Originally Posted by
Marrilaife
Also played for 13 years or so, unfortunately never had a chance to be "the special one" so as I said, can't just be excited for specific raid because "it gave me legendary" because none did.
Not even mentioning how Blizzard handles my main spec in the raids, that basically every tank except Paladin and Demon Hunter had a raid tier where they shined, often multiple times, while Paladin bounces between "second best" in best case scenario to "absolute worst" in worst case scenario. I think the last time my spec was having 5 mins of fame was somewhere back in wotlk where ardent defender was a passive cheat death... that paladins lost over time meanwhile DKs gained it.
Nah, if I ever had to judge raid enjoyment by how Blizzard treated my main character, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the game at all. And it's really hard to keep it up when half the timespan of the last 2 expansions my spec was basically pushed out of mythic raiding (TOS, Uldir and EP have been the worst).
I don't blame you for enjoying Firelands for the leggo staff, I'm just saying I can't share this experience, and tbh I'm not sure if majority of people were actually praising Firelands because they obtained the legendary (even if you were the "correct" class often there was more candidates than time to grind it for everyone). While I've heard this sentiment a lot "Firelands = good, Dragon Soul = bad".
Personally I enjoyed Blackwing Descent much more, I disliked Firelands both due to the "overwhelmingly orange" visuals (yeah I know fire theme, but that lacks any point to create variety), and the difficulty curve that was off, similar to BODA - end boss was a huge step up while everything before him was fairly linear difficulty with not that many hard bumps.
Transmog wise, actually Paladin set was good, but annoying that you couldn't get a matching belt to heroic set - only normal from the rep vendor. On the other hand, not every class was so lucky. I think Druid one was the worst, with both other Cata sets being better, and the one from Bastion of Twilight / Blackwing Descent being one of the most commonly used Druid transmogs to this day (especially the shoulders).
Adding more quests / modernizing questlines so you don't spend more time running from point a to b, than actually completing quest objectives, was great.
What was shit is making several shared zones Horde-only or giving big swaths of existing zones to the Horde while deleting Alliance vendors, hubs and questlines.
I'm gonna miss old Southshore, Silverwind Refuge, Alterac and Azshara forever. Theramore at least can still be phased and quested in, but the rest is gone. Together with several rare recipe vendors and whatnot.
Also a lot of old iconic questlines got deleted because they didn't fit into "1 sub zone" category or due to changes to timeline. Well at least now people can relive these on Classic, however I'm personally not much into Classic due to the old philosophy where some classes were only meant to be healers or supports. I'm just too entrenched in the modern idea that prot pala, boomkin or ele shaman is meant to be a proper spec.
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I imagine they'll try to fix it with Shadowlands and the "Chromie timetravel" options informing players they're in fact going into the past.