I'm still playing it, leveling up alts and trying out some Mythic dungeons. It's better than Shadowlands, but anything would be better than Shadowlands, I think. On a side note, when are they just going to say 'fuck it' and retcon that entire expansion?

Regardless, Dragonflight has some cool new features, but it's still got that good ol' jank and general lack-of-polish that I've come to expect from modern day Blizzard. The main story is entirely nonsensical, as per usual, but I like some of the zones and side stories. My main class, Priest, feels pretty good to play too.

We'll see where it goes. I probably won't play for too long.

Honestly? So far, this expansion has been pretty darn good. The new Evoker class is really good and the Dracthyr's a fun race. (Though I find they take damage way too easily.)

The story's...better this time. There's still a few plot points that aren't great but most of it is pretty solid. Especially with Metzen coming back. (GREEN JESUS!)

I love the new zones. The levelling was so much fun and the ambience from each zone made it really good. The Primalist enemies are tough to fight but that shows how threatening they are.

As for the instances. They're good. Though most of the ones I do, people just rush through them like they're speedrunning this bitch. Gotta keep up. Kek.

Dragonriding is epic. The courses are so much fun and very enjoyable. Very dope.

So yeah. This expansion is good so far. Fingers crossed now the endgame delivers when it wraps up. Hopefully, this is the expansion that brings WoW back from the ashes.


I hope...

WoW: Dragonflight 10.0
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- Back to a healthier game environment with no forced time-gated grind
- The new talents trees, which give many classes their best compilation
- The Dragonriding, fun and already indispensable
- Awesome soundtrack, as always
- Plenty of side open-world activities
- The expansion game-designs are friendly to secondary characters (rerolls)
👎
- The game engine desperately needs to be upgraded. The lack of shaders, realistic lightning and proper render of distance make the game half as beautiful as it could really be. The art-team's work deserve better.
- The new continent could have been larger, more spacious, and could have used additional zones
- The open-world content (quests, events, grinds, etc) are pretty basic and not so fun
- Professions feels a bit bloated with items, recipes, skills, etc
- The lore is on the weak side, but can't say I care that much

I really love WoW, but fell big time after Battle for Azeroth. Dragonflight streamlines so much bullshit that is outdated, and also is really forgiving with catchup mechanics.

Playing a dungeon or raid with friends is maybe one of a kind experience on gaming today, but it still gives me the FOMO pretty hard.

I will always have a soft spot for WoW and everything I did on this game (playing since 2008). But it is kinda hard juggle adult life and this game.

impressions of WoW expansions this early on mean very little overall because what really matters is the long term support and patch cadence, but as it stands I'm actually having fun at every turn and cannot put it down which is simply something I could not say for the last two expansions whatsoever. It's easily the best since Legion and even then there's many aspects of this in its current state that completely outpace even that so far.

The Art team never misses a beat where WoW is concerned, but everything else has finally risen to meet the phenomenal quality of their work for the first time in years. Zone layouts are leaps and bounds above their Shadowlands counterparts thanks to everything being built around dragonriding which is itself one of the most compelling new features to date. The open world content is so vastly improved and legitimately engaging it hardly even feels like the same game, and the profession overhaul is an absolute delight. Narratively things are infinitely more interesting as well down to completely inconsequential side quests having more flavor than entire previous campaign chapters.

As apprehensive as I've been given the state of the game in recent years as well as the completely reprehensible garbage fire that is Blizzard as a company it's honestly just nice to see a game you used to love living up to its true potential again. There's a ton of promise across each and every inch of the Dragon Isles and if the consistency is there throughout the full expansion cycle it'll be a tremendous step in the right direction.

probably the best expansion we've had since legion!!! seriously, i haven't been this excited about wow in a long time

as always the sound and art teams carried, but the leveling is probably the most fun i've had in any expansion, dragonriding feels absolutely incredible too. honest to god i want to be able to ride my dragon isles dragons everywhere else.

it's too early to say how the story's gonna be, but so far i have hope! i'm really liking how they're handling wrathion so far in particular. there's clearly tons of thought put into the worldbuilding, you can ask just about every named npc questions about their own personal history, like the meaning of their name and whatnot!

overall this expansion just feels like blizz is finally listening? sorry, this is just one big word vomit, but my patch 10.0 takeaway is that it's so refreshing.

