thank god its over, yeah this pretty much sums it up
thank god its over, yeah this pretty much sums it up
There is a void in my heart. Have you come to fill it?
Positives:
Alliance zones (Drustvar especially)
Raid boss design (NOT Behemoth)
Dungeon design
Not good, not bad:
Visions of SW/Org
Essences
Corruption gear (the idea was okay)
Negatives:
Azerite armor
Essence re-grind
Corruption balancing
The lack of PvP gear/rewards
Horde zones (Voldun was okay)
Class balance
GCD change not being reverted/fixed
Island expeditions
Sylvanas and everything they did to her character
The end of the expansion, how we took down N'zoth, was weak. We should not be this powerful...
It was bad.
Loved 8.0 / 8.1
Didn’t mind 8.2
Hated 8.3
Second worst expansion, with only WoD being worse
Yeah, that's how it is in essence(pun). And I am writing that pun because Essences was a watered(pun) down Artifact Weapon that they rushed to make since Azerite Armor failed miserably. Essences was also the only system I liked in BfA. If they had that from start and more fleshed(pun) out, then BfA would have been a lot better on that front.
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When I quit in BfA back in the latter stages of 8.1, (Dazar'Alor Battle raid), I took a year off. When I came back in 8.3, it was overwhelming: new essence rental power, two new zones you had to do to unlock flying (Nazjatar and Mechagon), new corruption rental power, visions, Uldum, Vale, etc...It was just too much and I quit a few weeks after returning. If Shadowlands is anything close to BfA in terms of massive grinding and rental powers, I won't even try it.
I enjoyed it, not as much as Legion but I did. Good things: amazing zones, great dungeons and raids, horrific visions, Mechagon. Bad things: Nazjatar, some specs felt missing something after Artefacts were gone, islands and warfronts being irrelevant in the end. Overall, I did enjoy it, I played less though. I wish it was more focused on a faction war instead of old gods, I wouldn't mind having Siege of Stormwind and more warfronts in 8.3 but oh well.
For me it is slightly better than WoD and Cata but not as good as MoP or Legion or Wotlk.
I still do not understand why warfronts was not vs ppl and why ilvl of reward for pvp invasion didn't changed since the time it was included in to the game?! (like 375 ilvl). They showed to us some good ideas, but at the same time they break it itself - wtf.
Tbh art/media and other parts of content were on top lvl before last patch, i really enjoyed Jaina's story line, cinematics and etc.
PVP for me (i mean arena at least) was worst than ever, first seasons were boring as hell, we had a bit low azerite choice and useless neck, then we got usefull neck and another one ring in azerite, it made choice much vairable, but at the same time we got a stupid grind system to got this essenses, we got imbalance pve tank trinkets, and as a gift we got corruptions, at start it was absolutely RNG disbalance system, after corruptions vendor some of classes became out of any control. And, the number of things i should do to play arena at decent lvl were much highter then ever - fact.
And the last part - class design. Some of classes still be in deep ass if they will not up by corruptions, other were even with corruptions lol.
so. RNG system and class design of BFA were the worth
Worst WoW expansion, even worse than WoD. Congrats Blizzard on achieving this!
It warms my heart that only ~ 10% say BfA was a good expansion, while ~ 20% rate it as mediocre and an overwhelming amount of ~ 70% rate it as bad, very bad or the worst overall.
Not that I called it two weeks after BfA's launch. It was obvious from the start that BfA would suck and guess what, it did. From story to features to incentives to play - this expansion was a gigantic misfire (granted, it incredibly succeeded with alienating players and making player activity plummet).
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The only reason I might rank WoD higher than BFA is because there was no constant Corruption grinding back in WoD.
But both of them take the worst expansion cake easily.
BfA is a bad expansion, but atleast 2 expansions was worse...
Fact (because I say so): TBC > Cata > Legion > ShaLa > MoP > DF > BfA > WoD = WotLK
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It is my personal opinion my friend.
Objectively speaking ... at the middle of legion when u want to change ur spec for ex. .. you need to farm relics+AP ... aaaaand ur best leggo to play ur 2nd spec with the same chara .. what about playing the 3rd spec then? is that fine? farming a month or so for AP+relics and pray for rng god for good leggo for ur spec?
yes bfa not the best exp. but not worst than legion again in my opinion i suffered during legion so yeah its worst exp. ever in many terms .. bfa after 8.2 getting better ..
I stopped playing around 8.2 so I can't really say much about what happened after that but.
+The pre expansion videos and story was really good and got me hyped
+Leveling, art, music and some zone stories were really good(most memorable were Drustwar, Nazmir and Vol'dun)
+I personally liked pruning and thematic specs a lot
+No flying while I played
+Raiding with my guild was pretty fun
-Borrowed power again
-Exponential character growth making everything you do meaningless after the next patch hits
-Grindy.. since everything is boring and takes a long time to do and will become meaningless the next patch, why even bother?
-Professions. They managed to completely ruin them.
-Mission table. Legion got it right, BfA made it more grindy and less useful.
-Casual PvP was terrible. Immortal healers, low damage. Button smashing over tactics.
-Focus on cosmetic rewards over actually useful things
-Mythic+ in general. I know a lot of people like these but I think they're like arenas.. toxic and immersion breaking.
I would say it's the second worst expansion after WoD. BfA content was pretty poor quality, but at least it had some content unlike WoD.
Expansions are like elected politicians. Everyone loves them when they start, hates them when they are over, and think better of them a bit later when the current expansion/politician is in place.
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I give it a 9 out of 10 score for lack of transmogs i wanted ingame that is it for me.
I genuinely didn't mind it. Sure, a few scuffed systems but it wasn't that much different from Legion for me as a whole.
Sorry, I can't give you my review today. you didn't RNG the RNG of the RNG. try opening the chest next week.
Story: meh
Art/Music: good as always
Raids: decent
Pvp: I don't PVP so I can't say really, but I've heard PVP in Nazjatar was absolutely garbatchula
Questing: liked the zone selection. wish the zone selection for the Opposite factions areas mattered more. Nazjatar felt like a huge timesink.
Systems: time-gated RNG filled garbage. Faction vs Faction scenarios where you can only fight NPCs. 3 player Scenarios that don't feel meaningful. the 8.3 scenario was enjoyable until it became something I had to complete x times a week to keep my gear up.
Professions: Do any exist other than Herb/Alch?
Overall: not as bad as WoD.
My ranking overall would be, Worst first:
WoD, BFA, Mop, Vanilla, Legion, Cata, WOLK, TBC
(and TBH I liked MOP, so put a HUUUUGE space between BFA and mop.)
Till water is gone, Till shade is gone. Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath. To spit in Sightblinders eye on the last day.