World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

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  1. djschaum520
    Sep 23, 2018
    0
    boring warfronts and island expeditions, two of the main selling points.
    imbalanced war mode
    no new abilities/ talents for any class
    world quest grind.

    so....when is classic coming out?
  2. Karakhan
    Sep 22, 2018
    0
    Game systems that haven't changed much, boring new content.
    In effect, the 7.4 patch of the "world of warcraft : legion"
  3. Maxwilso
    Sep 22, 2018
    2
    Shortcut review listing,

    Cons: - Island Expeditions - Boring, repetitive, just kill piles of crocodiles, and not get rewarded properly. - Warfronts - AFK loot simulator - M+ - Making raiding pointless - Raiding - Wrong stack sticks on gear, rely on M+ for gearing - No Flying - Boring questing - AP = timegating, boring grind - AP Gear - wasting time trying to get specific traits    Shortcut review listing,

    Cons:
    - Island Expeditions - Boring, repetitive, just kill piles of crocodiles, and not get rewarded properly.
    - Warfronts - AFK loot simulator
    - M+ - Making raiding pointless
    - Raiding - Wrong stack sticks on gear, rely on M+ for gearing
    - No Flying
    - Boring questing
    - AP = timegating, boring grind
    - AP Gear - wasting time trying to get specific traits to see them get nerfed alter, can't target specific gear after 340, 355+ requires WEEKLY RNG, uldir 355+ useless outside of uldir
    - WPvP - ghost town
    - WQ - Copy/Pasta from Legion, still boring, still repetitive
    - Mob scaling - Pointless, no feel of progression when getting better gear, just a waste of time for everyone involved.
    - Shamans are useless
    - Prot warriors are garbage

    Pros:
    - Story, some of it.

    The game is still in BETA despite being called a full release, if you aren't already playing, don't comeback till 8.3 atleast, its such a broken mess in its current state.    … Expand
  4. realistic_one
    Sep 22, 2018
    2
    Same old archaic combat mechanics (even though horde NPCs in Island expeditions have been updated)

    New races marketed for new expac gated behind weeks of old Legion content grinding Warfront is biggest disappointment in 9 years I have been playing- just one lengthy collect/kill quest with no fluidity and with lengthy downtime between scenarios. A lot of players queuing on the first    Same old archaic combat mechanics (even though horde NPCs in Island expeditions have been updated)

    New races marketed for new expac gated behind weeks of old Legion content grinding

    Warfront is biggest disappointment in 9 years I have been playing- just one lengthy collect/kill quest with no fluidity and with lengthy downtime between scenarios. A lot of players queuing on the first day were bored after the first run and then began queuing and going afk to simply collect gear at the end and this tactic is escalating.

    PVP, worse than ever no true pvp gear and scaling for pvp and pve that does not work (gear drop for best arena damage right now)

    Azerite collecting to level neck is one continuous grind that is repeating the same WQ over and over and over(no complaints on rep grinding as eventually that repetition can be ignored)

    Big class imbalances being ignored weeks in

    Horrible mistakes with warfront one of which gave one faction a two week edge over another on gear and an item level put into place preventing other faction from same benefit on gearing alts
    Mount for alliance consists of drab horses and more drab horses.

    Lots of server downtime in the first week but this has improved for most servers.

    Positive: Island expeditions. Rather new concept with various options: normal, heroic, pvp, mythic. This varies the degree of difficulty. NPC upgrade in this new segment of the game is greatly improved and feel immersive. This sort of action is what Wow needs across the board in game but this would take $, something Bliz seems to be cutting corners on when it comes to new content.    … Expand
  5. Darmonic
    Sep 22, 2018
    3
    It is crazy to go from legion to this. I understand the artifact system wasn't perfect since it was similar to ESO Champion point system pretty much giving zero player creativity but the system to replace it *The Heart of Azeroth and Azirite armor* Feels honestly terrible. Azirite armor is bad for the plain reason you will get an upgraded piece and not be able to access any of the traitsIt is crazy to go from legion to this. I understand the artifact system wasn't perfect since it was similar to ESO Champion point system pretty much giving zero player creativity but the system to replace it *The Heart of Azeroth and Azirite armor* Feels honestly terrible. Azirite armor is bad for the plain reason you will get an upgraded piece and not be able to access any of the traits until you grind your Heart of Azeroth out... which makes your gear actually feel like a downgrad since you are scaled to everything... like for Arenas you honestly should just bank your high ilevel azirite armor so you can use the lower ilevel ones to have access to all the traits. another big issue is pretty much all the new features added to the game as well have been incredibly lack luster... Warfronts are not entertaining at all, Island expeditions I literally did once and never tried it again and then the whole way "Allied races" or sub races are being handled is honestly disappointing. Expansions will probably improve over time but its launch is a complete fecal storm. The story of the actual expansion is okay... as a Hordie questing through Zandalar was alright... like it isn't a terrible zone but also isn't a good one either.… Expand
  6. Ikran
    Sep 22, 2018
    1
    1. Poorly implemented Global Cooldown on abilities
    2. Ongoing removal of quality of life items and pruning of abilities
    3. Developers did not listen to any feedback during beta nor do they listen to the game's community (poor to no communication with its gaming community) 4. Numerous bugs on release 5. Time gating and other activities to draw out player engagement for sake of    1. Poorly implemented Global Cooldown on abilities
    2. Ongoing removal of quality of life items and pruning of abilities
    3. Developers did not listen to any feedback during beta nor do they listen to the game's community (poor to no communication with its gaming community)
    4. Numerous bugs on release
    5. Time gating and other activities to draw out player engagement for sake of corporate metrics    … Expand
  7. slanderbot
    Sep 22, 2018
    1
    -By far the worst loot acquisition system in all of WoW history
    -There is no meaningful World in World of Warcraft anymore
    -Pointless world quests/content (Warfronts and island expeditions are a complete waste of resources and poorly implemented) -Class toolkits trimmed down so far they feel unfinished -Azerite system is a complete joke -Absolutely beautiful landscapes and world    -By far the worst loot acquisition system in all of WoW history
    -There is no meaningful World in World of Warcraft anymore
    -Pointless world quests/content (Warfronts and island expeditions are a complete waste of resources and poorly implemented)
    -Class toolkits trimmed down so far they feel unfinished
    -Azerite system is a complete joke

    -Absolutely beautiful landscapes and world building
    -Great faction themes
    -PvP has actually viable gear
    -Transmog is still fantastic    … Expand
  8. gencritic
    Sep 22, 2018
    4
    This expansion really feels like it was rushed, especially once you hit max level. There is plenty of content, but non of it feels fun or engaging, but rather like a chore I have to do to keep up. I still have hope for later patches, but until then I am unsubscribing.
  9. Meira1
    Sep 21, 2018
    1
    You want to be dd you need an azerite armor, you want to be a tank you need a new azerite armor, you want to pvp you need a new azerite armor, you want good aoe damage you need a new azerite armor

    pve fronts in general scrap
  10. cpzimmer
    Sep 21, 2018
    2
    Sigh, where do we begin?

    The story drops your character into the midst of another contrived race war between the factions of the Alliance and Horde. Because we didn't have five straight years of that already with Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria. Players are called upon to recruit new allies to the campaign with long reputation grinds in now-obsolete areas. Stubborn developers    Sigh, where do we begin?

    The story drops your character into the midst of another contrived race war between the factions of the Alliance and Horde. Because we didn't have five straight years of that already with Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria.

    Players are called upon to recruit new allies to the campaign with long reputation grinds in now-obsolete areas. Stubborn developers sabotage the Alliance's prospects, leaving them with underwhelming themepark mascots for some Void vs Light patch that probably won't materialize until the expansion after next. Design lead Ion Hazzikostas tells us "the Horde is there waiting for you."

    But if being smugly derided with veiled accusations of Neo-Nazism for daring to suggest they finally make High Elves playable wasn't enough, Alliance players also have to deal with the developers funneling the best players to Horde for years with imbalanced racial abilities (funny how Arcane Torrent was finally "nerfed" from a silence to a dispel just in time to be faced with a ton of content that requires heavy dispelling) and then handing them a bunch of gearing advantages through the initial Warfront schedule.

    But at least the questing content for Alliance is good, right? Well, sure, but after doing enough repetitive world quests to reach exalted with the three major factions on Kul Tiras, you can look forward to some 10,000g generic horses for your mount collection that look like they should have sold for 500g on a generic rep-free vendor outside of Norwington Estate.

    Moving on...

    Combat at level cap is irksomely sluggish thanks to the new Azerite gearing system where three pieces of your armor will have no secondary stats, so have fun getting enough haste without mythic raid gear. The developers tried to distract from this by putting offensive buffs (and for some reason, the Ret Paladin defensive?!) on the global cooldown, which is also obnoxious.

    Most of the power of this expansion-exclusive rental gear is tied up in traits that you must grind endless amounts of Artifact Power to unlock - a system that was already thoroughly panned when it was released in the previous expansion.

    World mobs still scale with item level, making every trivial enemy into a damage sponge you can drill multiple finishing moves into. This was also wildly unpopular, anathema to the concept of an RPG, AND something the lead developer said they would NEVER do.

    In summary, you might enjoy this expansion if you play primarily Horde and don't mind dull, slow-paced combat that never really improves even with full epic gear, but otherwise, avoid.    … Expand
  11. spiritofthecoyo
    Sep 21, 2018
    0
    I bought the collectors edition and was super hyped to play. I lasted all of two weeks and was so bored out of my mind I cancelled my sub and was out the hundred dollars. I have been playing since Vanilla WoW and never have I seen such a huge failure as BFA. This entire development team should be fired and a relaunch like what Final Fantasy did needs to happen. This is unacceptable!
  12. Landers
    Sep 21, 2018
    1
    Dull, Slow, repetitive. An Ugly world. How it can go from Legion to this mess is beyond me. There's nothing here. Stupid quests like a silly matching game that wouldn't make a good cell phone app. This ones a Loss.
  13. pirex426
    Sep 21, 2018
    1
    All stick no carrot all you do is grind rep, grind ap, grind m+, and grind world quests all there is the the grind with no real reward.

    Class balance is awful leaving some classes and specs declined or benched from most dungeons and raids. Leveling is unrewarding with no talents for level 110 or 120. Azerite armor system as a whole is horrible can't really control upgrading armor    All stick no carrot all you do is grind rep, grind ap, grind m+, and grind world quests all there is the the grind with no real reward.

    Class balance is awful leaving some classes and specs declined or benched from most dungeons and raids.

    Leveling is unrewarding with no talents for level 110 or 120.

    Azerite armor system as a whole is horrible can't really control upgrading armor slots and if you do happen to get an upgraded slot you lose traits you did unlock because ever raising azerite neck requirement. The reforging costs are insane.

    Story is jumbled and makes little sense.

    The Devs don't listen to feed back and sit back in their safespace ignoring outcry for fixes.    … Expand
  14. mirg
    Sep 21, 2018
    1
    -Everything is locked being a reputation rank, even the main story of the expansion.
    -The 'new' azerite system is just completely botched.
    -The new dungeons are just trash mob cities with the mechanics being so lazily designed. -The new gear is just so lazy that you'd swear they put no thought into them. -The reputation rewards are just lazy, re-using the same assets for the blue's    -Everything is locked being a reputation rank, even the main story of the expansion.
    -The 'new' azerite system is just completely botched.
    -The new dungeons are just trash mob cities with the mechanics being so lazily designed.
    -The new gear is just so lazy that you'd swear they put no thought into them.
    -The reputation rewards are just lazy, re-using the same assets for the blue's meanwhile reusing the same models for most of them on the red's. But clearly showing more care being done on the red's rewards though.
    -The story centers around the red team, there is no question about it. This whole expansion starts off because of the horde and throughout the whole expansion thus far the horde continue to cause more atrocities and give the alliance more reasons to retaliate. There is no 'grey' in the storyline, horde are clearly evil and the alliance are clearly good. I don't know what the game director meant when they said it would be a grey storyline.
    - The warfront scenario is soo boring. All you do is grind resources to get siege tanks then kill boss, that's it. You also have to defend yourself from 'attack waves' and retake 'points' by just zerging down more bosses with other players and that's really it. Honestly this would of been a more interesting game mode if they just turned it into a RTS minigame instead. But since they didn't it's just zerg zerg zerg, so boring.

