I had a lot of fun leveling through each of the zones individually. Like the stories there were pretty cool. Even the Maw was okay.
It all started out fine in SL, but just got worse and worse. Just way too much Sylvanas all the time, 4D chessing us. It was the same when we had to go on Thralls spirit quest in Cata which ended with his marriage and the arrival of his pregnant wife and then child? I think. Instead of face fucking us with just Thrall, where he is Dragon Soul KAME-HAME-HAing Dragons out of the sky, or Sylvanas smirking and mustaching twirling all the time while Danuser/Nathanos cums in his pants ..... well we could have used this time to develop other characters? As an Alliance main, I would have much rather have learned more about some of the other leaders, or had them develop up and comers, instead of have been forced into going to Thralls wedding on all my toons because it gave a decent back piece?
Bastion - interesting enough story. Starving of anima. Absolutists who think they are the good guys because thats just how its been. UH OH, civil unrest! UTHER?! It was over too quick.
Maldraxxus - the spy and intrigue stuff was fun, I somehow felt some amount of loyalty to the old characters there. The politics and Primus stuff was fun.
Ardenweald - boring as all get out at first. Mostly just bear ass gathering until the very end with the seed.
Revevndreth - again, a neat take on death. The baddies go here and get hunted and shamed. Loved the castles and more political intrigue. Is the sire good or bad! No one knows!
And then the Maw/memories/Torg - fine and dandy I guess, Torg is a neat idea.
But thats where the fun kind of ends, its like they made really decent to good separate pieces but really crapped the bed when it comes to wrapping it together. Sylvanas just putting LK2 in his diaper and then smirking once again was lame. The jailor retcons I am surprisingly okay with. I would prefer this kind of retcon to just more made up big bads out of the blue. I guess this may have been their best way to open up more avenues without some type of "filler," but they failed. Maybe the big reveal in the next and final patch will tie it all up. I just hope to god Sylvanas dies and doesn't get a redemption, though I know my thoughts on the story are always the opposite of what ends up happening.