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4:20 the bug was fixed and when u make a new character and get to certaint mission it will trigger the mission where you are sent with your team to rescue her
Leveling is the process I always enjoyed most in WoW. The atmosphere, the inimitable music, the gorgeous locations and the story you participate in and travel through. It might be confusing for new people, but if they take away ability to level through the previous expansions, I'd likely just stop playing the game.
I think leveling in expansions is pointless you should just skip to end game content. Or just make it couple of hours to introduce lore and story of the expansion.
how can you think levelling is fun, it is the worst part in the game, levelling in wow is not stronger, it is a long tutorial and you only start to play the game after that.
@@steelmongoose4956 exactly people who've been playing for a long time get older and want to enjoy the game but once it became a part time job.. well you know the rest
Never thought I'd see someone suffer the same terrible drop rate I did back in my raiding days. Always the last one geared in our little static. Great video, as ever. :)
Its all the bad karma he has been stacking for 3 years hitting him at once, and all the good karma coming to me after not seeing it for 3 years, prob yoinked some of his good karma too lul
The massive problem in accordance to wow is the playability for new players. Learning rotations and how everything works, along with the lore and how boring it becomes early game. That’s the massive issue for wow, great at keeping its current fan base, but horrible for attracting new players.
That's the "idea" of this game. It always was like that. If you unable to invest large amount if time to learn everything necessary and then practice all of your newly acquired knowledge.... Your experience won't be enjoyable nor ideal. You need that experience and knowledge to participate in the end game. Not world quest zerging. I would say that this is strictly bad design. But some many people are playing this game is that particular fashion. i'ts probably not )
@@thr0nicalso people being dickheads if you don’t know how dungeon encounters work or trying to raid for the first time…that’s why I fucking quit…I played ffxiv a lot but destiny seems to be my home until the final shape anyway..
@@thr0nic destiny is fun the only problem is that you basically pay a full year of WOW sub upfront every year ($100) for everything (expansion and seasons) but without a sub fee and (generally) a more welcoming community it’s worth it plus old dlc goes on sale hella cheap.
I'm a new player to wow, I did a leveling route to 60, had a blast learning how to play shaman even though it was a bit daunting at times, but after I rearranged my entire UI the class has become alot easier that and guides, still early in to dragonflight which I'm now paying attention too, and I gotta say this kind of gameplay is a breath of fresh air in comparison to ffxiv, wow really prioritizes gameplay over story telling, but this I what I recommend to anyone who wants to experience the story, do a leveling route to 60, unlock chromie time, then make an alt for any expansion you're interested in experiencing for the lore. The leveling experience is also cool cause of the talent tree which allows you to play your class however you want. I'm really impressed with this game and have now become completely addicted to it
Wow is the best game of all time. I played back in 2004. I am now 36 and I would play again. The most of the games the last years are for soft players, players who do not want to try to improve in the game. The market is full of pay-2-win games or games with poor content. I would wish I could go back to 2004 and I would play Wow again with same passion. The quality of the current games makes an old style player like me a bit sad
I used to play this game since 2008 but the reasons I stopped playing are: 1- No more free time to play as before 2- i must pay subscription fees after buying the expansion 3- lost the track on the lore I stopped at MOP expansion and lost track of the lore They should let us buy the expansion only and play and remove the monthly subscription.
Watching this video, I was intrigued about returning. But when I found out it’ll cost about $70 for the expansion and game time, that’s kinda hard to swallow… kinda shitty that they don’t include game time with a $50 expansion when I may only get about 40 hours of fun, seeing how fast you level in that game.
Holy fuck that's expensive man. Not sure what it is in Europe now but I'd say it's 50 euro for the game and then 12.99 monthly so around the same price.
Great video! I just wanted to add that technically Dragonflight has less solo content than the past few expansions because almost all of the endgame open world content requires groups now-which was confirmed by the devs and the game itself calling it “group content” and adding tools to help automate group finding. So what Dragonflight really has a lot of is open world content that necessitates group play but is more accessible to solo players than the instanced group content. However, the leveling experience in Dragonflight is indeed soloable other than a few optional dungeon quests.
my opinion is that it really hold up even though its a really old game. I think its creative, fun, and there is something for everyone to do. I love how much you can customize and its not super competitive. Something I wish they could do better though is dialogue. I think most people can agree that some text to speech would be nice instead of having to read it in a small little book. Thats my opinion on WOW
I picked the game up in December for the first time and it’s been a blast. I got hooked on the dungeons and just got to ksm in M+. Excited to play more
i pick the game up last week and its been hell, i mean if you care about story and lore like that it might be tolerable. Levelling feels like training, like a means to an end, not like a journey. Very annoying to get stunned by mob when you want to go quickly. If its mmorpg you should you should feel free like the real world, in wow questing is must its the only to level up, in other mmo loke bdo yoi can just go anywhere and start killing and you will level up. you can do that in wow too but since there are big chunk of rewards in returning quest there is no motivation to do other things. In other mmo like lost ark if you are going to need a tool say like fishing rod to fish it gives you the quest but in wow it completely fail to explain how things work, no guide its like playing chess without knowing the game mechanics.
@@jugg9140 You can go around killing things and you will get xp, you can also level up purely through mining and herbalism if you really want to. Levelling is a journey but only if that's your perspective on it. Personally I love nothing more than to take my time exploring zones and doing quests to level up at my own pace, but if you're whole goal is to just get to max level as quickly as possible, then anything you do is going to feel like a chore. Mob stuns don't last long and most classes have a utility to deal with it so you shouldn't have too many issues.
@@jugg9140 why are you complaining in every comment? I know people that have leveled a character to max through pvp only, and I've personally leveled through dungeons only multiple times. And there are also people that have leveled to max through professions only. You're just unimaginative
This was such a good put together video! I don’t play WOW but I’m going to get it and try it. Best video I’ve seen in a long time! Great job with keeping me entertained.
I haven't played since Warlords and it had just barely came out. I FINALLY got my own desktop that is built well enough to run WoW without lagging and high quality graphics and I am so excited to get back into it. This video was informative and well done. Thanks for this!
It's so sad to see what World of Warcraft has become. I remember WotLK era... levelling up felt so fresh and exciting. Maybe it's all in my head... maybe I'm getting old... I don't know. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. It feels like you're forced to skip everything and only focus on the end-game. But isn't the journey what counts?!
Nah you're not getting old, I'm 16 and I kinda feel the same way. I still love WoW, I always have and probably always will, but at the moment new characters feel... soulless. Like they're all boosted characters. I hope that since Blizzard seems to be turning a new leaf, they'll realize that they need to add the "journey" part of the game back.
the problem is most people already did the journey many times over decades ago idk, your thoughts on maintaining a 20 year old game esp when your focus at this point is likely retaining players vs attracting new?
I just recently stop playing a few months ago. I had played since early 2006. I love the game but all my friends stopped playing, but I solo’d or did LFG or LFR and some pug PVP. The increase of things (dailies) you have to do was literally another job. I have anxiety issues and doing all this for multiple toons, the huge increase of spells or this or that you have to do to play just became overwhelming for me. So I only did quests. But doing them alone gave me a “what’s the point, it’s kinda boring” and I quit. I do miss playing but oh well.
Why would you hate the ability to trade cash shop items for in-game gold? Especially in ESO, this allows people to buy the DLCs without spending real world money or paying for ESO+. This is a massive boon, since DLCs are only able to be bought within the game, and so are unable to ever be discounted. You cant just buy a cheap game key for Dragonhold.
I would say for sure right now new character experience leaves a lot to be desired. I made a new paladin and it sent him into Shadowlands, where I got to a point where the story just ended, turned out after a certain point the story is level gated, (I had to place a GM ticket that took several days to get answered to find this out) and Blizzards response to me was to go to another story and do that for 11 levels... How is this a thing in the worlds biggest MMO? I enjoyed Dragonflight, but once I hit level cap it felt just like grinding for not much. I haven't even logged in for a month. I wouldn't hope to hard on Dragon Riding making it past Dragonflight, no other expansion systems have lasted past that expansion.
The game never explains "what to do" when you hit 70. Especially what you "really" should do to get the upgrades faster. Especially if you are a new player. That's why your end game grind felt like nothing. Like you getting to nowhere. This game could be a very different experience for those who have knowledge and for those who don't. The "real" end game is no different from any other xpac. The "dressing" is.
