Originally Posted by
melodramocracy
I'll agree with this, Deepholm was the best of the Cata zones by a mile. The look, the story, it was all simply better than anything else the expansion offered. Vash is pretty, but unfinished, and the storyline sort of just ... ends. Uldum was a letdown after all the years of wondering exactly WHAT would be there. Twilight Highlands had some interesting phasing in the beginning, but after that it's just filler content, and Hyjal just needed to be a lot better.
I thought FL was actually pretty good, easily the highlight raid of the expansion, though I realize that's a minority opinion. DS was a letdown of epic proportions. TB was just not a fun bg in the slightest. 1-60 revamp was good in some spots (Badlands and Silverpine being particularly good), but also made every zone questing on rails, which is just terrible for alt rolling. Starter 5 mans were really good. Troll 5's were decent, but far too much emphasis was put on them. The DS 5 mans told their stories well enough, but were fairly a pushover. (across the board though, they're all miles ahead of MoP 5's). Chaos orb implementation was an absolute trainwreck of game design.
Bottom line is that despite a few positives, the expansion did a lot more wrong than it did right, more so than any other expansion. Which is why it's the logical choice.