The BEST Feature Of EVERY WoW Expansion | World of Warcraft

[@DonWinther]

I feel like transmogging from Cata should be mentioned. It opened up a whole new side of the endgame for casual players, that WoW hadn't seen before

[@Biffbifflin]

I didn't even think about this, but transmog not being on this list, even as an honorable mention, does feel like an oversight. It's a largely celebrated and beloved aspect of the game.

[@FreakyGremlinDK]

Yeah it was so damn good. But it also took a very long time for them to perfecting it. Can't remember, but what expac was it that brought the possibility to transmog without having the item in your bank or inventory?

[@aleksakovinic7039]

⁠@@FreakyGremlinDK Yes you are right, I totally forgot about this. Transmong wasn't convenient like it is now. I think that transmog collection tab was added in Legion now when I think about it.

[@NoContextOasis]

Short term, amazing. Long term very reductive.

[@dener461]

@@FreakyGremlinDK I think it was during Legion

[@waveeyes]

I'd give Dual Spec for Wrath. At the time it didn't impact me too much, but as someone who's mained non-DPS for most of my time in WoW having the option to swap to DPS whenever I'm doing solo stuff has been huge. And while the current system of swapping to any spec you want is even better, this was the first mention and deserves a shoutout.

[@Timidis]

dude i forgot dual spec was a thing since you could just pick whatever spec you want now

[@Tpdkgod]

i remember how in tbc id be farming gold just so i could be resto for raids and then respec enhancement for pvp rest of the week

[@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

One thing worth mentioning about Exile's Reach is that it is much more tuned for people who have never played a video game before in their lives. It covers basic camera controls, movement, and "turn around to hit an enemy behind you". I've been running experiments on family & friends in the 60-70+ age range (none of whom have ever played any sort of game) and had them doing various games under supervision. They don't even have WASD down, and any sort of movement of their character seems to completely throw their spatial awareness out the window. Exile's Reach let them ease into the concept of navigating a 3D world, where it otherwise would've been totally overwhelming. So yes, it's babyish and dull to anyone with really any degree of experience with games at all - but that's not what it's for. Veterans are going to blast through the tutorial no matter what anyway - but for an 11 year old? For a 70 year old? Pretty good.

[@VValkyr]

I guess exiles reach just suffered from the issue of presentation. If you were presented by a choice at the very start, which clearly made it known that exiles reach is made for absolute new players, but if you know somewhat what youre doing and wish to experience your races story, pick your races starting zone. That wasn't the case, and now correct me if I am wrong, but new players didn't even have a choice between exiles reach and starting zone the first time they played and leveled up a character. It might be a good thing for absolute newcomers, but for people that played any other game in their life, and had somewhat of an understanding what to do and what is happening, exiles reach really left a bad taste in their mouth, bored them, and alienated them from the game.

[@Biffbifflin]

@@VValkyr I think Exile's Reach offers a versatile, if not generic starting point narratively going into each expansion. The crew that you work with are the same people that you team up with in Follower Dungeons, which is neat. They also made an appearance in Dragonflight on the Waking Shores, so the experience does introduce you to their characters and you get to see them again. I do not think Exile's Reach is bad for the game. If I were a new player to this WoW franchise but had experience with other MMOs, sure, I would find it easy, but it would give me a neat microcosmic experience of WoW story & gameplay that immediately gets me right into the game.

[@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

@@VValkyr Everything you've said is correct - that was the experience when I ran my experiment too. With a fresh account they were automatically put into Exile's Reach - I'm not sure at what point an account unlocks the access to the race-specific starting zones.

[@Gerflap]

@@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet If it stayed as it was when it was introduced you get access to race specific starting zones at level 50

[@CryptidBones]

I actually did something similar. It wasn't an experement more so just 58 year old mother who's only experience with video games is hidden object and match 3 games taking interest in what i was doing. But she took to exile reach fairly well.

[@dogwithsunglasses4051]

I think Shadowlands best feature was actually the Tier Set Katalyst, because it fixed so many problems with tier sets and their transmogs in one go. First you finally could get tier set pieces from other sources then the raids with Mythic+. And you were able to even change items with no setbonus attached to tier sets, wich made it possible that every set has for every difficulty every gear slot available for transmogg, wich wasnt even the case up until legion. Also, sometimes the non set bonus items had better stats for your class. Also, awakend raids was a Shadowlands feature tho they were called fated

[@DoAGoldeneye]

Shadowlands had a lot of good things. I liked Torghast! The problem was that it was mandatory.

[@dejackarse7278]

Yeah between missing this and mis-attributing Awakened Raids to Dragonflight its clear he wrote Shadowlands off as pure failure and put no further thought into it.

[@TylerR909]

The WoD/SoO feature should have been Flex raiding imo. Not being locked into strictly 10 or 25 and having the raid scale to match your group size is great.

