I think its safe to say Im done with Wrath now.
Overall I have quite mixed feelings about this expansion. It started out really strong, leveling through Northrend was a blast to 80, and Naxx was a solid raid. First patch was quite enjoyable. Then phase 2 hit, and... I did not like it. At first I hated Heroic+ dungeons because ppl were so bad and messing up simple mechanics, and Ulduar is too long a raid in my opinion. Then phase 3 was actually pretty decent, TOGC was a perfect length raid and I enjoyed it a lot, and by this point ppl had the mechs down for heroic+ dungeons so running my daily dungeon was a breeze.
Then phase 4 hit... I was always in the camp of not bringing RDF to classic because it makes the game feel way too retail like. Guess what, thats exactly what happened. Now I had zero reason to ever leave Dalaran, it felt more like a lobby simulator than an MMO. Then ICC is just, eh. Again its too long in my opinion, I dont like 13+ boss raids they take almost 3 hours to clear.
So yeah, 2 good phases, 2 bad phases for me. Im not going to even get into GDKPs, fuck those dude. Everything was way more expensive than it needed to be on the AH. Not to mention people being ridiculously anal about gearscore, I was always decently geared dont get me wrong but I had zero incentive to level alts because good luck finding grps as a fresh 80. On a positive note, I did enjoy that wrath was a nice hybrid feeling between classic and retail, implemented a lot of nice QoL missing from classic but also not being as bloated with content as retail.
3.5/5 might seem high for this much crap talk but it is still good ol WoW fun at the end of the day.
Overall I have quite mixed feelings about this expansion. It started out really strong, leveling through Northrend was a blast to 80, and Naxx was a solid raid. First patch was quite enjoyable. Then phase 2 hit, and... I did not like it. At first I hated Heroic+ dungeons because ppl were so bad and messing up simple mechanics, and Ulduar is too long a raid in my opinion. Then phase 3 was actually pretty decent, TOGC was a perfect length raid and I enjoyed it a lot, and by this point ppl had the mechs down for heroic+ dungeons so running my daily dungeon was a breeze.
Then phase 4 hit... I was always in the camp of not bringing RDF to classic because it makes the game feel way too retail like. Guess what, thats exactly what happened. Now I had zero reason to ever leave Dalaran, it felt more like a lobby simulator than an MMO. Then ICC is just, eh. Again its too long in my opinion, I dont like 13+ boss raids they take almost 3 hours to clear.
So yeah, 2 good phases, 2 bad phases for me. Im not going to even get into GDKPs, fuck those dude. Everything was way more expensive than it needed to be on the AH. Not to mention people being ridiculously anal about gearscore, I was always decently geared dont get me wrong but I had zero incentive to level alts because good luck finding grps as a fresh 80. On a positive note, I did enjoy that wrath was a nice hybrid feeling between classic and retail, implemented a lot of nice QoL missing from classic but also not being as bloated with content as retail.
3.5/5 might seem high for this much crap talk but it is still good ol WoW fun at the end of the day.