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  1. #181
    Quote Originally Posted by Steelangel View Post
    These two left the worst taste in my mouth. I missed out of leveling cooking (I usually leave it for last) and Warfronts were just terribly designed. Just awful. There should have been a PvP variant.
    If only you (and Blizzard) knew what was really intended. It was something truly amazing. Blizzard do it to me almost every time- they miss the mark while taking names and the general feel but totally miss the plot altogether.

  2. #182
    Quote Originally Posted by Kehego View Post
    wrong and loud but go off

    and you've never been able to name shit in this game, what kinda dumbass critique is this? jesus fucking christ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zysis View Post
    Ok so... You ddn't mention the Azerite powers and how ridiculously overpowered you could become. It made Legion stuff look weak. 9 stacks of Twilight Devastation on my Tanks' amor and I was a god. Literally. I don't get how you skipped the most crucial part of the entire expac that was the very system of borrowed power people complained about; the disparity between those that didn't and those that did was enormous.
    Simple, I quit the game before I got exposed to the Corruption system, so I don't really have an opinion on it. From the little I've bothered to gather, it was an unbalanced mess of yet another borrowed power system, desperately trying to hold on to players by dumping massive short-term power gains and hope that keeps players hooked.
    The less I remember about BFA, the better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Relapses View Post
    Min/maxers hated Corruption at first, mostly because of the lack of control; but they loved the system when you buy specific Corruptions off the vendor. I don't think the game ever has (or ever will again) allowed players to so fully optimize their character's power. It was absolutely insane how much power you could eke out of the the Corruption system, it's the kind of stuff min/max'ers have wet dreams about.
    Funny enough, I loved the initial version of the system (but well, I had twilight devastation early on my tank). Once the vendor came out, people expected you to use the boring stat increase corruptions, which was horrible.

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  5. #185
    Systems upon systems upon systems filling combat with proc-based effects that almost made class choice irrelevant. Azerite powers were poorly balanced and spent the entire expansion being iterated upon, only for them to release Corruptions which were even worse. Poor storytelling. Really disappointing expansion features like Warfronts that people thought were going to be cool and just kind of ended up being a dull grind, not even continued throughout the expansion. PvE Island expeditions had a shoehorned competitive element that pretty much nobody liked yet Blizzard kept in for some odd reason. Uldir was a bland and forgettable first tier with a lot of mechanics that were just frustrating or obnoxious to deal with. Allied races were a cool idea that was executed poorly and given really bland options like mechagnomes and highmountain tauren which nobody plays and fewer people asked for.

    BfA was the expansion of letdowns. It wasn't completely horrible but it had a lot of cool ideas in both the story and gameplay that were mishandled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LordVargK View Post
    [LIST][*]The lore did not make any sense. Trees don't burn
    Trees don't burn, eh? You ever heard of a forest fire?

  7. #187
    Quote Originally Posted by Irian View Post
    Systems upon systems upon systems filling combat with proc-based effects that almost made class choice irrelevant. Azerite powers were poorly balanced and spent the entire expansion being iterated upon, only for them to release Corruptions which were even worse. Poor storytelling. Really disappointing expansion features like Warfronts that people thought were going to be cool and just kind of ended up being a dull grind, not even continued throughout the expansion. PvE Island expeditions had a shoehorned competitive element that pretty much nobody liked yet Blizzard kept in for some odd reason. Uldir was a bland and forgettable first tier with a lot of mechanics that were just frustrating or obnoxious to deal with. Allied races were a cool idea that was executed poorly and given really bland options like mechagnomes and highmountain tauren which nobody plays and fewer people asked for.

    BfA was the expansion of letdowns. It wasn't completely horrible but it had a lot of cool ideas in both the story and gameplay that were mishandled.
    I still think the most telling thing about bfa is that its content is rarely mentioned just its systems.

