i like it. IMO It's not meant to be anything more than a distraction and/ or a little treat in the form of a fun way of leveling and collecting old gear as we wait for the war within.

I’ve played this timerunning mode and I also feel like something is just off. I’m going to wait a month before I play. Give Blizzard time to balance everything.

Upgrading gear is worth it even if you dont have the blues or epics yet once you have upgraded every piece from 346 to the next tier, upgrading a new piece to the same iLvl costs 225 bronze rather than the initial 2k-4.5k. So at max level upgrading your gear is worth it, but upgrading anything other than 346 level 70 gear is pointless because you will outgrow it every single time you level up regardless. The gear does no matter while leveling. Leveling your first character starts relatively slow compared to what it will be like later on, but it is MUCH faster than retail leveling. By the time i was level 55 i had 229% bonus exp gain on my cloak from doing the raids as i was leveling up. each boss drops a 12% bonus, on top of potential exp thread drops, The leveling was SO fast and each subsequent character will be faster. I do not feel weaker than retail and i can speak strongly to this as im playing a paladin on both and my retail paladin is 523 IL right now with top 100 parses in heroic awakened raids lol... Even at 350 IL on Remix i felt exponentially more powerful because of the tinkers essentially 1 shotting entire packs of mobs i pull as they react off of eachother. The initial 70 scaling was pretty bad though, i agree with you there. I hit level 70 in heroic temple of the jade serpent and my own add meleeing me on the last boss 1 shot me. Something was definitely not right about that. As far as bronze acquisition, bronze is INSANELY easy to farm. It takes around 40k bronze to upgrade your full set of gear to the next tier and 40k bronze only takes a few hours to get. The raids are daily lockouts, go insanely fast, and net you 500-750 bronze per boss and final bosses grant 1250 bronze. Its VERY easy to get bronze. I really think you misunderstand how easy bronze acquisition is and how the gear upgrades actually work. Upgrading the gear and getting more and more power gains from not only the gemslot values scaling up with IL, but also gaining power to your cloak over time makes the raids easier every time you step into them, im at the point the entireity of normal raids feel like a heroic dungeon on retail minus Dark Animus. Everything dies insanely fast and I did not even use the frog farm or really any other mob farm to gain power. I simply did content. MoP remix is great overall and i have little to no complaints other than they havent rolled back peolpe who frog farmed and are insanely far ahead of someone who does actual content each day and progresses as a more normal rate. Im just now starting heroic raids while the frog farmers have already cleared mythic despite how INSANELY scaled up each tier is from the previous one.

So it’s not a fun leveling event? Because from my impression it definitely is

I'm just leveling what i don't have on main account Alliance monk and mage horde priest im using my bronze for mog and mounts as for gear ill sort that out at the end of the event. As for leveling first toon i have to disagree i leveled mine at least twice as fast as on normal servers.

I was having fun leveling until I hit 66 I'm now 68 and I'm getting 1 or 2 shot by mobs in quest. I quit playing. I made a new toon and on my new toon i noticed my cape is not the same as my high level. So now I have lost interest in playing.

You only want to upgrade blue gear. they have extra stats.

For the daggers thing, that's how it's been for enh for years(I think in WoD it started?). It works like that on retail too. Blizz doesn't want anyone outside of rogues to use melee daggers, so they made it so abilities don't work if you aren't using the "appropriate" weapons for your spec.

I Think the biggest killer to wow is the community. You have such a huge split between everything in wows player base. for example M+ you have casual key runners and then u have the Hardcore key pushers you try to do as high of keys as possible, Raiders you have the casuals who do LFR/N/H (i put herioc as casual only cause its kind of a mid teir where there is a slighter challenge over the others but becuz its easier then this next) and then you have the Hardcore raiders who push for Mythic kills (cutting edge) and then you have the pvpers the casual side who enjoy fighting other players but not really there to push for high rating and then the hardcore pvpers who push for gladiator+. The player base is split between so many things wow has to offer and each side of it complains because something on there side is either "Really strong/broken" which then causes havoc on the opposite side if blizzard changes it and it ends up being a nerf on the other side. You also have the part of the community who for some reason is playing an MMROPG but doesnt wanna make friends or group up with people. they rather solo everything which includes getting the good gear so blizzard is also making so much solo content that honestly pushing for these other things is pointless because blizz is pretty much handing out free gear that you can solo. Why put yourself out there and into pvp or raiding or M+ when you can basically earn pretty good gear doing solo content such as the Weeklies in emerald dream during S3. We also have the players who are playing classic/cata classic now so now not only is retail split into like 7 different player types... youve also split us into 3 different games. We are so split as a community that when blizzard tries to make one side happy.... 5 other playstyles of wow are unhappy and it continues and itll always continue down this road because no matter what blizzard cant focus on balancing EVERYTHING they have.... Especially when they keep adding so many Systems which is another thing to me that is a huge downfall to balancing. Borrowed power such as the Legion artifacts or the Corruptions from s4 bfa are absolutely terrible for balance in wow. Covenant abilities were pretty much the definition of unbalanced through the entire SL Expac. Community split is whats drilling a hole through blizzard and until we can find something we all like and can come together to push blizzard to do it... wow will struggle.

