World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

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  1. Rsllo
    Nov 8, 2021
    1
    Shame on Blizzard and their shady methods to keep players subscribed. Unfortunately there are still many players left, who fall for things like FOMO, probably out of nostalgia of better times.

    For those people, if you are reading this, get out of this toxic relationship. wow isn't the only mmo out there. There is a very prominent mmo, that is in many ways a lot better than wow in it's    Shame on Blizzard and their shady methods to keep players subscribed. Unfortunately there are still many players left, who fall for things like FOMO, probably out of nostalgia of better times.

    For those people, if you are reading this, get out of this toxic relationship. wow isn't the only mmo out there. There is a very prominent mmo, that is in many ways a lot better than wow in it's current state (bfa & sl).

    This comment however is not about other mmos, so here are the worst things about modern wow:
    FOMO (like the mage tower),
    racial segregation of playable races = no free faction choice,
    grindful meaningless systems,
    choregast,
    the lore... can't get any worse than it is now with Sylvanas and her Mary Sue arc,
    content droughts,
    no account wide reputation,
    faction imbalance,
    no cross faction raiding,
    class imbalance,
    extremely outdated world design, npcs, cutomization options and player models in general,
    still no player housing,
    no dyeable gear,
    removal of emotes and several other things nobody asked for but hilariously letting racism with their races stay in the game.    … Expand
  2. Awara
    Nov 9, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands, just like bfa, has bad lore (Sylvanas = yikes!), bad systems, imbalance problems and instead of removing the idiotic division of playable races (which clearly is based on a racist mindset = racial segregation) they rather remove emotes Imao.
    Such a clown party. Don't play wow as long as it continues to be on this terrible path.
  3. Lokaar
    Nov 10, 2021
    2
    Blizzard: Hey guys, look at us! We are removing emotes, because they are so toxic and not exclusive at all!

    Also Blizzard: Don't you dare question our racial segregation. We have you know that racism is the pillar of wow and playable races will keep their hive mind, instead of free will and free choice to what faction they want to be loyal to! If you look up hypocrisy in a dictionary    Blizzard: Hey guys, look at us! We are removing emotes, because they are so toxic and not exclusive at all!

    Also Blizzard: Don't you dare question our racial segregation. We have you know that racism is the pillar of wow and playable races will keep their hive mind, instead of free will and free choice to what faction they want to be loyal to!

    If you look up hypocrisy in a dictionary you will probably find Blizzard right beside it.

    Racism is just one of many problems wow faces. With Blizzard's changes in 9.1.5. this specific problem just is more apparent.

    Borrowed power systems, lore, still no cross faction raiding, FOMO and a lot of other things in this game need major changes too.

    I can't recommend wow as long as they ignore these obvious problems.    … Expand
  4. Henrylo
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    Oof, I thought it couldn't get worse after bfa... I was wrong. With Shadowlands wow continues to be a painfully bad game.

    The story continues to be so bad... I just don't know what to say about it anymore to be honest. They ruined the factions, Azshara, N'Zoth and the night elves in bfa and now they ruined not only Elune, but also the lore of the titans and in general 17 years old    Oof, I thought it couldn't get worse after bfa... I was wrong. With Shadowlands wow continues to be a painfully bad game.

    The story continues to be so bad... I just don't know what to say about it anymore to be honest. They ruined the factions, Azshara, N'Zoth and the night elves in bfa and now they ruined not only Elune, but also the lore of the titans and in general 17 years old lore... it's just... really really sad.
    I think a big factor for all of this is the writer's never ending focus on Sylvanas. I really wish she would have died back then in wrath, so that all of this idotic writing we have since bfa would have never happened.

    Then there are the usual things like FOMO (mage tower for example... what a slap in the face),
    faction and class imbalance, especially faction imbalance, which the devs continue to make worse and worse with their decisions and still no cross faction play in sight,
    then the hypocrisy as mentioned by others already: They remove emotes, because they claim those would be toxic, yet holding on to racism with the racial segregation of the playable races instead of letting players choose their faction freely and not based on races... jeez,
    the content droughts... oh, the long content droughts,
    laughable customization options, not only too few in general but also extremly unfairly spread among the races.

    There is so much more, but in all honesty, I'm just exhausted by even talking about this game at this point. The devs aren't listening anyway. Instead they want to preach the players what they want, a la:
    "You think you do, but you don't", now shut up, give us your money and enjoy dozens of new repetitive borrowed power systems.    … Expand
  5. Bearoo
    Aug 18, 2021
    1
    Shadowlands is a dumpster fire. You can't sugarcoat it anymore.
    I could list a lot of things that need major changes, but since Blizzard keeps ignoring feedback or straight up corrupts their player's wishes... well, dunno, if there is any point in that.
    Guess I could list the main thing why my friends and I finally quit this game (probably for good, since we don't see any changes coming,    Shadowlands is a dumpster fire. You can't sugarcoat it anymore.
    I could list a lot of things that need major changes, but since Blizzard keeps ignoring feedback or straight up corrupts their player's wishes... well, dunno, if there is any point in that.
    Guess I could list the main thing why my friends and I finally quit this game (probably for good, since we don't see any changes coming, regarding this issue).