Gotta agree there. Even with the raiding, once my Drac was maxed I felt like I had to do a lot for next to nothing or just stand around. I like WoW as much as the next person but I’m not about to pay for an overpriced chat room. I think the lvling and streamline of story could really improve the game like ff14 did. I feel involved in that game. Despite it being mostly fetch quests I didn’t mind bc it’s ENGAGING. Wows questing never really felt engaging so it was hard to be invested when you KNEW you were doing a fetch quest.
Yeah I just rejoined world of warcraft after 3 years when I completed BFA, im trying to finish it up and unlock flying over there then start dragonflight and skip shadowlands
Great review...me too I've been on and off (more off) for a very long time with a love - hate relationship with them, quite similar to my feelings towards R*... I'll give it one more try now that you reminded us about it...
I played through BC, Lich King & Cata. When Pandaria came out I quitted and never came back. I was in a top 3 Server Guild and a hardcore PvE & Arena Gamer. Then Adulthood hit and I never had enough time to keep up with my people there. But I miss this game so much it’s unbelievable after nearly 10years of not playing I still dream sometimes about this game lol. I would love to play again but it’s inevitable that I become addicted if I start … anyway there exists no better game than wow. Thanks blizzard for all those amazing memories, soundtracks, stories & funny nights raiding and pushing us to become better & better. I made great friends there too kinda crazy lol
i picked it back up after being horribly unimpressed with warlords of draenor. my friend and i have been leveling together (he and i have both played since right before mists came out) and honestly? it's been SO FUN! i have never enjoyed the game for what it is as much as i have this time around!
I actually enjoyed WoD cuz i could play the game without the big time commitment... I feel like its pointless to play now. They should have came out with a proper sequel (not just expan) YEARS ago.
how hard is it for a new player to get into raiding? if I were to start a character from level 1, how long would it take for me to reach the point where I can raid?
I got to lvl 1-60 within 3 days. So I would say little under to little over a week to get to lvl 70 and start getting preraid gear and getting into raids
I’m giving wow a chance after all these years of being curious. I’m currently hooked on ff 14 because I can play solo all day or do dungeon and trials all day with tons of people. I like having options
Shadowlands was my first experience with wow and is pretty much the reason i'll never give WoW another chance. Whilst i can see the improvements they made in the new expansion, some of my key issues with the game remain in place being: - RNG as a base design criteria for loot without badluck protection (only a catalyst but it unlocks too late) - Item level progression, making alts a full second job to do if you wanna play them as the same level - While i really liked the dungeons themselves and did keys a lot (and quite high), i dislike the M+ system as a whole, its not difficult, its annoying affixes on top of a dungeon, with some infinite scaling making an artificial wall you eventually hit - Weekly lockouts, weekly vault of dissappointment, etc. These are VERY outdated ideas and WoW holds on to it simply because they know players will otherwise just quit earlier than they want to, they want to keep subs going longer, so they artificially increase the time you have to play the game. They would be better off making playing alts easier, people would play more/longer because they WANT To, not because some dipshit at blizzard HQ decided you had to. That said, i think if i hadn't suffered through shadowlands, i would have enjoyed dragonflight. I would still be annoyed by the systems listed above, but it would be counteracted more (i hope) by good content.
I remember getting 3 Fireflies in half a day during the Burning Crusade Era.. I would normally farm for just one for days sometimes weeks but I remember getting 3 in a day! And then the next generation it took me literally like 8 months to get the Giant Sewer Rat and you got NOTHING else on your casts.. I finally got it in the same week I ended up getting that green proto-drake from the egg.. I had a lot of stuff from fishing I remember and I was there basically from the start too.. WAY before achievements or even burning crusade I remember lining up for that at my local mall the line was out the door!! I remember they had to nerf the game because of an OP thing I found with the stoneshield potion or elixir or whatever when it first came out, I would use it as a mage in alteric valley I would blink into the entire group and do major AOE damage to them all and hit the stonshield potion lol.. And When it first came out with that expansion it would turn you into stone for 2 minutes at a time no matter how much damage you took or whatever anyone tried to do to you so it would confuse everyone too and everyone would focus on you and try to kill you while your team wipes them out and you get kills for all of them cause you stay alive. You could hit them back to back and I was a potion master so that had a crazy double edge on the loophole and made it even more OP I would make 100s of them and ALWAYS take 1st place in AV (I think it's alteric valley? It's been awhile.. but the raid BG) I literally got a notice from a BM or whatever about it, they didn't realize you could do that and thought it was funny and literally nerfed the game right after... I just checked I still have my account.. Maybe I'll play again someday... I quit on Pandaria basically and moved on
So new players dont start at the very beginning of the game, they just kick you to the newest expansion? wtf is the point of playing, wanted to do vanilla and all expansions in order
I played from the end of classic to Cata, and have picked it up for weeks at a time since then. The reason i stopped playing is because it is hard to adjust from playing as a kid in school, to an adult working full time and starting family. My experience with WoW is freely playing for 4 hours most nights, when my free time changed I struggled to enjoy for an hour or two here and there. Now, when I return to the game, I feel there is a lack of identity and the social aspect is non existent (for me anyway). I think Blizzards efforts to try and make it accessible for people like me (with less time) has actually had the opposite affect. It should not be a easy task to acquire the best gear. I think WoWs biggest mistake was LFR and LFG. When I played MoP, I could not tell you where the instance locations were for any dungeons. And with the ability to auto-queue with people in other realms, there is literally no point in communicating with others in these groups. Now, when I pick up the game, I join dungeons for the first time and everyone around me is just flying through dungeons for the reward, not the experience. I’m trying to keep up and learn the boss fight, but everyone around me is flying through without any difficulty as they’ve done it many times before. I remember when you hopped into WoW and could feel like you had an identity. Using WOTLK as an example, you could say “I am a feral Druid with great spell rotation and currently making my way through Ulduar and IC. I am punctual and can offtank if required”. Now, you are “feral Druid, item level x”.
I am warcraft fan, played old school wc3 but i have never played wow in my life due to subscription ( i was a kid didnt have money for sub ) but now i am considering to finally try it out and my question is... For an absolute new player that never played wow in my life, and the game has progressed since 2004 a lot should i start with wow classic or retail?
So you wanna try play World of Warcraft in 2023? Well just don’t. I leveled my character up To max level, I spend a week grinding gear So I could get my item level up to 359 So I could do a raid-finder, We failed to kill the second boss once, And then people start to Calling each other noob and all kinds of insults, And 2 minutes later almost half of the people have left the raid, This is the reality of retail World of Warcraft, The community is so toxic, To be honest it’s not really the game that’s the problem is the people that Play it, My best piece of advice for you is, play the classic Version Or just don’t bother at all
Agreed. I was kinda shocked to hear that their experience with the toxic players was “no different from any other mmo” bc I can attest to that NOT being the case at all rn in WoW and from what I’ve heard from older players never really has been. So unless they are playing on a mostly new player server or a mostly empty server I’m not sure where they are getting that from bc WoW is by far the most toxic major mmo to date. It’s eat or be eaten.
Ok, I gotta hand it to you, the commercial was well done. I am not going to play it but you did that very well imo. I first played WoW at the end of BC, start of Wrath. Continued through Cata, Mists and went until the Garrison bs and stopped. Recently moved and found my passwords for WoW, re-installed battlenet and classic and getting DF and just waiting 3 days until I have the cash for my sub. Then I'm going back to Azeroth just to relive the old days a bit and try for a few mounts I always wanted like the T.L.P.D. I know the game is almost unrecognizable from the old days but no other game has ever drawn me in and enchanted me the way WoW did. Cheers from the about to be Frozen North.
I haven’t played wow seriously since maybe 2015 and not at all since 2016 but, every time I think about starting to play again I just become overwhelmed because idek where I would begin.