    Sure throne of storms and a few fights in the last tier were iffy but if you removed all the grinds I think even islands would of been enjoyed as transmog hunts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irian View Post
    Systems upon systems upon systems filling combat with proc-based effects that almost made class choice irrelevant. Azerite powers were poorly balanced and spent the entire expansion being iterated upon, only for them to release Corruptions which were even worse. Poor storytelling. Really disappointing expansion features like Warfronts that people thought were going to be cool and just kind of ended up being a dull grind, not even continued throughout the expansion. PvE Island expeditions had a shoehorned competitive element that pretty much nobody liked yet Blizzard kept in for some odd reason. Uldir was a bland and forgettable first tier with a lot of mechanics that were just frustrating or obnoxious to deal with. Allied races were a cool idea that was executed poorly and given really bland options like mechagnomes and highmountain tauren which nobody plays and fewer people asked for.

    BfA was the expansion of letdowns. It wasn't completely horrible but it had a lot of cool ideas in both the story and gameplay that were mishandled.
    I have a highmountain tauren shaman and a mechagnome mage, so there are people who play them on alts.

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  9. #189
    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    Trees don't burn, eh? You ever heard of a forest fire?
    Forest fires do not start with healthy trees, they usually start in dry underbrush, gaining momentum until they have enough energy to incinerate trees in seconds.

    They could have made the burning of Teldrassil work, but when neither Archimonde's death throes nor the freaking firelord himself could burn another world tree, then how is burning a seaborne world tree remotely consistent with the rest of the world and its stories?

    Don't get me wrong; they could have made it work.
    They just neglected to do so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neuroticaine View Post
    Most people I know liked BFA. I hated it. Boring zones, boring characters, boring raids, boring story. The best part of it was the Saurfang cinematics. Just my opinion, though.

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    This might be one of your worst takes yet, lmao. One on the right looks substantially better, no matter how you look at it. Old models are absolutely awful.
    The left one remotely resembles a real hyena though, the right one looks reminiscent of a pastry.
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  10. #190
    There were lots of problems in the beginning, especially with azerite gear. also people didn't like grinding for azerite power.

    i thought it was decent, the raids were awesome (especially BoD and EP). and nazjatar was a beautiful zone

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    Quote Originally Posted by loras View Post
    Forest fires do not start with healthy trees, they usually start in dry underbrush, gaining momentum until they have enough energy to incinerate trees in seconds.

    They could have made the burning of Teldrassil work, but when neither Archimonde's death throes nor the freaking firelord himself could burn another world tree, then how is burning a seaborne world tree remotely consistent with the rest of the world and its stories?

    Don't get me wrong; they could have made it work.
    They just neglected to do so.
    Just making a joke! You are right, of course. Personally I always thought it was something like, the corruption that the previous Archdruid, Fandral Staghelm, started and added to the tree, but then I remembered that it got cleansed in a book when the tree got re-blessed by some of the Aspects. I honestly thought they were gonna say something like, "Oh, they were Azerite-powered catapulpts" or something to explain it, but they never did...

  12. #192
    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    Just making a joke! You are right, of course. Personally I always thought it was something like, the corruption that the previous Archdruid, Fandral Staghelm, started and added to the tree, but then I remembered that it got cleansed in a book when the tree got re-blessed by some of the Aspects. I honestly thought they were gonna say something like, "Oh, they were Azerite-powered catapulpts" or something to explain it, but they never did...
    Ah, sorry, can't be sure in written words.
    Yeah, azerite seemed fairly logical, but even then that stuff seems more about a bigget boom and less about fire. But as you say: They didn't try even that little.

    Your joke is right in that they just went with a sort of Pokémon-logic that grass=plant=tree means fire is supereffective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dioporco View Post
    Play Legion from 7.0 to 7.3.5 then BFA to 8.0 to 8.3


    then you will understand
    Legion was pretty fucking awful in the first few patches, as was BFA. Point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by loras View Post
    Don't get me wrong; they could have made it work.
    They just neglected to do so.
    Pretty sure the tree burned, so they made it work.