    1 of the 2 factions in this game is almost dead playerwise. It came to this because the Devs were actively pandering to the faction that is overpopulated ever since blood elves made their entrance. Giving the small faction overweight humans and junk gnomes, while giving the overpopulated faction an adorable new fox race and a better looking version of an old race in the last expansion didn't help either. Strange, right?! The overpopulated faction had one advantage after the other, one of them= op racials among other things.

    So me and my friends too had to play the overpopulated faction for the last couple of years in order to get anything done. Even though we prefer the small faction. Yeah, that sucks. The whole faction system in wow sucks. But Blizzard simply doesn't seem to care as long as their favorite faction has the upper hand.

    Players are asking for years now for a new faction system, that would allow us to play all races and with all players but everything in this game stays stale and outdated. No place for new and innovative ideas.

    Since bfa and Shadowlands are in general bad expansions our guild on the overpopulated faction died out now too and we have no desire to search for a new one. We never felt at home in the big faction anyway and when I logg on my alts on the small faction... well, there is almost nobody left to play with. Guess I just give up on this game. The outdated faction system is just... awful for the player experience.

    I much more prefer the faction system in Final Fantsy 14, that let's us play all races and with all players. Not to mention that ff14 has way more interesting features anyway.    … Expand
  6. Haarl
    May 9, 2021
    0
    This is undoubtedly the worst WoW expansion yet. The devs seem to be focused on making the game slow, annoying, and inconvenient, as if a game set in a kind of hell should be true hell for the players. I found I was simply unable to force myself to log in and keep playing, even with months left on my subscription. My sub finally did run out (I had not been playing) and 2 1/2 monthsThis is undoubtedly the worst WoW expansion yet. The devs seem to be focused on making the game slow, annoying, and inconvenient, as if a game set in a kind of hell should be true hell for the players. I found I was simply unable to force myself to log in and keep playing, even with months left on my subscription. My sub finally did run out (I had not been playing) and 2 1/2 months later nothing I have seen makes me want to return. If anything, it's looking even more dire as the devs double down on their unworkable conceits.… Expand
  7. Roto
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Everytime you think Blizzard couldn't mess up the lore of this game any further... surprise, sursprise! It get's worse. With the end of Legion to the end of Shdowlands... well, the lore is a dumpster fire. I'd love them to just retcon bfa and shadowlands entirely to fix this mess.
    Oh and while Blizzard is pretending to be more tolerant and open towards all minorities by removing some    Everytime you think Blizzard couldn't mess up the lore of this game any further... surprise, sursprise! It get's worse. With the end of Legion to the end of Shdowlands... well, the lore is a dumpster fire. I'd love them to just retcon bfa and shadowlands entirely to fix this mess.
    Oh and while Blizzard is pretending to be more tolerant and open towards all minorities by removing some emotes and changing an ingame painting of a woman to a bowl of fruits... yeah, they really did that, they are keeping strict racial segregation in their game, the only exception being Pandaren.
    Such hypocrisy xD
    Oh well, just don't play this messy game. Old graphics, class imbalance, faction imbalance, fomo, time gating, content droughts... it's just not worth anyone's time.    … Expand
  8. 5View
    Jan 15, 2021
    4
    Pros:

    Not many. On the margins, it's merely more of the same. This might be a pro if you like more of the same. The visual effects are pretty good. Depending on your taste, you are likely to find one or more zone in Shadowlands to be beautiful. Cons: More of the same. Seriously, not much new here and... You'll end up in endless repetition. Anima farming. Same handful of    Pros:

    Not many.

    On the margins, it's merely more of the same. This might be a pro if you like more of the same.

    The visual effects are pretty good. Depending on your taste, you are likely to find one or more zone in Shadowlands to be beautiful.

    Cons:

    More of the same. Seriously, not much new here and...

    You'll end up in endless repetition. Anima farming. Same handful of world quests over and over and over and over. Same old battlegrounds over and over and over. Basically, raiding and dungeons aren't many, and in any case you'll be doing them over and over and over because....

    Rewards? Aren't many. Everything is time gated to begin with. But RNG drop rates are almost non-existent, or might as well be. This expansion truly is a massive grind, where you find yourself mindlessly repeating the same activities week after week, even day after day, only for a few droplets of rain when you are dying of thirst already. The designers of the expansion appear to have devised a theory that gamers like being punished for spending huge chunks of their free time in the world of World of Warcraft. Simultaneously, they don't want you to progress in any noticeable way because you might feel you've "finished" something, maybe the game, and unsub.

    There's nothing new in this game. Borrowed powers? Done it before. New playable race or class? Nope. Useful professions? Hah, you gotta be kidding.

    Conclusion: There are players who have invested years in the game, and perhaps if repetition and long periods of busy work between raid or mythic times are what they like, then they'll stick around, and why not. You'll get to repeat (without the rinse first) over and over.

    Basically, the cost of subscription to WoW is way too high for the content provided. You can pay as much or even less for a large number of streaming services and find far more entertainment with any of those. Heck, you can save your subscription from WoW and spend it on other games for your PC or console and probably find games much more rewarding (entertaining!) than this slog fest. You'll notice a very obvious difference between the design team of WoW and the design team of other games. In WoW, the designers play YOU, by time gating so much and giving you so many hoops to jump through before you can have much fun with your character in Shadowlands. In other game, the designers try at least to find ways to make the minute to minute and hour to hour experience of playing them FUN. This is a huge and noticeable difference.    … Expand
  9. hungry_dingus
    Jan 15, 2021
    2
    4/10

    Time-gating and poor loot progression between PVE and PVP hinder replay value. The addition of a rogue-lite in the game was not at all innovative and has only become a vehicle for adding a time-sink with no real value. The final pin, the lack of effort in balancing classes. Ultimately it is an expansion that doesn’t respect the end user and panders largely to a smaller    4/10

    Time-gating and poor loot progression between PVE and PVP hinder replay value.

