More class hall stuff
seems obvious that they’re gonna merge the factions some time in the next 2-3 expansions. adding class halls was way more ‘immersion’ into the world we’ve had than anything faction-wise for the past 17 years. why they dropped it in Legion is beyond me when they got near endless positive feedback about most of the class halls. the only negative feedback i remember hearing is “this other class hall is fantastic, mine isn’t as good as theirs” which, yanno, is a win. thats evidence to keep going in that direction, which they did not.
Less class restrictions / or at least ones that line up with the lore
Could talk about this for hours. They did an entire quest chain where they explain to you in plain English that a Paladin is just a Priest or someone with a connection to the light that has taken up arms and trained to be a warrior of the light. They show this to you, again, in plain English, by having you take a Night Elf priestess and train her to be a Paladin. Then, they forget this exists and add Tauren Rogues instead.
Night Elf Paladins should have been in the game for 6 years now. Undead Paladins should have been in the game at the start of TBC. Its a bizarre turn of events that we ended up with Fel-corrupted Draenei Paladins being playable before Undead Paladins, a thing in the game since Vanilla.
More solo challenges
Again, another win from Legion. Even the horrific visions in 8.3 had positive feedback. Why did they stop doing these? There should be a dedicated team of people that do nothing but make one of these every single major patch. I want a mage tower style challenge every single x.0 , x.1 and x.2 patch. Spec-based rewards i recognise would be too much in that case, so do it class based.
More small stories that aren’t about parent-child relationships, love or mental health
Why can’t we just have a short questline each patch that does something cool in the lore. Wouldn’t you like a quest chain where, say, you push back the remnants of the Scourge in EPL? How about a quest chain where you, as a warrior or paladin or whatever, train the next generation of your class in preparation for TWW? Why does it feel like every quest chain for the past 3-4 years has been about helping some nerd overcome their mental health issues be it grief, insecurity, imposter syndrome or whatever. I don’t care. I don’t care if Dragon A is in love with Dragon B but can’t get over their insecurity issues. I don’t care if Anduin can’t get over his dad dying. I don’t care if Wrathion feels like he won’t live up to his father’s legacy or bla bla bla. I don’t care!
Notice how NO PART of the class order halls were about that stuff. Notice how the Wrathgate was not about that stuff. There is a way to do that stuff well and they already did it back in Pandaria - having characters moan to themselves and call you champion every 7 seconds is not it. Its just boring. Less of that, more of Legion, MoP and WoTLK style questlines.
Again, not that these topics are bad - i’ve got 300 hours in BG3, i know what good mental health / love / relationship storylines look like. WoW writers cannot do them. Stop focusing on them. I do not care about Alexstrasza and feels bad about it, or feels bad about locking up the other dragons, or feels bad about ignoring the mortal races, or feels bad about having to kill, or feels bad about fight, no one cares. It just comes across as creepy and weird when written poorly.
and more fun open world content in general. Something you can grind for long term with amazing cosmetic rewards like the covenant sets or the weapons in legion.