    If you are a Warcraft fan then I'd suggest you save yourself from this dull expansion and just watch the cutscenes and storylines on yotube, you'd honestly have a more fun time watching then actually playing through this expansion.    … Expand
  15. Solaric
    Sep 20, 2018
    0
    This expansion is sad. Warfronts, just a longer boring dungeon/raid. Islands, even more boring with no actual reward that's worth a damn. New races, no just recolored old races. No new class, no garrison/class hall type place. This game is going backwards. Draenor had your own personal garrison, gone. Legion had class hall, gone. Story is lackluster, then when you hit 120 it's justThis expansion is sad. Warfronts, just a longer boring dungeon/raid. Islands, even more boring with no actual reward that's worth a damn. New races, no just recolored old races. No new class, no garrison/class hall type place. This game is going backwards. Draenor had your own personal garrison, gone. Legion had class hall, gone. Story is lackluster, then when you hit 120 it's just the same old gated grind of world quests, for crap rewards. Even the Uldir raid is locked, and if you're not in a guild, which really don't serve much of a purpose anymore you have to wait for LFR to become available. And if you're into transmog, forget that raid. Gear looks terrible. So disappointed in this garbage of an expansion.… Expand
  16. kasproviez
    Sep 19, 2018
    0
    Within minutes of playing the new expansion the game has negative after negative. All new features were over hyped and end content felt more like a mini patch than a expansion. Leveling, combat, PVE, PVP are unbalanced, slow, or boring.
  17. invinciblex
    Sep 19, 2018
    0
    역대 최악의 병신확장팩. 시간 남아돌아서 인생낭비 재대로 할 사람이나 할만한 게임.
    그립도다 리치왕의 갓 와우 시절이여.. 의미없는 븅신 일퀘뺑뻉이 게임.
    레이드 쐐기 들어가면 새로운 인간 븅신 극복 게임.
  18. lunarius001
    Sep 18, 2018
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The world design is stunning, the cinema-graphics are gorgeous! Those are the highlights of the expansion.

    The problems are with the gameplay, game design, and QA.

    GAMEPLAY:
    The expansion instantly reverted to WQ grinds, boring island expeditions, and even more boring warfronts within 3 weeks of the expansion launching.

    - RNG is needed but it's taken over too much of the game and is being used to take the place of proper content:
    The raids are fun, and M+ does provide a challenge, but the gear systems involved with those two though have just become way too RNG. They aren't even letting guilds guide loot anymore, making raiding and M+ a skinner box on steroids. With skinner boxes, there's only so many times a rat will pull a lever before it stops seeing the resulting treat to be worth the effort. Right now, RNG has tuned that lever to give drops of water instead of a trickle. For example, M+ had up to 3 drops all through beta. Then, without warning, the first chest had 1 piece. Instead of preparing the community, they replied officially that it was always supposed to be one piece of gear. When called out, Blizzard responded about bad luck protection rolls, which is even more of an insult. Not only is there RNG in getting loot, but now you've got to roll/fail on the first roll to get a weapon. That means your first roll has to fail, assuming it doesn't give you a piece you don't want or need already...then roll again and hope that roll doesn't fail or give you a weapon with stats you don't want! It's RNGxRNG to get a decent weapon in M+??? I've seen Blizzard eat crow many times, but this time...they flat-out allowed the community to be, albeit inadvertently, deceived in regards to M+ rewards by YT content creators without ever even addressing it with so much as a sentence of correction. Then they answered with a system that is atrocious! I place no fault here with the YT content creators, because the logic was solid all through beta, and the thought process was all over YT and not limited to even just a few WoW YT channels.

    - Game Design:
    Blizzard is showing more and more that they don't care what the community wants, thinks, or feels in regards to their product. Just think about GCD changes which no one asked for, nor was ever really justified in a really meaningful way. The recent changes are bleeding the fun out of the game. I mean, you can't even guide your own toon's pvp gear progression anymore. It's ALL RNG! And why is it RNG, and why has 'bad luck protection' become a thing...simply put, it's because RNG and gated content is the direction Blizzard wants. It allows them to spend less creating new and high-quality content so they can opt to build-on-a-budget. They simply feel they can't generate enough quality content to keep up with the rate that players can churn through it, and so droplets of content are what we are going to get form now on. That wouldn't even be a deal-breaker except that the content that does come out is trash. I'd love to see how many people play warfronts or island expeditions in 3 months.

    - QA:
    Lastly, this launch, and its following hotfixes, have been the worst since this game has been around. Not because of one big bug, but because of all of the bugs aggregated which should have easily been caught by a half-decent QA team. Every single new feature has been broken, lackluster in execution, or broken something else upon deployment. I work in software, and if our team deployed like Blizz has done since August, we'd lose customers left and right. You can't have people going into pvp and watching their mana drain passively, c'mon!

    LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN (Ion's 'No Man's Sky Approach):
    All this to say that Blizzard's passion for the game is gone. The teams that brought the original magic to this game are no longer around, and Ion is constantly playing defense to justify the major problems in the culture of development and the design changes that have gotten progressively worse over the last few years. Go and read what Ion himself said on the AMA, "We see the current system as a foundation upon which to continue building".

    - More Money for Blizzcon Virtual Tickets Shows the Heart of The Matter:
    Well that's great Blizzard, I can't wait to pay $50.00 instead of the normal $35.00 for a Blizzcon virtual ticket to listen to your team's next set of ideas. I also really hope that extra $15.00 gouge goes in ticket pricing is going to go to hiring back some of the original dev team who knew how to    … Expand
  19. soon2da
    Sep 18, 2018
    0
    새로운느낌이 전혀 안든다 군단에서 지겹게하던 전역퀘를 똑같이하고 있고 스킬도 그대로에 오히려
    글로벌 쿨타임으로 스킬쓰는맛이 전혀없고 답답함 이게 새로운 확팩맞냐 역대최악이다
  20. Maxorzed
    Sep 18, 2018
    0
    This is WoD .5. Can you believe it? WoD had more endgame content at the beginning than this pile of garbage. Ion is what is ruining this game, with his lawyer mindset only appealing to shareholders and not the actual player base. Its a shame seeing a game you have been playing for 14 years go down the drain because of laziness. I will be letting my sub run out at the end of the month andThis is WoD .5. Can you believe it? WoD had more endgame content at the beginning than this pile of garbage. Ion is what is ruining this game, with his lawyer mindset only appealing to shareholders and not the actual player base. Its a shame seeing a game you have been playing for 14 years go down the drain because of laziness. I will be letting my sub run out at the end of the month and then its on to another game.… Expand
  21. Bashey
    Sep 18, 2018
    1
    Class design - very, very boring, especially compared to previous expansions. With every new expansion they just remove some spells, gate some more spells behind talents, and... done! Nothing new, just pruned and simplified versions of previous classes we loved. Combat is dull, and i just cant find single class i enjoy - and without the main class, i cant really do much of content.Class design - very, very boring, especially compared to previous expansions. With every new expansion they just remove some spells, gate some more spells behind talents, and... done! Nothing new, just pruned and simplified versions of previous classes we loved. Combat is dull, and i just cant find single class i enjoy - and without the main class, i cant really do much of content.

    Reputations - they were always in the game, but they were optional, if u wanted some reward they provided. But now, they are mandatory! On each new character you have to spend weeks farming the same reputation all over again, or your main piece of gear would be weak. I do not complain because farming rep is hard, it is not. It is very, very easy, but also very boring, repetitive and time consuming.

    New races - one of the new, greatly advertised BFA features were new races. In advertisement: complete quest line to unlock them! In reality? Spend !! months !! farming reputations from irrelevant outdated content from previous expansion before you can start quest line to unlock new races. When I first hear this I thought it is some scam, because no one could be so stupid to implement this... but here we are.

    On the other hand, new zones are great, story is great, music is great, and both dungeons and raids are great. I would really like to enjoy them, but it's kinda hard, when fundamental basics of this game are so, so broken.

    Overall 2/10, unsubscribed, and because i love WoW, i am going back to private servers to play previous expansions. Yes, private servers are buggy, they might also crash sometimes, but at least the actual class gameplay is fun - and thats all that matters.    … Expand
  22. WarSongg
    Sep 17, 2018
    4
    legion get criticized because too much grind on artifact, the response they give only to give more grinding for player. New player cant pick two new race because they need to grind their reputation to exalted which is take forever to do so, new profession system push player to grind the old expansion. Class design which they're promised to be more "balanced" so people who want to push tolegion get criticized because too much grind on artifact, the response they give only to give more grinding for player. New player cant pick two new race because they need to grind their reputation to exalted which is take forever to do so, new profession system push player to grind the old expansion. Class design which they're promised to be more "balanced" so people who want to push to mythic progression have more variety class in their roster are not fullfilled until now, take example feral class which is are now the lowest dps compared to the other class, even that class dps have more lower dps than tank, this making people who want to play feral not getting invited or must reroll to balance spec so they can keep their head up to other dps. the other example i can give maybe fire mage, where some people reroll to frost or arcane to push their progression. Holy paladin where they given a strong cooldown with aura of sacrifice now they change it with exact effect like devotion aura but worse, they also change warrior prot with lowest damage mitigation compared to other tank. i dont get the idea why they need to change playstyle some of the classes so much where that class have some positive feedback before, are they have diffrent persons to design some of the classes and they get no idea what are they doing for?

    legion introduce alot of future that people can enjoy, but this one? the new feature like island of expedition lack of interest for player and not rewarding, even for warfront i still have no idea what i should do in here except killing rare or world bosses.    … Expand
  23. wiilly
    Sep 17, 2018
    0
    boring, grindy, repetitive. every expansion has made the game worse. I'm not excited about the new level cap or the new grinding. there have to be better ways to add content to a game.
  24. Zemerax
    Sep 17, 2018
    7
    BfA has more negative reviews than necessary. The game has its issues but the core of WoW is still very much alive, Raiding, Dungeons and PvP.

    Cons: GCD & Changes made to gear scaling to slow down gameplay. Forced Loot Rules. Removal of World quest addons and features, making WQ more of a chore and less social. Professions have been either made worthless or an absolute chore. PvP    BfA has more negative reviews than necessary. The game has its issues but the core of WoW is still very much alive, Raiding, Dungeons and PvP.

    Cons:
    GCD & Changes made to gear scaling to slow down gameplay.
    Forced Loot Rules.
    Removal of World quest addons and features, making WQ more of a chore and less social.
    Professions have been either made worthless or an absolute chore.
    PvP gear is yet again not buyable.
    RNG on RNG.
    Azerite Armor.

    Pros:
    Communities - New social feature.
    Raiding.
    Mythic Plus.

    About BfA: The core experience can be saved with future patches. The ideas Blizzard made in BfA are great on paper, but didn't work out in practice. Islands are ment to be a 1 stop shop for Azerite power and with a weekly limit so you don't feel forced to grind. Yet it's a boring feature that offers nothing but repetitive gameplay. Warfronts are a missed opportunity. Azerite armor was made to keep the end game progression alive outside gearing but turned out to be a headache of chasing the best traits with limited sources & ways of doing so.

    Like all MMO's you can't judge an expansion this early on, I'm sure BfA with its 77 patch day cycle will be a good expansion at the end just like Legion. Sadly the early days have been a cluster with bugs and terrible systems.    … Expand
  25. Taronn93
    Sep 17, 2018
    0
    Edit: So, as i said i came back to change my rating about his game, because of the horrible AmA that proved that the game designer of WoW doesn't care about the playerbase at all this point. They purposely deleted most of the questions from reddit that pointed out the problems of the game or just dodged them with answers that had nothing to with the question. So, my new rating of thisEdit: So, as i said i came back to change my rating about his game, because of the horrible AmA that proved that the game designer of WoW doesn't care about the playerbase at all this point. They purposely deleted most of the questions from reddit that pointed out the problems of the game or just dodged them with answers that had nothing to with the question. So, my new rating of this expansion is 0 and nothing will change my mind. I will leave my first review below this, because those bad things are still relevant.

    I give it a 2 because its still WoW, but that's the only good thing i can say about it. 90% of the "new" main content are content from Legion that became boring after Nighthold, the other 10% are the warfronts and expeditions and they were boring the first time i did them. In the end it just became a downgraded version of Legion. The new Azerite system is boring and flawed as well.

    The story is bad compared to every other expansion so far, its boring. Classes are not well balanced and most of them doesn't feel good to play at all.