    The addition of a rogue-lite in the game was not at all innovative and has only become a vehicle for adding a time-sink with no real value.

    The final pin, the lack of effort in balancing classes.

    Ultimately it is an expansion that doesn’t respect the end user and panders largely to a smaller subsect of elite players.

    Honorable mention to the music and art department who did an awesome job setting the tone and atmosphere.    … Expand
  10. houjo2000
    Jun 28, 2021
    1
    The great levelling overhaul makes ShL seem very alt friendly at first- but once you hit max level the sheer amount of grindy, time wasting repetitive systems is at an all time high, you need a daily planner to keep track of it all.

    At the same time, they've made the game considerably less rewarding, reducing the loot from just about every type of content, reducing the value of the    The great levelling overhaul makes ShL seem very alt friendly at first- but once you hit max level the sheer amount of grindy, time wasting repetitive systems is at an all time high, you need a daily planner to keep track of it all.

    At the same time, they've made the game considerably less rewarding, reducing the loot from just about every type of content, reducing the value of the content that is done by the most players. This game might be fine for the hardcore players with premade groups, but it's unacceptable for just about everyone else after the initial chunk of content.

    At the moment, this feels worse than WoD, BfA and Cata- avoid it if you can, and if you're a new player pick another MMO. The easy leveling system may make this seem at first to be very welcoming to new players, but everything else makes that far from the truth.    … Expand
  11. Xsander
    Jan 16, 2021
    0
    Covenant system it's a big fail, can't play pve and pvp cuz of night fae ability for my hunter is the total trash in pvp but it's best covenant for pve. I don't like it when you need to choose only one direction pvp or pve.
  12. Archimond
    Jan 6, 2021
    0
    Это единственное из дополнений после выхода которого я удалил игру спустя три недели с начала его выхода, это рекорд. Даже в дреноре было интереснее сидеть в гарнизоне. Просто в какой то момент понимаешь что мысль о запуске игры вызывает у тебя отвращение. это при том что до окончания подписки еще месяц. Во всех дополнениях были хотя бы интересные квесты на прокачке персонажа а в энд геймЭто единственное из дополнений после выхода которого я удалил игру спустя три недели с начала его выхода, это рекорд. Даже в дреноре было интереснее сидеть в гарнизоне. Просто в какой то момент понимаешь что мысль о запуске игры вызывает у тебя отвращение. это при том что до окончания подписки еще месяц. Во всех дополнениях были хотя бы интересные квесты на прокачке персонажа а в энд гейм игре начинались проблемы, тут же даже задания скучны и не интересны, была надежда на Малдраксус и Ревендрет, но она не оправдалась. В итоге для меня WOW Shadowlands стал огромным разочарованием, и я уже не верю что близзард сможет выпустить чтото стоящее, надо посмотреть еще на диабло 4, но надежды мало.… Expand
  13. mihael447
    Dec 30, 2020
    0
    worst pvp balance i've ever seen in wow. i regret that i spend money on this
  14. worminsh
    Jan 13, 2021
    1
    Expansions sales point Thorgast, after 10th time doing it, its gets super boring.
    Nothing new invented, covenants its same talent trees, thats about it, nothing NEW in that game, what you seen 10 years ago its all the same, just different wallpaper.
    PVP the most unbalanced game what I seen so far, they have not tested their game, cos there are so many broken skills and 1 shoots. Bots    Expansions sales point Thorgast, after 10th time doing it, its gets super boring.
    Nothing new invented, covenants its same talent trees, thats about it, nothing NEW in that game, what you seen 10 years ago its all the same, just different wallpaper.
    PVP the most unbalanced game what I seen so far, they have not tested their game, cos there are so many broken skills and 1 shoots. Bots running wild and nothing has done about it,. they say they ban them each 6 months in waves, after 10 minutes those bots are back.
    I got a feeling that they are lacking workforce cos basic things has not been done.
    Art team are great, thats on positive note, but I came for gameplay not to look at pretty things.    … Expand
  15. Zunsjki
    Mar 18, 2022
    2
    The lore of this game... just oof... I can't even describe the amount of cringe Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have in their story. Really, really bad storytelling.

    Gameplay... another oof. This game is extremely unbalanced regarding classes and factions, yet they are still not allowing cross faction guilds and free faction choice for all races instead of archaic racial segregation    The lore of this game... just oof... I can't even describe the amount of cringe Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands have in their story. Really, really bad storytelling.

    Gameplay... another oof. This game is extremely unbalanced regarding classes and factions, yet they are still not allowing cross faction guilds and free faction choice for all races instead of archaic racial segregation that should have no place in a modern game, there is still no cross faction lfr & lfd and no cross faction alt mailing.

    There is a also lot, A LOT of time gating and FOMO in this game.

