The release of 8.1 close by. It will be released on December 11th. The first big patch of Battle For Azeroth. I have gathered some thoughts about what I think of the expansion so far.
BFA is very pretty. And I love the dinosaur and troll theme. Some zones looks really nice. I don't like the blood trolls. But I think that is intended!
But there is something I really miss from Legion. The class halls! It made you feel special, and made it exciting to level up more than one character. For instance, I was a warlock, and got my own demon army floating in space. How cool is that!? In BFA you don't even get your own class specific transmog...
there are some really interesting characters. My favourite one is Bwonsamdi. He is just so cool and fun. The best part is when he is laughing at you and mocking you when you die.
In BFA they have focused more on the pvp aspect of the game. Since I don't really like pvp that much, I don't care for that part. The story main story is "Let's kill the Alliance". That's really not that exciting. In legion we were invated by demons from space. The new war mode is just annoying. It makes it harder to play with other people and summon each other when doing dungeons and such.
The island expeditions are an interesting idea. In the beginning it was quite fun. But then it got boring pretty fast! The only reward is azerite power, and useless dubloon coins. There is a chance of mounts and pets. I've never seen any mounts drop, and just a few pets. Since the islands are not really fun anymore, and the reward is too little, I have stopped doing them.
Warfronts are also an exiting concept. It is totally ok. I like farming rare elites in Arathi. Because they give a lot of stuff. Mounts, toys, pets, gear (if you are low geared). I've gotten so much cool stuff. And the drop rate is not that low, so that keeps it interresting.
In Legion, my favourite aspect of the game was mythic plus. I still like it. But in this expansion I feel like it's more about skipping stuff and knowing the tricks then actually doing the dungeon properly. We are also suffering from class imbalance. It is sad that almost every melee class do better than me as a warlock. In Legion I did pretty well. But in BFA I really struggle to get invited to groups. Even though I have done a 10 in time, I can't even get invited to an 8. Warlocks are doing so well in raids, so I guess they will never get a buff to help them out in dungeons.
And then we have the azerite armor. Oh god. It makes me really miss both the legendaries and the set items from Legion. Ok, I don't miss the legendaries, but everything is better than azerite armor. Why why why can't you choose different traits for different specs on the same piece?! Why do you have to farm three pieces for each spec!? In other expansions, you at least could use the same set items for all your specs!
I started out as a druid in BFA. And the azerite system crushed my spirit. I was going to main balance and be backup healer. That meant that I needed one set of azerite gear for ST dps, one set for AOE dps, one set for healing dungeons and one set for healing raids. It was just terrible game design! And the balance traits were really bad designed. They actually made traits that made spamming ONE button be your only rotation... TWICE! Both for moonfire on aoe, and sunfire on st. What on earth were they thinking??? And they made a trait that turned your innervate from helping healers out into a dps cooldown for your own gain.
At least the warlock traits were much more thought through. And one of them were even fun, the inevitable demise. That made you actually have some burst damage. And some traits were good in both aoe and st, so I didn't have to fill up my bags with azerite armor.
At the start it was also very difficult to get high azerite gear. All my azerite armor pieces were several ilvls lower than the rest of my gear. But thankfully they fixed that. After the emmisary reward azerite gear was increased, at least we could get some at decent ilvl. But I'm so afraid that the new azerite system will give too few azerite items to even think about doing multi specs.
And then we have the Uldir raid. It was ok. The old goods weren't perticularly pretty, but I can live with that. The main thing I didn't like about Uldir was the last boss. I've only done it on heroic. But it made a few people doing the real work (orb runners), where the rest of the group could just be on the floor caring about their own dps only. It turned into a blame game and nearly splitted our guild.
My highest wish for for the next patches to come are the following: Please, please let use use different traits on the same azerite piece for different specs. It is really annoying when the best azerite traits of two specs is on the same piece. and you need to reforge each time you are switching spec. Or just throw them away and use class specific set items instead.
So, That's it I guess. I will probably keep on playing and see what happens next.
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