Now that I've played WoW for little over a month I feel like writing up a few of my thoughts on the expansion.
Firstly, I will say this. The game is beeeeeeautiful! All the locations are amazing. Dazarāalor is amazing and every time I fly over it I look around to see all the neat little details. Boralus is the most city like place I have seen in WoW EVER. So really, world design wise the game has never looked better. I really really like it. And the music is amazing too. Some really beautiful themes that I just love to listen to over and over again. Great stuff. Ā
However game design wise, I feel...confused. Many things feel laking or bland. So I will list some of those things. Mind you, these are just my opinions. Maybe you dont feel like this at all. Which is fine. Opinions are opinions. We all have em. Like butth-
Now I know Blizzard said that they wanted to scale back a bit on them. Lover the gold rewards and not make a billion different ones that you just turbo click through like in WoD.
But now, they feel...almost pointless. Ok, so you now have maximum of 5 followers and at most I've seen 4 missions available at the same time. And of those Ā 4, I've only seen 4 different rewards.
1. Reputation. (more on this later)
2. Gold. Insignificant amount. 100 gold max. Not really worth it
3. Very very very rarely augmentation runes.Ā
4. the upgrade things for the enemy continent camps, but once they areĀ Ā Ā done. these never show up again, so really I almost feel like not countingĀ Ā them. The upgrades are all pretty insignificant anyway (like the ability toĀ Ā Ā use the scrapper in one of the camps).
So yeah, all pretty bland really. No pets, no BoEs, no Account bounds, not even something like, I don't know, materials.Ā
And now, lets go back to reputation and how even that becomes pointless.Ā
I've always liked growing my reputation with different factions. I like the rewards and sometimes they even give you story, like they do here too. Partially tho'.
Once you reach revered with some factions, you get a few interesting story quests but they end unfinished. So I was eager to get more reputation to reach exalted. So I could get more of the story. Ā But spoiler alert, you dont get any. Once you reach exalted, no story. Nada. I was SURE Magni would have something to tell me once I reach exalted with him. But no. He says nothing. He doesnt even upgrade your Heart of the Azeroth like he did with previous ranks. Just buy the head piece and move on.Ā
And now that you are exalted with factions, there is nothing more to gain. In Legion once you reach exalted, you still had a reason to do world quests and other things that give you reputation, because every 1000 reputation you gain, you were given a chest. With small rewards, like resources and gear and sometimes RARE rewards. uuuuh! But here in BfA, no. For some reason once you reach exalted, you are no longer able to get the chest rewards or anything. It just stops. So you no longer have a reason to do reputation follower missions or world missions that give you reputation. So now you have even fewer reasons to do follower missions which were already rather bland. Which brings us to.
So we have already made clear that once you have reached exalted with factions, reputation quests and missions are pointless (a lot of the content seems focused on reputation, huh). With world quests that leaves us with a couple of different reward types.
1. Gear. Which is a fine reward until you have done a few mythic dungeons or even popped into the new raid. At which point this becomes pointless. Unless of course you do neither. Then this is still a fine reward for you. So lets give this a pass.
2. War resources. Which at the moment, is only used to do follower missions. And we already talked about these how they are almost unnecessary if you reached max rank in reputation. So no reason to do war resource world quests.Ā
So that only leaves us with Azerite rewards and the next point
4. Azerite and Azerite armor
I liked the idea of azerite armor and the neck piece getting more powerful as you play more and more. But now, when you actually play, it too is a bit...bland. There are no longer class specific effects in ANY piece. Its all the same for every class. And its all just mostly different buffs. "gain x amount of z attribute/enhancement" Thats pretty much it. And the amount you need to upgrade the neck piece tends to be huuuge amounts of azerite. And since the reward for upgrading it are just "x amount of z" it feels, again, bland.
Farming for professions is quite a grind. just for 1 piece of decent gear you would need to grind mythic dungeons for quite a few weeks. And for the next level of gear, you would need to farm raids for EVEN LONGER.
So yeah, thats my feelings on the expansion so far. It really does feel like a sort of, I don't know, in-between expansion. I know its only been a little over a month. But for right now, it feels a bit lacking. I do hope the bigger patches (8.1, 8.2 etc) adds more OOMPH to the expansion. But right now, it feels a bit, again bland.
MIND YOU, its still not a bad game. I still play it and I like playing it. I've played WoW for a long time and most likely will still play for a long time. And content wise, you can still do old stuff too. But the CURRENT things needs a bit more, well, content.
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