    I might come back and change this review in the future, but for now i can only give it a 2, because there are tons of bugs, its unfinished and i can't play for more than 10 minutes without getting bored.    … Expand
  26. earlyman56
    Sep 17, 2018
    0
    The game has been simplified and reduced greatly. Character customization is extremely limited and simplistic compared to before. Total amount of character abilities have also been reduced. Content is streamlined to a treadmill of scheduled quests, dungeons and raids. You are not given any time to just do whatever you want.
  27. alpha78
    Sep 17, 2018
    9
    This expansion definitely doesn't deserve the 1 ratings its getting. The leveling experience is some of the best that has ever come out of WoW and for a game as old as it is the zones and enemies look amazing. My criticism would be that the game has took much reliance on World Quest grinding which you will spend a lot of time doing at end game, and Warfronts + Island expeditions get a bitThis expansion definitely doesn't deserve the 1 ratings its getting. The leveling experience is some of the best that has ever come out of WoW and for a game as old as it is the zones and enemies look amazing. My criticism would be that the game has took much reliance on World Quest grinding which you will spend a lot of time doing at end game, and Warfronts + Island expeditions get a bit stale after a while. The dungeons are amazing as well and Mythic + is still awesome. But people who say this is like the WoD days are overreacting.
    9/10
    P.S HORDE IS BETTER THAT ALLIANCE SCRUBS    … Expand
  28. NTRedmage
    Sep 17, 2018
    0
    BFA is Blizzard 7th expansion to the original World of Warcraft from late 2005, however with as mechanically bankrupt as this expansion is you could easily mistake it for an MMO produced in the early 2000s. It's little more than a shell of it's former expansions; boiled down to the lowest common denominator with next to no player agency, nuance and will less content than a single playerBFA is Blizzard 7th expansion to the original World of Warcraft from late 2005, however with as mechanically bankrupt as this expansion is you could easily mistake it for an MMO produced in the early 2000s. It's little more than a shell of it's former expansions; boiled down to the lowest common denominator with next to no player agency, nuance and will less content than a single player rpg from 1991.

    That's not to say that the expansion has no redeeming qualities; for an engine as dated as it is the art team absolutely nailed the feel for the expansion. The horde zones run the gambit from Bright, lush forests to barren wastes with a little dark swampy moodiness in between. The alliance side is both depressing ans spooky, setting up some fantastic world building for how the people of Kul Tiras live their lives.

    However, that's where the good ends for this expansion. The shiny exterior hides the hollow shell of a game that it actually is. Not a game that was made by people that care, but one that could be mistaken as being made by a corporate office run by EA.

    Story: While the Alliance side has some of the best story telling the game has ever seen the Horde side is,to avoid spoilers; sorely lacking. Characters and factions move and act illogically when compared to previous confirmed lore, even so much as completely retconning entire motivations, reasoning and culture to push a narrative that feels both forced and artificial. Each zone contains its own side story that doesn't exactly mesh well with the main narrative of the game and leaves the players constantly thinking "but what about X" only to have them grasping at straws. At best it compares well with low-tier middle school fan fiction at worst it's a broken mess that even the author of those sparkly vampire books would be ashamed of.

    Sound: While nothing in BFA is objectively BAD there are quite a few instances of remixes from previous expansions strewn about. Also a multitude of poor Q&A work has led to some issues with the sound sometimes stuttering or stopping entirely, usually requiring a interface reload to fix if not a full logout sequence. Depending on zone this can be immersion breaking , depending on personal musical taste. My personal favorite is Vol'dun's music; it sings that this place is a depressing, desolate and dangerous all in one tune. Exactly like Cleveland, oddly enough.

    Control: At one point wow was blessed with some of the better controls in terms of interface and timing. While it has not aged particularly well compared to others in its genre it cannot be called bad as it got the job done. However, BFA manages to take the one massive step back from Legion; the global cooldown change. While Legion combat and responsiveness will never be on par with say Tera's combat, it was still quick and to the point. Now, every single class in the game feels unresponsive , clunky and in the case of some caster classes (poor shamans) outright criminally slow. I went from combat being fluid and to the point to mistiming my attacks because of some dumb timer that's now far longer than it originally was.

    Optimization: Put blankly; wow runs like hot garbage. Zones and dungeons take far longer to load than they should; even on SSD and the game under utilizes powerful video cards. While this is good for those on a budget it's not exactly good for those that want more out of their gaming experience. This continues Blizzards trend of their games running on nearly everything, but not on anything exceptionally well.

    This isn't a deal breaker for most, but the engine is certainly showing it's age.

    Content: As I am limited to 5000 Character I will have to make this section brief, but needless to say many parts of the game are bankrupt. Casual PVP is entirely dead as warmode did next to nothing to revitalize world pvp. The rewards are randomized, not worth the hassle and the wanted marker is reported on the map too slow to catch griefers; especially ones with stealth. Rated pvp is and always has been a mess, made even worse by randomized rewards.

    Heroic dungeons are pointless as the very dull warfronts mode entirely invalidates their existence 3 week in. The same could be said for the Mythic 0 dungeons as warfronts give away epic gear as if it were candy.

    The Azerite gear system is simply there to add more grind on time of grind and is far less rewarding than legions Artifact weapon system. This leaves players feeling weaker and shafted as their new drop gets an absolutely terrible random set of passive abilities they don't want.

    I could easily go on for another 10,000 words , but the shorter answer is this;

    They took everything bad about legion and turned it up to 11. From the unrewarding rep grind to the invalidation of so much content early on; BFA is a dark mark on WOW,s history on par with WOD.

    If 8.1 doesn't fix the problems, bail on this sinking ship and go play something more worth your time.    … Expand
  29. howtobe
    Sep 17, 2018
    1
    It is a total impasse. The story is wrong, the characters are wrong, and the balance between each classes is as bad as any other Blizzard games.
    But the worst thing is the newly added 'two garbage cans', the 'first garbage cans' island is too monotonous. It gives you the same boredom as playing Diablo III. Warfront, the 'second garbage bin', was boring and rather caused a chaos in the    It is a total impasse. The story is wrong, the characters are wrong, and the balance between each classes is as bad as any other Blizzard games.
    But the worst thing is the newly added 'two garbage cans', the 'first garbage cans' island is too monotonous. It gives you the same boredom as playing Diablo III. Warfront, the 'second garbage bin', was boring and rather caused a chaos in the auction house.
    Former Blizzard developers were not criticized for their arrogant attitude. That's because at least they have made a great game. However, current developers who have received the legacy are dancing puddles with the vomit turned over in the trash pile.
    We have been patient with patience and will soon reach the limit. Other game developers want to learn a lot from Blizzard's failure.    … Expand
  30. laon
    Sep 16, 2018
    1
    이게 게임이냐 이게 확팩이냐
    유저를 개똥으로아는 블자는 제발 이제 소통좀하자
    모든게 군단 연장선
    하지만 스케일은 모든게 군단 하위호환
  31. TheRightWay
    Sep 16, 2018
    10
    Please don't believe the user score. BFA is an amazing expansion! Zones are beautiful, questing was fun and engaging, end game has plenty of content and there's lots to do if you don't have the time to raid.
  32. EchoFiveDelta
    Sep 16, 2018
    9
    This has been my favorite expansion since WOTLK, been throwing hours into gearing , mythics, and World Quests.

    The stories while leveling are great, so much to them and easy to follow.
  33. SlimShadre
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    Easily the worst Xpac yet. Whereas with Legion there were content additions that were not perfect (pros and cons), with BfA the very little content additions they have added broke the game. This is ignoring all the bugs and problems they have had so far. The Reddit talk was icing on the cake.. when is the last Xpac they had a reddit discussion on the state of the game besides BfA?Easily the worst Xpac yet. Whereas with Legion there were content additions that were not perfect (pros and cons), with BfA the very little content additions they have added broke the game. This is ignoring all the bugs and problems they have had so far. The Reddit talk was icing on the cake.. when is the last Xpac they had a reddit discussion on the state of the game besides BfA?

    Apologists here are being dismissive, or not understanding the issue. Look up what Warmode has done as an example.    … Expand
  34. Poohzhunny
    Sep 16, 2018
    8
    Not by far the worst xpac yet. My second favourite to Legion at this point. I think the vast amount of criticism comes from overblown expectations. Legion was such a huge step up from WoD that I think a lot of people expected the same kind of feeling. It’s a great xpac. Not perfect, a little buggy at start up, and still tweaking to do on some classes (which I don’t think is ok, but notNot by far the worst xpac yet. My second favourite to Legion at this point. I think the vast amount of criticism comes from overblown expectations. Legion was such a huge step up from WoD that I think a lot of people expected the same kind of feeling. It’s a great xpac. Not perfect, a little buggy at start up, and still tweaking to do on some classes (which I don’t think is ok, but not world shattering), and azerite system is boring, but not the broken dumpster fire some would like to make it out to be.… Expand
  35. EdgarPoe
    Sep 16, 2018
    1
    Prepare yourselves...

    From Mythic crate bugs, to Warfront afk 390 gear, this expansion has everything! Ignoring balancing issues, the team really dropped the ball this time. The AMA was a joke, and was held specifically because things are BAD right now. All the people pretending everything is just fine, remind me of that picture where a dog is in a burning room. Just run a    Prepare yourselves...

    From Mythic crate bugs, to Warfront afk 390 gear, this expansion has everything!

    Ignoring balancing issues, the team really dropped the ball this time. The AMA was a joke, and was held specifically because things are BAD right now. All the people pretending everything is just fine, remind me of that picture where a dog is in a burning room.

    Just run a comparison of this xpacs features versus Legion or others.. If they added two new classes in BfA it would have made up for some of this nonsense.. but instead, they still don't have the existing classes finished, until 8.1... Good Lord...    … Expand
  36. pjh30915
    Sep 16, 2018
    1
    글로벌 쿨타임 부터 시작해서 닻 풀 희귀 현상까지 지금 확장팩에서 많은 불편함을 느낍니다. 격전지와 군도탐험을 왜 해야 하는건지도 잘 모르겠습니다. 컨텐츠도 기존의 군단 확장팩에서 가져온 것들이 많기에 신규 확장팩의 재미를 못 찾으니 새로운 캐릭터를 키우는게 그나마 더 재밌다고 느낍니다. 고작 확장팩 낸지 1달만에 말입니다. 그리고 드레노어의 전쟁군주부터 시작해서 왜 나는 탈것을 막아놓는 겁니까? 컨텐츠 소모 속도를 운운하던데, 주기적으로 돈을 받아가는 게임이라면 컨텐츠를 늘릴 생각을 해야하는게 조금 더 상식적이지 않습니까? 지금은 정액제 남은 시간이 아까워서 새로운 캐릭터 육성만 하다가, 정액제 남은시간이 모두 없어지면 미련없이 WoW에 정을 땔거 같습니다. 감사합니다. 꽉 막힌 소통과글로벌 쿨타임 부터 시작해서 닻 풀 희귀 현상까지 지금 확장팩에서 많은 불편함을 느낍니다. 격전지와 군도탐험을 왜 해야 하는건지도 잘 모르겠습니다. 컨텐츠도 기존의 군단 확장팩에서 가져온 것들이 많기에 신규 확장팩의 재미를 못 찾으니 새로운 캐릭터를 키우는게 그나마 더 재밌다고 느낍니다. 고작 확장팩 낸지 1달만에 말입니다. 그리고 드레노어의 전쟁군주부터 시작해서 왜 나는 탈것을 막아놓는 겁니까? 컨텐츠 소모 속도를 운운하던데, 주기적으로 돈을 받아가는 게임이라면 컨텐츠를 늘릴 생각을 해야하는게 조금 더 상식적이지 않습니까? 지금은 정액제 남은 시간이 아까워서 새로운 캐릭터 육성만 하다가, 정액제 남은시간이 모두 없어지면 미련없이 WoW에 정을 땔거 같습니다. 감사합니다. 꽉 막힌 소통과 본인들의 똥고집 덕분에 제 시간이 많이 늘어나게 되겠네요.… Expand
  37. chsoo9543
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    Everything has been in decline before. Foolish stories, boring content, unfair coercion, global cool time, all are rubbish.
  38. Deadlyclaw
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    It really feels like the weakest WoW expansion i have ever played World quest grind and island expeditions are just no fun and Warfronts feel very unsatisfying to play.
  39. Melvorn
    Sep 16, 2018
    9
    I've played since Vanilla; since I was a kid. Don't listen to all the salty plebs who jumped on Metacritic to bomb it after Blizzard had ONE buggy month. BfA is almost as good as Wrath of the Lich King; Blizzard's raid game is still good, there's more content than ever before, outstanding cinematics, faction identity is considered and so is it to classes. Is it perfect? No. There was aI've played since Vanilla; since I was a kid. Don't listen to all the salty plebs who jumped on Metacritic to bomb it after Blizzard had ONE buggy month. BfA is almost as good as Wrath of the Lich King; Blizzard's raid game is still good, there's more content than ever before, outstanding cinematics, faction identity is considered and so is it to classes. Is it perfect? No. There was a week where Mythic+ had a bug and people think Warfronts is a new optimal gearing method, when it's really just a VERY sub-par but fun way to get gear, compared to Mythic+ and raids. But it most certainly isn't a "3" or "0" score; that's the salty, loud and obnoxious minority. Just ask the other players when you get in-game or try it for yourself.… Expand
  40. mayor1122
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    Hi. Alliance sub rogue here. Between the "hotfixes" and faction based warfront rewards, you should avoid this game like the plague. They have nerfed rogue pvp into the ground so badly that I've had to reroll. Rerolling in this expac isn't easy due to the grind of rep and azerite power that severely puts you behind other players. I have had to choose to play a healer to have any chance ofHi. Alliance sub rogue here. Between the "hotfixes" and faction based warfront rewards, you should avoid this game like the plague. They have nerfed rogue pvp into the ground so badly that I've had to reroll. Rerolling in this expac isn't easy due to the grind of rep and azerite power that severely puts you behind other players. I have had to choose to play a healer to have any chance of catching up to the current content.

