I do feel so old now, time passes so fast :D
Ooof reading these comments hoping shadowlands would be a grail really hurts.This buggy trash can go back to beta
While I throughly enjoyed the time I spent playing Legion, I think I found the pre-launch event even more entertaining. Seeing huge flights of players, swooping around hunting down demons in all the zones, not engaging in PvP was amazing.
I miss Legion so much, it was the last time the game was actually good. Sure it had it's own issues but we got so much GOOD content that it didn't matter that much.
The beginning of the end, when WoW died and mythic+ killed high end PvE progression. Sad times. WoD was so much better, but people will never admit that.
God, Legion not only got me playing every class, it had me trying out all the different specs. I remember having a ball with the new melee survival hunter, or with sub rogue, or destro warlock. The class hall campaigns, the unique mounts, world quests, Suramar's storyline (the other zones were varying levels of good, but that was a favorite), having paladins tell Chuck Norris jokes about my retadin. And of course, demon hunters. Those were ludicrously fun. Who else cheated to get hidden skin by just gliding from Dalaran/Highmountain to that giant Felbat? Speaking of, unlocking all those different skins. Helped that I could do WQ for the pvp ones cuz I SUCK at pvp.Offhand, I can only remember three things I genuinely disliked that expac (beyond the usual and blatant "keep the war in warcraft"). One, I really didn't like how shadow priest and demonology warlock were redone (granted, I ended up loving destro and enjoying afflic so no biggie for latter). Two, I thought it was kinda cheap that Paladins and Priests basically shared a class hall campaign. Three, the sheer variance in how difficult getting a hidden skin could be. My frost dk? Easy once the correct world boss procced after a few months. BM hunter? You're joking right? Literally just buy it as soon as you have the artifact. Retadin? Someone at blizzard really hated all those rumors about how to get an uncorrupted Ashbringer to make us sit through THAT. Probably 15 hours spent fishing. Granted, a few was just a terrible proc rate. My warr was fury/prot, but I got Arms in a week, while Fury and Prot didn't proc until BFA (both on same day funny enough).
God Mage Tower needs to make a comeback... One of the best single player experiences in WoW, hands down. Absolutely infuriating how Blizzard hasn't done a similar system. People like doing a challenge worth an exclusive transmog/appearance! There's no reason to NOT have something similar!
Good times, good times
Once they made it more alt-friendly, Legion was a great expansion: the writing was mostly decent (other than the ham-fisted Illidan redemption story, which was somewhat corrected by him atomising his fangirl Xe'ra), the borrowed power wasn't too obnoxious (as everyone, eventually received the same upgrades and all it required was time) and the dungeons were fun without being too obnoxious. Suramar is still some of the best story-building and content they put into the game, the Mage Tower was a genuine challenge and Argus was the best end of expansion bossfight since Arthas. A triumph, really, that only makes the absolute mess of BFA all the more grim. So much set-up for the future, only for it to be wasted- along with Azshara, N'zoth and the Black Empire- within the realms of single patches, for writing no-one likes and content no-one really cares for.At least there's the fond memories still...
What a said thing. The last time WoW was good was half a decade ago. &*!@ing hell..
Legion was awesome. Wish we kept our artifact weapons intact, though.
Take me back
Those were a lot of "systems", weren't they?
Man do I miss it.I remember thinking about 2 months into Legion that there's no way Bliz is going to follow Legion with a good expansion. They'll nerf everything so we'll have to progress to some power level that will be less than what we had in Legion. Wow was I right.
Send me back and give me a way to stay awake and spend less time on work/school during then. Yeah I’ll probably hate myself after doing that but at least the “environment” ; community mood and reward loop ratio felt better then than now.Only thing good from BFA was the rank 4 essence grind. So it wasn’t a complete wash of a game since July 17, 2018.
TO THE VINDICAAR!
I've never been so engaged with my alts like I was during that time, mostly thanks to the artifact weapons. Legion was awesome! I really miss it.