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  • Summary: The dragonflights of Azeroth have returned, called upon to defend their ancestral home, the Dragon Isles. Surging with elemental magic and the life energies of Azeroth, the Isles are awakening once more, and it's up to you to explore their primordial wonder and discover long-forgotten secrets.

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  1. Positive: 21 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Jan 31, 2023
    90
    Dragonflight is sprinkled with little moments like these that encourage you to take your time and smell the roses, so to speak. Though there are still plenty of collectathons and kill quests to complete, Dragonflight shines when it reminds you of the unique world you're in and invites you to slow down and immerse yourself in it. It's an expansion about remembering where you've come from, yet embracing what comes next. It's about coming home. Considering the quality on display in Dragonflight and all the changes that have been made to improve the core systems of Blizzard's iconic RPG, I have no doubt more than a few lapsed players that had grown tired of what Azeroth had to offer in recent years will be doing just that.
  2. Dec 19, 2022
    90
    Dragonflight has been the revitalization that World of Warcraft sorely needed after Shadowlands. Yes, there are some issues that still could use some work, but that’s the nature of MMO development, especially when you change things up to such a degree as this expansion did. I’m also heartened to see them willing to make big adjustments like they have planned in 10.0.5. I honestly thought Guardians were going to have to suck it up until 10.1, at the least for a talent tree rework. If they can keep this up and regularly deliver content and adjustments, Dragonflight could be the best expansion World of Warcraft has ever done.
  3. Jan 25, 2023
    86
    A successful addon, with which WoW works on its foundation and responds to fan requests.
  4. Dec 19, 2022
    83
    Blizzard renews World of Warcraft with a good expansion from several points of view; however who knows what qualitative peaks it could have reached with a pinch of extra creative courage.
  5. Feb 17, 2023
    80
    World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is somehow a breath of fresh air and a celebration of classic design principles in equal measure. The return to more dynamic, old-school talent trees enhances the class fantasy with a seasoning of new abilities across the board. At the same time, the retreat of pressuring, artificial power-gating systems promotes a more healthy gameplay loop. The game is also gorgeous, with a more promising storyline, elevated cinematic delivery mechanics, and deeper core systems which make for one of WoW's best expansions in years.
  6. Dec 14, 2022
    80
    With World Of Warcraft Dragonflight, Blizzard combines legacy features with several new or refreshed ones to give a second breath to its legendary MMORPG.
  7. Dec 14, 2022
    70
    World of Warcraft: Dragonflight invites players to a breathtaking new world, teeming with excitement. However, despite some enjoyable new features, such as Dragonriding, the experience quickly boils down to more of the same stuff players have seen and done before.

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  1. Dec 1, 2022
    10
    I dont know why people that clearly don't play are bombing ratings. Dragoniding is amazing and feels noticeably different to Gw. The newI dont know why people that clearly don't play are bombing ratings. Dragoniding is amazing and feels noticeably different to Gw. The new profession system is incredible.. like imo that's the standout. The open world content is the best since legion. There is so much you can do that it's almost overwhelming Expand
  2. Feb 5, 2023
    10
    best game ever, i really really like playing world of warcraft you can find friends do dungeons and raids :) 10/10
  3. Dec 2, 2022
    8
    People are just crying cuz the game has 2 fiction and 2 gay quests in the entire expansion. Just grow up. I didn't even notice all the gayPeople are just crying cuz the game has 2 fiction and 2 gay quests in the entire expansion. Just grow up. I didn't even notice all the gay stuff you all wrote about. There was only one with a centaur. Anyway, the game is fun, not Legion fun but is deff fun. Some dungeons feel too short and others too long. But overall love them.
    good thing the new race suck, burn all the furries! also, the dragon race is just a bad copypasta after DH.
    The world is beautiful and finally no mandatories **** to do. I can just chill, do my professions and mythic dungeons, finally!
    Blizz please do not kill wow after this good review.
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  4. Jan 21, 2023
    2
    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to
    This game is not worth playing at the moment. They really didn't solve any of the problems I had with the game.
    Loot is now even harder to get in this xpac thanks group loot.
    Class design is still in the gutter.
    Racism is still the cornerstone of this game, meaning players can't play their favorite faction, if their favorite races are in the other faction. Seriously, in what century are the devs even living in?
    Crafting and profession system is made even more confusing and is now hard to get into.
    The fact that the main quest line is rep locked made me instantly stop caring about it.
    Customization options for races? Player housing... um... what customization? What player housing?
    Meaningful world content and visual overhaul? Good joke.