[@stefanstanculescu1133]

so the best feature for vanilla is the leveling because it's slow. and the best feature for WoD is the leveling because it's fast xD

[@33nothing33]

the best feature in vanilla was it was a world, a world warcraft. lol

[@doctorferdinand1003]

Different goals for different games. In vanilla the main content was leveling in the open world. By WoD leveling was just an intro to establish atmosphere that the end game would be set to.

[@imRehnzy]

Contrasting but i get it. In vanilla it was a long, epic journey. In WoD you just kind of wanted to get the new content asap

[@Az00069]

The best part of WoD was Resto & Feral Druids. RBGs were really good in that expansion too.

[@johaadganor1684]

For TBC I would say the fact every Spec finally gets a tier set was the best.

[@dyingearth]

In vanilla end game, if you're a druid or paladin, you're a healer.

[@ThradNevar83]

I played original TBC and classic TBC and this is not true for rogues, mages, hunters and warlocks.

[@xsteelersx6]

Heroic dungeons were my favorite TBC addition personally, but you're right that the tier sets were banger after banger.

[@the_one_gio]

I didn’t realize how much fun I had with TBC heroics until we got to WOTLK and they became a total joke.

[@shahaf75]

I know I'm weird...but I loved H dungeons and attunements. ...and obviously Flying.

[@skeliskull]

The best feature of Shadowlands was that it came out during covid. I had a blast in 9.0 and 9.2. It had a lot of really high quality content and it was fun. Torghast was a total pain and the game had horrible alt-friendliness. Hell it was even alt-SPEC unfriendly which sucked. But despite covenant abilities and soul binds having a very janky and annoying implementation. At the end of the day I still had fun. The zones were really cool. The vibe of the expansion was unlike anything we ever had seen in wow. And I think that's why a lot of players hated it. But as a long time fan of the game I appreciated them trying out something really different. I think the game needs it every once in a while and especially after an xpac like BFA which was painfully generic. Shadowlands was also what I consider to be the beginning of the current era of Warcraft. SL added a lot of the modern structures to the game like renown and the great vault. Strengthening the concept of the "3 pillars" of endgame. The scandals and exodus of players to games like FF14 triggered a switch internally that we began to see in the later half of the xpac. Blizz finally decided to remove their bias's that came from the OG game designers of WOW. Basically they started listening to the community. Ex: embrace flying, improve alt friendliness, focus on evergreen content, improve story, improved solo content, less time gating, more respecting of players time, etc, etc. It's BECAUSE of the failings of shadowlands that dragonflight and TWW are seeing the major successes we see today. Despite all of wows failings I've always personally felt that the game has moved forward for the better. I always felt like blizz learned from their mistakes. However now more than ever it feels like they have made a BIG change unlike something we've seen before. For example, in MoP they really cared about improving their patch cadence, and we got a lot of content, but when WoD came along, it all fell apart. Often times in the games history it feels like they would take 2 steps forward only to take 2 steps backward the next expansion. But right now it feels like they've only been taking steps forward. And it's amazing to experience. 20 years into the games history and I think they _finally_ figured it out.

[@rileth52]

Warbands, I didn't think it was a big enough thing to be marketed like it was. But since playing TWW it is legit one of the best changes blizz have ever made. Sure it took way too long but it still feels great.

[@neburiveS]

Completely agreed. Before I was like "Yeah? And? I mean it's cool and all" and now that the expansion actually launched I discover more and more things I love about warbands every day lmao

[@Snagprophet]

I think people needed to get their head around playing an account rather than a character. I also think the rep grinds among other unlocks put people off deviating from their main and felt stuck doing the same thing unless they re-levelled the same rep again.

[@TheSaival]

what warbands actually do?

[@cloud132456]

Shared reps, letting you easily get extra crests and a some epics off the vendors. Warband bank letting you deposit gold into it that any character can access as well as any item you want to easily move from character to character. Since rep is shared, you can easily do everything on one character for the rep and just do your 4 weeklies for your delve keys if you even care about delves. On top of that you can now loot warband items from dungeons/raids/outdoor content that can be used on alts on any character. And the biggest feature in my opinion as someone that likes transmog, everything you loot just gets added to your appearance tab.

[@Orthane]

"Vanilla has the best leveling journey" >Shows Zygor

[@Lemaus433]

Like hell it does. It took a long time to go from 0-60 your first time through if you started the game after it had been out for over a year

[@m1bl4n]

Such hypocrites, man. And Nixxiom is the best (worst?) example of them all. These guys keep saying how amazing Vanilla was, how the game is too handholdy now and how back then you had to explore etc, and then promote a PAID addon that does exactly that.

