Unability to work for them and total dependence on random drops (until later patches).Unability to obtain the wanted specific item (for hardcore players).Total random of drops which required grind for those who cared (I did not).Different stylized quarters within an order hall like in Ashran could have solved the problem – that did not happen. The worst one I think were warriors – they got a god-like golden Valhalla while most of the warriors would prefer a lot more down-to-earth option, blood stained, dirty and brutal. For example, rogues can be ninjas, political assassins, highwaymen, street rascals, pickpockets, pirates, spies. Due to the variety of class perception from players, Blizzard did not please everyone or even most of them as they had to choose one option of depicting an order hall.Class order hall bonuses are not equal: free gear token or instant world quest completion are not available to half of classes.Class campaigns required dungeon re-runs.Class campaigns require missions and world quests to complete which is now an artificial time delay.Several order halls are just unpleasant to hangout in.You see lots of other people in your order hall at all times – unlike the Draenor’s hermitage garrisons.Garrisons are not self-sustained now, so you can’t sit in it – you have to earn resources for missions elsewhere in the open world.Reputation tokens and extra reputation tokens were especially helpful.It appeared to be very helpful and yet skippable apart from few quest missions. Excellent work on mistakes of the mission table: few customizable followers, enhancing reward list with current useful items along with patches.Paying attention to class content way after ending major class campaigns (new follower questlines, class mounts and class trials in Mage Tower).Unique class mounts and artifact weapons with storylines of their own.Unique, engaging and fun class campaigns.Ridiculously hard Kil’Jaeden difficulty – that makes it a single wing of all to me avoided in raid finder on alts.Little to none Legion presence in Tomb of Sargeras (5 – FIVE demons in the Tomb itself).Fun to run for every role: either tank, healer, or dps.Excellent open world lead-ins to the raids.Inventive boss mechanics and most inventive boss range within one raid.Forcing players into endless dungeon re-runs for story arcs, professions, order hall campaigns and gear from mythics.Mythic-only Karazhan and Suramar dungeons upon their launch.Mythic modes as endgame content (not for me though).Storylines leading players right to the dungeon entrance where they end.Incorporating dungeons into leveling and story experience – it is obligatory to run dungeons to finish the story arc.Endless elves: warden elves, illidari elves, ghost elves, crazy ghost elves, junkie elves, nazi elves, rebel elves, druid elves, spider elves.Little to none Legion presence in an expansion named Legion.Also killing mobs became a bit harder and a lot more interesting, allowing to learn how to play your class. Patch 7.3.5 which brought an ability to finish the older zone storylines, a wider choice of leveling zones/dungeons and even allowed to skip the whole expansions if you don’t like them.Pillars story arc which binds all the zones.Incorporating dungeons into leveling and story experience.Interesting storylines, new characters and storytelling.Bonus leveling options: profession quests, order hall quests, order hall missions, Heart of Light quests, side quests (fill-the-bar) – and later, assaults.Just a couple of hours per full zone on alts.Exciting and flawless new feature of zone / gear scaling.Absolutely none technical issues on the launch hour and following days.Several quests prepared us for Dalaran travel beforehand.Cinematic and scenario were motivating, heart-ripping and filling our hearts with revenge.Pre-patch allowed quick gear up for 100s and leveling for 20+.Pre-patch brought danger to our doorstep and introduced new demon types.I think i would make a quick list of pros and cons because full-scale text will be impossibly long to read :) It is time to look back at the past expansion and review its aspects.
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