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The lands of shadow are cold and grim, but the warmth of expanding horizons serves to create a calm sense in our world at war. What use were crafts and possessions if the penguins and elves were in control. The penguins subscribed to the thought of crafting war, while the elves partook in possessing thumb bells. What even was a thumb bell? The imagination is a powerful tool.
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I love it so far
I'm really loving this expansion. The time gating doesn't bother me mostly because I like getting 'done' for the week and putting WoW on the backburner but I'm super casual so eh.
Torghast I agree could use more whackiness. They added some weird powers in the last pass but it could use some more. I love getting the super jump, the 'you can't walk backwards but shoot shadow damage in front of you', and stuff like that.
I really like the time-gating, I wouldnt want to get renown 40 in one go I would definetly burn out, but I would do it if it was possible just because it gives gameplay advantage
As someone who usually just plays the main story quest and does crafting, this expansion has been kinda annoying. The sheer amount of waiting for renown to continue the main questline and grinding out the even more boring Torghast is probably going to make me stop playing. I love wow but I just don't have time for the huge amount of time gating this expansion has. If there was no time gating on the main questline then you could probably get it done in a few days considering they're like 8 chapters long. I'd enjoy doing dungeons if I had people to play with, just doing them solo with a random group isn't that much fun.
Out of all honesty I thought Shadowlands would’ve been a bad xpac but i’m loving it!
I had so much stuff to do in school and at home that im still at level 56 on my main
''pretty soon''
Lucky us NF , we get 2 DPS conduits early on if you switch to DreamWeaver this week
Pickle or no pickle?
The time gating is annoying but also very relaxing, get your 3 renown and then you are free to do whatever you want for rest of the week
Been watching the race whilst doing some other stuff, I haven't logged on for the past week and I don't feel like I'm "behind", I'll catch up in my own time. WoW having breathing room to go do other stuff is a great position for the game to be in, there's still plenty of things that I want to do and I don't feel forced to do them.
Pros: My friends are having tons of fun with Torghast and Mythic+
Cons: I'm in the last year of my uni program and don't have time to play with them
I'm enjoying Shadowlands a-lot, its gotten me into WoW in a way I didn't in WoD or Legion. As a pretty casual player I can see how the time gating would annoy people but I like it because it works well with the time I have for the game. I tend to log in, do the weeklies, then do the dailies, maybe run a dungeon or PvP for a bit then log back in tomorrow or in couple days. Also as someone who gets some bad skill performance anxiety if I suck in a game (why I cant play LoL) Ive been loving Epic battlegrounds because I can totally turn my brain off. If I had to pick a cons it would be that I hate being in the maw and have no desire to do anything there, and the lack of mob drop mounts in some zones, like how Maldraxxus has a TON but being in Bastion I have like…1 and then 2 are achievement/puzzle related.
Pro:
This game sucks.
Con:
I'm having fun.
Having fun in PVP and not having fun in torghast sounds like every sub rogue I have met haha. The abilities are a lot wackier for other classes imo.
It's just 7/10 experience with an occasional burst of 8/10 content. I like grinding because I'm a Rust player. I like that there are grindy single player progression options to get gear. I suck at wow and I'm vision impaired so a couple of visual things screwed me doing dungeons. A combination of world quests , rep gear and covenant campaign gear got me the item level to do LFR. I like that I can manage an alt. I like that a lot of stuff is optional grinds/farms. I like that the venari stygia upgrades for torghast and the maw is account wide. I like that my worgen' s racial running wild is op in the Maw. I went into shadowlands with the expectations of a Ubisoft game because classic Blizzard is dead. So I had little expectation and hope going in so literally no disappointments. Relic of the past profession changes and chromie leveling is probably still my favourite things.
Pros:
Renown, the weekly cap is great, it's easy enough to catch up if you're on an alt and you get it done quick enough, and it doesn't feel like it's a grind like for instance the neck in BFA.
The dungeons and the raid have been great, it's much better than the dungeons & raids in BFA, they were dull af.
World Quests doesn't feel as grindy as they did in BFA, they've made them better and their design is really fun.
Crafting, nothing I'd think I'd say, but the way they've improved crafting is making it feel more rewarding than before, and I recently switched from Inscription to Engineering which is fun.
Cons:
Torghast, well I don't particularly mind it too much, but it's just not that particularly good, I also would've liked it more if it was wackier, that being said as a Vengeance Demon Hunter, I've had a fairly easy time inside compared to for instance Rogues, and because I haven't struggled in there I've actually just been able to blast through each floor, but I understand that it's not been the case for everybody…. also the layout is really boring it's just grey everywhere, unless you're doing the fire wing.
The Storming affix in Mythic+ as a tank/melee player it's just a hassle do deal with… or rather not to deal with, since you really can't avoid it at all times, the tornados just spawn way too frequently.
My guild, I'm plan on leaving it after the raid tonight, I'm done with their BS.
Neutral:
The lack of loot, I don't particularly mind it, but I'm also missing getting pieces more frequently, that being said that make it more of an incentive to do dungeons & more of the content.
The Maw, it's quite fun to go there on occasion, and since I'm a Demon Hunter I'm really mobile which means I can get around fairly well, but it's less fun on other classes.
Would like the engineering headpiece to have a legendary shadowghast goggle
Pro: I'm getting progressively more into the expansion
Con: I don't exactly love the aesthetics of any of the zones
I am loving everything about shadowlands! so far the only cons i have is losing stygia every time you die and having to run back and get it.