[@Doomted90]

4:18 I was a hunter main in BC/Wrath/Cata... in Wrath I was considered one of the top 3 pug raiders on my server (Feathermoon, character named Doomt) with budget gear I could EASILY out DPS guild geared rogues (considered the best at the time) though I didn't have "sets" my stats were optimized and consolidated. My pride and joy was my Death's Verdict from 25 man normal (TOGC) I won on a lucky roll in Wrath that literally trivialized my cool down usage (activate damage CDs anytime and DV will cintuple numbers [I literally put CDs in Kill Command macro just to not worry about them anymore]) Was pulling consistent 4-5k dps during Litch King live, cleared on 25 normal and almost secured 10 man heroic LK kill as a pug. (3.5k DPS was considered good at the time. I was almost always at the top of the meters, minus a couple bosses the rogues would win out on)

[@Lemaus433]

You are tripping. In ICC 3.5k DPS was hot garbage! I was hitting 9-11k DPS with Fire Mage and 7-9k with Arcane Mage. Always use arcane for single target and fire for fights with adds. The hunter in my guild could sustain a steady 6.5k and burst 8.5k.

[@Doomted90]

@Lemaus433 it was also like 10 years ago that I played. I don't know the numbers anymore. Surprised I still remembered death's verdict tbh

[@Doddweon]

I agree with them all, but for shadowlands I would pick the creation catalyst. Being able to transform your gear from other sources into set pieces is awesome and I still can't believe that such a friendly idea came from the same period that brought us the maw

[@jonalban4349]

I hated the evolution of the "champion" persona. I didn't like that my individual character started to become the main character of the overall story because it was so different from how the first few expansions were. Wod started this, but legion's artifact weapons took it waaaayyy too far

[@Hafenadler]

Classic - The levelling BC - Heroic Dungeons Wotlk - Dungeonfinder (yes I liked that back when I 14) Cata - The Raids Mop - The introduction of flexible Raids Wod - New Character Models (even tho some look worse in my opinion) Legion - M+ BfA - Nothing really, worst expansion Shadowlands - Overhaul of the leveling experience Dragonflight - New Talent trees War within - As of right now, Warbands

[@HardCR0W]

For BfA I would pinpoint the "two sides of the coin" narrative (I don't mean "the story itself"). One thing I really liked about BfA was not only that both Alliance and Horde had their separate campaign, it was also the same story just told from different POV. Like in one Alliance mission you fly with Falstad to attack Horde fleet in the middle of an ocean. There is not much to it alone, but if you played as a Horde, you were doing a mission at the bottom of the ocean and when you emerged back, you were confused, because your fleet was mostly devastated after an attack. This approach motivated to play both factions just to get the full picture. Since Shadowlands, there is only one storyline for both factions again. As for Allied Races... I think they are not that great in the end. An interesting idea that basically became an excuse for developers to do bare minimum by reusing old races instead of creating new ones. Allied races in BfA were good, because there was a bunch of them. In TWW however, there is only one... ONLY ONE reskin... and they made it into one of the major expansion features!

[@Owler_]

Awakened Raids was actually a Shadowlands idea, and was much better done then too with "affixes" your group could choose to add to the fights instead of being just a reheat of the content

[@Arathreas]

There was nothing new about mythic raiding. They took heroic, renamed it and set the fixed number of players to 20, a middle ground between 25 and 10. During SoO mythic was still called heroic until the pre patch. Normal mode became the currrnt heroic, flex mode the new normal mode. I'd also argue WoD's worst feature was the leveling rework. Was always able to recruit a friend to level through content in mop. With WoD onwards this completely stopped, friends quit during leveling. It got even worse since the addition of Exiles Reach.

[@Shredow2]

Awakened raids were introduced in shadowlands 😂

[@Mythodyn]

Shadowlands doesn't exist.

[@Shredow2]

@@Mythodyn Considering he talked about it in this very video. Clearly it does.

[@Seyvren]

@@Shredow2 no, it doesnt exist

[@Shredow2]

@@Seyvren cope

[@WalkthroughHorde]

You can tell he quit in Shadowlands for a bit LOL

[@Miichalek]

Kind of weird that you put honorable mention of awakened raids for dragonflight, but no word about fated raids in shadownlads

[@FULLMAIN110]

not taking m+ for legion is wild.

[@jakil441]

Best feature from shadowlands was the catalyst, allowing us to create tier set gear

[@majones117]

I got so used to the mounts in Guild Wars 2 that it felt awful going between games. Dragon riding is so much better and I actually just enjoy flying around to stuff. I don't really use flight paths unless I want to get a drink or use the bathroom anymore

[@Paul2hip8]

I love how Artifact weapon abilities became so vital to class health that nearly all of them still exist

[@R3ar3ntry]

for me the expansions that I have the same feeling on is, Wotlk Classes like paladin feels so good, etc, cata where fire mage feels so good, and wotlk where all classes feel insane to play, moving while casting on warlock "Yum" yes plz, I love the saying "If everyone is super, no one is" if everyone is OP then no one is... great video as always, love your content!

[@ObsessedCollector]

My choice for best feature of each new expansion is being able to max out and CRUSH older raids.

[@vasiliypekhota9762]

My best features list: BC: heroic dungeon difficulty Wrath: Hybrid DPS specs viability Cata: Transmog Pandas: Optional outdoor content Draenor: Flexible normal and heroic raids Legion: M+ BfA: Warmode Shadowlands: Finally they did leveling OK, it was mess Dragon: Crafting progression TWW: Warbands

[@0LeNerd0]

In Legion nothing changed the Game that strong as m+. Massive improvement of the Game Overall.