    2 points for the nice looking enviroment in the new zones, though technically I should take these points away considering that most zones in this game look like they are stuck in 2004. Really old graphics...    … Expand
  16. diralark
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Nothing interesting in this game.
    PVP is non existent !
    The quest and the PVE is so boring omfg :/
    worst addon ever !
  17. TonyMcTonyJimmy
    Dec 16, 2020
    3
    Blizzard seems to have bent over backward to appease so-called "difficulty fetishists" who thrive on masked tedium disguised as "challenge" with Shadowlands. A lot of the fun is crushed by tedium, chores, and scaling mobs that remove all sense of progress. Got some gear? Mobs hit you harder and take longer to kill now, grats. PVE sees nerfs because of PVP. Classes see heavy nerfs becauseBlizzard seems to have bent over backward to appease so-called "difficulty fetishists" who thrive on masked tedium disguised as "challenge" with Shadowlands. A lot of the fun is crushed by tedium, chores, and scaling mobs that remove all sense of progress. Got some gear? Mobs hit you harder and take longer to kill now, grats. PVE sees nerfs because of PVP. Classes see heavy nerfs because they perform well. I'm not kidding. Poor performing/designed classes will often be left to rot until the next expansion, because Blizzard is against working on a class during an expansion. Unless it's to nerf it into oblivion.

    The game looks good and sometimes works well. But the pile of other stuff just wears you down until you can't remember what fun felt like.

    Thanks to this a lot of players spend more time going at each other on the forums than actually playing the game. It amazes me Blizzard is cool with the "like it all without question or get out" crowd but they've never stepped in to stop it. They actively pit us against each other by stoking competition at every angle, even inside your own faction.

    If you like to have fun. If you play games for enjoyment. If you like story, player housing, collections, crafting, gear appearances, or community you'll probably be disappointed. You're no longer rewarded for doing something. Like a proper casino you only have a chance to be rewarded. This supposedly makes gear "meaningful." The reality of it is by the time you get the gear you either no longer need it or can't use it. Some rewards ignore your class specialization and gives you whatever's laying around. Hunter has two ranged specs and one melee; your chances of getting a weapon not for your spec is surprisingly high. repeat gear is very common as well. So, a hard fought "reward" goes in the trash.

    Gear is no longer seen as a tool, like a saw or hammer. The common anti-gripe is that you don't need the gear if you're not doing high-end raids and so forth. Well, if you did it without that gear, to get that gear, then you didn't need it either. Blizzard is telling a carpenter to build a deck for the chance to receive a saw or hammer as compensation. If they don't get a tool after building 12 decks? Well, maybe next time. Blizzard tells us this is "exciting."

    The only people left who can really enjoy all of this are suffering from severe Stockholm Syndrome. It makes me sad but I guess that's what happens when time-played and e-sports take over your passion for making a game. I'm sorry. I just can't pretend I don't feel like Blizzard hasn't abandoned all but a small contingent of players.    … Expand
  18. vlecp
    Dec 20, 2021
    2
    Updated review

    Lore: cringe, makes no sense and boring. With genocidal Sylvanas as an "enemy" since 2 expansions. Now she gets redeemed because Danuser has an obsession with her. Retcons on every corner, ruining old stories. New lore does not work with the old lore or straight up makes no sense. Do not waste money on any book. Gameplay to lore (Portals to Draenor despite being closed    Updated review

    Lore: cringe, makes no sense and boring. With genocidal Sylvanas as an "enemy" since 2 expansions. Now she gets redeemed because Danuser has an obsession with her. Retcons on every corner, ruining old stories.
    New lore does not work with the old lore or straight up makes no sense. Do not waste money on any book. Gameplay to lore (Portals to Draenor despite being closed off) make no sense. The jailer is probably the most boring villain in media ever.

    Systems: more and more messy. With each expansion every system from the last expansion are disregarded causing massive issues due to borrowed power to then repeat the same mistake next expansion.

    Class/Faction/Transmog restrictions: make no sense. Race bound to factions is terrible and does not work. Transmog restriction make no sense. Faction imbalance is ignored by the developers.

    Customisations: massive imbalance. Some races have a lot, others have the bare minimum.

    Balance: choose the right class or else you get 1 shot in PvP. Choose the right class for PvE or else you will fall behind, even by making your our groups. This "balance" would make even Riot blush.

    Leveling: 1-50 is great and very fun, the true "WORLD of Warcraft"-experience. Hitting 50 puts you onto rails and you have no choices anymore what so ever where to level. Threads of fate only counts for SL places.

    Developer behavior: law suit and the developers/authors can't take any form of critique, going as far as to tell you to "play another game if you don't like it" (Madeleine Roux) and "You can't critique our work if you haven't published a game/book yourself!" (Christie Golden). Roux then is rewarded with an ingame NPC. PTR feedback is completely ignored. The developers remove content (Sylvanas B word quest) from the game because 1 developer felt like it. Can they also make their main class OP because "they feel like it"?

    Content updates: about 2 in 10 months and the second one brought a re-hatched Mage Tower for 2 weeks that had its scaling messed up completely. The first patch brought us a tiny island. No release date for 9,2 yet.

    Playerbase: elitists run rampant. Developers create content for only 5% of the playerbase. Toxicity happens because toxicity does not get punished.

    Customer Support: ingame report feature is stack based (means an entire guild can ban other people easily). Reports are not reviewed by GMs. Players are abusing the report system and the ticket system is 90% bots. The forum moderators are complete trash.