I started wow with a friend in high school when I was about 13. We played for a few years. I just made a new account today. WoW will always have a place in my heart. Best game ever in my opinion
Hey since you put it this way I want to play it for first time as well but I am not sure how the payment goes do we get access to all the dlcs just by paying subscription or we have to pay for dlcs plus month sub? My cousin used to spend too much time playing it back in the day I fell in love with other mmorpg "ConquerOnline" so I couldn't leave it for WoW but now looking at this gameplay it really looks like a pleasant game with lot's of content to experience. I am also familiar with classes and spells through warcraft 3.
You basically played for M+ and Raid. That's what you did the most. Those 2 activities provides the best results (If you lucky enough) To be frank i don't see any reason to spend your time on anything else in this game if you proficient enough (IE know what to do to get best results) Maybe besides gathering to earn some gold and then order some crafts for missing pieces of gear. I got to admit that this is their best expansion in a long time.
As a RuneScape player I’ve just downloaded wow and it feels kinda cool but the hud is daunting, got level 6 in 15 minutes and I just don’t know if I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing, trying to remember what it felt like as a noob in RuneScape as a kid and I’m trying to feel the awe but a few things that I find confusing is that if I’m playing the latest version of the game are all the previous expansions just a part of the world or are they just a new part of the map added that you can just walk to in my current game? there’s a lot of stuff to wrap my head around and feels like there’s a giant hill to climb to become half decent at the game
You can now earn tier sets without having to even sniff a raid, levelling alts has never been easier (and is about to get even moreso in the next patch), and it's relatively friendly towards gamepad users. Is it perfect? Far from it. But it seems to me that they've paid attention to some of their competitors - as well as the player base - in adding more fun, and less stress, to the game.
Love your take on this. So much is spot on. One thing that might change your view in time is Dragonriding. It is, just as you said a great idea to make the travel between quests fun. But in a game with Daily Quests, which can already feel like a chore, having to do another 'game' to get to each chore gets old fast. Also, without the ability to hover, gathering is a nightmare, though to be fair, when you can buy a $20 token to get 200lk gold, no one is gathering anymore in a serious way except bots. But this is a highly decisive take, seems like half the population would eliminate old flying entirely, so take my opinion with a big grain of salt. thanks for the great content.
Would it be too overwhelming to jump in with level 70ish characters? I quit when that was the level cap, so I'm not sure how many expansions I'm behind now. It has been years
Do not play WoW. You will get banned for absolutely nothing. Keeps happening to me. I am a raid leader, and get banned for trying to teach new players how to raid. Do not buy, do not subscribe.
no its like trying to play a game from 1999 it needs reworked a hole new stormwind and go from there new missions styles need wepons Armour modern player looks instead of old yes they did this but if they make a new game then everything needs a total overhaul
Do you think i can start now? I'm 26 years old and i never played wow ...like never ever , I'm looking to a new MMORPG to play but I'm not sure 😅 can gimme an advice? It's not too late for wow? Like all ppl know the game with eyes closed ... I will be such a noob
Level 10-60 was ruined the moment they introduced level scaling mobs. You can't outlevel any zone and enjoy it easily. People already work hard at work or at school, they come to games to relax, not to work hard more. Hard work is reserved for profitable things, in game you don't profit, you pay. "If you can get through it" is the most irrelevant phrase. Almost as if you say "If you can withstand playing..." That's why people go to private servers (with higher rates) and never come back to the retail. To skip some obsolete grinding. (Ok, not the main reason. I admit, they mostly go there for the older expansions, like Legion, MoP, or WotLK. I go for WoD.) They say "we introduced the mob level scaling to let people choose in which zone they want to level". But none of those zones have enough quests for that. You still have to go from zone to zone same as before. The only difference is that you have to hit every mob several more times and waste more time on killing it. Imagine putting bullet in someone's head and instead of killing him it only reduces his HP for some 10%. It's just a sneaky way to trick you into more grinding, even though grinding in MMOs became obsolete in 2008 or so... And while we are there, let's say this too: Player wants to get Exalted with Orgrimmar (Horde) or with Stormwind (Alliance) before level 40, so they get their 20% discount on flight skills in time. Main city reputation comes before further leveling. And the only VIABLE way to get rep with those is through questing in starting zones. For Aliiance those zones are (in this order): Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge, Duskwood, Arathi. And that nullifies the "choose in which zone..." excuse. You only can't outlevel those zones enough to make those quests easier and more fun, instead of hard-working chores. ~~~~~ My own deal breaker is Pathfinder for getting to fly. "If you finish everything here you will get the right to fly to do it." "After you knock in all of these nails you will get the right to use hammer."
I stopped playing just before MoP released. I didn’t play for a long time after that but then a couple of years ago started subbing for one month a year for winterveil. My laptop can barely handle logging on these days.
Thanks for focussing more on the casual approach to the game. Weird though that you didn't get tier in Season1 until Week 7. The catch-up system for once per week conversion should have been active a few weeks before.
I just love the way wow looks but I hate time gated activities and the fact that there's just stuff the is gatekept from you from not playing 8 years ago quite a love hate relationship if they lifted some of the gatekeepy restrictions wow would have no competition
can you play this game super casually and still enjoy all the content? like raids and mythic+ PVP etc? without min maxing or being a try hard? also all the addons you need in this game is intimidating...
Top notch quality video! May have convinced me to jump back in and try the Dragonflight trial while its still on special to purchase if it hooks me again. Exactly what I was looking for cheers!
For me, the thing with this game has always been the price bro. How is that these days? Buddy of mine told me that nowadays, you can get the latest expansion and then you also get all the previous expansions, leaving you with only the monthly subscription. That true? Like, if I buy the newest expansion, I can play through everything as long as I pay for the subscription? Also heard that now, those earlier expansions are actually worth playing again because the items aren't useless anymore? Sorry, my knowledge of WoW is about 2 hours of free trial experience lol. I enjoyed the game OK but I just didn't think it was worth the price of it all
You'll get entire game along with the newest expansion if you buy it and then there us the sub ofc. Older content not being useless may refer to the fact that we get older revamped dungeons in the mythic+ roster. Meaning you can get BIS gear through select dungeons throughout the games expansion. Or perhaps they are refering to timewalking dungeons which syncs old dungeons to your level.
WoW needs to evolve to a survival sandbox mmorpg like Conan Exiles. Where you can join servers where you can build. Where your character has hunger and thirst and sleep meters. Where you play through vanilla 1-55 before progressing through the DLC, now with flying mounts, all while trying to survive by drinking and eating and sleeping. Except you can also build buildings that produce npcs, and lead those npcs in battle. They need to put the WarCraft back in World of WarCraft and add a dash of Ark/Conan Exiles. But make different building styles, etc for different classes, races, reputation, quests, etc. And if you're a DeathKnight you eat souls instead. Thoughts?
Just my two cents, but the game in comparison to say, Burning Crusade, is no where near difficult to level through, it's not even really time consuming, I challenged myself to level through my favorite race's starting zone for both horde and alliance, without heirlooms. It took around 90 minutes to unlock riding at level 10. Now to some that's a long time, but to put it in perspective, you learned that at 40 way back when. I also never felt a sense of danger with the mobs as many died with just 2-3 hits, you never missed, they never resisted a spell or ability either. While the end game raids are much harder than back then, the leveling is frankly unengaging, lacks any sense of adventure or danger and just feels like 'hurry up and get to 60 so you can start having fun' I think most players enjoy leveling more than the gearing process, which is where you start to see your first real increase in difficulty.
The issue many need to learn early on is that the same groups make guilds and create clicks for raids and have gear loot arrangements. And they do it in multiple guilds same people. Different characters. They just use the general populous to assist in inevitability gearing their toons.
The monthly costs are for me a reason not to play, it is no longer up to date in my eyes and not everyone has enough time to farm for the gold or the desire.
the largest entery gate is 63 euros to enter dragonflight , 50 for base edition which doesnt include a month of playtime so those additional 13 euros have to be payed they would need to atleast include 1month of gametime in the base expansion .....and stop this milking of 90 euros for expansion dude, you can buy 3 AAA games for 90 euros
I’m 27 and have never once played WoW, I remember people in middle school and high school who played it but I never got into it. I’m looking at videos because I think I want to give it a try
I played this game endlessly but then my ex deleted my characters and then I moved to a house with no high speed internet so I never cared about recovering them. 13yrs later I have moved and now I want to try it again.
