Honestly, who the FUCK ever wanted a world pvp themed expansion?? And im asking this as an actual fan of pvp, i love doing arena and bgs and even world pvp, but basing an entire expansion around that is a terrible and stale idea. The only promising thing here are the warfronts.
There have been SO MANY original and interesting "leaks" or lets just call them what they are, fanfics. South seas stuff, void stuff, bolvar stuff, a combination of some or all of them, with cool new concepts, ideas, and systems. Instead what Blizzard offers is basically a "been there done that" expansion with used art assets for zones, a watered down artifact system, and PROUDLY presents AP farming 2.0....
I had this same feeling before, and its not a good feeling. That feeling in your gut when you watch an expansion announcement and are like "wait... what? no... thats kinda lame actually...". I had this feeling creep up on me when they announced WOD, i was with a friend and told him omg its all gonna be orcs, who the fuck wants to play an orc expansion with fucking time traveling BS to boot, and he was like nah maybe itll be good. We all saw how that turned out, and im afraid BoF will end up like that as well.
Why cant blizzard just follow a normal, logical chain of events between their expansions? Why did they ever realease stuff like MOP and WOD, they were completely unnecessary and so is this. Honestly this world of warcraft has so much potential but blizzard is their own worst enemy at this point.