    The RPG experience: is completely missing. This game has zero right to call itself a RPG. No choices (and if there are any they are meaningless) and talent choices are usually more of a "take X talent the other two are useless".

    Cutscenes and art: the cutscenes are GMOD levels, so not very "good". The art has been fine except in recent times. SL has just a grey and green filter everywhere, once you notice it you can not unsee it. The announced tier sets look awful.

    Player population: has tanked massively. I play on Argent Dawn EU. Roleplay hubs (Redridge, Duskwood, Stranglethorn) that were active before SL are all dead. Orgrimmar is dead. Stormwind has taken a massive hit too.

    Promised content/Fear of missing out: heritage armors and worgen being able to not auto-shift into worgen form are just 2 examples of the past that were said "to be done" and yet never have been. Half the races are still missing their heritage armors. Promised features are not delivered or underdelivered. Blizzard constantly plays on the fear of missing out.

    The community council situation: completely useless. Reddit, Metacritic, a million other review sites, YouTube, the WoW forums and many other social media platforms give you enough insight. Why you need a "community council" is beyond me. Especially since Blizzard ignores PTR feedback.

    Personal opinion: it seems the only thing Blizzard does not half-ass is mistreating their employees. Everything else though is halfly done. The developers have seemingly no clue what the game should be about and mix the Warcraft universe with real life. I give Shadowlands a 2 because the 1-50 leveling is still very much worth it and lovely. Just the newest content is awful and not worth playing.

    If you are a player: 1 to 50 is worth playing. Anything after 50 (Shadowlands) is not.

    If you are a Blizzard developer/writer: please quit your job to make space for new people.    … Expand
  19. Vanos
    Mar 6, 2021
    0
    A really bad game! The story is garbage,
    The classes are unbalanced,
    The gameplay are heavily time gated,
    The torgasht is garbage,
    The lore as become garbage as well....
    The Devs responss are bad...
  20. Nacasatu
    Dec 15, 2020
    1
    Very shallow expansion.
    No new races, no new classes, no new battlegrounds. Time gated content, awful decision by Blizzard. They got the pvp gearing and upgrading right, almost perfect, but then ruined it by tying it behind more time gated trash AND then they also will not allow you to upgrade the Conquest gear you buy, unless you play and rank highly in their stupid and awful rated pvp    Very shallow expansion.
    No new races, no new classes, no new battlegrounds. Time gated content, awful decision by Blizzard. They got the pvp gearing and upgrading right, almost perfect, but then ruined it by tying it behind more time gated trash AND then they also will not allow you to upgrade the Conquest gear you buy, unless you play and rank highly in their stupid and awful rated pvp game mode. Terrible decision again. Now, you login, do your daily quest, and logout. That's it, once the weekly stuff is done, you've nothing else to do because of the time gating. What a ridiculous load of tripe. The rated pvp and mythic dungeons are absolutely destroyed and laughable due to the boosting and gold sellers selling services, the lfg custom tool is riddled with adverts and spammers, making it worthless. Huge hopes for this expansion but already bored with nothing to do and no way to gear because its locked behind time gated content or worse, locked behind forced game modes like rated battlegrounds which are a joke.

    Such a shame. Such a lost opportunity. Most guildmates have already just stopped playing and server is losing so many players. Blizzard seem to cater more toward streamers and the 5% who raid and run boosting mythic dungeons plus the win trading in pvp, than they do the vast majority of others players. Way to go, killing your own game with stupid decisions and lacking any real content.