    If you are only looking for m+ content this game might be ok enough for you, just pick the right classes because of the severe class imbalance, but raids and dungeons are pretty much the only thing the devs seem to care for.
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  5. Nov 30, 2022
    1
    I don't know why I even gave wow another try. Guess I was full of copium...

    As an Alliance player I hoped that the devs would finally stop
    I don't know why I even gave wow another try. Guess I was full of copium...

    As an Alliance player I hoped that the devs would finally stop being so biased and start caring for the Alliance... I was wrong. Very, very wrong.

    To give you some examples for what I mean by the devs being biased and toxic:

    - Teldrassil, Theramore, Gilneas, Ashenvale and probably some areas I forgot were all destroyed by the Horde and we never got them back in game.
    They still are presented as being destroyed and under attack.
    - Stormgarde and darkshore are also destroyed by the Horde and are now stuck in a never ending loop of being a warfront.
    Again, we never got them back.
    All these zones and cities are left looking like trash now, thanks to the Horde.

    Yet the Horde never lost that much and even though they were the aggressor, attacking Alliance zones again and again, they got Undercity immediately back, after they poisoned that place themselves.
    - Night Elves and Worgen meanwhile are getting ignored and are still being refugees in Stormwind.
    And they didn't even care to update Stormwind. It uses graphics from 2004...

    So the abuser is being rewarded and the victims... nothing. How fair.

    Playable races:

    - Space goats for Alliance vs the only halfway decent looking humanoid race in that game, blood elves for Horde,
    Updated night elves/nightborne with now even more customisation options than night elves with a gigantic zone, the biggest city in the entire game and rich lore for the Horde vs copy&paste blood elves with terrible and very few hair styles, almost no customisation options, no zone, no city... they literally live in small tents on a rock... and almost no lore for the Alliance.
    - Better looking trolls, that use the night elf model vs... overweight and way too big humans...

    - And the biggest insult, the only new race Vulpera, a mainstream fox race, that could be straight out of a Disney movie vs... a customisation option for gnomes, the least played race in the entire game.

    And these are only some examples of the devs and their toxic behavior. Yet they claim to have no idea why there are almost no players left on the Alliance... sigh

    With dragonflights I hoped that we could at least get a zone for the night elves back and Gilneas for the Worgen. Nothing. We got nothing.

    Not only that, with the new dragon race they gave the Horde the very last halfway decent looking race on the Alliance side for the Horde, female human + the female Worgen model on top of that.

    Just wow. Well then, this was my last attempt of giving this game a chance. I don't want to be forced to pick the favorite faction of the devs. in order to be able to play this game, because the few, who are left playing this game are almost all on the red side.

    No, thanks.
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  6. Dec 19, 2022
    1
    Pros: It looks nice the art department is top notch as usual.
    Con: Too much aiming for esports which is killing the social aspects of the
    Pros: It looks nice the art department is top notch as usual.
    Con: Too much aiming for esports which is killing the social aspects of the mmo. My guild already quit after seeing the direction they are heading. I will update when i get a new guild.

    Esport ambition is killing this game.
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  7. Sep 9, 2023
    0
    Jeu raciste et dépassé. En 2023, il n'y a toujours pas de logement pour les joueurs ni d'options convenables pour les races jouables, pasJeu raciste et dépassé. En 2023, il n'y a toujours pas de logement pour les joueurs ni d'options convenables pour les races jouables, pas d'armure décente non plus. Mais il y a toujours une stricte ségrégation raciale. Expand

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