Honestly, I don't know what all the fuzz is about.
I get that a lot of people started out with Wotlk, and the nostalgia factor is therefore very strong with this one. But I think you have to be coping at least somewhat to think that these patches were the best ones to ever go live.
This expansion is like the awkward-teen-phase of wow for me. They tried alot of new stuff with wotlk, throwing new things at the wall, to see what sticks. It's undeniable that this expansion, more than any other shaped what WoW would become. This factor alone gives the original devs some leeway in terms of criticism in my opinion. You can clearly see the team wrestle with some of the more problematic aspects of the genre and the formula. Trying to find new ways to improve both, I really believe they gave a fuck at the time.
This all being said, I think the expansion is middling at best. While I can appreciate the story and lore from start to finish, the raid tiers are really what kills it for me. Wotlk is stuck between Classic and Modern WoW. While the Class-Design has leaped forward, providing interesting and diverse types of gameplay for different classes, the Boss-Design is still stuck in the past. The Raids provide generally little challenge. The most dense and difficult encounters are The Lich King and Yogg-Saron (Hard mode), both the Endbosses of their respective Raids. Every other encounter felt barebones to me. However considering the time in which they released Wotlk this might be an issue specific to playing the expansion in the modern era. I did most of my WoW playing between Cataclysm and Legion, which means that I was always used to more complex and difficult encounters. I lack the experience to grasp the difficulty these encounters presented at the time of release.
Which gives me a perfect segway into the Classic Wotlk Servers by Blizzard Entertainment/Activision supervised by Microsoft. They're gargabe, absolute trash. Having game-breaking bugs and glitches which were present in the original is one thing, but introducing new ones is flat out embarassing. The WoW Token and Chinese Bots have completley ruined the economy, GDKP is a travesty and every Server is filled with elitist, who have been playing the game since 2008 and are still somehow wiping on Professor Putricide.
If you wanna dive into WoWs teenage years, I can't recommend the "official" servers. Warmane is all I'll say.
I get that a lot of people started out with Wotlk, and the nostalgia factor is therefore very strong with this one. But I think you have to be coping at least somewhat to think that these patches were the best ones to ever go live.
This expansion is like the awkward-teen-phase of wow for me. They tried alot of new stuff with wotlk, throwing new things at the wall, to see what sticks. It's undeniable that this expansion, more than any other shaped what WoW would become. This factor alone gives the original devs some leeway in terms of criticism in my opinion. You can clearly see the team wrestle with some of the more problematic aspects of the genre and the formula. Trying to find new ways to improve both, I really believe they gave a fuck at the time.
This all being said, I think the expansion is middling at best. While I can appreciate the story and lore from start to finish, the raid tiers are really what kills it for me. Wotlk is stuck between Classic and Modern WoW. While the Class-Design has leaped forward, providing interesting and diverse types of gameplay for different classes, the Boss-Design is still stuck in the past. The Raids provide generally little challenge. The most dense and difficult encounters are The Lich King and Yogg-Saron (Hard mode), both the Endbosses of their respective Raids. Every other encounter felt barebones to me. However considering the time in which they released Wotlk this might be an issue specific to playing the expansion in the modern era. I did most of my WoW playing between Cataclysm and Legion, which means that I was always used to more complex and difficult encounters. I lack the experience to grasp the difficulty these encounters presented at the time of release.
Which gives me a perfect segway into the Classic Wotlk Servers by Blizzard Entertainment/Activision supervised by Microsoft. They're gargabe, absolute trash. Having game-breaking bugs and glitches which were present in the original is one thing, but introducing new ones is flat out embarassing. The WoW Token and Chinese Bots have completley ruined the economy, GDKP is a travesty and every Server is filled with elitist, who have been playing the game since 2008 and are still somehow wiping on Professor Putricide.
If you wanna dive into WoWs teenage years, I can't recommend the "official" servers. Warmane is all I'll say.