This game is very difficult to rate.
4.0: 6/10
4.1 (ZG + ZA Rework): 9/10
4.2 (Firelands): 10/10
4.3 (Dragon Soul): 1/10
4.1 and 4.2 (Firelands) was peak WoW followed by 4.3 with Dragon Soul that was abyss WoW. (4.0 was just alright. Not much to say except the world overhaul was pretty good, even though it was a shame that the classic world wouldn't be playable again until 2019 with "WoW Classic". The raids in 4.0 were just ok.)
In 4.3 we got the worst raid ever made with the worst final boss fight of any game I've played, while systems like LFR flagged the end of WoW being a living legend, having now become a fallen legend. One that it hasn't recovered from and likely never will. The less said about the story, with Thrall becoming Chris Metzen's self-insert Gary Stu, the better. The only good thing in this patch was the "Well of Eternity" Dungeon. "End Time" was mid at best and the "Hour of Twilight" "dungeon" was laughably bad and only tolerable to the "so bad it's good" Benedictus voice actor.
Despite Dragon Soul being the worst "media" (consisting of video games, books, TV shows and movies) I've ever experienced, Firelands was "fire". Molten Front was an improvement on the Argent Tourdament daily system, with a story as you progressed through the dailies and the raids was great. Only 7 bosses but each one was brilliant and the entire raid struck a good balance between casual and hardcore raiders from my point of view. The patch (4.1) before gave us the Zul'Gurub remake, which is the best dungeon Blizzard have ever made hands down. For the first time every dungeon boss was of "raid quality". Only downside of this 4.1 patch was how Classic ZG became unplayable for years until WoW Classic.
With all that. 7/10 is probably a rating I'm comfortable with giving this game. Despite the low point of Dragonsoul, I don't want to give this a terrible rating and downplay the fun memories I had of Firelands (4.2) and 4.1.
4.0: 6/10
4.1 (ZG + ZA Rework): 9/10
4.2 (Firelands): 10/10
4.3 (Dragon Soul): 1/10
4.1 and 4.2 (Firelands) was peak WoW followed by 4.3 with Dragon Soul that was abyss WoW. (4.0 was just alright. Not much to say except the world overhaul was pretty good, even though it was a shame that the classic world wouldn't be playable again until 2019 with "WoW Classic". The raids in 4.0 were just ok.)
In 4.3 we got the worst raid ever made with the worst final boss fight of any game I've played, while systems like LFR flagged the end of WoW being a living legend, having now become a fallen legend. One that it hasn't recovered from and likely never will. The less said about the story, with Thrall becoming Chris Metzen's self-insert Gary Stu, the better. The only good thing in this patch was the "Well of Eternity" Dungeon. "End Time" was mid at best and the "Hour of Twilight" "dungeon" was laughably bad and only tolerable to the "so bad it's good" Benedictus voice actor.
Despite Dragon Soul being the worst "media" (consisting of video games, books, TV shows and movies) I've ever experienced, Firelands was "fire". Molten Front was an improvement on the Argent Tourdament daily system, with a story as you progressed through the dailies and the raids was great. Only 7 bosses but each one was brilliant and the entire raid struck a good balance between casual and hardcore raiders from my point of view. The patch (4.1) before gave us the Zul'Gurub remake, which is the best dungeon Blizzard have ever made hands down. For the first time every dungeon boss was of "raid quality". Only downside of this 4.1 patch was how Classic ZG became unplayable for years until WoW Classic.
With all that. 7/10 is probably a rating I'm comfortable with giving this game. Despite the low point of Dragonsoul, I don't want to give this a terrible rating and downplay the fun memories I had of Firelands (4.2) and 4.1.