The Exiles to BFA immersion breaking WTF is hard to notice if you actually played BFA or any of the other expansions, but I agree totally. We are long past the time where there needs to be at least a small MSQ that ties everything together or why level at all.
It could be avoided if they let player know the war has broken between the Horde and the Alliance, the fate of Teldrassil and Lordaeron, and send them to SW to free Talanji. There's also no mention one can read two novellas recounting how it started from both the Alliance's (Elegy) and Horde's (A Good War) points of view. For free.
good intro.. same state of mind and experience i had with it... now lets see if you think it was worth to return is it me or have graphic been improved since wow release? .. i played it for 1 year.. then i stopped.. then i came back for 1 month when new char blood elf was released then i stopped and never started again :) .. wonder if my old accont still work dough.. cap was level 50 and i had a mage of that i think.. i submitted a accont info check to support.. if my old accont still can be activated i will give it a new try.. if not i ignore this game forever this time i think.. i waiting for new mmo that are cool and lost ark failed miserbly..
great cover lucky i jump from time to time to the game and i think it is awesome. Im also veteran in eso and gw2 but WoW is something special I just don't play it much cuz lack of time
I stopped playing few months ago after playing the game since original TBC with few breaks here and there. Ive always been end game raider. Heroic / Mythic / CE raider depends on the era. Always enjoyed that part of the game the most and whatever I did was to work towards that. What changed was after WoW Classic got released then TBC and currently Wrath I experienced the differences on what it used to be and what it is now. And it got more obvious that I dont really enjoy the game anymore after playing some other MMOs in past year or so (not to the degree of WoW but way more casually). I used to enjoy the game in many different ways back in the years. Chilling with friends literally exploring pointless places. Doing pvp for the fun of it (i havent been much into PvP unless it was required for me as mythic raider in some patches after that) farming mounts pets achieves etc. Currently even tho I am adult I do still find free time to throw into games so time spent is not an issue. The issue I found for myself is that I really stopped enjoying the game doing all the random stuff purely for the sake for being good CE raider. I felt like I am rushed to go trough highest m+ required for the gear I need. Have to rush the storyline to unlock important stuff for my progression (less so in DF than previously but still) and so on. I just felt I need to rush it because I would be behind and it was a real thing but I was ok with all of that for basically years until it hit me few months ago that everything I do during a patch becomes obsolete after few months. You can always go and do most of the stuff from previous patches but as a solo player and you never go trough it as intended. I always knew that but I never felt it and it just hit me and I felt like ive basically been wasting my time and that way of playing is not enjoyable for me anymore. For now I will build up few classes in Wrath to prepare for Cata because thats the expansion I played the most times (aka private servers) and for me Cata is my nostalgia and would love to do it again from blizzard. Not for the day to day gameplay but just for the raids T11 T12 maybe even DS will see. After that I am really hoping for Riot MMO to come out or be close to coming out and I hope so much it will be done in a way where no matter for how long the game is alive how many expansions it has or w/e you can always go trough the very first dungeon / raid / zone / whatever and experience it in the way it was meant to be and not like in WoW where every few months theres a new patch which makes what you have done so far obsolete or useless or pointless to do again. Theres so much content in WoW for all those years its been alive and its such a shame that everything that you are suppose to do is only current patch and nothing else outside of that. As I mentioned surely you can go back and you can run old stuff but you never gonna experience it as it was meant to be. You never gonna make Molten core or Firelands or Siege of Orgrimmar or Tomb of Sargeras or any dungeon or raid with bunch of ppl and be anywhere close to a challenge with relevant rewards (being that as items or enjoyment).
I really like the new expansion and I still play it from time to time but ESO is my home now. The combat is hard on my stiff old hands but I love the game. One thing that Shadowlands taught me is that I can play more than one game...
WoW was my home a long time ago...now it's ESO and GTAO... I'm split between the two... But because of this review I'll give it one more try... Thought imagine what kind of improvement for ESO would be to have the dragon flight... especially after defeating those in Elsweyr and befriending one of them... would definitely be a game changer...
I Tried WoW And Honestly I Loved It Into I Got In My First Dungeon And Was Constantly Being Kicked Out By The Party Because I Was Always Getting Lost. Gave It Another Go And Same Thing Happened So I Gave It Up...
The primary reason that I refuse to get back into WoW is because I was so dependent on add-ons back during Lich King. I dont want to have to deal with that crap again. I would also have to buy a gaming mouse again which I dont want to do. There is just too many extra stuff that you need in order to gain that competitive edge in things like PVP and raiding. I dont have enough competitive desire to make that level of investment again. Sure, i could just focus on leveling and solo farming but thats boring AF. I can't play non-competitive games.
Blizzard care only about money now! I played the game before when ”Burning Crusades” just arrived and it was really fun! You could get a pretty decent gear and mounts easily! How ever, I tried the last expansion and it is No fun! Only money talks, shitty gear! And many people are somehow just sociopaths that does not even comperehend ”Hello!” When Everything became about money the fun just dissapeared!
im only 15 but i started playing when i was in kindergarten with my stepdad in fact its how i learned to read and even i can see that this game just isnt the same. what a shame. used to be my favorite.
I'm thinking of creating a fresh account to start from scratch. My old account has over 300 mounts and almost every class at max level. Got boring so I stepped away from wow to try out other games.
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Can you make wild builds like you do in ESO?
4:20 the bug was fixed and when u make a new character and get to certaint mission it will trigger the mission where you are sent with your team to rescue her
Leveling is the process I always enjoyed most in WoW. The atmosphere, the inimitable music, the gorgeous locations and the story you participate in and travel through. It might be confusing for new people, but if they take away ability to level through the previous expansions, I'd likely just stop playing the game.
leveling in WoW now feels like a long tutorial just to unlock all skills and only after that the actual game starts .
I think leveling in expansions is pointless you should just skip to end game content. Or just make it couple of hours to introduce lore and story of the expansion.
I love leveling, I had 50 characters @60 last expansion
how can you think levelling is fun, it is the worst part in the game, levelling in wow is not stronger, it is a long tutorial and you only start to play the game after that.
Try GW2
When WoW became a 2nd job, that's when it died.
tru, a 2nd job where you pay monthly to work…
When I played years ago, I observed that it was a game trying to become a hobby, and then a hobby trying to become a job.
@@BigWaterFrog yeah dailies, repetitive bs it killed the fun aspect of the game
@@steelmongoose4956 exactly people who've been playing for a long time get older and want to enjoy the game but once it became a part time job.. well you know the rest
That's called addiction
Never thought I'd see someone suffer the same terrible drop rate I did back in my raiding days. Always the last one geared in our little static. Great video, as ever. :)
Its all the bad karma he has been stacking for 3 years hitting him at once, and all the good karma coming to me after not seeing it for 3 years, prob yoinked some of his good karma too lul
Do you also play FFXIV, by chance?
"im not qualified for anything! I just learned how to loot!" 😅
What a great quote
I’ve only played for a year and I’m still overwhelmed by how much there is to do.
Yeah but its all boring crap.
I just started 2 days ago lol
The massive problem in accordance to wow is the playability for new players. Learning rotations and how everything works, along with the lore and how boring it becomes early game. That’s the massive issue for wow, great at keeping its current fan base, but horrible for attracting new players.
That's the "idea" of this game. It always was like that. If you unable to invest large amount if time to learn everything necessary and then practice all of your newly acquired knowledge....
Your experience won't be enjoyable nor ideal. You need that experience and knowledge to participate in the end game. Not world quest zerging. I would say that this is strictly bad design. But some many people are playing this game is that particular fashion. i'ts probably not )
@@thr0nicalso people being dickheads if you don’t know how dungeon encounters work or trying to raid for the first time…that’s why I fucking quit…I played ffxiv a lot but destiny seems to be my home until the final shape anyway..
@@thr0nic destiny is fun the only problem is that you basically pay a full year of WOW sub upfront every year ($100) for everything (expansion and seasons) but without a sub fee and (generally) a more welcoming community it’s worth it plus old dlc goes on sale hella cheap.
