What is your favorite part of each expansion?

[CritFromAfar]

I read an article recently about how overworked game developers can be, so I felt bad and thought it could be potentially helpful to see what people think are their favorite aspects of each expansion (yes, that means WoD, too). I'll start:

I loved the reputation quests in TBC and WoTLK, and I felt the grind made the items more rewarding for me. I also loved that the rep items, if not all of them, were still relevant.

[Fred Skinner]

The end, when every part of the story is available, when content is all accessible, when great gear makes everyone way more powerful than before.

[Fistfighter]

Isle of Quel'Danas in TBC, the first added landmass and the first patch hub.

The starting and leveling zones in Wotlk.

Tol Barad quest hub in Cataclysm.

Everything, but most noticeably the Isle of Thunder in MoP.

The Blackrock Foundry in WoD.

The class oder halls+quests in Legion.

And the Kul Tiras in BfA.

[Sondrelk]

(started playing at the end of Cata)

Isle of thunder and Timeless isle in MoP

Everything except the daily quests and the long stretches of nothing in WoD.

Mage tower and Class mounts, because of the replayability.

General aesthetic and questing of Kul Tiras.


Edit: Ask me this again at the end of the expansion and i am willing ot bet i will say Nazjatar, mostly because that zone is exactly my jam

[CritFromAfar]

The end, when every part of the story is available, when content is all accessible, when great gear makes everyone way more powerful than before.

I take it you're not one for hype?

[letssee]

Tbc was flying
Wotlk were zones
Cata was vashir
Mop was timeless isle
Wod was lvling
Legion was suramar and mage tower
Bfa absolutely nothing

[Sondrelk]

I also love the part of the expansion when everyone bashes on the new expansion and refuses to accept the faults of the previous one.
Endless entertainment from reading the forums.

[CritFromAfar]

Tbc was flying
Wotlk were zones
Cata was vashir
Mop was timeless isle
Wod was lvling
Legion was suramar and mage tower
Bfa absolutely nothing

The intro and entire zone of Vashir scared me when I first played through it. All that open ocean gave me the willies.

[stripesrus]

TBC: Patch 2.4 (isle of quel'danas/sunwell)
Wrath: Patch 3.3 (ICC/ the 3 dungeons)
Cata: Early tough heroics
MoP: Nothing (least favorite expansion)
WoD: The leveling
Legion: Class Artifact Quests
BFA: Nothing

[CritFromAfar]

I also love the part of the expansion when everyone bashes on the new expansion and refuses to accept the faults of the previous one.
Endless entertainment from reading the forums.

Only if you're into that kinda thing, I guess.

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TBC: Patch 2.4 (isle of quel'danas/sunwell)
Wrath: Patch 3.3 (ICC/ the 3 dungeons)
Cata: Early tough heroics
MoP: Nothing (least favorite expansion)
WoD: The leveling
Legion: Class Artifact Quests
BFA: Nothing

You didn't like MoP? Why?

[Knight Meta]

TBC: The encounter with Illidan Stormrage.

WoTLK: Everything - My fave expansion but if I had to pin point one thing; Blood DK PvP play.

Cata: The Heroic Dungeons (Early hardy ones and the final patch ones) - I still regard End Times, Well and Hour of Twilight as some of the best Dungeons in the game.

MoP: The Klaxxi Questline and Story in Dread Waster - They still stand today as the Faction in game I love the most with their story, behavior and how it all comes to an end.

WoD: PHAT GOLDZ. There was really nothing else to enjoy here.

Legion: The entire Artifact system. I finally felt like one of the Adventurers who one day is suppose take over for the current "Heroes" in lore.

[Fred Skinner]

I take it you're not one for hype?

Oh i am all hyped, yet i like the end more than the beginning of an expac. I always hit some brickwall at the start, where i have nothing left to do. At the end, i always have something i can do with alts. Flying is available. It is just more fun to play at the end for me.

