Lore, sure it has a bad lore but BFA still had worse
Dungeons were great and easier than BFA
Pathfinder WoD was easier than BFA
Content: Sure it had less content than BFA but it still had great dailies to farm golds
But what did BFA have?
Very Bad PvP in BFA because of Azerite grind for many months and ultimately forced PvPers to become PvErs. BFA is stated as the worst PvP expansion
Raids: BFA introduced the worst raiding expansion they were too difficult, many guilds gave up and disbanded and Nyāalotha is one of the hardest raid tier ever (Also it explains that RWF spend 14 hours or longer to finish it in mythic) also all of BFA raids belong top 10 worst raid tiers
Also content were more difficult than WoD, as you can see Mechagon and Turtlesā WQs for example
The grinding reps was so hard, no rep points by doing leveling campaign and main 120 lvl campaigns (War Campaign)
But how bad the dungeons were? Tol Dagor had massive bugs and was never fixed until the end of the expansion, neither the end of Shadowlands. Also again, Kingsā rest
As for the restā¦ well I donāt care for dungeons/raids though I did enjoy the WoD ones more because I actually did them and I even got the legendary ring with LFR. I loved my garrison, levelling (though the rewards from it were rubbish), all of it really bar the huge content gap but I just played GW2 instead. In BfA I quit for 6 months due to the story lock with LFR Dazar alor for Horde. It was a matter of principle. Came back when they removed it.
So yes I agree, I liked WoD more than BfA and Iād happily do it againā¦ except the bloody pathfinder.
Honestly I hate any and all pathfinders. Sure make us do exploration and loremaster of the place once but the world quest and rep farms were ridiculous. Iām happy nobody has to do them ever again! Shadowlands was a happier way of doing it but nothing compares with being able to fly straight away. I love Dragonflight, I love flying around and if I want to slow down I just go on my ground mount.
WoD was great looking at what it had. The things that made it ābadā were the cut content and focus on the garrison. People were also disappointed with the lack of custimization but that is partially their own fault by making assumptions of what they could do with it.
I dissagree, BFA had flaws, but it was more fun that WOD, which was dead expansion pretty much. Bfa had One of the strongest patches ever 8.2, Had funny stuff like corruptions- obtaining them was not fun part due to rng but otherwise it was good. What did WOD had to offer? Nothing pretty much, Challenge modes? You did it once for portals/achievements and thats about it, no replay value. Garrisons, haha, ye collecting gold from mission on like 10 characters was such āfunā. Basicaly Only raids were Good in WOD, Pvp wise good maybe too havent play much rated PVP during that expansion.
I started playing during MoP and BfA is the first exp where I took a break for about a year. Imagine BfA with separated pve and pvp gear like now, with only 2 possible ilvls in pvp like now (honor and conquest) and no rng corruption. It could have been a great exp.
Not forced-mandatory content ie chores, no pve for pvp, etc. All I did in WoD was pvp, duels in durotar (that was the last time I saw players in durotar), wpvp and some irrelevant side fun stuff. And thatās basically wow for me. But I understand why many players didnāt like WoD.
The garrisons were ok imo. But even if I didnāt like them, they werenāt mandatory, so they canāt bother me. Itās a shame that they cut that planned content, but who knows, maybe one day if WoD classic comes out theyāll add that cut content
On its own, however, WoD has contributed nothing to PvP. Except, of course, that many classes have been stripped of a lot of skills. And Ashran. lolā¦ Ashran.
BFA had at least brought in warmode and revived world pvp in the most possible way.
I personally would argue that not only BFA >WoD, BFA was probably my favorite expansion ever too, even over Legion and Wotlk. But before shooting out and loud āāHeresy!āā, let me explain my point of view about it in a couple of points.
BFA had 5 raids, and i disliked only one of them, the very first Uldir, another is my all time favorite (Crucible of Storms). BFA raids offered enough of a challenge all over the raids to keep the heroic difficulty relevant, while offering an interesting Mythic mode. I have never seen the addition of more complex strategies on bosses to be a bad thing for the game and always seen it as a natural evolution, based on the fact the community is overall better mechanically than it was in the first few expansions.
As someone who play quite often, and who like relaxing with a little session of farming while drinking my coffee in the morning before going on more hardcore grounds, the Azerite farm was just a perfect fit for me, as it was helpful compared to my now Gold&Mount farm (That still include BFA content).
Even if i did start running MM+ in Legion, itās BFA with the season 2 affix than made me really like this content to the point it even is my primary content in Wow today.
Legion did hurt very badly my suspension of disbelief over the Warcraft universe, retconning everywhere to make the Broken isles be a proper expansion wide diversified zone and desacralizing so many items and heroes in the process of giving Artefact weapons to the players. The Pre-patch of BFA felt first like a really sour taste joke but if i have to point out the moment i restarted caring about the story, it was there. And storytelling-wise, BFA is the best Blizzard ever done (if you had the big picture by playing both Alliance and Horde)
BFA did not feared to experiment. Some things were pretty meh, others were very nice, making each season unique it itās own way and always giving something new to play with. Never have we felt such a difference in gameplay in-between seasons, even when we had the Tier sets. This is something that missed since, and DF will not make exception if they continue the way it is since SL. Playing kind of the same way during a whole expansion is a highway to boredom in my opinion.
They were both bad. I dont see your point. Every expansion after wotlk was bad except legion, that was only half bad. DamagecontrolFlight seems pretty decent compared to what we used to get.