[@VegetoStevieD]

The best feature of vanilla is that it doesn't feel like it has "features". It's a world that you live in. "Features" are what you got when they removed the requirement to feed your pet as a hunter. Now it's not a pet, it's merely a dps mechanic. A "feature". Likewise, to the world, and the lost soul of it. They kill Azeroth with "features".

[@pedropimenta896]

Feeding the pet was a chore. All it did was increase the dps. And I loved every second of it.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@pedropimenta896 Feeding the pet is a bonding experience between player and pet. If anything, they should have expanded on that, rather than scrap it.

[@mrnekrell15551]

As a wow player mainly attracted by lore, world building and collectibles, legion's artifact weapons have been a disaster for me. Hated the fact i was stuck with a dagger while my favorite weapon is the staff (demo lock here eh...). I hated even more the fact that every player had iconic lore-related weapons. All paladins with ashbringer, all shamans with doomhammer. It looked so stupid to me, like watching lord of the ring but everyone in it has an Anduril or a "the one ring". It bothers me especially because it helped blizzard's storytellers to kill off all their storylines, by destroying the weapons to stop some unseen magic in the sword of Sargeras... seeing Thrall without the doomhammer breaks my fucking heart. Plus legion was the expansion with the worst "champion desease" case. I didn't want to be the Netherlord. The chief of all warlocks? Me? Why? And why is everyone the chief of all warlocks? So fucking stupid. And everyone was so divided too, everyone was closed in their order hall, instanced away from bigger hubs. Legion was really fun in terms of gameplay, but the story around your character was a deal breaker to me.

[@Zack_Wester]

This. I remember towards the end of was it Burning crusade where everyone was in full Epic gear in Stormwind and it just looked so bad. the problem whit a lot of the Tier set is that they are so over the top paladin I can buy the rest not so much the rouge gear does not look like something someone sneaks around in, the hunter gear does not look like something a wilderness person would use and so on. warrior so over the top. I had at that point done zero Raid so I had some basic stuff and Letherworker gear from some guildie. but one of my sort of favorite bits in vanilla was the numbers Blizzard themself published. that only (of active account, one one char per account counted, any account that had at most a level 20 char was ignored). whit all of them less then was it 50% of all accounts had a max level char towards end of vanilla. less then 10% had done a endgame raid and only 5% had cleared them. and that was for any raid not the final raid. for the final raid less then 1% had entered it and gotten to the first boss.

[@Orthane]

Honestly even still I think MoP was the height of WoW. Not even kidding, better than Vanilla, better than WotLK, better than now. I even still have a Macro for /cast Recklessness /cast Rallying War Banner and man do I miss banners. Those were one of the coolest flavor class fantasy things Warriors ever had.

[@MoonTurky]

I think Mythic raiding is the worst feature ever added. Its good for the 5 people that care about the race to worlds first, but for the what 12 million other people it just messed up the game and created a nearly impossible to breach barrier to *Completing* your character.

[@Artemisthemp]

Personlig prefer healing in Wrath as Catalysm healing was stressful. I hope they expand Warband to older content also, as it would be nice to pick up Transmog, Crafting pages or Kalu'ak fishing pool on newer Character without needing to grind the rep again.

[@Mazoox500]

So one of your favourite fester is is making leveling ultra fast? If the levelling isn’t a journey. Then what’s the point of leveling? Why not just start at end game content?

[@MakeItHappenCaptin13]

As much as the healer changes were nice in Cata I think transmog is way more important, it’s a fan favorite option and it also influenced a lot of other mmos to do the same thing. As for legion I would say mythic plus was the thing. It’s had a big effect on the community of keeps a lot of players still playing to this day. I know personally I went from a hardcore raider to a hardcore mythic plus player because it’s more entertaining and easier to get into since you don’t have to worry as much about scheduling everything. You’re on and there’s 4 other people on in your guild group up and go and it still has a challenge to it.

[@Boombomb]

How are SPIKES on warrior sets more impactul than FLYING for the first time in TBC? Literally changed the perception of the world having a top-down view and skipping terrain.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Flying is one of those things where people either loved it or hated it. The tier sets were less polarizing and were overall liked by everyone.