    As for warfronts, they gave major rewards to the horde while alliance got nothing for two weeks. Horde guilds are now leading the world first raiding purely due to the blunders of Blizzard developers. Decisions like these are riddled throughout this game. Once again, save your money and forget that this game exists.    … Expand
  41. nodq
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    It is impressive how much they can get out of such an old engine. Graphics wise. But that alone does not make the game good or bad. The gameplay, especially the class and talent/specc design is horrible. This expansion was released way too early. Many classes/speccs are unfinished and Developers said themself that the time was not enough to finish them and that we would need to wait for aIt is impressive how much they can get out of such an old engine. Graphics wise. But that alone does not make the game good or bad. The gameplay, especially the class and talent/specc design is horrible. This expansion was released way too early. Many classes/speccs are unfinished and Developers said themself that the time was not enough to finish them and that we would need to wait for a content patch like 8.1, which will take MONTHS after release to come out.
    Also, the leveling experience is the worst i have ever had in any WoW addon. When you played LEGION before and you started leveling a good geared character. Then it felt awful. Every level you became weaker even tho you gained more level and higher ilvl gear. Your character became horribly weak and slow.
    Also, over that couple of years class design is on an all time low. They gave us artifact weapons with tons of traits and stuff that interacted with your base spells. Then they took this away, dumbed down the classes even more, and that feels really really bad. Especially, as you do NOT gain any new talent/spell or whatsoever over leveling 110-120. You LOSE things. And that is the worst exp. in an WoW addon since 13years.

    Too many WorldQuest grind. And at the end after you have done WQ and rep grind, it is all over the same stuff again as in legion. Raids, Arena/BGs, Mythic+... thats it. Same old content same old stuff, boring as ****

    Island expeditions are a joke. Warfronts are Ashran WITHOUT the enemy team / without PvP. These two new things, are the most boring stuff ever introduced into the game, ever.

    The Asterith gear and traits are just annoying and nothing special. And for that we no longer have raid set gear and set boni. It is a very lazy implementation. They just removed stuff that needs lot of work and time, like creating class specific raid gear and boni. And added like nothing to compensate. it feels like they wanna remove more and more from the game so they have less to work and need less time investment. So they can maximize the income of money. It really feels like that.

    Most important thing, this addon is not fun, at all. After 4-5 weeks I am really bored because there is the same **** we did 2+ years already and nothing new. At least PvP is better than LEGION, you can get gear again, and gear matters again in PvP. But overall PvP is still worse than other addons years ago.
    I canceled my SUB, because I think it is not worth the money for what it offers (the same stuff as legion but with so much worse classes and speccs...) therfor boring.    … Expand
  42. FlynShin
    Sep 16, 2018
    1
    Totally disgust. I'd believe if someone introduce this expansion as 7.4 of The Legion to me (Or even downgraded)

    Worst story for Horde, nothing changed from The Legion and even worse without traits of Relic Weapons and the legendary item talents. (Happy that the legendary items has been removed from the game though), Azerite Armors are combined bad things from Relic Weapons and the    Totally disgust. I'd believe if someone introduce this expansion as 7.4 of The Legion to me (Or even downgraded)

    Worst story for Horde, nothing changed from The Legion and even worse without traits of Relic Weapons and the legendary item talents. (Happy that the legendary items has been removed from the game though),

    Azerite Armors are combined bad things from Relic Weapons and the legendary items from The Legion. Barely get what you want, most of the traits are trash, STILL collecting relic power from the world quest etc.

    Broken balance of each class. Everyone only looking for Rouge, Mage, Warlock, Hunter for DPS in Mythic Keystone, Death Knight only for Tank, Shamans are banned from every role.

    Most disgusting thing is, global cooldown. Even FF XIV which has 2.5 sec global cooldown doesn't apply it to the big skills such as Tranquility or Empower Rune Weapon, Healing Tide Totem. I don't know what Blizzard is expecting from such a dumb thing like this.

    Wanted to score 0, but gave 1 because of Bwonsamdi.    … Expand
  43. Schrodin
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    Fukking azerite! All contents of BFA are minor copy of Legion. This can't be called a game.
  44. amani
    Sep 15, 2018
    10
    yeah~ I'm unholy DK, so I'm not happy with this game, but I think 3.8 is too low.
  45. OnceUponTime
    Sep 14, 2018
    0
    This game has become rat race in which you as a rat don't have control of your own pace and speed of the race. In fact freedom of choice doesn't exist because it's streamlined big time.

    Nothing really matters but your /played more than ever to be honest. It is designed precisely to suck your soul out of your body until you collapse of mind blowing and pointless grinds while whole system    This game has become rat race in which you as a rat don't have control of your own pace and speed of the race. In fact freedom of choice doesn't exist because it's streamlined big time.

    Nothing really matters but your /played more than ever to be honest. It is designed precisely to suck your soul out of your body until you collapse of mind blowing and pointless grinds while whole system is made to slow you even more and harder (scaling, dungeon trash, time gated stuff, rep etc.) Very very evil things indeed! This is the job you can't pay off bills with.

    If you like roleplaying a RAT that is told what and how to do things and have no self respect then this game is for you.    … Expand
  46. Archdante
    Sep 14, 2018
    2
    This expansion LOOKS amazing. the art, level and story design is amazing. they are works of art.
    But the classes/ gameplay and overal content in the zones and besides the story is by far the most lacking, grindy and not player friendly blizzard has ever released. 0 new skills. 0 new talent rows 0 new classes or races. Reputation grinds are now required on every alt you create. endgame is    This expansion LOOKS amazing. the art, level and story design is amazing. they are works of art.
    But the classes/ gameplay and overal content in the zones and besides the story is by far the most lacking, grindy and not player friendly blizzard has ever released. 0 new skills. 0 new talent rows 0 new classes or races. Reputation grinds are now required on every alt you create. endgame is only WQ or high end dungeons or raiding. and they will just throw random gear at you. Usable or not..    … Expand
  47. khennu
    Sep 14, 2018
    0
    blisurd has learned that extending waiting times is more profitable than creating quality content. This expansion will make WoD look good. DO NOT play this ****

    0 points.
  48. g913
    Sep 14, 2018
    0
    Its a paid beta, every day there are tons of new updates, bugs, nerfs, classes getting so nerfed that you have to reroll.
  49. marlmoro
    Sep 14, 2018
    3
    Lot of years playing WoW, and this is the poor expansion release. Bugs everydays questing, dungeons, raids, stats... This is a really beta. Metagame is now Uldir Mythic, and seconds boss have invisible lasers killing you, wtf.
    I'm a mythic raider, and actually i'm playing beta game. Probably dont buy next expansion, and go another mmo can be playeable.
  50. cerberlok
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    Scaling your gear on 120 get your character weaker and no progress usles expedicion and Mission on Table only for farm ussles azerite power
  51. Lumusta
    Sep 13, 2018
    1
    As someone who is playing since vanilla WoW and has experienced all the ups and downs that this game had I am extemely saddened what has become of it. BFA is the weakest and worst designed expansion this game ever had. Even WoD and Cata were much more enjoyable and better designed. Everything in BFA is dragged out to insanity. The rep grind is worse than ever before, I would rather grindAs someone who is playing since vanilla WoW and has experienced all the ups and downs that this game had I am extemely saddened what has become of it. BFA is the weakest and worst designed expansion this game ever had. Even WoD and Cata were much more enjoyable and better designed. Everything in BFA is dragged out to insanity. The rep grind is worse than ever before, I would rather grind mobs like old school vanilla or shahoa than do 30 world quests for 500 rep. World mobs that level with your gear is the dumbest thing they EVER introduced to this game. Even with a higher ilvl it takes me longer to kill mobs than at lvl 119.
    I am sorry but BFA is a failure.    … Expand
  52. wybrem
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth is a Freemium game hiddin in a pay 2 play package.

    No longer is it a fun and relaxing game. EVERYTHING you want is gated behind tedious rep grinds. Something as simple as a reskin is gated behind weeks upon weeks of tedious rep grinding, which means as much doing the EXACT same boring quests over and over again. Leveling has been slowed down so much    World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth is a Freemium game hiddin in a pay 2 play package.

    No longer is it a fun and relaxing game. EVERYTHING you want is gated behind tedious rep grinds. Something as simple as a reskin is gated behind weeks upon weeks of tedious rep grinding, which means as much doing the EXACT same boring quests over and over again. Leveling has been slowed down so much that wow is now only for the most dedicated of unemployed.

    Wow should just go free2play as it is no longer a premium game nor is it worth the subscription.    … Expand
  53. ceton35
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lazy for Subs is just lazy and awful form all angles.

    Gameplay: Slow and weak with gear level scaling after years of feeling like a god form WOTLK, it is very off putting. The stat squish is way over tuned and made leveling form 1 to 120 a bore. Endgame is slow slog that we don't have flying and 80 percent of the endgame is just rep grinding with world quests. The opposite faction island dont have flight paths till we do the long *&* war campigan to unlock more paths and more is opened after revered. Better enjoy those long jogs on that mount because it a long run.

    leveling Dungeons is nerfed to heck and pointless. Happiness is swinging a epic sword 20 times at a squirrel.

    Classes again is unbalanced, just roll a rogue or a hunter and win. Even with the baby numbers we do now, they cant get classes like druids right. So the Blizzard solution is always to wait to the next patch and roll a top class or a spec. They are the master of the favor of the month.

    No new talents or spells at 120 and the new Azerite gear made the game just mining for Azerite. The traits is boring and again it no options to choice what we want, just get Thunderous Blast and call it a day. The better the armor the more mining have to done just to unlock the traits. SO again at 120, they can just call it a fantasy mining RPG. My last tier Azerite armor better have diamonds, platinum and gold on it.

    War fronts is boring and only good for loot and the mining simulator, errr islands is junk also. Why cant we loot and RP as pirates?

    Story: You wont think it was no war at all once you land on the islands and quest that same old junk with a new skin. The alliance is just copy pasta form old RPGs and stories. They really missed the mark with the pirate theme. land based pirates that don't loot the islands??? The Horde have the troll lore that have not been overused to death but the sense of a world war is missing. The War campaign is so spaced out that we doing world quests to complete it, than feeling like in on a war front.

    Allied races: My my, why do we need to beg these people to join us after saving their (*&*( and needing to do chores like I am the karate kid huh? I protected and saved the people form doom but I need exalted rep to even unlock them. I see them walking around in some of the cites and it a recruiting hall but nah got to grind. This the biggest cover up in the expansion of all. It is stupid lore wise and just a gate to get subs running. ( add to that, to get the new armor skins that one need to level each races to 110 and leveling is at the slowest with the only real option to quest with everything else nerfed and cant buy a boost to skip it.)

    Music: its good but the great budget cuts took its toll and it just very short loops than the full rich scores form the older expansions.

    Art: Why remove tier armor for Azerite gear? The leveling armor looks better than the raid gear and leveling gear should look like &*&^. The zones looks good and more high rez but that alone wont cut it. The problem is that path finding again rears its ugly head and looking for some rares or a way down a mountain is a chore.

    Overall: We went form great champions that saved the world to miners that looking for rocks and beggars that have to do chores to unlock everything. The freedom to choose our adventure is gone and we have endless forced events if we like to run raids or Mythic plus on the side or spend like 6 hour or more a day before enjoying anything else. Grinding is everything BFA stands of.