I'm a new player to wow, I did a leveling route to 60, had a blast learning how to play shaman even though it was a bit daunting at times, but after I rearranged my entire UI the class has become alot easier that and guides, still early in to dragonflight which I'm now paying attention too, and I gotta say this kind of gameplay is a breath of fresh air in comparison to ffxiv, wow really prioritizes gameplay over story telling, but this I what I recommend to anyone who wants to experience the story, do a leveling route to 60, unlock chromie time, then make an alt for any expansion you're interested in experiencing for the lore. The leveling experience is also cool cause of the talent tree which allows you to play your class however you want. I'm really impressed with this game and have now become completely addicted to it
Wow is the best game of all time. I played back in 2004. I am now 36 and I would play again. The most of the games the last years are for soft players, players who do not want to try to improve in the game. The market is full of pay-2-win games or games with poor content. I would wish I could go back to 2004 and I would play Wow again with same passion. The quality of the current games makes an old style player like me a bit sad
Imagine if they removed the monthly sub fee…. Be good to see the world more populated again. Sad going into goldshire and seeing a ghost town.
You still have to pay for that shi? They have had to make millions upon millions by still charging. That’s petty
I used to play this game since 2008 but the reasons I stopped playing are:
1- No more free time to play as before
2- i must pay subscription fees after buying the expansion
3- lost the track on the lore
I stopped at MOP expansion and lost track of the lore
They should let us buy the expansion only and play and remove the monthly subscription.
Or at least reduce the cost of the subscription.
Watching this video, I was intrigued about returning. But when I found out it’ll cost about $70 for the expansion and game time, that’s kinda hard to swallow… kinda shitty that they don’t include game time with a $50 expansion when I may only get about 40 hours of fun, seeing how fast you level in that game.
Holy fuck that's expensive man. Not sure what it is in Europe now but I'd say it's 50 euro for the game and then 12.99 monthly so around the same price.
Great video! I just wanted to add that technically Dragonflight has less solo content than the past few expansions because almost all of the endgame open world content requires groups now-which was confirmed by the devs and the game itself calling it “group content” and adding tools to help automate group finding. So what Dragonflight really has a lot of is open world content that necessitates group play but is more accessible to solo players than the instanced group content. However, the leveling experience in Dragonflight is indeed soloable other than a few optional dungeon quests.
my opinion is that it really hold up even though its a really old game. I think its creative, fun, and there is something for everyone to do. I love how much you can customize and its not super competitive. Something I wish they could do better though is dialogue. I think most people can agree that some text to speech would be nice instead of having to read it in a small little book. Thats my opinion on WOW
I picked the game up in December for the first time and it’s been a blast. I got hooked on the dungeons and just got to ksm in M+. Excited to play more
nice man, glad to hear you're enjoying it!
i pick the game up last week and its been hell, i mean if you care about story and lore like that it might be tolerable. Levelling feels like training, like a means to an end, not like a journey. Very annoying to get stunned by mob when you want to go quickly. If its mmorpg you should you should feel free like the real world, in wow questing is must its the only to level up, in other mmo loke bdo yoi can just go anywhere and start killing and you will level up. you can do that in wow too but since there are big chunk of rewards in returning quest there is no motivation to do other things. In other mmo like lost ark if you are going to need a tool say like fishing rod to fish it gives you the quest but in wow it completely fail to explain how things work, no guide its like playing chess without knowing the game mechanics.
@@jugg9140 it's a skill issue.yoi don't deserve to play the game
@@jugg9140 You can go around killing things and you will get xp, you can also level up purely through mining and herbalism if you really want to. Levelling is a journey but only if that's your perspective on it. Personally I love nothing more than to take my time exploring zones and doing quests to level up at my own pace, but if you're whole goal is to just get to max level as quickly as possible, then anything you do is going to feel like a chore. Mob stuns don't last long and most classes have a utility to deal with it so you shouldn't have too many issues.
@@jugg9140 why are you complaining in every comment? I know people that have leveled a character to max through pvp only, and I've personally leveled through dungeons only multiple times. And there are also people that have leveled to max through professions only. You're just unimaginative
This was such a good put together video! I don’t play WOW but I’m going to get it and try it. Best video I’ve seen in a long time! Great job with keeping me entertained.
Glad you enjoyed!
Just know when to stop because it’s addicting and if you have a wife forget it
Yeah its is free up to lvl 20
@@just456bc lol
I'm sure you regret the hype. This youtuber is bought and paid for by Blizzard.
I haven't played since Warlords and it had just barely came out. I FINALLY got my own desktop that is built well enough to run WoW without lagging and high quality graphics and I am so excited to get back into it. This video was informative and well done. Thanks for this!
It's so sad to see what World of Warcraft has become. I remember WotLK era... levelling up felt so fresh and exciting. Maybe it's all in my head... maybe I'm getting old... I don't know. It just doesn't feel the same anymore. It feels like you're forced to skip everything and only focus on the end-game. But isn't the journey what counts?!
Yeah they sell the version with a journey too it’s called classic
yeah bro I feel the same, classic wow and wotlk are the most exciting versions of the game, wish we could turn back old days... 😢
Nah you're not getting old, I'm 16 and I kinda feel the same way. I still love WoW, I always have and probably always will, but at the moment new characters feel... soulless. Like they're all boosted characters. I hope that since Blizzard seems to be turning a new leaf, they'll realize that they need to add the "journey" part of the game back.
the problem is most people already did the journey many times over decades ago
idk, your thoughts on maintaining a 20 year old game esp when your focus at this point is likely retaining players vs attracting new?
I haven’t played since WotLK. It’s not as good as it was then…?
I just recently stop playing a few months ago. I had played since early 2006. I love the game but all my friends stopped playing, but I solo’d or did LFG or LFR and some pug PVP. The increase of things (dailies) you have to do was literally another job. I have anxiety issues and doing all this for multiple toons, the huge increase of spells or this or that you have to do to play just became overwhelming for me. So I only did quests. But doing them alone gave me a “what’s the point, it’s kinda boring” and I quit. I do miss playing but oh well.
Why would you hate the ability to trade cash shop items for in-game gold?
Especially in ESO, this allows people to buy the DLCs without spending real world money or paying for ESO+. This is a massive boon, since DLCs are only able to be bought within the game, and so are unable to ever be discounted. You cant just buy a cheap game key for Dragonhold.
Great video with a fair review. Watching you fly around it really makes me want to play again.
dragon raiding is so fun
I would say for sure right now new character experience leaves a lot to be desired. I made a new paladin and it sent him into Shadowlands, where I got to a point where the story just ended, turned out after a certain point the story is level gated, (I had to place a GM ticket that took several days to get answered to find this out) and Blizzards response to me was to go to another story and do that for 11 levels... How is this a thing in the worlds biggest MMO?
I enjoyed Dragonflight, but once I hit level cap it felt just like grinding for not much. I haven't even logged in for a month.
I wouldn't hope to hard on Dragon Riding making it past Dragonflight, no other expansion systems have lasted past that expansion.
The game never explains "what to do" when you hit 70. Especially what you "really" should do to get the upgrades faster. Especially if you are a new player. That's why your end game grind felt like nothing. Like you getting to nowhere. This game could be a very different experience for those who have knowledge and for those who don't. The "real" end game is no different from any other xpac. The "dressing" is.
Gotta agree there. Even with the raiding, once my Drac was maxed I felt like I had to do a lot for next to nothing or just stand around. I like WoW as much as the next person but I’m not about to pay for an overpriced chat room. I think the lvling and streamline of story could really improve the game like ff14 did. I feel involved in that game. Despite it being mostly fetch quests I didn’t mind bc it’s ENGAGING. Wows questing never really felt engaging so it was hard to be invested when you KNEW you were doing a fetch quest.
Yeah I just rejoined world of warcraft after 3 years when I completed BFA, im trying to finish it up and unlock flying over there then start dragonflight and skip shadowlands
It's a skill issue .you don't deserve to play the game .go play ff14 dweeb if it's too hard for yu
Great review...me too I've been on and off (more off) for a very long time with a love - hate relationship with them, quite similar to my feelings towards R*...
I'll give it one more try now that you reminded us about it...
