These opinions are from the point of view of ARR as leveling content ONLY, not level 50 endgame content like raiding
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The gameplay is obviously there and is the entiretly of the 3.5 star rating, utilizing patches and patches of content since the original ARR but oh my god the actual ARR content is mind numbingly boring. The dungeons are all piss easy, the quest design is lazy, the story is pretty bad (greatly increases in quality in the following expansion) and the whole experience is topped off with a 90 minute series of unskippable cutscenes in a shitty 24 man dungeon you just zerg anyways. Tough it out just to get to the vastly superior Heavensward or pay extra to skip this.
Also apparently they are revamping this stuff to make it better/faster next patch.
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The gameplay is obviously there and is the entiretly of the 3.5 star rating, utilizing patches and patches of content since the original ARR but oh my god the actual ARR content is mind numbingly boring. The dungeons are all piss easy, the quest design is lazy, the story is pretty bad (greatly increases in quality in the following expansion) and the whole experience is topped off with a 90 minute series of unskippable cutscenes in a shitty 24 man dungeon you just zerg anyways. Tough it out just to get to the vastly superior Heavensward or pay extra to skip this.
Also apparently they are revamping this stuff to make it better/faster next patch.