    Are we gonna argue about nature logics in a game with cows that can turn into cats, bears, and so on?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Asrialol View Post
    Legion was pretty fucking awful in the first few patches, as was BFA. Point?

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    Pretty sure the tree burned, so they made it work.

    Are we gonna argue about nature logics in a game with cows that can turn into cats, bears, and so on?
    Yes, yes we are.
    Fiction that is inconsistent with itself is simply a textbook example of poor storytelling.

    Conflating that with confusing fantasy logic and real world logic is either dishonest argumentation on your part, or an illustration of plain stupidity.
    And the latter is no exaggeration, as it would illustrate that you do not understand even the most basic level of what a "story" entails.
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  15. #195
    Quote Originally Posted by Asrialol View Post
    Legion was pretty fucking awful in the first few patches, as was BFA. Point?
    The point is to play both from start to last patch so you can see the huge differences between them, because if "Legion was pretty awful in the first patches - about what?- " and is still miles ahead of BFA, means that BFA didnt learn a shit from Legion.

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    It really wasn't as bad as people claim if you look back on it, however it had a doozy of a launch which likely taints the rest of the expansion.

    Azerite was balanced incredibly poorly at the launch of the game and it's acquisition method was terrible. The entire dust thing to buy Azerite wasn't implemented until later, and having to regrind rings in each patch felt really bad in a world where AP was scarce, essentially forcing you to do island expeditions which weren't well received either. Islands were eventually 'fixed' at least from the cosmetic standpoint later in the expansion, but for those that don't chase cosmetics anyway, it still felt like a dead feature. Warfronts sounded cool on paper, but were pretty bad and also lagged like crazy. Warfronts were something you really couldn't lose and the cycling process of the event likely turned loads of people off, as you couldn't engage with the the feature when you wanted, and instead had to wait for it to cycle through the stages.

    So you have an expansion launch where they took away a lot of the major talents, legendary items and abilities from Legion, thus making your character feel really awful instead of better during the leveling process. Met with features that were obviously not finished and systems that people didn't really like at all. It also became apparent to the majority of the population that a lot of feedback was either being ignored completely, or being held back from implementation until a later date to string people on. Thus a cycle of systems being broken until the end of an expansion, or half way through a major patch before being corrected to actual fun 'levels' began.

    Take the previous criticism with a grain of salt though because a lot of people like to totally ignore the fact that Legion began this trend and arguably did it way worse. AP grinds in legion were awful, TF grinding was awful, legendary acquisition was awful. Legion obfuscated all of this shit from being taken seriously because it was the first time features like M+ were introduced and people were oblivious to how bad systems like AP actually were until it was too late. If you actually sat down and did a retrospective of Legion, it was pretty bad. There is nothing fun about having to grind out legendary items and AP for the SAME CLASS BUT DIFFERENT ROLE.

    Not saying Legion was awful but all 3 expansions including SLands have similar design philosophy. Legion and BFA both have a lot of actual content, but piss poor systems to which Legion gets a pass by the community (generally) because it was the first one to implement such a feature. Which is slightly fair IMO because you're suppose to learn from your mistakes, scrap piss poor ideas or at least make them better.

    Looking back most of the BFA raids were really good, the areas were cool and I personally liked aspects of the story minus the forced narrative around the War. The Saurfang stuff I thought was really cool, but it doesn't save an expansion. Essences and Corruption were really fun systems, ruined by how they were implemented (initial grind for essences and lack of a fixed vendor for corruption, and corruptions overall launch implementation). Once setup though, I doubt people could deny how fun characters felt to play at the end of BFA because I certainly had fun.

    That's the thing though that taints BFA though. Everything wasn't fun until half way through a patch cycle for every single patch, and the launch patch just wasn't fun, nor were the expansion features. M+ was still fun (at least to me, although I'd argue dungeon design suffered a bit). Basically more of the same design as Legion, and people wanted advancement in the game, not repeated and arguably less fun features depending on who you ask.