I played through BC, Lich King & Cata. When Pandaria came out I quitted and never came back. I was in a top 3 Server Guild and a hardcore PvE & Arena Gamer. Then Adulthood hit and I never had enough time to keep up with my people there. But I miss this game so much it’s unbelievable after nearly 10years of not playing I still dream sometimes about this game lol. I would love to play again but it’s inevitable that I become addicted if I start … anyway there exists no better game than wow. Thanks blizzard for all those amazing memories, soundtracks, stories & funny nights raiding and pushing us to become better & better. I made great friends there too kinda crazy lol
i picked it back up after being horribly unimpressed with warlords of draenor. my friend and i have been leveling together (he and i have both played since right before mists came out) and honestly? it's been SO FUN! i have never enjoyed the game for what it is as much as i have this time around!
I actually enjoyed WoD cuz i could play the game without the big time commitment... I feel like its pointless to play now. They should have came out with a proper sequel (not just expan) YEARS ago.
how hard is it for a new player to get into raiding? if I were to start a character from level 1, how long would it take for me to reach the point where I can raid?
I got to lvl 1-60 within 3 days. So I would say little under to little over a week to get to lvl 70 and start getting preraid gear and getting into raids
@@YAHWEH-SAVES777provided he can find people who aren’t complete assholes…
I’m giving wow a chance after all these years of being curious. I’m currently hooked on ff 14 because I can play solo all day or do dungeon and trials all day with tons of people. I like having options
tell me what you think, considering it myself. never really played such games like this tho since im new to PC, but willing to try all the "classics"
Any news?
the leveling experience is so disjointed it's just awful
Shadowlands was my first experience with wow and is pretty much the reason i'll never give WoW another chance.
Whilst i can see the improvements they made in the new expansion, some of my key issues with the game remain in place being:
- RNG as a base design criteria for loot without badluck protection (only a catalyst but it unlocks too late)
- Item level progression, making alts a full second job to do if you wanna play them as the same level
- While i really liked the dungeons themselves and did keys a lot (and quite high), i dislike the M+ system as a whole, its not difficult, its annoying affixes on top of a dungeon, with some infinite scaling making an artificial wall you eventually hit
- Weekly lockouts, weekly vault of dissappointment, etc. These are VERY outdated ideas and WoW holds on to it simply because they know players will otherwise just quit earlier than they want to, they want to keep subs going longer, so they artificially increase the time you have to play the game. They would be better off making playing alts easier, people would play more/longer because they WANT To, not because some dipshit at blizzard HQ decided you had to.
That said, i think if i hadn't suffered through shadowlands, i would have enjoyed dragonflight. I would still be annoyed by the systems listed above, but it would be counteracted more (i hope) by good content.
Been playing exclusively PvP and I cant get enough of it. There's just no other game that has such deep combat.
The guild wars 2 mounts so exactly what you predict . Crazy momentum and physics even with land and water mounts
I remember getting 3 Fireflies in half a day during the Burning Crusade Era..
I would normally farm for just one for days sometimes weeks but I remember getting 3 in a day!
And then the next generation it took me literally like 8 months to get the Giant Sewer Rat and you got NOTHING else on your casts..
I finally got it in the same week I ended up getting that green proto-drake from the egg..
I had a lot of stuff from fishing I remember and I was there basically from the start too..
WAY before achievements or even burning crusade I remember lining up for that at my local mall the line was out the door!!
I remember they had to nerf the game because of an OP thing I found with the stoneshield potion or elixir or whatever when it first came out, I would use it as a mage in alteric valley I would blink into the entire group and do major AOE damage to them all and hit the stonshield potion lol.. And When it first came out with that expansion it would turn you into stone for 2 minutes at a time no matter how much damage you took or whatever anyone tried to do to you so it would confuse everyone too and everyone would focus on you and try to kill you while your team wipes them out and you get kills for all of them cause you stay alive.
You could hit them back to back and I was a potion master so that had a crazy double edge on the loophole and made it even more OP I would make 100s of them and ALWAYS take 1st place in AV (I think it's alteric valley? It's been awhile.. but the raid BG)
I literally got a notice from a BM or whatever about it, they didn't realize you could do that and thought it was funny and literally nerfed the game right after...
I just checked I still have my account..
Maybe I'll play again someday... I quit on Pandaria basically and moved on
So new players dont start at the very beginning of the game, they just kick you to the newest expansion? wtf is the point of playing, wanted to do vanilla and all expansions in order
I played from the end of classic to Cata, and have picked it up for weeks at a time since then. The reason i stopped playing is because it is hard to adjust from playing as a kid in school, to an adult working full time and starting family. My experience with WoW is freely playing for 4 hours most nights, when my free time changed I struggled to enjoy for an hour or two here and there. Now, when I return to the game, I feel there is a lack of identity and the social aspect is non existent (for me anyway). I think Blizzards efforts to try and make it accessible for people like me (with less time) has actually had the opposite affect. It should not be a easy task to acquire the best gear.
I think WoWs biggest mistake was LFR and LFG. When I played MoP, I could not tell you where the instance locations were for any dungeons. And with the ability to auto-queue with people in other realms, there is literally no point in communicating with others in these groups.
Now, when I pick up the game, I join dungeons for the first time and everyone around me is just flying through dungeons for the reward, not the experience. I’m trying to keep up and learn the boss fight, but everyone around me is flying through without any difficulty as they’ve done it many times before.
I remember when you hopped into WoW and could feel like you had an identity. Using WOTLK as an example, you could say “I am a feral Druid with great spell rotation and currently making my way through Ulduar and IC. I am punctual and can offtank if required”. Now, you are “feral Druid, item level x”.
I dodge dungeons as much as possible
I am warcraft fan, played old school wc3 but i have never played wow in my life due to subscription ( i was a kid didnt have money for sub ) but now i am considering to finally try it out and my question is...
For an absolute new player that never played wow in my life, and the game has progressed since 2004 a lot should i start with wow classic or retail?
Is endless gated borrowed power and extreme class imbalance still the core experience like in BFA and Shadowlands?
no, there's no brorowed power. Only talent tree and tier sets nothing more
the balance is much better than other expansions. And now they heard the users and are always tunning classes or solving bugs.
@@madreh7549 thank you so much for replying. That's super exciting to hear. To think I can be a feral druid and not get openly spited for it.
I prefer tab target as the combat is way more versatile where as action combat is usually limited
what action combat games did u played exactly ? tab target is literally boring af compared to action combat.
I played since beta as well, on and off. Man it was so fun in the beginning
So you wanna try play World of Warcraft in 2023? Well just don’t. I leveled my character up To max level, I spend a week grinding gear So I could get my item level up to 359 So I could do a raid-finder, We failed to kill the second boss once, And then people start to Calling each other noob and all kinds of insults, And 2 minutes later almost half of the people have left the raid, This is the reality of retail World of Warcraft, The community is so toxic, To be honest it’s not really the game that’s the problem is the people that Play it, My best piece of advice for you is, play the classic Version Or just don’t bother at all
Agreed. I was kinda shocked to hear that their experience with the toxic players was “no different from any other mmo” bc I can attest to that NOT being the case at all rn in WoW and from what I’ve heard from older players never really has been. So unless they are playing on a mostly new player server or a mostly empty server I’m not sure where they are getting that from bc WoW is by far the most toxic major mmo to date. It’s eat or be eaten.
Ok, I gotta hand it to you, the commercial was well done. I am not going to play it but you did that very well imo. I first played WoW at the end of BC, start of Wrath. Continued through Cata, Mists and went until the Garrison bs and stopped. Recently moved and found my passwords for WoW, re-installed battlenet and classic and getting DF and just waiting 3 days until I have the cash for my sub. Then I'm going back to Azeroth just to relive the old days a bit and try for a few mounts I always wanted like the T.L.P.D. I know the game is almost unrecognizable from the old days but no other game has ever drawn me in and enchanted me the way WoW did. Cheers from the about to be Frozen North.
I haven’t played wow seriously since maybe 2015 and not at all since 2016 but, every time I think about starting to play again I just become overwhelmed because idek where I would begin.
Start with the Black Whisper, they aren't doing PTW sh*t...
I started wow with a friend in high school when I was about 13. We played for a few years. I just made a new account today. WoW will always have a place in my heart. Best game ever in my opinion
Hey since you put it this way I want to play it for first time as well but I am not sure how the payment goes do we get access to all the dlcs just by paying subscription or we have to pay for dlcs plus month sub? My cousin used to spend too much time playing it back in the day I fell in love with other mmorpg "ConquerOnline" so I couldn't leave it for WoW but now looking at this gameplay it really looks like a pleasant game with lot's of content to experience. I am also familiar with classes and spells through warcraft 3.
the story couldn't be farther away from wc3...so many bad decisions and people felt ripped off, its time to let this game die in peace.