[help helper]

Raids

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[Dracullus]

TBC - World. Not quality, but apocaliptic theme. We had only few zones like that since TBC (Icecrown, Molten Front, Tanaan, Argus). I would love art team to do whole expac this style again with current skills and experience.

WoTLK - expac theme (not story, I didn't like "I'll get you next time, Gadget!" Lich King in 3.0 dungeons, throwing Old God to the mix or very odd tournament), casual approach

Cata - world revamp, it was only expac that focused more on overall game than just max level experience

MoP - expanding the lore outside RTS story, starting to add more playstyles than just quests/dungeons/raids

WoD - raids (especially BRF) and changing raids/dungeon structure (raid difficulties, mythic dungeons), small withdraw from queueable content (LFR/LFD gear on par with world content since 6.2, manual group finder)

Legion - changing daily/dungeon/leveling structure (world quests, mythic+,world scalling), post max level progression system (artifacts), great patch structure (hopefully it will be carried forward in every expac)

BfA - changing PVP structure (account-wide PVP levels, epic/normal battlegrounds, War Mode), different experience for Horde and Alliance (it can be downside for people that hate playing both factions)

[Big Mama]

Story, side quests, cinematics. Basically lore (definitely not Lore).

I would love to get more questlines similar to the one that rewards you Volpin the Elusive although I hated the initial drop that starts the whole questline and didn't get it until the very end of the Legion.

[anveena]

Quel'Danas wpvp
Ulduar
Tol'Barad wpvp
Didn't play much in Pandaland
Didn't play much in WoD
Raddon's
Nothing so far. Hopefully 8.2 changes that.

[Flintston]

TBC >> Hellfire Peninsula, Flying
WotLK >> Storm Peaks, Ulduar, ICC
Cata >> Final Patch dungeons (I always enjoyed them very much), World revamp on SOME zones (others were sadly destroyed like Barrens)
MoP >> Timeless Isle
WoD >> Raids, Alliance garrison looks cozy and nice, still go there from time to time (but I wasn't a fan of its gameplay when it was current)
Legion >> Suramar
BFA >> Kul Tiras and Kul Tiran allied race

[FlasKamel]

Honestly just before the next expansion's pre-patches, in every expansion. Where the community takes it upon themselves to create the fun.

[dacoolist]

I read an article recently about how overworked game developers can be, so I felt bad and thought it could be potentially helpful to see what people think are their favorite aspects of each expansion (yes, that means WoD, too). I'll start:

I loved the reputation quests in TBC and WoTLK, and I felt the grind made the items more rewarding for me. I also loved that the rep items, if not all of them, were still relevant.

I played classic for like 5 hours and quit and returned mid TBC - Now nonstop sub, so this below is IMO:
(My rank for expansions btw WLK>LEG>MOP>TBC>CATA>BFA>WOD)

TBC: Just how unique everything really was in the open world.. everything was so damn cool
WLK: The raids were just bar none hands down BIS - I even liked Trial of the Crusader ffs
CAT: If anyone says anything besides transmog they are lying to themselves
MOP: That Legendary Cloak, but the best thing about it was the idle affects showing everyone that you had one of the 4 cloaks
WOD: Challenge modes that were actually hard to time (unlike MOP, in MOP CM's were so damn easy to time)
LEG: I'll be honest, it was hard choosing this (I really enjoyed the raids, the challenge tower..) but the introduction of Mythic+ was amazing
BFA: Azerit...JK, I think the revamp to pvp has been stellar, it's sadly the only thing better than LEG, everything else is worse SADLY

[Aresk]

In general my preference for expansion is WotLK/WoD/Legion/BfA/TBC/MoP/Cata

TBC - Flying Mount quests (e.g. Bombing runs, Netherwing races)
WotLK - Wrathgate/Battle for Undercity
Cata - Old world update (including flying)
MoP - Challenge mode dungeons
WoD - 3D Model updates
Legion - Class/Profession-specific quests
BfA - Transmog improvements