HoSpanky wrote on Feb 7, 2023, 13:15:
heroin wrote on Feb 7, 2023, 12:50:
It was going to be the first expansion I didn't play - but I caved a few days ago. I hated Shadowlands from beginning to who knows when, maybe 40 hours in before I just stopped playing. Dragonflight feels like a few steps back in the right direction. And with the actual dragonflight gameplay mechanic the zones are massive and fun to explore. Out of the three dungeons I played so far one of them uses dragonflight and it was a blast to play. And the music, they smashed it out of the theme park.
My wife and I saw nothing interesting in the promo materials for Dragonflight, and it even has a terrible, uninspiring pre-rendered video that doesn't even look like WoW until like 20 seconds from the end. This post has my interest, but it's likely we won't get into Dragonflight until it gets close to "finished" in a couple more years. Shadowlands wasn't awful, I guess, but more than ever, crafting felt worthless, which is usually where I end up at endgame. Not really a raider, not outside of Raid Finder or maybe Normal difficulty.
Same here, there was no appeal whatsoever from the marketing or just anything I saw until I started listening to the gamer reviews and most of the WoW-heads seem to love it ("cozy" was a reoccurring theme people mentioned, one guy said it's like "home") and with this extreme glut in games I was like why not? I haven't done crafting in WoW in probably 15 years, lol. Dragonflight revamped the crafting system and from what I've heard people were confused by it initially but most of the crafters really enjoy it and they say it ties in well with leveling. It seems like Blizzard are really trying not to screw this one up (even with the less than stellar sales) and are releasing lot's of content fairly quickly. It's really been fun for me because the exploration is so well done, so much detail to the environmental critters & sounds. The zones are designed to be outwardly expansive with layers of verticality for the dragonflying and then there are tons of dragonflying races in each zone. Some of the quests are a little more immersive than usual where you are listening to conversations while slowly attending a caravan etc and really tries to get the player to slow down and take it all in. I haven't liked WoW zone design this much since Wotlk. Check it out when you get the chance, it ain't going anywhere, lol