The new player experience is bad. This is the thing Blizzard needs to work on next.
I'm very late to the party but 2 questions. Do you have to have a high end PC to play. And is it still a monthly subscription? Thanks
About being mistaken as a hero, I was thinking about something yesterday, while playing a free level
such a great and informative video Lucky! also love the funny bits in between 🤣
join us in wow desh
You basically played for M+ and Raid. That's what you did the most. Those 2 activities provides the best results (If you lucky enough)
To be frank i don't see any reason to spend your time on anything else in this game if you proficient enough (IE know what to do to get best results)
Maybe besides gathering to earn some gold and then order some crafts for missing pieces of gear. I got to admit that this is their best expansion in a long time.
As a RuneScape player I’ve just downloaded wow and it feels kinda cool but the hud is daunting, got level 6 in 15 minutes and I just don’t know if I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing, trying to remember what it felt like as a noob in RuneScape as a kid and I’m trying to feel the awe but a few things that I find confusing is that if I’m playing the latest version of the game are all the previous expansions just a part of the world or are they just a new part of the map added that you can just walk to in my current game? there’s a lot of stuff to wrap my head around and feels like there’s a giant hill to climb to become half decent at the game
Does dragonflight come with the original game or we pay for the DLC before we pay for subscription ?
You can now earn tier sets without having to even sniff a raid, levelling alts has never been easier (and is about to get even moreso in the next patch), and it's relatively friendly towards gamepad users. Is it perfect? Far from it. But it seems to me that they've paid attention to some of their competitors - as well as the player base - in adding more fun, and less stress, to the game.
Wait we can use the gamepad now in wow 😮 that was one thing that got me burned out the lack of functions in-game
@@hellzxnightmarez9426 the native gamepad compatibility isn't seamless by any stretch, but i can play the game with relative ease using a controller
@@gymkayazero how do you do that as belular used something but I tried his thing and was complex and xmapper is not really working
Great video! I'm going to jump in after 16 years
Have fun!
Love your take on this. So much is spot on. One thing that might change your view in time is Dragonriding. It is, just as you said a great idea to make the travel between quests fun. But in a game with Daily Quests, which can already feel like a chore, having to do another 'game' to get to each chore gets old fast. Also, without the ability to hover, gathering is a nightmare, though to be fair, when you can buy a $20 token to get 200lk gold, no one is gathering anymore in a serious way except bots. But this is a highly decisive take, seems like half the population would eliminate old flying entirely, so take my opinion with a big grain of salt.
thanks for the great content.
Would it be too overwhelming to jump in with level 70ish characters? I quit when that was the level cap, so I'm not sure how many expansions I'm behind now. It has been years
Do not play WoW. You will get banned for absolutely nothing. Keeps happening to me. I am a raid leader, and get banned for trying to teach new players how to raid. Do not buy, do not subscribe.
no its like trying to play a game from 1999 it needs reworked a hole new stormwind and go from there new missions styles need wepons Armour modern player looks instead of old yes they did this but if they make a new game then everything needs a total overhaul
Do you think i can start now? I'm 26 years old and i never played wow ...like never ever , I'm looking to a new MMORPG to play but I'm not sure 😅 can gimme an advice? It's not too late for wow? Like all ppl know the game with eyes closed ... I will be such a noob
In a few months you'll know it with your eyes closed as well! Its never too late to try an mmo... well almost never 😅
@@LuckyGhost thanks for answering 🤗 i think i will subscribe today ! Do you have any advice on server?
If your going to review games, don’t get sponsored by games that are bad and clickbait and lie.
Level 10-60 was ruined the moment they introduced level scaling mobs. You can't outlevel any zone and enjoy it easily.
People already work hard at work or at school, they come to games to relax, not to work hard more.
Hard work is reserved for profitable things, in game you don't profit, you pay.
"If you can get through it" is the most irrelevant phrase. Almost as if you say "If you can withstand playing..."
That's why people go to private servers (with higher rates) and never come back to the retail.
To skip some obsolete grinding. (Ok, not the main reason. I admit, they mostly go there for the older expansions, like Legion, MoP, or WotLK. I go for WoD.)
They say "we introduced the mob level scaling to let people choose in which zone they want to level".
But none of those zones have enough quests for that. You still have to go from zone to zone same as before.
The only difference is that you have to hit every mob several more times and waste more time on killing it.
Imagine putting bullet in someone's head and instead of killing him it only reduces his HP for some 10%.
It's just a sneaky way to trick you into more grinding, even though grinding in MMOs became obsolete in 2008 or so...
And while we are there, let's say this too:
Player wants to get Exalted with Orgrimmar (Horde) or with Stormwind (Alliance) before level 40, so they get their 20% discount on flight skills in time.
Main city reputation comes before further leveling. And the only VIABLE way to get rep with those is through questing in starting zones.
For Aliiance those zones are (in this order): Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge, Duskwood, Arathi.
And that nullifies the "choose in which zone..." excuse.
You only can't outlevel those zones enough to make those quests easier and more fun, instead of hard-working chores.
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My own deal breaker is Pathfinder for getting to fly. "If you finish everything here you will get the right to fly to do it."
"After you knock in all of these nails you will get the right to use hammer."
So is it worth playing for someone, who really enjoys leveling up and exploring the worlds on their own?
I stopped playing just before MoP released. I didn’t play for a long time after that but then a couple of years ago started subbing for one month a year for winterveil. My laptop can barely handle logging on these days.
Thanks for focussing more on the casual approach to the game.
Weird though that you didn't get tier in Season1 until Week 7. The catch-up system for once per week conversion should have been active a few weeks before.
Catchup system started week 8 or 9
really appreciate this video, very informative, and really helped out.
I just love the way wow looks but I hate time gated activities and the fact that there's just stuff the is gatekept from you from not playing 8 years ago quite a love hate relationship if they lifted some of the gatekeepy restrictions wow would have no competition
can you play this game super casually and still enjoy all the content? like raids and mythic+ PVP etc? without min maxing or being a try hard? also all the addons you need in this game is intimidating...
Could you please tell me which add-ons you're using?
Thinking about giving it another go after taking a long break too. Mind sharing what add-ons you use? Tryna be as prepared as possible
Is it worth to buy it + Subscription?
Top notch quality video! May have convinced me to jump back in and try the Dragonflight trial while its still on special to purchase if it hooks me again. Exactly what I was looking for cheers!
whats your UI and bar addons? what addon gives your hud that black sleek look
For me, the thing with this game has always been the price bro. How is that these days? Buddy of mine told me that nowadays, you can get the latest expansion and then you also get all the previous expansions, leaving you with only the monthly subscription. That true? Like, if I buy the newest expansion, I can play through everything as long as I pay for the subscription? Also heard that now, those earlier expansions are actually worth playing again because the items aren't useless anymore? Sorry, my knowledge of WoW is about 2 hours of free trial experience lol. I enjoyed the game OK but I just didn't think it was worth the price of it all
You'll get entire game along with the newest expansion if you buy it and then there us the sub ofc.
Older content not being useless may refer to the fact that we get older revamped dungeons in the mythic+ roster. Meaning you can get BIS gear through select dungeons throughout the games expansion.
Or perhaps they are refering to timewalking dungeons which syncs old dungeons to your level.
what is the name of the background music it's very familar but i dont remember the name
WoW needs to evolve to a survival sandbox mmorpg like Conan Exiles. Where you can join servers where you can build. Where your character has hunger and thirst and sleep meters. Where you play through vanilla 1-55 before progressing through the DLC, now with flying mounts, all while trying to survive by drinking and eating and sleeping. Except you can also build buildings that produce npcs, and lead those npcs in battle. They need to put the WarCraft back in World of WarCraft and add a dash of Ark/Conan Exiles. But make different building styles, etc for different classes, races, reputation, quests, etc. And if you're a DeathKnight you eat souls instead.
Thoughts?