    Grinding for Azerite gets a zero form me.    … Expand
  54. Haajib
    Sep 13, 2018
    1
    Its a paid beta, every day there are tons of new updates, bugs, nerfs, classes getting so nerfed that you have to reroll.
    Gear is a mess, you need so many calculators and guides to get gear upgrades.
    Much of the content is locked behind farm walls.

    Do not pay or play until they solved the issues.
  55. Lordhater
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    El juego es una mierda, no tiene contenido y está pensado para gente subnormal como Mordâcae-DunModr
  56. Dios_mauricio
    Sep 13, 2018
    3
    Aburrido, y los warfronts son una porquería, la verdad esperaba mas de esta expansion, las dungeons son tediosas y el wpvp no esta balanceado
  57. bluesocks
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    I've never had negative overall experience with a WoW expansion in my life since its beginning. I'm a Warcraft fan who played casually since the beta days. But this expansion, from the very first patch got me underwhelmed and disappointed. I have guildies to play with, and don't mind solo contents, however, it really doesn't provide you many new contents.

    Island Expedition has an issue    I've never had negative overall experience with a WoW expansion in my life since its beginning. I'm a Warcraft fan who played casually since the beta days. But this expansion, from the very first patch got me underwhelmed and disappointed. I have guildies to play with, and don't mind solo contents, however, it really doesn't provide you many new contents.

    Island Expedition has an issue with Heart of Azeroth / Azerite system not being interesting therefore the rewards are neither attractive or motivating,

    Warfronts, Allied Races, even the War Campaigns are time gated. The biggest difference and the problem of this expansion is that, the stench of EA-esque, business-friendly ideas are EVERYWHERE, and extremely obvious.

    I'm not one to blame corporations trying to make money, however, BfA feels like an unfinished college student's project that has shiny cover art and words, but no substance. I've never seen a WoW expansion feeling so rushed, unfinished and business-oriented. Do not subscribe or purchase the game if you expected a polished and finished game product.    … Expand
  58. Klarum
    Sep 13, 2018
    4
    Boring, uninspired, full of badly designed features (expeditions, warfront, azerite gear and grind).
    Oh and there is no faction war. The exact opposite! For the first time since launch each faction was given their own island to play on away from the other...
  59. Kamrann
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    This is the worst wow you ever played. all the outplay potential is out of the picture. we have many few abilities. new azurite system is 100 times worst than artifact system we had. they kept the grind part of it and removed the cool stuff from artifact system.

    This is worst than wod don't buy it.
  60. TypeBeta
    Sep 13, 2018
    0
    It is Legion 7.4. Nothing new, boring leveling, same system, unbalanced scaling.
  61. Floofies
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Poor gameplay elements makes for an unfun experience through the World. Instead of getting stronger each expansion as it used to be, you grow weaker and lose essentially everything going forward. More gets removed each expansion, instead of gaining more things.
  62. jujodeve
    Sep 12, 2018
    2
    World of Beta. Battle for the Bugs.
    pay for AAA game-expansion and i receive a pay-to-win android stupid game
  63. opbrawinfree
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Like Battle for Azeroth, this metacritic rating is time gated. This is working as intended. More stars will be available in the upcoming months.
  64. nicolaikay
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Horrible end game grinding, absolutely filled with bugs. The worst end game experience i've ever had. Under no circumstances should you buy this expansion.
  65. Dman2
    Sep 12, 2018
    3
    Pros: The Art work, quests, story line, cut scenes and cinematics are top notch as always. Dungeons are bit buggy, overall fresh and fun. World PvP is probably my favorite aspect of this expansion so far, love the bounty system.

    Cons: Island Expeditions were poorly implemented, and are completely dead after the first week...they need to be rework or removed asap. Warfronts: The    Pros: The Art work, quests, story line, cut scenes and cinematics are top notch as always. Dungeons are bit buggy, overall fresh and fun. World PvP is probably my favorite aspect of this expansion so far, love the bounty system.

    Cons: Island Expeditions were poorly implemented, and are completely dead after the first week...they need to be rework or removed asap.

    Warfronts:
    The gameplay is buggy, rewards are great; they really should be made into a 20 vs 20 battleground...

    Class game play:
    "Class fantasy" (as blizzard puts it), is pretty clunky. Damage is currently being balanced, but the skills and GCD flow need a lot more work

    The response from Blizzard to the community is a train wreck... just about everything they do with weekly updates gives me one less reason to play...

    I love Blizzard and their games, but they really need to listen to the community and reflect on the feedback.    … Expand
  66. Meggimore
    Sep 12, 2018
    1
    I'd like to start with the obvious thing that is very dissatisfying. Battle For Azeroth is nearly the copy of Legion on different zones and new plot.
    - We were tired of world quests at the end of previous expansion and imediately when we finish main plot in each zone we received world quests which were of course based on the quests we had just ended. Emisary rewards are also some kind of    I'd like to start with the obvious thing that is very dissatisfying. Battle For Azeroth is nearly the copy of Legion on different zones and new plot.
    - We were tired of world quests at the end of previous expansion and imediately when we finish main plot in each zone we received world quests which were of course based on the quests we had just ended. Emisary rewards are also some kind of joke. 600 gold, it was a guaranteed award in legion + something else. here we receive AP, gold of item 340 (that's quite ok at the beginig)
    - Leveling was not a pleasure. Main plot was not separated from side quests and it was intermingling and I was confused what exactly I should have be doing. I got lost in Zuldazar main quest line and I was forced to contact with Blizzard support. Unbelievable
    - There's no endgame zone. There's no zone like Suramar or Tanaan Jungle that will keep us for some time, doing quests and going through the progress of the zone while upgrading the reputation with its
    main fraction.
    - Island Expedion, theoreticaly it should have been something new, creative and interesting. To be honest, after completing this activity twice I've already been tired of grinding Azerite Power. Only pvp mode is gripping, but on other dificulties it feels like 3v3 pve content which quickly gets boring and very repetitive
    - Oh yes, Azerite Power.. of course it's not a copy of Artifact Power tho...
    - When it comes to dungeons I enjoyed doing them, but huge disadvantageit's their lenght, numerous of trash which fills up the large halls for example Shrine of the Storm it's nearly tiring to enter this dungeon because you know that you will loose around 40 minutes of your life to complete it. Mechanics are repetitive from Legion. I almost cried of laugh when I saw the last boss mechanic from Freehold. Was that twin of Gul'dan? ;)
    - Another thing that is really anoying is that I completely don't feel the progress of my caracter. I can't say "Yeah, now I'm more powerful I can do things more easily or on higher dificulty"
    - Horde main town is beautiful when it comes to design but pragmatically it's horrible. Hundred of stairs, no portals up and down, profesions on the site that is only visited because the scrapper is there, We spend most of time in the harbour while trying to get to Alliance's zones.
    - Professions have lost on value. 3 stars of everything in first 2-3 days, but the frequency of a plant like Anchor Weed is on 5% lvl

    To sum up, the plot and the story is great and that's the only thing I like in this expansion. I've got tired of this game and I won't subscribe for the next month, because it's just the waste of money for such terrible game.
    Wake up Blizzard or you will loose us, players that love World of Warcraft but are disgusted with the "changes"    … Expand
  67. Monsterskill
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    They have murdered this game. I will start by saying that I have played WoW since 2005. I have been a hardcore top 10 US guild raider, and I have been an LFR trashcan pug. I can tell you guys that right now (and at launch as well), the game is not in a polished state characteristic of a full release game. It is clear that the game was rushed out, and that is why people are calling it "BetaThey have murdered this game. I will start by saying that I have played WoW since 2005. I have been a hardcore top 10 US guild raider, and I have been an LFR trashcan pug. I can tell you guys that right now (and at launch as well), the game is not in a polished state characteristic of a full release game. It is clear that the game was rushed out, and that is why people are calling it "Beta for Azeroth".

    A few key issues with the game:

    1) Numerous bugs on release, such as invisible mobs, exploits, combat bugs, UI bugs, main story quest for Alliance was bugged and let people bypass Siege of Boralus (which means nobody even bothered to level an Alliance character on the live candidate to discover this bug) and once you were done with the quest, you couldn't zone into Siege lol! Just recently, there was a bugged mythic world quest in Atal'Dazar which resulted in double spawning of all the trash mobs (wtf?)!! Stuff like this is ridiculous, and pure beta quality.

    2) GCD changes: The fact that everything is now on the GCD is extremely frustrating for most players. I don't think anyone enjoys this change, and it slows down the combat and makes the game feel clunky and less fun.

    3) Azerite power/Artifact power/Azerite traits: Basically, the Azerite trait system feels very lackluster and RNG based due to it being tied to gear. The traits themselves often don't have much of an impact on how you play. The catchup mechanics of Artifact power makes farming Azerite feel pointless. Also, there are no new abilities from leveling the artifact. They also took away our Legion artifacts and legendaries, which were very exciting and fun traits. This is horrible design.

    4) Scaling - The stat squish nerfed all secondary stat ratings across the board for every class. This makes combat slow, clunky, and awkward. The world mob health also scales with itemlevel, which is extremely frustrating. Furthermore, their scaling system is horribly broken and results in painfully long leveling for lowbies. The devs clearly don't have a clue. (For example, on live, they released a "fix" to PVP healing that resulted in lowbie chars having -1000 mana regeneration...wtf?)

    5) Storyline - The game's story is pretty generic and scattered. They injected a feminist agenda into the game. I am all for feminism and equal rights/representation, etc. But when the vast majority of female characters are in leadership positions, and the male characters are portrayed as idiots, it is kind of obvious there is an agenda being pushed. Also, the whole way Darnassus was burned left a really bad taste in my mouth. I am not happy with the direction the story has taken, and I feel like WoW's lore has become mostly a joke ever since WoD. There is no context for Siege of Boralus to Horde, and no context for Uldir and King's Rest for Alliance (like there isn't even an intro quest to send you there.).

    6) Faction bias: It really seems like the devs favor Horde. The recent warfront fiasco illustrates this. Alliance players feel like an afterthought. The way they sharded warmode doesn't seem to work correctly either. Overall, the imbalance leads to many unhappy players. Most top PVE and PVP guilds are now Horde.

    7) Timegates/Rep Grinds/Grind: There is lots of waiting around in this game. (Wait for warfronts, wait for worldquests, wait for lockout resets, etc) You only get a limited number of world quests to do, and a lot of progress is tied to rep grinds where world quests are the only source of rep. The way they dealt with Allied Races was extremely dishonest (They seriously expect players to go back and run Legion's worst content to unlock these races?) Horrible grinds for crafted items. Mats are scarce. They have made demand for gold very high to incentivize token purchases.

    8) Lack of polish: Be it the lack of flavor quests for raids and dungeons, lack of class fantasy and class specific quests, lack of profession quests, lazily not even making the make loh go quests randomly generated, etc, there is no shortage of a lack of polish here. The game feels like a crude beta. It seems like they meant to add things, but never bothered. The Uldir raid was released to be extremely difficult on normal, and unrealistic for pugs. They then stealth nerfed a lot of it. It's just dumb that they need to tune the entry level raid this much after having months of beta testing.

    9) Class balance : PVP feels more Rock. Paper, Scissors than ever before, and PVE class balance is horrible. Feral druids and elemental shamans are really having a horrible time right now, and it's just sad.

    So why do I give it a zero? In spite of all these issues, doesn't it deserve at least a 2? I say no because it is a HUGE step backwards from what WoW was. I have watched the quality of this game slowly decline due to Activision's greed and poor decisions by the dev team. I am giving it a zero because this is WoW, and we, the players, expected and deserved better than this.    … Expand
  68. Dameaus
    Sep 12, 2018
    1
    Was this farmed out to Blizz B team or something? do we have to wait until the next one to get an A team expansion? War Mode is literally the ONLY feature of this xpac that is even remotely fun. the rep grinds are a joke. the armor sets are a joke. azerite traits are a joke. the time gated content is a joke. island expeditions are a joke. warfronts are a HUGE joke. the lack of any war, inWas this farmed out to Blizz B team or something? do we have to wait until the next one to get an A team expansion? War Mode is literally the ONLY feature of this xpac that is even remotely fun. the rep grinds are a joke. the armor sets are a joke. azerite traits are a joke. the time gated content is a joke. island expeditions are a joke. warfronts are a HUGE joke. the lack of any war, in an expansion about a war is a joke. the bugs are a joke for a game that is like 15 years old. the list just goes on guys.