[@oliveroddershede9897]

How dare u have another opinion than me? REEEEEEEEE

[@TheSaival]

@@DrewPicklesTheDark flying killed world pvp

[@Zack_Wester]

I loved flying when it came out in TBC and in Wrath but long term Flying was a big negative for the game. before you could see player around the world, the quest that was find this ancient temple in the jungle whent from an actuall trip even if you know where it was on the map. good luck navigating there like there was player that offered to be guides because the temple was hidden (time to do quest if you did not die by dino, falling of the cliff, navigate so badly you ended up somewhere else, 15-30 min or so and people loved that quest. flying comes out grab the quest. jump on the fly mount fly 150 feet straight up, fly in a straight line for 1 min fly down, complete quest quest done in less then 2 min. story lost mystic lost the quest lost its purpuse. same whit when in Wrath when they removed Mana from hunter, Hunter whent from 3 stats down to 1-2 stats. Before hunter had/used, int, agility and maybe stamina. then the wrath patch came and it was agility more or less stamina was sort of also useless or worse. before 3 hunters all marksmen more or less the same spec options. one focused on int one focused on agi and one on stamina. que a hunter that could fight for a week but can´t kill anything fast. one that can one shot about everything in about 10 sec but if its alive after that well the hunter was dead as it was out of mana and had no health. and then the tanker hunter whit its massive stamina pool. post there was only the agility hunter left. same whit Blizzard Push for get to max level and get into the raid. it just made crafter more or less useless for the most part why take the time to level up crafting skill when you out level it (even if you try not) and then get better drop and rewards from quest all over the place, hit max level and it still bad.

[@BasedChadman]

Flying ruined the world

[@willykorsun1266]

So we do not need a transmogg but colors that could be compared to the rest of the armor as in SWTOR from the chest part would be a wonderful thing. Leatherworking could produce normal colors, the smithy metallic colors - so you could also upgrade these two professions.

[@markblaze4909]

Worst feature is boosting. Gold buying. Cheaters. Xp boosts. Tokens.

[@Slashresto]

100% ,no other comment needed ever!

[@karolfortuna8522]

Counterpoint that was brought up to me recently. The price of the subscription never increased, thanks to other means for Blizz to get money. And I think that personally I'm fine with this deal

[@Slashresto]

@@karolfortuna8522 lol do u actually belive players buy tokens to sell for gold? 95% of all purchased gold is made trough illegal means such as bots/stolen accounts sold on 3rd party websites. Blizzard doesnt make alot of money trough the tokens, its just a way of them getting some gold out of the economy and for veteran players to get a cheaper sub. Also the sub hasn't increased but all the expansion prices are up almost 100% for the base version then u can add in the deluxe editions which are now around 100 dollars , TBC had a price of 34.99 and TWW deluxe was 89.99 which is an increase of 55 bucks which is 250% more. wow has increased in cost to play by atleast 50% per year assuming each expansion is every 2 years. You just get alot more "content" for your money now due to classic (which only generates free money for blizzard as its costs very little to develop)

[@dagerry]

I especially like m+ so Shadowlands with the Vault and the SL dungeons I liked, it actually was my favorite expansion. With Legion ofc being phenomenal as well with all the new stuff it introduced, and I also had fun in BFA. Wotlk has some old charme for me but the older pre-legion systems don't appeal that much to me.

[@revan8795]

I agree with pretty much everything. I will say though it is still a damn shame. That we never got actual Frostmourne as the frost dk artifact. We got Ashbringer etc but no original frostmourne. Thanks a lot blizz.

[@CloudWalkBeta]

warband is great, having reagents accessible between all my profession toons makes things so much easier. I started playing wow during dragonflight for context. I think the timewalking and chromie old expansions could do with some tweaking, whenever timewalking comes the gear is simply adventure at best right? I would love the option to replay older content at a harder difficulty and get veteran / champion gear from it. With levelling new chars in older expansions, I wish I could slow down the speed I gain EXP. There seems to be several XP boosts where I can max level a new character in less than 4 hours by simply flying over a continent, I would prefer to have these EXP boosts disabled to allow me to experience older content at the speed closer to what people had to go through when the content was relevant all those years ago. Or even have abilities to stop myself walking into zones that are beyond what was available that expansion, if i want to do classic i dont want to accidentally trip over into cataclysm content as a good example (which happened to me a few times when i was still learning this game).

[@JohnRhinoTheThird]

Best feature is LFR. Without it, I wouldn’t be a raider.

[@Spinexus]

😂

[@h347h]

You still aren't a raider.

[@BasicMaffs]

Nice rage bait lmao

[@Ayy.Its.Kruciall]

​@@h347hright lolol

[@itsnoblesse]

Legit, weirdo purists will cry about it but LFD/LFR did so much for getting people into raiding. It's unequivocally one of the best design decisions in MMO history and there's a reason why the other big endgame focused MMO (FFXIV) also places such a high emphasis on it.

[@manrommav9240]

Alied races is a weird pick. No, races themself are cool and all that, but this is just new races. We already had that in TBC. With no reputation grind or extra questing we could make blood elves and draeneys. Why couldn't we made Zandalari trolls in BFA without grinding rep? "because they didn't join the Horde at the start of the expansion, there's a story". Same with older new races, but - again - we could made characters of that races as soon as expansion went live. Ofc I talk about actual BFA times, when we needed to farm max rep first, then do questline. Now it is just questlines available at lvl 40. Except Drachtyr, you can make it with fresh new account. And except earthen - you need to finish TWW storyline first. Brown orcs are new allied race with no daemon blood in them. Red draenei are... Just new skin colours for old draenei. But draenei infused with Light - new race. Some dwarf clans are just customize options. Except for Black iron - new race. All i want to say - inconsistency in annoying.