A spectrum of player skill is present in any multiplayer video game. In WoW's case because it's a MMORPG, the spectrum needs to be able to complete endgame content and feel rewarded for playing the video game. That goes for casual content, take LFR , for example, and the difficult content (Mythic). Both have their place in the game for good reason. It's no one's fault that this happened - I think it's just the natural evolution of a 20 year old video game.

The main issues with wow are the systematic obsolescence of content and the continuous (and pointless) level grinding. Case closed.

I'm 26

Also, stop calling this casuals. We spend more time playing the game than you ever will. So technically you're the casual player

Blizzard's biggest mistake in my opinion was taken away the ability and talent called spirit bond from us hunters that we had back in the warlords of draenor expansion. It allowed us and our pets as long as they were out to heal at a significant rate every few seconds and gave us an ability to actually be able to solo some outdoor content. Blizzard said no we're taking that away because we want you to have to rely on healers and not allow you guys to actually run around and do things on your own. And when you take away one of the ways to play a game well it is the downfall

Man... if we're talking about Blizzard getting their "old players back", then we need Blizzard to pay them child support, give them money to be able to be unemployed and just play WoW... I myself balanced my life so I can have a healthy relationship, time with friends, work, and play WoW, but most of my friends no, they either have a lot of family issues, ass jobs, priorities change.... stop blaming Blizzard for everything, really... you think someone will stop going to work and feed his family just to play a game?... the game is 20 years old, we need new blood, not the same people that were playing 20 years ago...

I think Blizzard's biggest mistake was allowing addons.

dungeon finder

IMO the biggest problem is that between difficulty levels there are huge time investment differences and not skill requirements. I consider myself a fairly good player, I've cleared SOO mythic back in MOP but now I'm 31 don't expect I gonna grind 40 hours a week just to get invited into a raid group.😂

There are addons and addons. The capacity of totally changing your UI is trully insane in WoW. My interface is a clean, simple, GW2 style, UI. Can I go top 1 world with it, no. Could I go top 1% of the world with them, totally (if I was better lol). People put too much importance on addon but don't know how to use them. Hence why you see so many people with 24564646 addons. When DBM or simply few weak aura could be enough. You could argue that you should not even need to have neither of them. True, it would also be trading off the possibility to use addons at all. And once you understand how to use it instead of be slaved by it like some casuals, it's a huge lost. Would be like Bethesda blocking modding on Skyrim.

39 been playing since end of wrath😊

For me, WoW is like a Pizza: I don't like every variety of it, and I sometimes need to take a topping I don't like along with what I do like, but in the end, it's comfort food, and even when it's not as good as usual, I can still appreciate it at the end of a long day. And sometimes it's best to just stop eating it for a couple weeks or even months if you can't handle it anymore.

WoW probably won’t see those big sub numbers i think because culture has shifted. But it doesn’t need to. The marketing blunder made by Hollywood is trying to appeal to audiences that were never going to watch your movie in the first place. As long as they maintain the larger than life fantasy story, sub numbers will continue to rise. Don’t try to create content for people who already don’t like this kind of content.

The biggest mistake was when Blizzard decided to dumpster the entire lore because The Jailer is an absplute gigabrain apparently. All the coolest parts of WoW have been absolutely gutted because "it's all part of the jailer's plan" That's almost as hilariously bad of a twist as "and then he woke up". Complete wtf moment that ruins everything you previously thought was cool. Arthas? Jailer Sylvanas? Jailer Vol'jin? Technically Mueh'zala... Mueh'zala? Jailer Dreadlords? Technically Denathrius... Denathrius? Jailer Hotel? Trivago Shadowlands did so much more damage to the game than just being a bad expansion.

Similar but different situation in ffxiv, 8 & 24 man there, with the 8 being the harder raid, the 24 being the "catch up" for alt classes, works well there. (with the 8 mans having a harder mode)

biggest mistake being that the game cant get new players,its so,so unapproachable

I'm a 37 year old male, and have been playing since patch 1.9

Skipping content with trial of the crusader.