    This is literally the most half baked, least content, unfun expansion that blizzard has ever released for any of their games.

    it only gets a 1/10 because the art for this xpac is probably the best WoW has ever seen.    … Expand
  69. Antisceptic
    Sep 12, 2018
    2
    Everything added to the game is either broken or a worse version of previous systems which were removed. There are no new class abilities or talent rows, so progression from 110 to 120 goes backwards as you lose the benefits of legendary items from the last expansion. Game breaking bugs and glitches are appearing every day, the story is underdeveloped and the world hardly changes at allEverything added to the game is either broken or a worse version of previous systems which were removed. There are no new class abilities or talent rows, so progression from 110 to 120 goes backwards as you lose the benefits of legendary items from the last expansion. Game breaking bugs and glitches are appearing every day, the story is underdeveloped and the world hardly changes at all as a consequence of the actions of your character. Now is not the time to get back in to World of Warcraft.… Expand
  70. IAmHaunter
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Grindy garbage. Why develop a game when you can put 1/4th of the content and make it grindy to make it seem like you did something. This is the activision influence of laziness and garbage to meet quotas.

    Save your time, do not buy this.
  71. nowayx
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Came back to a dead server, no guilds looking for members because there is no one there. Blizzard doesn't want to provide an MMO game experience, then screw them.

    Quote from GM I completely get the frustration with not being able to play with other people in a multiplayer game, but there is nothing that we can do to assist you in this case. If you would like to transfer, you could    Came back to a dead server, no guilds looking for members because there is no one there. Blizzard doesn't want to provide an MMO game experience, then screw them.

    Quote from GM

    I completely get the frustration with not being able to play with other people in a multiplayer game, but there is nothing that we can do to assist you in this case. If you would like to transfer, you could purchase the character transfer service if you ever came around to it.

    So yea, a way to extort more money is the only thing they are interested in.    … Expand
  72. Nova95
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    The new expansion's visuals, music and the story are decent BUT once you hit the max level you are introduced to the true game the lottery games they have removed so much of the players freedom of choice in this game which defeats the purpose of an "Mmo" and they have replaced it with a directed path for players and pure rng systems for loot and other stuff, instead of being able to doThe new expansion's visuals, music and the story are decent BUT once you hit the max level you are introduced to the true game the lottery games they have removed so much of the players freedom of choice in this game which defeats the purpose of an "Mmo" and they have replaced it with a directed path for players and pure rng systems for loot and other stuff, instead of being able to do certain content and expect a good reward or gear you end up praying and crossing your fingers that you are lucky enough to get something good and if you are unlucky you can play for weeks and have very little progression to the point where some people won't even bother anymore and on top of that there has been absolute silence from the developing team towards the community complaints and questions, sadly the wow team has discarded so many good things from legion in order to improve the game in Bfa but they ended up messing everything up with unbalanced new things like the awful Azerite gear system where you can get a new item with +30 ivl but it's a downgrade since the traits are not good, or the repetitive Island expeditions and war fronts which feels more like a chore you have to do instead of you wanting to do it. I have been on and off subscribing to this game for 12 years but by far this is the worst expansion next to WoD. Blizzard fix your game and listen to your community before you doom your own game and lose more subscribers.
    TL;Dr : Game feels like it's still in beta and everything is not clear yet
    PROS:
    -Good leveling experience
    -Decent visuals and music
    CONS:
    -New added things like Island expeditions and War fronts are very repetitive and boring.
    -Pure Rng gearing system and unbalanced Azerite gear system.
    -WoW team has been silent and not communicating with or listening to the community.
    -A lot of things has been taken out from the previous expansion without anything good to replace it.
    -Feels like minimal effort has been put into this expansion.    … Expand
  73. Breakfast
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Let's get this out of the way first: the art department outdid themselves here. The zones are some of the nicest looking in the entire game. Unfortunately, the rest of Blizzard really let these artists down by filling these new zones with the most uninspired, half-baked content I've ever seen in this game, and I've been playing since vanilla. Coupled with this half baked content areLet's get this out of the way first: the art department outdid themselves here. The zones are some of the nicest looking in the entire game. Unfortunately, the rest of Blizzard really let these artists down by filling these new zones with the most uninspired, half-baked content I've ever seen in this game, and I've been playing since vanilla. Coupled with this half baked content are anti-consumer systems that are designed to maximize time played metrics for shareholders. I know WoD is generally perceived as the worst expansion yet, but I was not this bored and disillusioned by WoD as quickly as I've become with BFA. The magic is just gone now and it's been replaced by the type of systems you see in mobile games.

    The Azerite armor system is completely broken in its current state and it makes itemizing your character a Sisyphean task. If you're wearing a piece of 325 blue gear and you get a piece of 340 purple gear for the same slot it should be a no brainer that the 340 piece is an upgrade. But not here. More often than not you will not have the required Azerite Power to unlock the new Azerite abilities on that 340 piece and indeed your DPS will suffer if you equip it. Of course, you'll only notice your DPS suffering in raids and dungeons, as the new scaling system means that mobs in the open world take just as much time to kill at level 120 as they did at level 1, regardless of how good your gear is.

    Island Expeditions promised procedurally generated content and exploration but instead they are a mindless zergfest that reward absolutely nothing except a measly amount of AP and the occasional pet. Yippee.

    Warfronts are content that you can only do every 2 weeks. One side gets 8 "kill 20 X" quests which can only be done once per cycle. 7 of these quests reward Warfront materials, which are largely useless because the Mission Table, which requires Warfront materials to operate, is also largely useless. The other side gets a scenario that they can spam over and over again for 340+ gear.. After 2 weeks, the sides swap and the cycle starts over. This was a heavily advertised feature of this expansion and it turned out to be little more than a catch up mechanic for alts. Why there's already a catch up mechanic like this in the game let alone why you'd ever have an alt in this expansion with the terrible rep grinds is something I don't understand.

    Speaking of which, allied races are locked behind awfully tedious rep grinds that can only be done through extremely repetitive and uninspired world quests. 4 of these races require you do these world quests in the previous expansion.

    Class abilities and talents have been pruned to death and every spec of every class is dreadfully boring. I suspect this pruning is because Blizzard is preparing for a console release of their next expansion. Tacked on top of boring 3-4 button rotations is a new GCD which makes combat arguably slower and worse than FFXIV's combat used to be.

    What does that leave? Dungeons and a raid, i guess. Again, the art department shines here. Most of the dungeons look spectacular. However, since time played metrics is all Blizzard cares about now, these new dungeons are designed to take a very long time and as such are stuffed to the brim with an absurd amount of trash mobs. There's only so many times you can run a dungeon like The Motherlode before losing your mind on the 40th trash mob pull.

    All in all it's mostly a dumpster fire of an expansion, albeit a very nice looking dumpster fire. Sadly I'm not entirely sure the game can be salvaged at this point. Not until certain lead designers are canned and the company no longer remains beholden to its shareholders.    … Expand
  74. decolonised
    Sep 12, 2018
    2
    worst expansion ever and yes, that includes Cata and WoD. I regret prepurchasing. Not fun, just extremely boring and unrewarding grind. It's a terrible shame that the gameplay sucked because the art, voiceovers and cinematics *are* all truly *amazing* - they get my points. Systems, class design, the GCD, quality assurance, and general communication from Blizzard are all AWFUL. I lovedworst expansion ever and yes, that includes Cata and WoD. I regret prepurchasing. Not fun, just extremely boring and unrewarding grind. It's a terrible shame that the gameplay sucked because the art, voiceovers and cinematics *are* all truly *amazing* - they get my points. Systems, class design, the GCD, quality assurance, and general communication from Blizzard are all AWFUL. I loved Legion, so I don't think I'm just jaded, or else I would have gone from loving wow to dreading logging in within days of Legion ending. It's not me, BFA, it's you.… Expand
  75. Dezmondo
    Sep 12, 2018
    9
    Is it perfect? No.

    Is it fun with friends. Most Certainly. Nowadays in a community as big and as old as wow there are large groups of players that expect very different experiences and have a wild range of expectations. This is not a solo players game. This is a game to play with friends or to make friends and play with them. So far I'm having excellent fun with the game it's    Is it perfect? No.

    Is it fun with friends. Most Certainly.

    Nowadays in a community as big and as old as wow there are large groups of players that expect very different experiences and have a wild range of expectations.

    This is not a solo players game. This is a game to play with friends or to make friends and play with them.

    So far I'm having excellent fun with the game it's a fantastic continuation of Legion.    … Expand
  76. Iod
    Sep 12, 2018
    1
    Awesome Lore, worse game design I have ever seen.

    I had a lot of fun in this game the last 5 years or more, but now it is too much for me : - Insane time gating for evrything you want to do - Pvp lost all its meaning since Blizzard decided to ajust stats arbitrary whatever stuff you have. - Pvp lost even more meaning since levels don't meaning nothing now they are also ajusting this.    Awesome Lore, worse game design I have ever seen.

    I had a lot of fun in this game the last 5 years or more, but now it is too much for me :
    - Insane time gating for evrything you want to do
    - Pvp lost all its meaning since Blizzard decided to ajust stats arbitrary whatever stuff you have.
    - Pvp lost even more meaning since levels don't meaning nothing now they are also ajusting this.
    - Leveling now means nothing since everything is scaled (why even want to gain levels ?)
    - Stuff now lost its meaning for all the persistant non instancied world with their ilvl scaling.

    Waw.    … Expand
  77. unloco
    Sep 12, 2018
    4
    First time in WoW's expansion History that I have un-subbed after 1 month of play.

    Everything is time gated. All classes feel like garbage, GCD changes to "make the game slower paced" (quote from game director)
  78. Craspy
    Sep 12, 2018
    10
    it's a good expansion, played 8-12hrs a day since release and I've got a hard time trying to run out of content ever since m+ released
    there are some kinks, I don't like certain aspect, but it's sure as hell a **** 10 from me because I'm not some casual scrublord who can't even handle doing content
  79. iero7
    Sep 12, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This expansion feels like a job and not an escape or fun, constant grind for near meaningless rep. very few drops in quests or dungeon.

    I don't take the bait for world quests or azerite grinding unless there is a specific item.
    keep your azerite.

    Pvp can be fun at times, but basically seems you v macros or botting.

    and occassionally tank but if get azerite instead of something substantial that will stop.

    Blizzard is already trying to bribe people into tanking or alliance into battlegrounds with added "bonuses"
    It's basically how corporations treat their workers,long hours for a pat on head(rep)
    Instead of getting gear you get IOUs in the form of azerite and rep.

    And you can barely craft anything even food    … Expand
  80. GrossPanda
    Sep 12, 2018
    3
    Hello!
    BfA is the first expansion that I really don't want to play (I started to play during WoTLK).
    2 new features Expeditions and Warfronts are not so exciting as it was introduced. Expeditions - the worst content of all time, they are like scenarions in Pandaria but worse. Battlefronts - good idea, lame execution. Regarding class changes - the took away our artifacts, set bonuses    Hello!
    BfA is the first expansion that I really don't want to play (I started to play during WoTLK).
    2 new features Expeditions and Warfronts are not so exciting as it was introduced.
    Expeditions - the worst content of all time, they are like scenarions in Pandaria but worse.
    Battlefronts - good idea, lame execution.
    Regarding class changes - the took away our artifacts, set bonuses from raids, legendaries, and put some of them into talents. In general, the didn't improve classes at all. They just took all the features away and made us weaker, than in Legion. I don't have an idea why the didn't add one more talent set on 120 level.
    Lots of bugs, disbalance of classes
    If you are new player, you may be drug into the game by allied races. But there is no ad that says that you MUST gain reputation in old content of Legion to have an access to those races.
    2,5 poinst for new raid, locations and dungeons they are beautiful as always. 0,5 points for marketing department who sold this game.    … Expand
  81. Raverbasher
    Sep 12, 2018
    0
    Azerite traits are awful. Expeditions are awful. Level scaling is awful. Quests have devolved back to Vanilla "Fetch X and kill N of Y." Dungeons have also gone back to being full of trash, but lacking the finesse of having to sap or poly certain units. PvP is a total fecesshow.

    Some of the zones are quite pretty. First raid is good for a first raid. Everything else is simply terrible.    Azerite traits are awful. Expeditions are awful. Level scaling is awful. Quests have devolved back to Vanilla "Fetch X and kill N of Y." Dungeons have also gone back to being full of trash, but lacking the finesse of having to sap or poly certain units. PvP is a total fecesshow.

    Some of the zones are quite pretty. First raid is good for a first raid. Everything else is simply terrible. It's like they've learnt nothing. Go play something else.    … Expand
  82. Fio_
    Sep 12, 2018
    3
    A hodgepodge of timegated gamemechanics catering only to those with more spare time in their life than they know what to do with.