[@lepkember6913]

This is perhaps a hot take, but I have pretty mixed feelings about artifact weapons from Legion. Yes, customizing a weapons appearance and abilities was pretty cool. But as a casual player who started during Legion, having a legendary weapon shoved into my hand was jarring for me, and broke the immersion. Back then I just finished leveling, never partook in a raid yet, was an absolute noob using embarrassingly impractical key binds, and suddenly a bunch of characters in some order hall started treating me like an experienced, powerful champion, who was the one and only savior worthy enough to wield this most coolest epicest one and only weapon on Azeroth... While every third player within that order hall wielded the very same weapon. I get that everyone plays WoW a bit differently, and some people do want to feel special and heroic, and that shouldn't be fully gatekept to high end mythic raiders and pvpers. But it's still an Mmorpg, the point is that it's a massive multi-player world, where we all do our bit, and earn our legendary gear instead of getting it handed to us before achieving anything.

[@nordfald3740]

Best feature of TBC hands down is spec specific tier sets. No longer was druid, preist, shaman, hell even paladin in naxx, forced to be healer. Warriors were not forced to tænk. Its the single biggest change they have ever made to class fantasy and playability. The sets look great, but looks

[@Muffnman007]

cata i'd say streamlining buffs by combining groups of them together would have been the best, bringing more the gameplay style of "bring the player not the class". It was a littler overdone imho but overall was a good change and shouldn't have gone any further as class identity is also very important for this type of game.

[@bohrtz5326]

My gripe with the warband character screen is that it from time to time automatically selects Aegwynn, which is a german server when creating a new character.

[@chiefinasmith]

I played a bunch of WoW back in middle school and through MoP and I agree with the leveling. I tried out retail recently for Dragonflight and it felt so soulless. It’s like it was just rushing me to endgame.

[@Rakyr]

Classic for me was the peak enjoyment of wow gaming. I think the biggest thing that helps no matter the expansion is having a cool, close, and social guild where you can just chat in the discord and have a laugh. That is what made wow classic great for me then the guild started breaking apart in TBC and it was no longer fun anymore. :(

[@nordfald3740]

Not picking m+ for legion is a wild take. Its literally the most popular activity in wow and has been for a long time. It singlehandedly keeps the game alive between raid tiers and is the only ever-scaling content in the game. Not sure how something is entirely arbitrary and boils down to am extra talent and some cosmetics beats the most popular game mode in wow.

[@edluke3415]

In TBC, arena and resilience stat was my favorite part until season 4. Season 4 is when Activision bought Blizzard and they brought back ridiculous things that made pvp unbalanced with the 4 pc pvp gear and 4 pc PVE gear with really broken trinkets from Sunwell.

[@moersertrupp]

it's interesting how your best feature list is very similar to my worst features list :D

[@BADR00724]

You kept talking mostly about questing, raiding and dungeons while you forgot something crucial in every expansion, the class design which imo MoP nails it for me as a PvP player. I bet any mainly PvPer would agree with me

[@shahar7476]

MoP was the only expansion when PvP was balanced. I was playing a Frost Mage, and even with Feral Druids being very strong AND countering my class, I was still beating every single lower skill feral. Fun times

[@Vikt0rian]

For me, the revamp of the zones in Cataclysm, taking them out of their boring uninteractive state to their absolutely brilliant story telling selves of Cataclysm was the best feature of all time. I've replayed Silverpine Forest, Foothills, Stonetalon, Ashenvale and Barrens as Horde so many times now that I can't even keep track of it. Unfortunately Blizzard decided that they didn't want players to play their games so I stopped playing their games. Even just the thought of giving them a cent/penny/copper coin whatever have you, feels criminal, I'd rather just go back and Play a game I've bought and don't have to keep rebuying every month, or grind ungodly hours to play for free. Ingame token is Blizzard's way of acknowledging that gold farming is a very viable strategy for international criminals to create a money empire. And they still do not address it.

[@martinveres7912]

My personal thoughts: Vanilla: well... the game itself :D jokes aside, the leveling, and exploring the world was indeed once in a lifetime experience TBC: THE TIER SETS!! YES!! they are amazing! WotLK: Death Knight Cataclysm: Transmog MoP: Pandaria, the continent. I loved the whole vibe of the land. WoD: Timewalking Legion: Class Order Halls + Class Mounts + Artifact Weapons BfA: Allied Races SL: Cross-faction things DF: Dragonriding TWW: Warbands

[@gezber]

Agreed with everything, except for Legion artifacts The sheer grind and ridiculousness of being the wielder of such important weapons was the worst feature of the expansion I'd substitute that with Class Order Halls

[@bartofii]

I have to slightly disagree with the original vanilla leveling but more so due to knowing there were segments of the grind where you had very little to do due to the xp requirements and lack of content that resulted in straight killing. Some zones not even having enough quests to get more than a few bubbles worth of xp and you might find a recommendation guide just lead you to an area with access to a vendor and you just grind mobs.

