I’m currently on the PTR and this new patch is a disaster. The city of Tazaevesh gives me Shadowlands PTSD. Every structural element outside the city is just reused ruin assets from Dragonflight. The only “new” thing they’ve added are purple domes, which aren’t even new, they’re just a rehashed version of the newer (culturally, architecturally, and aesthetically worse) ethereal designs. Inside the domes there’s some new vegetation and bushes, but everything else is recycled assets.
As for open-world achievement and collection content I don’t even bother researching it anymore. With every patch, this stuff gets more and more childish, requiring nothing more than the ability to browse Wowhead and grind time.
PvE? I couldn’t care less. From a collector’s perspective, it’s not worth it, you can just buy boosts for gold and get the rewards. And for me, it’s all about the rewards. I don’t take pride in being the 631,241st DPS player who got 3k RIO and Cutting Edge without help of boosters.
When it comes to PvP, Blizzard continues to do absolutely nothing to make it better or worth playing, full of premades, garbage rewards, boosters, long queues, and too many dead game modes. PvP in WoW desperately needs a rework, cut the unnecessary systems and bring back meaningful old rewards, like gladiator mounts. If you’re going to destroy everything that used to have prestige, why not use that to motivate people?
I’m seriously disappointed. That’s all.