    Also as a general rule everyone always hates on the current expansion and likes to look back thinking things in the past weren't so bad lol. When 10.0 comes out I'm sure there will be some people claiming that Shadowlands wasn't that bad either, sort of like you have people who unironically post about how Warfronts and Island Expeditions were actually fun (to each their own).

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    It was the xpac where borrowed power and RNG truly got out of hand:

    • Azerite gear and traits
    • Essences
    • Warforged and the insane Titanforged procs
    • Corruptions

    BfA was also very alt unfriendly. Grinding Essences from scratch for every character was horrible. They did make them purchasable for the new currency if you already had it unlocked on one character, but that was very late into the expansion. They should've been account wide from the get go.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Stormbringer View Post
    Trees don't burn, eh? You ever heard of a forest fire?
    A living tree has a water content of about 50% (depending on type). Good luck trying to set fire to that. At best you'll char the bark of the tree, which forms a fireproof barrier protecting the rest of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fenixazul View Post
    First of, I played Wow until the end of 2018. Meaning that I only played BFA in the first raid tier. I was able to kill Mythic Zul with my guild, and tried the island expenditions, the new allied race, and the warfronts.

    I remember that I really enjoyed the expansion, I quit just because I got a new job and wow was very time consuming.

    So, I really want to know why BFA was so hated. I have read enough information about why Shadowland was considered the worst WOW expansion, but I havent see much information why BFA was hated too.

    Thanks
    BFA was not good.

    1) The Azerite armor, especially on release was really really bland and disappointing. The abilities within the armor for most classes / specs was generic, boring, and not that impactful. New pieces of gear needed to be leveled up over and over again to retain the same traits...

    2) World Quests were alright, but they got really old after 3 months. It was more and more of the same.

    3) New expansion with no new talents or abilities; except, we lost our awesome Artifact weapons and all of their traits. Our gameplay was "simplified" and dumbed down even more.

    4) The initial raid had a cool concept... but it was too small. Like how did these raid bosses get into their boss rooms with the super small doors?! I'm still confused...

    5) Leveling Azerite was a grind, boring, and not impactful. Not only that, but there was no point in leveling, because the catch up mechanics make me feel like I'm wasting my time.

    6) Class and spec gameplay was at it's worst. Everything was so homogenized and bland it was not fun

    7) Grinding meant I could not create an alt and have a full time job + a wife

    8) "Big Bads" were defeated within a patch and felt super rushed. N'zoth and Azshara downed in 1 patch a piece? Should have used a full expansion to lead up to them.

    9) Too many raid mechanics. It just stopped being fun BFA onward. I really miss 1 or 2 mechanics + raid DPS / Heal checks. Addons are just too much imo.

    10) Warfronts were an awesome concept, but they were PVE only, which was a bad idea. PVP would have been so much fun.

    11) World PVP was great, but the rewards were terribad. Literally motivated nobody to play World PVP.

    12) Where are the rest of the Heritage armor sets? (Still waiting)

    13) No tier sets... so I really had nothing cool to loot off bosses... except +1 agility and +2 crit (...so boring)

    14) Mythic+ was fun when I could go crazy with AoE DPS tied to the Artifact weapon... that "kinda" was dumbed down in BFA

    15) Weekly M+ chest NEVER gave me anything good. Tuesdays were always a disappointment and made me question why I wasted my time grinding for a *chance* at a good reward

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neuroticaine View Post
    Most people I know liked BFA. I hated it. Boring zones, boring characters, boring raids, boring story. The best part of it was the Saurfang cinematics. Just my opinion, though.

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    This might be one of your worst takes yet, lmao. One on the right looks substantially better, no matter how you look at it. Old models are absolutely awful.
    The left one is more realistic, thus better
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedruid View Post



    The left one is more realistic, thus better
    Absolutely not, lol. It's a garbled mess of polygons and flat stamps.

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