I think it was intentional to change the game into one where there were castes of players considered of different value to the game by developers. Again, increased emphasis on end game has led to changes like pointlessly fast leveling. Blizzard tries to rush new players to max level as though that will turn them into hypercompetitive monsters of esports. The continued degradation of world content is supposed to give those who would play it an incentive to get on the hamsterwheel, while mostly it gives them less reason to play at all.

Huh, I started with WoW in the launchnight of DF and it took me an hour to understand how I even move because I started as a Dracthyr, six weeks later I had all four 10.0 main faction renowns finished so I don't know what is so bad about it... If you do not make a plan of what to do for the day then I can't help you either

I was actually OK with WoW all the way up to and through Battle of Azeroth, it was when Shadowlands was released is where I started to get concerned.....Wrath of the Lich King was my favorite expansion.....

It's the most popular MMO. It's stupid to blame WoW for anything, when the MMO genre as a whole is strugling ever since social media exploded.

The game is 20 years old. It looks ancient. You might as well discuss mistakes made by cavemen. It's over people

Blizzard bad. Like please

Guessed it before you said it. I'll say, Ulduar did it best to a degree. An optional, toggleable hard mode.

Spot on. Personally, I would say that LFR/LFG and having multiple servers linked together for those activities+PvP vastly damaged the game. To re-use what you said in the video, people weren't aware of the positive effect of being "locked" on your server and your server alone: 1 - Chief amongst those positive effect was the crucial aspect of having a good reputation, this soft locked people into being tolerable at the very least, since being an annoyance would quickly shut you many doors. With the absence of server transfer and name change it was rather rare when someone decided to throw away a level 60 toon by doing something dense. 2 - You always met faces that you kind of knew, from your side and the other side, rivalry and interest got created and if you're compatible, long lasting friendships. 3 - With mixed difficulties, server identity in the gutter and not requiring to be part of a guild, it was the perfect recipe to remove the first "M" from MMORPG for WoW, mix that with the change of mentality and general worldwide malaise.

If it was growing up it wouldnt have tab target or be ripping off fortnite, SAME OLD MILKSTEALERS

30 years old, and I feel WoW will never get back to those big Sub numbers it might get close but I think folks will come and go Season depending and how good the game is at the time

one thing I'd like to correct. Mythic raiding is not inaccessible because of it's difficulty, but because of how inconvenient it is. Ppl in 2024 don't want to play with guilds, on scheduled days and times of the week to raid. This is such an old system, remove it. Make mythic puggable on release, or even better make a fucking mmr matchmaking queue for raids AND m+. Ppl don't want to sit in lfg getting rejected for 30' or waiting 30' for ppl to apply in your group. These systems are what making wow content inaccessible. LFR has the most player participation because of how EASY it is to get into. You press play and you're in. This is how every single modern game is, and this is how wow should be, yes this is not ideal for mmos, but outdated mmos are dead, they need to get up with the times to survive.

finally someone saying the unbiased truth. The main reason why wow is not as huge, is because it's audience are grown ups. It has nothing to do with covenants, bfa azerite powers or retail being competitive, grow the fuck up. The game has no 18 year old players.

1:18 there is actual location in game where lich king took out sword and there is also same frozen dragon under ice

Blizzards biggest mistake is activison, imo, and i think a few things such as not having finished off wod to make it better, the garrisons, etc

38, have been playing since vanilla, still peeking in most of the offered contents, pve & pvp wisely, I only dropped raiding mythic years ago, would still be interested but don't want to raid hardcore anymore

31 year old here, BFA killed my hope for the game. The recent changes the company has made (Remix MoP, Plunderstorm, and Worldsoul Saga) has given me hope for its future.

I am 34 and from the MOP generation Xd great vid!

I'm sorry but you're wrong. The one mistake Blizzard did that can never fix is letting addons infestate the game. And what I mean by that is that addons are nowadays such an integral part of the game that Banning them now would make the everyone stop playing. Raids are now designed around addons which is even more sickening. Take FFXIV for example, it was the same amount of raid difficulties as WoW does but you don't need to use any addons, no, you don't want to use any addons. In FFXIV you can clear mythic difficulty raids without any addons and/or any communication between the players as long as everyone follows the fight mechanics and yes try to play their rotation optimally in the most part. So respectfully, it's not the different raid difficulties, it's not the world revamp or the butchering of the lore or LFR/LFD. It's the addons, period.

im 19 years old and have been playing since Cataclysm maybe even late Wrath

Bots?

I agree with the different difficulties of raids.

The lore story behind the game was never its biggest asset. There are thousands and thousands of players with no idea about the lore and still playing.