He did a description thing!
Con: I’m bored
Pro: It’s a good game
Extra Con: I’m still bored
Still not a fan of the covenant system locking you into certain specs essentially, having severe altitus from it.
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The only reason this expansion is getting praise is because BFA was so bad. This expansion is turd and the people that like it are clouded by their addiction and sunk cost fallacy for WoW. Give it another month or 2 and the honeymoon phase is going to wear off. I personally think SL is the culmination of everything wrong with modern WoW. The amount of borrowed systems from Diablo 3 has just destroyed WoW as MMO for me. As a fan since 2004, SL just feels like some generic Asian MMO with a bunch of boring mini games slapped together to keep people logging in, in order to pad Blizz's MAUs. SL like BFA feels like it was designed by creatively bankrupt designers. There is nothing really original here and the amount of content that launched is probably their smallest to date. Hard pass for me. TBC is coming though!!!!!
Pros : mounts are cute.
Cons : Personally I un subbed week 2. It didn't feel like a expansion but a patch in my opinion.
Nothing grabbed me as exciting expansion feature.
I guess covenants where supposed to be that but it just felt like a low tier class hall.
The abilities arnt exciting… nor rotation changing enough to enjoy.
Torghaust was a complete bust imo.
The maw I dispise and detest.
Just as a disclaimer I hit max. crafted my lego…
My death knight is 180. Highest key was 3 mists.
pro: it's wow
con: it's wow
Soulsbinds/renoun unlocks are time-gated because otherwise you would need to play (grind) many hours per week in order to compete with other players. They might as well give you all the abilities at once the moment you complete the leveling campaign but it’s also fun to unlock stuff and to become stronger over time
The time gating is good because it prevents burnout and lets people that can’t keep up have a chance. But I think they could reduce the amount of time between each gate
expansion has the basic components that make wow good, with less of blizz devs getting in the way of their own game. That being said, balance and design decisions still make no sense in some places. The renown time gating is one of those.
"Best expansion since Legion" might have something to do with the fact that Shadowlands is Legion 2.0 with most/all of the tweaks and changes that Legion should have had, along with very similar "systems" that Legion had as well.
This expansion time gating hasn't bothered me so much, if anything I think it's there to save us from ourselves, can you imagine if all the content has been there week one? Torghast, the renown campaign… We would've played 18 hours a day and burn out, as well as complained about the grind like we did in Legion.
pro: I feel like there’s lots of ways I wanna customize my gameplay. I’m maldraxxi and the various abominations are actually super helpful (flytrap is underrated!). I’m still sorting through my conduit album mixing up my rotation. Also unpopular opinion: I’m encouraged by the time gating??? It reassures me that we’ll still have new content every week, weeks from now.
Con: shits a little buggy. Having a lot of ways to play means that not all of them were really stress-tested before launch.
I need to know more about the penguins and elves, and their enigmatic thumb bells.
Idk I'm having fun I think this expansion will be better than bfa
I think some of the “time gating” is so players don’t get insanely far ahead. I’ve had one massive terrible month of having to do things other then WoW so I’ve barely touched the game. I feel too far behind even though it’s only been out a month.
If all you play is rogue in shadowlands and that's all you use in Torghast then yeah you're also not gonna like it. They did the sub rogues dirty in Torghast it's dumb
Well, I haven't been thrilled yet by anything in Shadowlands. The first time through questing to 60 was good, but massively on-the-rails linear. I've never been fond of redoing dungeons ad nauseum, and I'm just not into Torghast. I guess they heard people wanted Diablo in their Warcraft (I don't), but it's just a variant of Islands which I loathed. The automatic level-adjusting has negatively impacted my soloing of past expansion raids, which is a bummer. And unfortunately, I don't have the ability to do raiding presently. So I'm leveling alts to 60 and reluctantly doing WQs, but this whole storyline about farming Anima in the Afterlife is TBH kind of dumb. So far it's a little better than BfA, but that's not saying much. My feeling is that it's going to end up like WoD, what with all the time-gating and farming this early.
why do u still make videos no one sees them
Let's hold on comparing this xpack…it's only 1 month old…anything can happen
I highly recommend starting an alt or two. This expansion is really alt friendly (except when it comes to torghast).
How is the journey towards buffdore going?
AOE as sub isn’t that bad for me. I can usually keep up with PUGs in mythics
The maw as a DK is pain. Can't wait until I get a mount there
100% agree with time gating. Overall I'm enjoying this xpac more than BFA. Agree its on par with Legion, WOTLK, TBC – so far. I don't like the Maw because we can't mount. Feels like Blizzard is trolling us by not allowing us to mount. Ravendreth is a PITA to navigate too. Love your video's!
ok ok, I hear ya crendor, you've done all those things in shadowlands, BUT, have you pet battled in shadowlands? gotta ask the important questions XD
Only things I dont like are The Maw and Bastion. Torgast could be way better now it just feels like chore…
the fools didn't heed my warnings.
too obsessed with the grandeur of the gilded lootboxes.
but I warned them nonetheless, but my words fell on def ears.
by the time they looked up from their piles of loot it was too late.
their bodies bloated with excess treasure
the battle passes swarmed across all the game lands.
we thought no evil could be greater then the lootboxes.
we were all wrong.
I have been enjoy this expansion. wrath of the lich king is still my favorite. but this expansion takes third place.