[@golhandincmen]

i might more or less agree with everything except one, and it's a big one : it's delves for tww. delves literally saved the game for me, i am playing on my own pace and facing challenges as i see fit. all we need is a sort of mythic system and i am forever bound.

[@TammyTwilightRose]

Transmog from cata is my fave feature from that xpac and for WoD, it's the toy box. These two features made my bank and inv so clean

[@sahidcm]

I feel like allied races could have just been new customization options for the already existing races. Sure the new racials are interesting, but they could have just added them for the existing ones and make them richer. You can almost make a blood elf look like a void elf. Where are high elves for the alliance? You can almost make a draenei look like a light-forged one. Whereas they just did a new skin and eye color for eredar and one for dark rangers... To me it doesn't make sense

[@annastasijaspellman2536]

Playing legion with time walking feels so pointless without the artifacts. Almost all the armor from quests look the same and most of the rewards are grey items to sell now that artifacts are useless

[@Fridolin.745]

man I miss TBC and vanilla even more

[@Boxkar24]

For me: Classic: The game (but I will say I despise leveling in classic). BC: changes to specs to make them more viable. I literally stopped playing my shaman back in classic when I found out enhancement was "useless" and that I would have to heal. Wrath: Ulduar, my favourite raid of all time. Cataclysm: transmog! MoP: MoP. Was just a damned good expac overall, one of the best imo (also when I started raiding for real so I guess that's my bias). WoD: Blackrock Foundry, top 3 best raid for me (oh and the removal of hit/experise from the game). Legion: not sure here, I'd say mythic plus but my experience with that has been ass at best and donkey shite at worst. BFA: azerite necklace powers (aside from their acquisition). Shadowlands: Shadowbringers! Dragonflight: Dragon riding. TWW: warbands for sure!

[@Paul2hip8]

I started playing seriously in WoD and had no idea all those features were new at the time.

[@MeThorvald]

Imho I missed out quite a bit on the original honor system and got up to Corporal (one week was all I've needed to get to Sergeant, but the patch rolled in) :|

[@Thalarion]

Island Expeditions( and the AI they created for it) is probably my pick for BFA. That lead to Torghast (which would be fantastic if it wasn't mandatory) and to delves (which are fantastic so far)

[@Maria_Erias]

I think Chromie Time is kind of a mixed bag. For people who are brand new to WoW and are interested in the story, it's still a wild mishmash that makes absolutely no sense - AND you can't even use Chromie Time for your first character. As of now, you're forced to do Exile's Reach, and then forced directly into Dragonflight. With friends who have come to try out Dragonflight and were coming from GW2 and FF14, none of them stuck around because their story was nonsense. SyncWeaver did a pretty good video about the new player experience a couple years ago, approached as someone invested in story-driven MMOs.

[@Tucher97]

For me, the best was account bound mounts for Cata as it makes mount collection just a tad easier, less archiac. Though I completely missed out on legion, I gave up one Draenor because wow it was tedius to pick up 2 quests and hike to the object for close to 10 minutes each and every time, hiking back and forth to do quests in the same area. Oh and going into battle for azeroth to die to an enemy that farted on me, my equipment was outdated, even the quest equipment rewards were absolutely worthless because it felt like I wasn't getting new gear. Maybe my fault for not spending 20 hours getting gear in dungeons. Chromie, what was chromie used for exactly? I used it and I was like "huh, nothing seemed to have change, like the equipment stat reduction is shit, enemies still killed me with a wet fart and all ground mounts I collected are worthless because I am already flying 20 hours from playing.

[@lloyd011721]

i loved legion and the artifact weapons. i actually made a post on the forums during cata asking for an expansion where you had a weapon that grew with you as you played. it felt like i got exactly what i asked for.

[@nordfald3740]

I think what I learned from this video, is that Willee doesn't really put much stock into actual gameplay additions, more so cosmetics and ease of use stuff. I disagree quite a lot with a lot of these takes

[@Kalsartz]

The link to worst features videos in description goes to youtube studios

[@Phearip]

Level one experience should be a product initiative for wow, optional of course, but fucking hell, blending classic and nuwow might actually make people play the game together again

[@heli0ns]

Legion really deserves way more credit than people tend to give it. Such a good expansion in the bigger picture.

[@nerdbrain396]

Awakened raids were first in shadowlands (fated) and I feel like the majority of people did not share your like of them. And instead felt it was a filler season that padded out the time of the expansion without adding very much content

[@GamingYooler]

Vanilla: The World TBC: Blood Elves (Yeah, okay at this point I wish they were Alliance but I'm just glad to be playing a blood elf either way). WotLK: LFD Cata: Transmog MoP: Real World content WoD: Levelling Legion: Artifacts BfA: The PvP Rating revamp (God I hate Allied Races) Shadowlands: Revendreth was pretty cool I guess. Dragonflight: Dragonriding The War Within: Warbands... maybe Delves, having fun with them right now. Best expansion in a while.

