaria would have been fine for a content patch but good grief did the the Asian theme get old quick. The Mogu and Klaxxi were cool but they were devoid of any personality and the old architecture and dialogue for 2 years was murder. A side vacation story featuring Old God diarrhea and light heart Panda comic relief turned into Garrosh eating a heart just so we could put him down. Blizzard killing Garrosh and Varian for no good reason have been the biggest mistakes they've ever made lore-wise because Varian and Garrosh were their best characters developed in WoW to not come from the old RTS games.
I liked MoP's content roll out schedule, but nothing else.
It's because they killed Garrosh we're stuck with the shit fest that is Sylvanas' story, and because they killed Varian we're stuck with a shit racial leader like Anduin.
I don't miss the lore, or the shitty food farming mechanics. I don't particularly miss the raids and dungeons, either.
But the class gameplay was a lot better than it is today. The content might not have been top notch, but playing it was fun because playing your class was fun. Right now it is not.
Keep in mind MoP also gave us the stupid talent system we have today and introduced thunderforging
BC > MoP
I unsubbed in early cata and was gone for all of MoP. I just look at MoP and I'm like "what on earth are they doing? this is terrible!"
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.