This really is a weird one, cause while I don't think it's terrible like Shadowlands it's certainly not that good either.

Dragonriding is ok, but it's just a poor man's version of something they ripped off from Guild Wars 2. The new talent system is an improvement, but so many talents on the classes I play feel so pointless they might as well not even exist.

Otherwise, the game is basically just more of the same and unfortunately it's still a game pretty much entirely focused on M+ and raiding while everything else is an afterthought, so if you don't do either of those your time is better spent on something else.

Alexstrasza is our new queen.
+The story was pretty good in comparison with older expansions.
+New dragon-riding mechanics improved the exploring and made it a lot of fun.
+Timewalking was necessary for newer players and they added it.
+New profession system works well. Though it seems likely that they will abandon it when the next expansion is out.
+Dragon Isles are full of side-quests and world-quests. Which makes it fun to explore.
-Faction renown system takes too much time. I don't have time for farming endlessly for just renown.
-It's too expensive. Just like any other WoW expansion.

Warcraft is too big and my relationship is too complicated to properly put into a concise review, but let me say this as a Retail hater for nearly 8 years:

This is the best Retail expansion in a post-Wrath world IMO. Best gameplay, best progression, and best end-game the game has been in a long, long, long time. Story and lore are very Warcraft without the edgelord shite we've had for a few years, and it's the healthiest the game has felt in a long, long time. This is hands down my favorite expansion outside of the Classic era.

with the last two xpaks being mid (BFA) and terrible (SL), we were bound for a "good" one eventually. probably a little early to rate this, but so far i'm pleasantly surprised with what dragonflight's delivered so far, especially after the stinker that was shadowlands. getting a lot of vibes i haven't felt since legion and pandaria, let's hope that momentum's kept in later patches!

probably might rate this half a star higher once more content comes out (and i get a computer that's actually capable of dragonriding at a framerate above single digits).

2/12/2023 EDIT: still a bit early to rate higher but now that i've gotten a better computer, yeah dragonriding's a blast and the trading post is a cute addition even if i'm not a huge fan of battlepass-like systems.

overall a very good and solid expansion so far, probably might be on par with legion once more content comes out. only real flaw imo is that the primalists kinda suck as antags. oh boy i always wanted the twilight's hammer again but lamer

7/13/23 EDIT: extra half-star coz yeah i think at this point i can safely say this is probably the best modern wow xpak. not sure how many major patches till we reach the end of this xpak, but there's a lot to enjoy as there is atm, and i honestly cannot see blizzard topping this in the next xpak.

this is the only modern wow expansion. is it "warcraft" at this point? hard to really say at this point in all honesty. but dragonflight is something that wow hasn't been since legion, and that is fun.

2/27/24 EDIT: yeah even with the TWW announcement, i can't see blizz topping this. sucks that we aren't getting a 10.3, but i still stand by this being the best modern wow xpak. genuinely the most fun i've had with WoW since legion. :D

imagine paying a monthly fee to work for the opportunity to pull a slot machine with the hope it lets you do the stuff you're actually paying for. would say this couldn't be me but alas, once again

i always thought i was an outlier here, in that i never enjoyed the gear grind that mmo players assume is there to "get your money's worth" (i could not believe my eyes when i saw people clamoring for the return of daily quests over weeklies,) but i'm realizing these people are broken and this design is prohibiting a different audience from forming, for reasons that anyone who's been turned off from playing one already understands

these games feature genuinely interesting blends of cooperative puzzle solving and choreography you can't get elsewhere, and it's all locked behind the most bloated tedium you could possibly imagine. it's so frustrating to not be able to share this kind of experience with others. once again asking for a saint to prove you can do it without the trappings of this garbage

Review do Lançamento - Terminado a main quest e quase todas sides:

Esse lançamento deu ânimo para voltar a jogar WoW. O leveling foi disertíssimo e o sistema de draconaria é algo que deve ser mantido.

Lore ok, nada tão grandioso e o que gosto, algo mais pé no chão dentro de Azeroth.