Originally Posted by
Wuusah
Imo Legion borrowed power was fun because it was class powers that we borrowed. The artifact weapon empowered class abilities. Legendaries empowered class abilities. Tier sets empowered class abilities. It was exciting because our classes had significant changes to their toolkit all the time.
Borrowed power started to get shit when Blizzard realized that it's way too much effort to give something unique for each class and instead started making generic powers with the crucible, then azerite traits, then essences, corruptions, soulbinds, SoD gems. It's just generic boring bullshit. Legion was class fantasy to the extreme. That was fun. BfA and Shadowlands is random magic bullshit attached to your class.
Borrowed power is bad because they are doing borrowed power the wrong way. They are doing it the lazy way of giving the same powers to everyone.