Monday, February 12, 2018

We are Legion!

Hello. It's been awhile. Let's begin.

I randomly decided to play WoW again for a month. I don't really remember why. Boredom most likely. I mean, in the same month I also started reading The Horus Heresy 40k novels, some of which are actually pretty damn good, and found that I enjoyed reading them more than playing WoW. Funny old world aint it?

I guess the reason for this was twofold. Firstly, the lack of community really did not keep me interested for long. I seemingly am the only person I know who was playing it at the time (at least on Horde/Frostmourne), so having no real reason to stick around was very much a thing. The second reason was really the issues with World PvP on Frostmourne, now that it is almost a 5:1 Alliance population dominated server.

Pretty much every world quest you will do will require you to contest with an Alliance player (or two ... or three) in some way. Due to the new leveling and daily mechanics, this most often than not puts you in the cross-hairs of a max-level/geared raiding no-lifer who literally kills you in 1 hit and can fly. I am not exaggerating here. So, this somewhat staggered leveling experience of "disconnecting randomly" becomes quite a chore for someone late to the game.

World PvP is also incredibly broken with scaling mechanisms heavily favouring the more geared player, especially with legendary perks active. Not having any legendaries puts you at a huge disadvantage, so even in a 1v1 encounter, you are going to struggle. But its never just a 1v1 encounter on Frostmourne as Horde.

Well, screw world activities you might say. I certainly always have, always favouring the much more controlled and interesting battleground encounters. Here at least things were vaguely resembling something balanced, particularly regarding the gearing process, even if I thought the PvP talents system was stupid. Although I never obtained a single Legendary during my journey, I still managed to have a bit of fun with the game, even making a short PvP compilation of some of my more laughable encounters against classes that really should have beat me (e.g. Frost Death Knight).



While I wouldn't say my playtime in Legion was a waste of time, I can confidently say it was the least interesting and gutted WoW experience I have played thus far. Some of that charm from earlier iterations of the game is definitely gone with the rather watered down talent trees and class choices to make. Hopefully Battle for Azeroth brings back some of that old Warcraft energy.