    The Battle for Azeroth leveling experience is fun, though.
  83. PewPewLazerGun
    Sep 11, 2018
    2
    What ever happened to the Blizz of old? it is ready when it is ready... Overall feels like a BETA.

    Good: Art is some of the best they have done Some quests I really enjoyed Bad: Loot system is the worst they have done. Class balance is truly shocking. So many silly bugs. All new features are shockingly bad. Do yourself a favour and skip this for now if you were thinking of    What ever happened to the Blizz of old? it is ready when it is ready... Overall feels like a BETA.

    Good:
    Art is some of the best they have done
    Some quests I really enjoyed

    Bad:
    Loot system is the worst they have done.
    Class balance is truly shocking.
    So many silly bugs.
    All new features are shockingly bad.

    Do yourself a favour and skip this for now if you were thinking of coming back. Once the quests are finished you will find yourself getting annoyed as you see how far this game has fallen.    … Expand
  84. Syrona
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    After playing WoW since late vanilla, I can honestly say that BFA is the most boring, grindy and unrewarding expansion of them all.
    Just LAZY at an epic, nay, legendary level. And to be perfectly honest, all those f2p Korean grindfest MMO suddenly don't look so ridiculous if you compare them to the dumpster fire that is BFA.
    Leveling and questing is atrocious. The mobs are so tough now    After playing WoW since late vanilla, I can honestly say that BFA is the most boring, grindy and unrewarding expansion of them all.
    Just LAZY at an epic, nay, legendary level. And to be perfectly honest, all those f2p Korean grindfest MMO suddenly don't look so ridiculous if you compare them to the dumpster fire that is BFA.

    Leveling and questing is atrocious. The mobs are so tough now that they don't go down in 3 hits even if you have good gear. This is a major problem when coupled with the slow gameplay created by the new GCD system as well as resource starvation on some classes like rogues, monks and feral druids, making for a very unfun and annoying gameplay.

    Also, I'm tired with how much Blizzard enjoys **** on Alliance, both lore-wise and game-wise. It's like Blizzard is making a reverse Saturday morning cartoon where the bad guys are the protagonists, and the good guys are a joke. Which could be a funny idea for an actual TV show, but not when your chosen faction is the joke of the show.

    I can't believe I quit this game only 3 weeks after the release of the expansion. This never happened before.
    Cancelled sub and uinstalled. I'm done with WoW with the foreseeable future, and also done with Blizzard games, as WoW was really the only thing I was interested in playing.

    The only thing to do is pull a FFXIV and apologize for this mess and then take it back to the drawing board, but then we know Western companies lack the honor to admit their mistakes.    … Expand
  85. Icaanul
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    Worst expansion they have ever released. Yes, worse than Warlord's of Draenor. None of the game's advertised features work properly, class imbalance is intense, the classes play like a mobile game, there are as many bugs as there are npc's...

    All fun has been sucked out of the game in an effort to put the players on a treadmill hopelessly searching for it. The inexperience of the    Worst expansion they have ever released. Yes, worse than Warlord's of Draenor. None of the game's advertised features work properly, class imbalance is intense, the classes play like a mobile game, there are as many bugs as there are npc's...

    All fun has been sucked out of the game in an effort to put the players on a treadmill hopelessly searching for it. The inexperience of the development team is clear. The disconnect between them and the players is at an all-time low.

    It doesn't get any worse than this.    … Expand
  86. Rizaun
    Sep 11, 2018
    4
    This expansion is the proof that everyone that made Blizzard a great company that delivered quality products has left the company.

    Pros - Art - Music Cons - Everything else Welcome to Battle for Azeroth! Enter the continents of Kul Tiras and Zandalar and quest your way to level 120 and then repeat the very same quests that you did to get there but now in the form of WORLD    This expansion is the proof that everyone that made Blizzard a great company that delivered quality products has left the company.

    Pros
    - Art
    - Music

    Cons
    - Everything else

    Welcome to Battle for Azeroth! Enter the continents of Kul Tiras and Zandalar and quest your way to level 120 and then repeat the very same quests that you did to get there but now in the form of WORLD QUESTS that reward DEPRESSING amounts of GODLY AZERITE to SMITE YOUR foes. Enter the fight as a Lv110 god-like hero, defeating hordes of enemies on your own because once you hit Lv120 the very same mobs will be KICKING your ASS. That's right, KICKING your ASS! Because you'll become much weaker. Enjoy running a dungeon for 20 times before you get your first drop, but that's okay because dungeons are filled with packs of TRASH, ONE after the OTHER!

    Activate Warmode as a Horde and enjoy all the benefits that come with it such as 10% extra Exp or activate it as an Alliance player and get ganked every 10 seconds.

    Despite insisting on keeping WoW as a game of two factions, the developers clearly favor the Horde, giving them more story, more cinematics, better racials and even the first shot at new content. They cannot separate the player from the developer, so they continue with their Horde bias, and the only people that deny it are the Horde players.

    The story is terrible, it's like they took some random Tumblr fanfic and put it into the game. The writers continue to rely on plot holes to advance the story in the favor of the Horde. Sometimes I'm not sure if WoW is being developed by Disney considering the current villains, I expect them to start singing anytime they appear.

    Transmog, which has become the endgame for many is truly disappointing this expansion. There's just a handful of sets added and on top of that, class sets are gone so now every class of the same type of armor looks the same. You'd think that still recycling meshes from 10 year old content and a lot of the gear being nothing but body-paint allowed Blizzard to develop more gear sets but you'd be wrong. making helmets, shoulders and belt buckles take all of Blizzard's artistic manpower but hey, at least the frogs have better models now!

    Battle for Azeroth's major features are disappointing.

    The Heart of Azeroth and Azerite Gear are basically the Artifact weapon and Netherlight Crucible, but now they have a different name to make you think it's entirely new. You're gonna spend the entire expansion farming for Azerite (Just like how you spent the entirety of Legion farming Artifact Power) so you can unlock Azerite traits from the Azerite gear, which are like the relic traits that you unlocked in Legion. The level of the Heart of Azeroth determines how many traits you can unlock in every piece. You need to level the HoA over and over if you can unlock the traits of higher ilvl gear.

    Island Expenditions are a 3 player scenario where you need to collect a certain quantity of Azerite before the other team does. Anything you do rewards Azerite, so... it's like doing the same things you do outside, but now you are racing against other players.

    Warfronts are 20 player scenarios where the only way you can lose is if everyone goes afk. It's dumb, brain dead content, but at least it gives players nice looking glamour. However, here's the problem. Just like everything else if BFA, it's time gated. The Warfront is only available for one week a month per faction. The Horde got access to the Warfront itself first because why wouldn't they? The developers play Horde so they want access to it first. The only requirement for Warfront was to be level 120, allowing Horde playes to gear up all their brand lv120 alts and have them ready for raid, and then they patched it to require a minimum of ilvl 320 to enter, which isn't high but it means that no Alliance player will be able to gear up their brand new 120s.

    There was a beta for months, yet Blizzard ignored most of the feedback and released this pathetic excuse for an expansion, filled with bugs. Just a month into the expansion and terrible bugs keep showing up, Blizzard used to say that they release things when they are ready, but clearly that motto died when the good people of Blizzard left. The director, Ion Hazzikostas does not care about player feedback, he has decided he's the person who decides what is fun and what isn't. This is what happens when you put a player with no experience in video game development at the head of a game. Unprofessional attitude towards the players and constantly telling players who chose Alliance to switch to Horde if they want the good stuff.

    But worry not! Should this expansion fold like Warlords of Draenor did, they will just wrap it up and announce Return of the Lich King, with all the villains that you killed 10 years ago back again because villains being dead has never stopped Blizzard from recycling them for future content. Enjoy Dalaran for the third time.    … Expand
  87. fooey
    Sep 11, 2018
    1
    Battle for Azeroth is a stunning combination of absolutely every new feature being simultaneously laughably broken and also mind numbingly boring. Blizzard manages to toss in a massive dose of timegating and blatant grind stretching to make sure this half baked trainwreck has something for everyone to hate.
  88. Shuwayze
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    While the story line and continent art is decent. A lot of it is sadly locked away behind either a rep grind, time gate, or the fact you need to complete a mythic dungeon in order to see it. The new azerite system is pretty lack luster and doesn't meet the expectations of filling the role of loss abilities, loss of legendaries, or the loss of the artifact weapon system. Mythic + dungeonsWhile the story line and continent art is decent. A lot of it is sadly locked away behind either a rep grind, time gate, or the fact you need to complete a mythic dungeon in order to see it. The new azerite system is pretty lack luster and doesn't meet the expectations of filling the role of loss abilities, loss of legendaries, or the loss of the artifact weapon system. Mythic + dungeons feel like a Diablo-esk style theme to make you get better gear than having to earn in in an actual raid- ie. mythic raid or heroic.
    Pvp still doesn't have a vendor and it has about as much RNG added to it as PvE gear.    … Expand
  89. Badsepector
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    Unfotunately Battle for azeroth isn't good worse than mop and they dissapointed people from world of warcraft nothing is actually new and its not worthy to pay 50$ for game 15$ per mounth for playing this game
  90. muruurummuru
    Sep 11, 2018
    1
    Art 10/10
    Quests 9/10
    Story in general 6/10
    Optimization 6/10
    RNG+GCD 0/10
    Everything else 1/10
    And by everything else i mean a lot of positions
  91. Gabrihel
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    In 2 months of paid subscription the expansion will give you meaningless quests, reputations grind, a bunch of dungeons, one raid. Not a single trace of battle for Azeroth. You cant conquer anything for real. Looking at the percentage bar of the other faction waiting to rape some NPC is the greatest emotion. False advertising and misleading product title at best.
  92. ryant
    Sep 11, 2018
    7
    TLDR: Great expansion at first, but minimal and somewhat pointless endgame content leaves you bored after a few weeks. My suggestion, get it and sub for one month. Come back when there's more content. For the first time ever, questing is the more interesting part of wow.

    ---------------------------------------------------- It's a difficult one to rate. There's many good and bad    TLDR: Great expansion at first, but minimal and somewhat pointless endgame content leaves you bored after a few weeks. My suggestion, get it and sub for one month. Come back when there's more content. For the first time ever, questing is the more interesting part of wow.

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    It's a difficult one to rate. There's many good and bad aspects. The new areas are beautiful and detailed, interesting to explore. The expansion focuses more on story than most previous expansions and playing those story scenarios have been a big plus for me.

    Horde is heavily favored in this expansion, from story, to areas, and even items and mounts, all are more detailed and varied for the horde. Alliances experience is a bit more bland, and somewhat cartoony in areas such as Stormsong valley.

    Dungeons have been varied, and they are trying to incorporate more raid mechanics into the dungeon boss fights. This makes it great as practice for upcoming raids if you've been away from wow for a few months or years. But there's one big issue with the dungeons, the balancing between normal, heroic and mythic is completely off. You can spend days/weeks in normals, while leveling, once you're 120, you'll spend maybe a day on heroics and then there's no incentive to ever do heroics again. The dungeon finder becomes completely useless, since you'll only be interested in mythics, which don't use the raid finder. So you'll need a group of friends, fly to the dungeon, and pretend it's a raid. This removes all quality of life they've introduced since WotLK. Right now, only a few weeks after release, mythics are easy with all the gear thrown at us, so a random group with the right ilevel is easily possible. So this restriction is really just an inconvenience.

    Only one raid has released so far, but we flew through it with relative ease. And unfortunately, unlike everything else so far, has had very little storytelling (without reading up outside of the game). The boss encounters are hit or miss, some are great and require a well coordinated team, but some clearly had no thought put into them. Heroic was a little more interesting, and was somewhat of a challenge, but we did it in the first week of release. The raid itself seems somewhat bland in comparison to the detailed areas we explored in the new areas of Zandalar. I find myself not interested in running the raid again, the ease with which we ran through it ruined the experience.

    Island expeditions are introduced as a pve(simulated pvp) or pvp, offering very little outside of leveling your necklace for the first week or two.

    The new war campaign instance is practically pvp but for some reason is pve only. Similar to alterac valley but pve only. It's extremely drawn out, taking up to 40min. There is very little reason to do this more than once, to get your 370 ilvl cache. And worst of all, in order to access it, players need to give up their hard earned crafting materials.

    This is the quickest I've become bored after doing all end game content. Very little left to do until new raids are out (and hopefully new questing areas). The only thing left to do is run higher and higher mythic+ dungeons and I've run those instances more than enough now.

    Despite the new warmode, which turns any area into PVP

    World quests started off interesting, and the rewards scaled for a short period. But they quickly become a means of grinding rep and nothing more. The mission table gives such menial rewards that it's not worth doing either, and is so awkwardly placed that you can get the same amount of rep that an 8hour mission would take, in the time it would take to get to the table by doing a world quest.