    Seriously, not even one new class, race or battleground, what a load of trash this expansion is.    … Expand
  21. Tercano
    Jan 14, 2021
    1
    Плюсы:
    1. Интересный сюжет и в целом идея.
    2. Множество отсылок на давних персонажей и сюжет, возможность узнать о судьбе знакомых персонажей (не только первого плана). Минусы: 1.Утроба. Представляет из себя локацию по которой вы будете очень медленно продвигаться через постоянно агрящихся мобов и самостоятельно искать и справляться с редкими монстрами ради очень-очень маленькой    Плюсы:
    1. Интересный сюжет и в целом идея.
    2. Множество отсылок на давних персонажей и сюжет, возможность узнать о судьбе знакомых персонажей (не только первого плана).
    Минусы:
    1.Утроба. Представляет из себя локацию по которой вы будете очень медленно продвигаться через постоянно агрящихся мобов и самостоятельно искать и справляться с редкими монстрами ради очень-очень маленькой награды в виде репутации. За довольно большое количество репутации вы сможете покупать себе некоторые усиления. На деле это просто монотонная локация с огромным количеством безликих мобов которых вам нужно будет ежедневно фармить передвигаясь через все это пешком (что еще сильней растягивает и без того унылый процесс). А так же это обязательно делать на каждом вашем персонаже, потому если их у вас больше 1 то F.
    2. Торгаст. Вам предоставляют 6 обязательных для прохождения этажей, на 6 вас ждет босс, за победу над которым дают ресурсы для создания легендарок. На деле это такой же монотонный контент как и Утроба. Коридоры однообразные как впрочем и враги. Просто пройти мимо врагов к боссу за получением профита вам может и дадут, но с противников падают усиления без которых финального босса можно банально не убить и потерять море времени (а ведь он еще и получает процентное увеличение урона каждые секунд 10, так что если не убили быстро то может быть не убьете совсем). Единственным плюсом является то что проходить его нужно всего два раза в неделю на каждом персонаже.
    3. PvE. Стало бесперспективным избиением болванчиков. Контент в целом интересный, яркий, со своим челленджем, но без наград. Близзард сильно урезали шанс получения награды из рейда и м+. По сути вы можете пройти большое количество подземелий и никак не усилить персонажа.
    4. PvP. Ужасно. Вероятно на высоком уровне игры в нем и есть что-то захватывающее. Но если вы начинающий игрок, или же просто решили попробовать получить экипировку для PvE с помощью PvP то скорее всего все что вы получите это контроль на 4-6 секунд и смерть без возможности сделать хоть что-то. Полагаю единственная альтренатива - игра в пвп в заранее собранной в PvE (хаха) качественной экипировке. Все мои попытки заниматься пвп в среднем гире (190-200) заканчивались ваншотами в большинстве случаев.
    5. Новые недельные награды. В целом идея хорошая и очень удобная, возможность выбирать нужный вам лут из недельного сундука или дополнительные ролы если вам не нужно ничего из предложенного. Но возможность усиления себя лишь раз в неделю удручает.
    Итог: Shadowlands понравится тем кому интересно развитие истории вселенной Warcraft, но не понравится всем кто собирается играть в нее дальше сюжетных квестов.. Крайне не рекомендую играть если вы не готовы к огромному количеству пустого времяпровождения вне сюжета.    … Expand
  22. rmxpvl
    Jan 14, 2021
    2
    Game is unbalanced as hell, game design is bad. 0 loots the game is unrewarding and doesnt respect the player game time. You can run 3 raids and loot nothing, mythic+ are ruined loot is overnerfed. The great vault is a big joke badly designed, you can receive the same item multiple times. Idont know how this game made it through beta its unfinished and there is clearly not enough content
  23. Leshgorn
    Jan 7, 2021
    4
    В первые дни после выхода дополнения Shadowlands казался невероятно крутым - классное погружение в Утробу и Тёмные земли, графика, интересные персонажи и сюжет. Но это ощущение очень быстро прошло, а именно на моменте вступления в ковенант. Сразу возникло сомнение - к кому именно присоединиться? а что, если потрачу время и пойму, что надо было идти в другой ковенант? В итоге так и сделалВ первые дни после выхода дополнения Shadowlands казался невероятно крутым - классное погружение в Утробу и Тёмные земли, графика, интересные персонажи и сюжет. Но это ощущение очень быстро прошло, а именно на моменте вступления в ковенант. Сразу возникло сомнение - к кому именно присоединиться? а что, если потрачу время и пойму, что надо было идти в другой ковенант? В итоге так и сделал неверный выбор :(
    После ещё пары недель игры, пришло осознание, что эта самая игра стала отнимать гораздо больше времени, чем раньше, но и давать тоже стала меньше: нудные локалки стали гораздо более времязатратными, мобы стали крепче, появилась большая Утроба, где нельзя призывать транспорт и приходится бегать ножками. И отдельного внимания заслуживает Торгаст. Перед выходом дополнения, его рекламировали, как некую вечно меняющуюся локацию с отличными наградами, причём, чем выше этаж, тем лучше награда. В итоге, наград никаких нет, сама локация невероятно унылая, скучная, бесячая, прохождение ее отнимает много времени и зависит от случайно полученных абилок. И все это нужно только для прохождения сюжета, либо для создания/улучшения легендарки! Каждый раз после прохождения Торгаста возникает дикое желание выйти из игры и не заходить в неё больше никогда. После мучений с основным своим персонажем, я даже не представляю, сколько ещё нужно будет потратить нервов и времени для развития твинков. Сейчас делать этого совсем не хочется, а ведь даже в том же БФА я играл почти одновременно сразу за нескольких персонажей.
    Не знаю, как будет развиваться дополнение дальше, но на текущий момент, это для меня самое большое разочарование. Даже БФА нравился гораздо больше.    … Expand
  24. slisbad
    Jan 6, 2021
    0
    PvP is totaly trash like allways 85% of the classes are completely over-tuned.
    But there are ONLY 2 devs for everything(LOL) and those 2 guys have absulutly no clue about the game.

    DONT BUY OR PLAY IF YOU LIKE PVP

    lets hope Riot is bringing out there new game soon so we can finally stop playing that trash game
  25. FRESHNESS
    Nov 28, 2020
    5
    I guess with WoW expansions in 2020 I'm looking for what new ground can possibly be broken, and it appears the answer, with the innovative concepts WoW first introduced now ageing and no longer special or unique in gaming terms, is there is nothing particularly new or exciting here.

    The zones and art direction is, as ever, first class, but the lack of innovation in general gameplay is    I guess with WoW expansions in 2020 I'm looking for what new ground can possibly be broken, and it appears the answer, with the innovative concepts WoW first introduced now ageing and no longer special or unique in gaming terms, is there is nothing particularly new or exciting here.

    The zones and art direction is, as ever, first class, but the lack of innovation in general gameplay is bitterly disappointing. They haven't even tried to disguise the fetch quests this time around, or attempted to experiment with new kinds of missions.

