World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  6. Hard4
    Nov 13, 2018
    0
    Critics 79 ??? corrupt officials. 3/10 The worst, unfinished patch to WOW. It is a patch, not an addon.
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. chsoo9543
    Sep 16, 2018
    0
    Everything has been in decline before. Foolish stories, boring content, unfair coercion, global cool time, all are rubbish.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Raven78
    Aug 18, 2018
    3
    Really sad to say, but this is the first xpack i dont even feel like i want to login or level at all.
    Its really just Legion Gameplay (as in WQ, grind for AP,..) but more like a downgrade.
    Further Class "pruning", no new Talents or spells, you actually get weaker from leveling due to their scaling system, new GCD added on every spell so Gameplay is slower and less fluid. They keep    Really sad to say, but this is the first xpack i dont even feel like i want to login or level at all.
    Its really just Legion Gameplay (as in WQ, grind for AP,..) but more like a downgrade.
    Further Class "pruning", no new Talents or spells, you actually get weaker from leveling due to their scaling system, new GCD added on every spell so Gameplay is slower and less fluid.
    They keep removing the RPG out of this MMORPG since a while now.
    3 for Art, Sound and Story Teams, rest is more then meh.    … Expand
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. Vorfare
    Sep 11, 2018
    0
    Awful game. i play every expansion of this game, but previous - Legion, and this - BfA - are the worst expansions.
  25. bozboz123
    Nov 8, 2018
    1
    it's such a shame that this game is in such a bad state... Lack of class design, No tier sets, no new talents or abilities, the azerite gear / trait system is a complete joke, world questing is terrible...
    I gave this game a 2 out of 10 because of how gorgeous the art work, zones and music is, the art team nailed it. The game play deserves a solid 0. There is literally nothing rewarding    it's such a shame that this game is in such a bad state... Lack of class design, No tier sets, no new talents or abilities, the azerite gear / trait system is a complete joke, world questing is terrible...
    I gave this game a 2 out of 10 because of how gorgeous the art work, zones and music is, the art team nailed it. The game play deserves a solid 0. There is literally nothing rewarding about playing this game at all, it was the first time since the burning crusade that I've unsubscribed, I don't intend on paying for, or supporting, a product like this. It seriously feels like a time-gated, artificially elongated mobile game with zero reward for time spent. Blizzard's worst game in the franchise no doubt. I really hope they learn from this and pick up their game or I fear this might be the end of a beautiful franchise.    … Expand
  26. torethepore
    Aug 17, 2018
    1
    Sometimes I just wonder why I should even try with these expansions anymore jeez
  27. cyph42
    Sep 4, 2018
    0
    Unfortunately this game misses the mark. The visual and audio experiences are truly this expansions only carry. The questing is the same as it has always been, artifacts and world quests aren't new, more skills taken away from the last expansion (nothing new added to replace them). Island Expeditions, the heralded new feature, is a complete letdown; it's just a scenario with a timer on it.Unfortunately this game misses the mark. The visual and audio experiences are truly this expansions only carry. The questing is the same as it has always been, artifacts and world quests aren't new, more skills taken away from the last expansion (nothing new added to replace them). Island Expeditions, the heralded new feature, is a complete letdown; it's just a scenario with a timer on it. The story is jarring and feels out of place somehow. For a full priced game (that's just an expansion) I can't help but feel a bit ripped off.… Expand
  28. Varlord
    Oct 14, 2018
    0
    Legion was a giant step backwards into a way of free to play browser games with all that grinding staff and random to all aspects of gameplay, but with this expention it came even further:
    -titanforge, one of the worst legion “features” is still here. MORE GRIND TO THE GOD OF GRIND and be the heavens mercy to you if some stupid robot desides you are unlucky today.
    -loot system. In legion    Legion was a giant step backwards into a way of free to play browser games with all that grinding staff and random to all aspects of gameplay, but with this expention it came even further:
    -titanforge, one of the worst legion “features” is still here. MORE GRIND TO THE GOD OF GRIND and be the heavens mercy to you if some stupid robot desides you are unlucky today.
    -loot system. In legion you could at least try to minimize the harm of titanforge and random by giving your mate some good loot in a raid. Now if that stupid bot is against you will not get anything.
    -storytelling. I don’t know who thought that awful 6-year old “writer” could write a good script but it is here in cooperation with boring quests and old fashioned cinematics (not that from a trailer even for 1%). Cc-combo baby!
    -outdated class mechanics or just odd ones. Sometimes you just don’t know where to put one of your hands so... try to be careful.
    - if you want new races... grind old content. And they are just a remarked old ones.
    So this game is a money trap not worth to start. Better give these money to some charity because I feel bad when giving them to a lazy and disgraceful company which treats you like a money bag.    … Expand
  29. Zelliaind
    Sep 24, 2018
    0
    If I could rate this lower than a zero I would. Trust me, BfA makes WoD looks like Wrath of the Lich King.

    I'm trying to figure out a way to word this as eloquently as I can without coming across as an **** So let me start off with this. I've played WoW for about 14 (almost 15) years. I'm a WoW Veteran that has cleared higher end content for most of that time. In Legion (the previous    If I could rate this lower than a zero I would. Trust me, BfA makes WoD looks like Wrath of the Lich King.

    I'm trying to figure out a way to word this as eloquently as I can without coming across as an **** So let me start off with this. I've played WoW for about 14 (almost 15) years. I'm a WoW Veteran that has cleared higher end content for most of that time. In Legion (the previous expansion) I decided to wind down and go an easier more casual route with only raiding once a week with some seriously great people. Legion was a blast compared to WoD and I had fun raiding all the way through. When BfA came out, immediately I was let down by Azerite armor, by the lack of things to do with professions, by my abilities and passives that went away with my awesome legendary weapon, by forced personal loot in dungeons, with the bugs that I know I and others reported in beta, with the reduced reputation gains from world quests that literally DOUBLED the amount of time it took to get reputation leveled, GCD being added to almost every ability, RNG for your RNG with your RNG, Warfronts being like Wintergrasp except boring, Island Expeditions that are Cataclysm Scenarios with a timer, classes not even being finished on launch and told to wait for a patch, a game designer that gives little to no f*cks about the player base and displays his arrogant attitude every single livestream or AMA, once again being stuck to the ground with no flying mount, boring dungeons that feel like rehashes of other dungeon mechanics, the irritating timegating using reputation or gear...oh and did I mention the bugs (I've fallen through the ground more times than I can count in BfA than I ever did in all the other expansions COMBINED). I could literally go on for the entire 5000 maximum character count in this text box with the problems and issues this expansion has. I keep going back and adding more **** that's wrong with this expansion.

    Needless to say, if you're an old WoW Veteran looking to come back and play again, don't. Just stay away. It's hot garbage. If you're a new player, I encourage you to wait until either the next expansion or the current game developer gets ****canned for this mess of an expansion. Don't listen to all the shills defending the developers or gameplay. Trust me, this is worse than WoD by a wide margin.

    What a disgrace. I'm going to go take a shot now. I need one after writing that review and remembering all the **** that is wrong with a game that I used to love.

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  30. Abraxas79
    Aug 17, 2018
    0
    Minimal effort. No new abilities, no new talents, pruned spells and abilities and GCD that no one asked for. I don't care how pretty the smells and bells are, if the core character class design is lacking, it is not worth playing.
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#72 Best PC Game of 2018
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#5 Most Discussed PC Game of 2018
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#16 Most Shared PC Game of 2018

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79

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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