    On the one hand I feel like Blizzard are trying to drag things out so that you will subscribe for longer, but those efforts are also undermined by the various ways to overcome it, which also ruins the usefulness of the new endgame content they've provided. It contradicts itself. The longer you wait to play it, the easier it will become to level and breeze through end game content.    … Expand
  93. Vorfare
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    Awful game. i play every expansion of this game, but previous - Legion, and this - BfA - are the worst expansions.
  94. johnnybgood8
    Sep 11, 2018
    4
    Really sad to say, but this is the first xpack i dont even feel like i want to login or level at all.
  95. Horroriam
    Sep 10, 2018
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This expansion is not ideal, but also it does not deserve red marks from dissatisfied troll army (not Horde, just trolls).
    Things, that Legion was criticized for, were corrected in one way or another. Omnipresent random in looting legendaries was replaced by azerit armor and traits.
    World Quest system and Mythic+ dungeons were saved almost unchanged as they were quite well received by the audience.
    Storyline has divided big part of players into the Alliance or Horde fans, and what is good for first ones also is absolutely unacceptable for another part. And this is normal, WoW always was a story about war, opposition and competition, not friendship, peace or pacifism.

    What do we have now, except M+ and WQ? Very strange Islands system, which has lots of rewards, but no chance to get them (only reputation items and doubloons for 50+ expeditions).
    Dungeons, were trash is much more dangerous, than bosses themselves (Shrine and Underrot for example).
    Broken crafting system, that forces players to take crafting for their own type of armor, which is strange at least.
    Disappointing fronts, which are not competitive, just long scenario with pathetic realization and free epics for one of sides.
    Warmode system with really bad phasing and balancing, so there is very often situation, were you just one against army of other side, which leads to respkill and other FUNNY game-play. Or not?

    Also we have a lot of content (also divided for fraction, so Uldir Raid has no prerequisites for Alliance) on leveling, but on cap there is not so much what to do. No content for passive playstyle players (like it was with fishing or cooking earlier), just lots of grind and farm.

    Hope, developers can fix bugs, exploits and glitches, so biggest part of the expansion is in the future. Only because of that mark is not 4 or 5, Blizzard can rework really much, like it was in WoD with very bad start. WoW is not dead, but it needs us and more our support, not only criticism.    … Expand
  96. eiskrieger
    Sep 10, 2018
    1
    This public beta is a glorious example of over-promising and under-delivering. The hype surrounding this expansion and all of the press leading up to its release touted diverse, randomized, emergent gameplay in the form of Island Expeditions. Epic faction warfare in tug-of-war struggles over landmark zones in the form of Warfronts. Allied Races to earn and level.

    During the official    This public beta is a glorious example of over-promising and under-delivering. The hype surrounding this expansion and all of the press leading up to its release touted diverse, randomized, emergent gameplay in the form of Island Expeditions. Epic faction warfare in tug-of-war struggles over landmark zones in the form of Warfronts. Allied Races to earn and level.

    During the official beta testing phases players sent mountains of feedback concerning these modes, as well as many notable bugs. These feedbacks went entirely ignored and the released version of the game came with no changes to broken systems. Many of the obvious reported bugs are still in the game to this day.

    Island expeditions were touted as infinitely replayable due to randomized islands, events, and a super-AI that would confound players with how awesome they are. In actuality there are a small batch of islands that are on a 3-set rotation per week. The events on the islands operate on a timer, with the exact same events happening at the exact same time every run. These are not randomized and are not rewarding in the slightest. They are a slog and a bore.

    Warfronts are not what was claimed either. Warfronts operate on a monthly basis with each faction only being able to do the actual scenarios during a single week out of a 4 week cycle. During this single week one faction is able to spam the scenario for endless 340 item level rewards, nullifying the efforts of players during this first month grinding dungeons and mythics. The opposing faction is given 6 Kill 20 X quests, and that is all. This whole system is a horrible time-gated slog that sees 3 weeks of non-action for 1 week of spamming a scenario that doesn't change, and then 6 horribly boring quests.

    Outside of the touted features, BFA is just a dumbed down and poorly implemented Legion. The only new systems are terribly implemented, boring, and not rewarding. The Heart of Azeroth system is poorly implemented and counter-intuitive to Blizzard's past ideology that higher item levels should be upgrades. The traits are boring. They also are not balanced in the slightest. For most classes the best traits are those that have nothing to do with your class. The difference between the best traits and the worst traits are sometimes in the area of 2k dps which is a huge amount.

    The dungeons are not very interesting. Out of the 9 or so dungeons there are only 2 that really stand out as well designed. Most are just huge trash slogs where they have packed the trash so closely together that you constantly have accidental pulls. The trash is also at the same time very punishing if all of your group isn't religious on their interrupts.

    The raid so far is further down the rabbit hole of tying a victory to the perfect execution of every member of the raid. The mechanics are horrendously punishing to the average human who has lapses in ability or lag in their connectivity. These encounters are not very inspired and don't feel rewarding enough.

    Once you are exalted with certain reputations there is no longer an incentive to do World Quests, use the Mission Table, do Island Expeditions, which leaves only Warfronts, raids, and Mythic +. For those who are casual players this means there is no longer a reason to play the game. Nothing has decent rewards; World Quests don't reward Azerite Power in any meaningful amount (~150 per quest, where you need 8-15k to level up), their gold rewards are pathetic, the reputations have a limited life span, and the gear is capped and meaningless after a week or so. The rewards from Table missions are also petty and meaningless. Legion had an issue with table missions being too lucrative at 1-6k per pop. Now they give about 10-50.

    As usual the art and cinematics are great, the music is great. However this is nothing new for WoW. Everything else though feels like a flop. Class balance is still not sorted out in the slightest. Every day we seem to get a new hotfix that changes class balance, azerite trait balance, boss damage, etc. Every few days we run into another huge exploit or bug that Blizz takes a while to sort out. This does not feel like a finished product that consumers should pay 65$ for. This is a beta-test that is being sold as a product.

    I know that in this day and age companies feel like they can release garbage and then polish it in later patches. That would be acceptable if there wasn't an up-front cost attached to the garbage. There is nothing of value to do in BFA. Every new feature is a complete mess. Bugs and exploits are plentiful and some classes have not had any effort put into them to overcome losing their Artifact weapons (those will have to wait 'til 8.1 which has had no timeline set out). This is an unfinished Beta and no one should be wasting 65$ to jump in at this time.    … Expand
  97. Sivelrius
    Sep 10, 2018
    2
    This is first exp which i REALLY dont like. Same boring copy pasted quests, non logical storyline. No new PvP stuff. Forcing people to get reputation with allied RECOLORED "NEW" races. My score is 2 is just for cool music in zuldazar and really big territories. No new talents on 120 lvl.
    I cant even use auction in this game without LAGS. Shame on you blizz.
  98. justaki
    Sep 10, 2018
    1
    there is no balance in the game 4 years in a row dedicated to miles classes all their attempts to rectify the situation vain.
  99. maclo
    Sep 10, 2018
    1
    It may look as wide as an ocean, but it has the depth of a puddle.

    how your class feels to play is the most important part of this game, so what happens when class design takes a huge step backwards? anyone who played previously expansions should be well aware of what i'm talking about. in the previously expansion we had artifact weapons and items that provided a vast amount of    It may look as wide as an ocean, but it has the depth of a puddle.

    how your class feels to play is the most important part of this game, so what happens when class design takes a huge step backwards? anyone who played previously expansions should be well aware of what i'm talking about.

    in the previously expansion we had artifact weapons and items that provided a vast amount of passive and active skills that added many enhancements to the gameplay. in BFA they have removed spells and abilities and the new gear you get does not even add a fraction of gameplay enhancements to your character.

    this "expansion" does not expand on your gameplay, it makes it worse.

    and the content outside of farming the same raid on high difficulty, or m+ keys, has very little replay value.    … Expand
  100. slorking
    Sep 10, 2018
    0
    I've played WoW since TBC, and haven't stopped for more than a couple of months in single expansions, so i've pretty much witnessed the evolution of the game since then.Its sad really....the zones...the music...the artistic team really outdone themselves,I wish I could say the same for the gameplay aspects ...

    I love this game, and probably always will, not because of its gameplay as it    I've played WoW since TBC, and haven't stopped for more than a couple of months in single expansions, so i've pretty much witnessed the evolution of the game since then.Its sad really....the zones...the music...the artistic team really outdone themselves,I wish I could say the same for the gameplay aspects ...

    I love this game, and probably always will, not because of its gameplay as it can be a letdown, but mostly because i've been following the Warcraft (Multiverse now?) since Warcraft III with the Scourge of Lordaeron campaign, which for me was an introduction to the whole Heroic fantasy genre ( that and the release of LOTR), so I'm very biased and sentimental in my appreciation of the game, as long as the story keeps progressing I'm in.

    This Expansion from an artistic point of view is a masterpiece, Neal Acree and whoever did the soundtrack with him have done an amazing job at recreating the right musical atmosphere, same for the cinematics and story evolution...those things are only one side of a coin, in order for them to be delivered, it has to go through gameplay, and man how much they got it wrong, they almost diluted all that hype and epic "moments" that the art team crafted for us.

    Right now, compared to this time in the legion release, I'm pretty much bored from this expansion already, and thus because of the following points :

    Me and literally all the people I play with dislike Island expeditions, even though we were pretty hype for it, they just feel soulless and are a step down from Pandaria Scenarios, where each scenario had a "story" behind it. In the case of Island expeditions it's basically just farm Azerite, couple this with Magni obsessing with it makes it anecdotical where the stakes were presented as being pretty serious with Azeroth being in the verge of collapse and what not, we don't really feel that as much in the game. In my opinion Cataclysm did a way better job to transmit that "urgency" feel of imminent doom.

    The biggest frustration for me are Warfronts, it's basically all I ever wished from blizzard, bring back that WARCRAFT aspect in a PVE way, so I pretty much was very hype for it, especially after finding out that it has RTS elements. The fact that you only get to do it once every sub is a huge letdown as it's one of the major selling points, it's what is DIFFERENT from what you have done in the previous expansion. The funny part is that it lasts for like 15-20min? it lasts less than a dungeon, it's less challenging than a dungeon, and yet Uldir (which is a RAID) can be done more often than it - Which BTW is a great raid -

    This point isn't very important but I still feel it has some relevance in the greater picture, tier sets are damn ugly, uninspired and a huge downgrade from what we were used to.
    Speaking of gear, Azerite pieces are the most confusing mess i've ever seen since TBC, it just doesn't make any sense, the progression isn't "visible" and you feel like you have that kind of horizontal varied POE progression, without having the depth of POE gameplay, the traits are just not that impactful in the class gameplay besides % increase of dps which in the end can all be replaced by a stat increase of other items lol...

    Which brings me to one last problem, that I mentioned in the warfronts part, Timegating/Repgating content... the way it has been done this time put the emphasis on what people criticized it for in Legion. It was tolerable and the whole Suramar zone/storyline made it worthwile, as you could still explore and be mesmerized by the zone. In BFA it's just soulless...the 7th legion reputation has nothing impactful about it, the War campaign is not as striking as the Suramar rebellion so you just feel like you're in Zuldazar just because Blizzard was like yeah the other faction has to see how amazing visually these zones are,dont let me start with reputation grind for allied races being locked behind a time consuming rep grind....(that is not even grindable at your own pace,wait at least 3+ weeks)

    TL;DR : Timegating is fine til it sucks, same for repgating. Warfronts being once every sub in average is just frustrating especially when you know that that piece of content isn't really that deep to deserve being gated this much. BFA took all the criticism people had about Legion and made it its main feature. Dont waste your time until they fix it.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    60
    A quite well-made expansion, but not without flaws. If they get removed by the creators, the rating will improve. However, you won’t regret buying it. [Issue#290]
  2. CD-Action
    Dec 4, 2018
    70
    Battle for Azeroth offers everything you could expect from a World of Warcraft expansion, but its scale is visibly smaller than Legion’s and there’s no truly new quality here. All that doesn’t change the fact that the charm of this extraordinary MMORPG appeals to me almost as strongly as 13 years ago. [10/2018, p.42]
  3. Ragequit.gr
    Oct 12, 2018
    82
    Blizzard plays it safe, incorporating few innovations while trying to salvage the lore situation of Warcraft due to its constant escalation. Despite all this, BfA remains an entertaining expansion with a lot to offer in endgame for a casual player.
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