Just my two cents, but the game in comparison to say, Burning Crusade, is no where near difficult to level through, it's not even really time consuming, I challenged myself to level through my favorite race's starting zone for both horde and alliance, without heirlooms. It took around 90 minutes to unlock riding at level 10. Now to some that's a long time, but to put it in perspective, you learned that at 40 way back when. I also never felt a sense of danger with the mobs as many died with just 2-3 hits, you never missed, they never resisted a spell or ability either. While the end game raids are much harder than back then, the leveling is frankly unengaging, lacks any sense of adventure or danger and just feels like 'hurry up and get to 60 so you can start having fun' I think most players enjoy leveling more than the gearing process, which is where you start to see your first real increase in difficulty.
The issue many need to learn early on is that the same groups make guilds and create clicks for raids and have gear loot arrangements. And they do it in multiple guilds same people. Different characters. They just use the general populous to assist in inevitability gearing their toons.
They finally made great mounts that move more agile??! WOW.. Do you have to work your ass off to get those? Do Druids have a form like that now?
Why do people keep thinking WoW is the most popular MMO in the world. Talk about out of touch.
Which classes use the least amount of abilities? New player here
The monthly costs are for me a reason not to play, it is no longer up to date in my eyes and not everyone has enough time to farm for the gold or the desire.
the largest entery gate is 63 euros to enter dragonflight , 50 for base edition which doesnt include a month of playtime so those additional 13 euros have to be payed
they would need to atleast include 1month of gametime in the base expansion .....and stop this milking of 90 euros for expansion dude, you can buy 3 AAA games for 90 euros
So it's only the new expansion that's good to solo? I miss the days when you could lvl to 120, through the whole world.
What is Dragonflight vs WoW? A bit confused
i started when the dragonflight update came out.... i dont understand a thing.. i was once with dragons, then a temple, then with sharks?????
I’m 27 and have never once played WoW, I remember people in middle school and high school who played it but I never got into it. I’m looking at videos because I think I want to give it a try
this is a great video
I played this game endlessly but then my ex deleted my characters and then I moved to a house with no high speed internet so I never cared about recovering them. 13yrs later I have moved and now I want to try it again.
The Exiles to BFA immersion breaking WTF is hard to notice if you actually played BFA or any of the other expansions, but I agree totally. We are long past the time where there needs to be at least a small MSQ that ties everything together or why level at all.
It could be avoided if they let player know the war has broken between the Horde and the Alliance, the fate of Teldrassil and Lordaeron, and send them to SW to free Talanji. There's also no mention one can read two novellas recounting how it started from both the Alliance's (Elegy) and Horde's (A Good War) points of view. For free.
good intro.. same state of mind and experience i had with it... now lets see if you think it was worth to return
is it me or have graphic been improved since wow release? .. i played it for 1 year.. then i stopped.. then i came back for 1 month when new char blood elf was released then i stopped and never started again :) .. wonder if my old accont still work dough.. cap was level 50 and i had a mage of that i think..
i submitted a accont info check to support.. if my old accont still can be activated i will give it a new try.. if not i ignore this game forever this time i think.. i waiting for new mmo that are cool and lost ark failed miserbly..
great cover lucky i jump from time to time to the game and i think it is awesome. Im also veteran in eso and gw2 but WoW is something special I just don't play it much cuz lack of time
I am currently playing thought all of WOW expansions in order.
Short answer: No
Long answer:
HELL NO!
I have to say its weird to see someone complain about wow not being alt friendly when this expantion is the most alt friendly wow has ever been.
Yea it’s insane. With the new Forbidden Reach gear I can get an alt from 60 to Heroic gear in a few evenings of playing.
Tbh I shocked people pay for a monthly subscription for a game defo never gona play
My question is: how far did you go with M+?
I stopped playing few months ago after playing the game since original TBC with few breaks here and there. Ive always been end game raider. Heroic / Mythic / CE raider depends on the era. Always enjoyed that part of the game the most and whatever I did was to work towards that.
What changed was after WoW Classic got released then TBC and currently Wrath I experienced the differences on what it used to be and what it is now. And it got more obvious that I dont really enjoy the game anymore after playing some other MMOs in past year or so (not to the degree of WoW but way more casually). I used to enjoy the game in many different ways back in the years. Chilling with friends literally exploring pointless places. Doing pvp for the fun of it (i havent been much into PvP unless it was required for me as mythic raider in some patches after that) farming mounts pets achieves etc. Currently even tho I am adult I do still find free time to throw into games so time spent is not an issue. The issue I found for myself is that I really stopped enjoying the game doing all the random stuff purely for the sake for being good CE raider. I felt like I am rushed to go trough highest m+ required for the gear I need. Have to rush the storyline to unlock important stuff for my progression (less so in DF than previously but still) and so on. I just felt I need to rush it because I would be behind and it was a real thing but I was ok with all of that for basically years until it hit me few months ago that everything I do during a patch becomes obsolete after few months. You can always go and do most of the stuff from previous patches but as a solo player and you never go trough it as intended. I always knew that but I never felt it and it just hit me and I felt like ive basically been wasting my time and that way of playing is not enjoyable for me anymore.
For now I will build up few classes in Wrath to prepare for Cata because thats the expansion I played the most times (aka private servers) and for me Cata is my nostalgia and would love to do it again from blizzard. Not for the day to day gameplay but just for the raids T11 T12 maybe even DS will see. After that I am really hoping for Riot MMO to come out or be close to coming out and I hope so much it will be done in a way where no matter for how long the game is alive how many expansions it has or w/e you can always go trough the very first dungeon / raid / zone / whatever and experience it in the way it was meant to be and not like in WoW where every few months theres a new patch which makes what you have done so far obsolete or useless or pointless to do again.
Theres so much content in WoW for all those years its been alive and its such a shame that everything that you are suppose to do is only current patch and nothing else outside of that. As I mentioned surely you can go back and you can run old stuff but you never gonna experience it as it was meant to be. You never gonna make Molten core or Firelands or Siege of Orgrimmar or Tomb of Sargeras or any dungeon or raid with bunch of ppl and be anywhere close to a challenge with relevant rewards (being that as items or enjoyment).
I really like the new expansion and I still play it from time to time but ESO is my home now. The combat is hard on my stiff old hands but I love the game. One thing that Shadowlands taught me is that I can play more than one game...
WoW was my home a long time ago...now it's ESO and GTAO... I'm split between the two...
But because of this review I'll give it one more try...
Thought imagine what kind of improvement for ESO would be to have the dragon flight... especially after defeating those in Elsweyr and befriending one of them... would definitely be a game changer...
I wanna wait on playing eso until the new expansion comes out, used to play it but never got to endgame
I Tried WoW And Honestly I Loved It Into I Got In My First Dungeon And Was Constantly Being Kicked Out By The Party Because I Was Always Getting Lost. Gave It Another Go And Same Thing Happened So I Gave It Up...
The primary reason that I refuse to get back into WoW is because I was so dependent on add-ons back during Lich King. I dont want to have to deal with that crap again. I would also have to buy a gaming mouse again which I dont want to do. There is just too many extra stuff that you need in order to gain that competitive edge in things like PVP and raiding. I dont have enough competitive desire to make that level of investment again. Sure, i could just focus on leveling and solo farming but thats boring AF. I can't play non-competitive games.
Blizzard care only about money now! I played the game before when ”Burning Crusades” just arrived and it was really fun! You could get a pretty decent gear and mounts easily! How ever, I tried the last expansion and it is No fun! Only money talks, shitty gear! And many people are somehow just sociopaths that does not even comperehend ”Hello!” When Everything became about money the fun just dissapeared!
Every single game company only cares about money.
I enjoy the solo questing, so it would be enjoyable again, you say?
Ive never seen a mount like that before as that dragon flying. Holy heck it's amazing. Idk why games make mounts so boring n just slightly faster
im only 15 but i started playing when i was in kindergarten with my stepdad in fact its how i learned to read and even i can see that this game just isnt the same. what a shame. used to be my favorite.
Is an i5 11500 paired with a 3060 12gb good to play wow with
3060 is way more than enough! You should be good my man
I'm thinking of creating a fresh account to start from scratch. My old account has over 300 mounts and almost every class at max level. Got boring so I stepped away from wow to try out other games.