    It's a shame to see such a tired effort, lacking in meaningful new features, when the game was in desperate need of a shot in the arm. The afterlife setting is apt, as this expansion finds the developers seeming somewhat dead behind the eyes as they continue to struggle for justification to offer a new addon every 18 months.    … Expand
  26. Elendil11
    Nov 28, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Me: Played since just after launch and almost all the time since

    Review: As I was running through the Zones (I have seen all of them now) I was thinking "Man the sky boxes and some of the terrain is nice" but I found nothing else to remark about that was new or amazing. I cleared Torghast to layer 3 right away and while it was interesting, I do not thing there is any way it will hold my attention for a whole expac.

    Pros:
    It has wonderful artwork. Can' t find much else :/

    Cons:
    I see nothing new other than some peripherals that shouldn't have an expac based around them (i.e. Torghast and Covenants).

    There was a major revamp to the lore that has essentially wiped out a good chunk of what made the better expacs and games function. That's not a good idea.

    Bland world quests and a slightly upgraded command table are underwhelming and don't make me want to do them.

    More borrowed power systems that will be entirely useless in 2 years. This stuff doesn't feel good even when it is current, please don't do it anymore after this.

    Class redesign (I am a prot paladin) made healing myself and protecting myself an extra chore above the GCD. Now I have to spend either on SoR or WoG. That was a poor idea for blizz to institute, however i understand that is a personal issue.

    How to fix it: Not sure about the borrowed power, but they need to find a way to get players back interested in the fabric of WoW again. MANY players came to WoW because they loved Warcraft and the story telling of especially the Warcraft 3's. As WoW has moved past these stories the lore has gone outside that firm story telling. The proof of this is in Legion when we moved back into it with a great story and a tying up of a story-line akin to Wraths. It was well done and people liked that aspect far more than in the last 2-3 expacs. Place yourselves back into the un-redesigned lore that exists or come out with Warcraft 4-5 and make more good lore to work with.    … Expand
  27. LukeSR
    Nov 29, 2020
    3
    Disappointing, buggy.

    First you have to complete the linear questline/campaign to get level 60 and to unlock the covenants. The questline contains many cinematics and a lot of talking and following NPCs. When you hit level 60 and you like to level up a twink you can choose to do the same again or skip it (Threads of fate), the campaign will be marked as completed and you can already    Disappointing, buggy.

    First you have to complete the linear questline/campaign to get level 60 and to unlock the covenants. The questline contains many cinematics and a lot of talking and following NPCs.
    When you hit level 60 and you like to level up a twink you can choose to do the same again or skip it (Threads of fate), the campaign will be marked as completed and you can already choose your covenant at the start.
    Well now you can choose your first destiny for yourself. They are some Quests in every area, you can already do world quests by leveling and few bonus objectives.

    I like the idea, but not the implementation. The bonus objectives are very boring, you have to kill mobs and click on items, you will get 1-3 % for each on your progress bar, it can take up to 20 minutes to complete one and you will get ~18k EXP, thats ~5% on you progress bar.
    I tried to combine it with normal Quests, but only in a few cases the area of the bonus objectives and normal quests matches,

    The other problem that disturbs me is, that all areas in Shadowlands are full of enemys. If you want to go from A to B, there is almost no safe way, you nearly find a horde of enemys on every place and you can't avoid them. They unmount you, you kill them, you mount and after few meters you possibly get unmounted again.

    There are not many normal quests, you can see the start point of every possible questline on the map. Some of the quests are very bad designed, for example. I saw a quest on a hill, I tried to get there and had to run through a place full of enemys.
    I was unmounted few times and always had to fight against 4-8 enemys (not super easy for a non healing class) and as I get there I get a quest and had to kill 12 more of them and use a spell on the dead bodies that could go wrong and you had to kill them again. Of course you had to kill other enemys by doing this quest that were not relevant for this quest, as I finally completed the quest, I got 8k EXP (~2,5% for level progress bar) and no other quest...

    And sorry for my bad english, I had to deal with some buggy quests and decided to write the review to
    free from my anger.    … Expand
  28. ilya1334400
    Jan 15, 2021
    0
    Если у БФА 3 бала, то тут я должен поставить 0. Геймплейно ничего не изменилось, все тоже самое что и в бфа, ничего глобально нового. Помимо этого, фарма обещали меньше, но по факту, его стало еще больше в 10 раз, для того что бы полностью одеть персонажа уходит в раза 3-5 больше времени. Раньше что бы получить максимальный профит за неделю надо было закрыть одно 15ое подземелье, теперьЕсли у БФА 3 бала, то тут я должен поставить 0. Геймплейно ничего не изменилось, все тоже самое что и в бфа, ничего глобально нового. Помимо этого, фарма обещали меньше, но по факту, его стало еще больше в 10 раз, для того что бы полностью одеть персонажа уходит в раза 3-5 больше времени. Раньше что бы получить максимальный профит за неделю надо было закрыть одно 15ое подземелье, теперь ДЕСЯТЬ. Туда же ежедневный фарм стигий, еженедельный фарм торгаста, постоянный фарм анимы. Шмота с рейдов стало в раза 2-3 меньше, убрали монетки 2ой шанс на дроп. Все что бы заставить вас дольше сидеть в этой игре, когда контента уже нет. Они решили взять системы из успешного вов классика, но не учли что если сравнивать шл с первоначальным вов классик... то это совсем другая игра, сессионка, а не твое личное приключение в огромном рпг мире. Локации стали в раз 5 меньше чем в ваниле, мобы подстраиваются под твою силу. Считаю что Близарды свернули не туда и искусственно удерживают народ в игре отсутствием шмота.… Expand
  29. Rizaun
    Nov 29, 2020
    4
    Another big disappointment.

    One of the worst parts of this expansion is that Blizzard intentionally made players weaker with the pre-patch, making old content more difficult to complete or downright impossible, expecting players to clear the new raids so that they could finally do the content that they were doing at Lv120. The leveling is pointless since you get nothing out of it, no    Another big disappointment.

    One of the worst parts of this expansion is that Blizzard intentionally made players weaker with the pre-patch, making old content more difficult to complete or downright impossible, expecting players to clear the new raids so that they could finally do the content that they were doing at Lv120. The leveling is pointless since you get nothing out of it, no new abilities or talents, it exists only to take your time and when you hit Lv60, you will be just as weak as you were at Lv50, it's the illusion of progression.

    No new class and no new race, instead they focused on improving the character creation feature and yet the new additions are barebones. Races that had a lot of options got a few more and the ones that had a few got almost nothing new that they didn't copy and paste from another race and all the new changes only bring WoW's character creation to the standards of the year 2010.

    Mediocre story but that is nothing new, Blizzard hasn't written anything good after Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. All male characters are stupid and incompetent, all women are queens and Mary Sues and Sylvanas is probably playing 10-D Chess and will be the true hero and save everyone... just like Kerrigan did in Starcraft. Blizzard's writers should take a look at how FFXIV writers create their world and characters and learn from them, they are actually good.

    World Quests take longer for no other reason than to take more of your time, just like everything else now, with the Maw not allowing you to use mounts for reasons so you have to walk everywhere, no Flight Whistle for Shadowlands areas, can't ride in many parts of Oribos, flying from one SL area into another always has to go through Oribos, etc. Everything about this expansion is designed to take as much time as possible.

    The new number of transmog appearances is laughable, there's about 8 new transmog appearances per armor type (Recolors don't count, they don't take any effort to make), with a few pieces here and there that don't belong to a particular set, but you have to choose 1 of the 4 covenant sets, leaving you with 5 choices. It's no wonder people get mad when Blizzard adds paid transmog to their store.

    Thank god we can buy the expansion, pay a sub and everything else in the Blizzard store with gold, Call of Duty operator bundles have more worth than this trash expansion. I'm only giving it a 4 because the Art and Sound teams did a good job, it's always everyone else who fails, specially the director.    … Expand
  30. Kadyr777
    Jan 25, 2021
    3
    Originally this review started out as neutral as I was having fun in the beginning, but the longer I played..the more this expansion has made me angry. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually miss BfA.

    Pros: -Solo instanced content can be played with friends! I was able to enjoy nearly everything with my wife through the story including having her in cut scenes with me, which    Originally this review started out as neutral as I was having fun in the beginning, but the longer I played..the more this expansion has made me angry. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually miss BfA.

    Pros:
    -Solo instanced content can be played with friends! I was able to enjoy nearly everything with my wife through the story including having her in cut scenes with me, which is a huge deal for me.
    -Classes feel much more fluid in comparison to BfA, even though some are performing very poorly.
    -Story can be completed without needing to enter a dungeon

    Cons:
    -The balancing of certain classes makes them unplayable and even yeeted or not invited to groups. At the time of writing this my wife's havoc Demon Hunter and my arms warrior are in a meh spot, my warrior as protection gets absolutely deleted in high keystones. Balance of classes has been slow and underwhelming two months into Shadowlands.
    -High level keystones need to be kited as a tank, that's not tanking. You must play a vengeance Demon Hunter as a tank, or a fotm DPS if you want to progress stones.
    -Some important features are locked behind MSQ (this was a bad thing about FFXIV, not a good thing Blizzard).
    -No new classes or races, allied races still haven't received the love they deserve
    -The storytelling feels unengaging to me, as somebody who loves RPGs and a great story. I was ready to just be done halfway through Ardenweald.
    -Classes that were incredibly broken and fotm especially in pvp during prepatch are still running around melting. Tuning wasn't a priority and I'm not sure how long I'll have to endure some of these broken classes until they're fixed.
    -The new main city hub is literally just a circle, two floors of a circle........
    -Torghast (a huge portion of this expansion) is a direct copy of Final Fantasy XIV's Palace of the Dead / Heaven on High.
    -Yet again, more borrowed power with a very boring, unengaging and restrictive covenant system.    … Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 31 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Apr 12, 2021
    80
    Blizzard finally comes with an alt-friendly expansion that brings back the best features of the previous ones. The patch that WoW desperately needed. [Issue#309]
  2. Shacknews
    Jan 29, 2021
    90
    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands certainly manages to capture the same feelings we’ve had since first started playing the game. The leveling experience overhaul, constant sense of progress with rewards, and new campaign stories make Shadowlands a must-have for any avid player.
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  3. GamingTrend
    Jan 27, 2021
    90
    World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is a return to greatness for the franchise. The content is both accessible and fun for all types of players, and the story actually makes you feel like everything you’re doing is helping to save the Shadowlands. Torghast is one of the best features ever added and makes each experience unique and fun. While there are some issues which can slow down the time it takes to get everything you want, the journey there is still enjoyable.
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