[@chipchippahson]

Dude how did you NOT mention t6 Rogue lol. Literally one of the most iconic sets ever, especially paired with the Warglaives.

[@The_Based_Batman]

The best part of Shadowlands was it ended and was immediately followed by Dragonflight.

[@ignaciomartin562]

Vanilla - open world TBC - attunements and raid revamp Wrath - dual spec Cata - transmog MoP - class balance and rotations WoD - PVE raiding Legion - weapon artifacts and class halls BFA - allied races and new zones Shadowlands - Castle Nathria raid Dragonflight - dragonriding TWW - Don't know, won't play Retail until WoW 2.0

[@modenoatr]

"The best part about WoD is how fast you can stop playing it" oof

[@Snagprophet]

Awakened Raids were called Fated Raids in Shadowlands

[@KidMoxie]

SoO introduced Mythic raiding, though I guess WoD had it from the start as a complete experience.

[@NoContextOasis]

Odd list IMO: The act of levelling in classic was very boring and uninspired, especially compared with nowadays technology. I’d say for classic, the best things are the community, world and the sense of progression especially with gearing. TBC: Easily the bet feature was quest hubs. WotLK: Class gameplay and feel. Everything felt more complete. Cata: Nothing, everything was reductive. MoP: Nothing springs to mind WoD: If done correctly then garrisons. As they weren’t, nothing. Legion: Mythic + BFA: Reductive Shadowlands: Reductive DF: Dragon Riding WW: Delves

[@GoliathZ13]

Totally unrelated to the video but warbands made me notice how funny it is that a lv1 character looks like a complete bum right beside a max lv character

[@Pengalen]

Side question about the worst. IIRC, Pandaren were your worst for MoP. What race(s) would you have switched out for them?

[@alsardar2740]

The mage tower in Legion was by faaaar the best solo player feature for me

[@lorpuz4664]

It's funny that the Best of shadowlands is the content that has the least to do with the expansión itself

[@chemistral4943]

Personally I think the entire talent tree rework in DF was better than Dragonriding. (Maybe that's because I already had 'Dragonriding' previously a different MMO lol)

[@Kensber85]

I love how everyone sh*ts on shadowlands but here we are 2 expansions later and some classes have covenant abilities as part of their core rotations because they were so loved. Not sure why SL gets a bad rep. Covenants were fun nice touch and castle nath was some of the best raiding we have had in a long time. Oh not to mention the creation catalyst, and awakened raids.

[@Muffnman007]

One of the most inaccurate statements is "peak sub count" for Wrath of the Lich King. Tbc peaked, WotLK barely grew at all and isn't worth mentioning riding the coat tails of what came before. In wrath classic we saw the same steep decline but with fewer new players coming back to the game. The population dropped off WAY harder than originally did, but still being the giant it was is the only reason it was good and one of the only reasons people were still playing it was because they wanted to see the end. The majority of players back then were in their 20s, not teenagers. Your content is great Willie but you are still making the same mistake by not reading the graphs correctly, not entirely your fault as the stats you don't have aren't published but understanding the mentality of the majority of players (which you could absolutely NOT do as a teenager) you can see that alot of new players were still coming in, it was just hidden by the fact that just a little more new players were starting each week not to mention bots. Also to add wrath was not the most alt friendly, cataclysm was even more alt friendly with more ways to obtain gear though auction house, pve gear through pvp etc.

[@DescendedfromOdin95]

Classic - Rank 14 grind TBC - attunements WOTLK - vehicle combat Cata - LFR MOP - Dailies WOD - Garrisons Legion - legendaries BFA - Azerite Shadowlands - lore/storytelling Dragonflight - perfect expansion TWW - Ara Kara sacbrood trinket

[@thomassleziak1222]

Half of the things belong in the worst features :D

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

@@thomassleziak1222 Pretty sure it was a meme post.

[@atorrance]

Your worst of feature link in description is a KZbin studio link is that right?

[@ThradNevar83]

Best feature for CATA to me was armor profeciency in terms of classes wearing their full armor type, no more warriors and DKs taking my rogues armor pieces. I dropped multiple guilds because they would other classes to roll on my gear.

[@itstheyok]

didn't awakened raids come in shadowlands though? They were called 'Fated' but essentially the same thing.

[@itsajindae9604]

hi the link in the description does not work

[@Jagonath]

Honest question: Haven't played WoW since WoW, no expansions. Interested in restarting... should I? And if so, where to start?

[@robinmagnusson4261]

Mythic raiding was introduced in Mop.

[@music4meh]

Artifact grinding was endless and killed not only alts, but even off-speccing. I disliked the entire expansion anyway. Legendary drop system was bad until you could just buy them, at which point they didn't feel important, just passives that made your class op and more fun to play. All the titanforging randomized bs compounded this. There was no designated pvp gear or stat. Want to pvp? Go run mythics first, a lot of them. Order Halls? I got a sewer instead of Ravenholdt. As a rogue pvper, Legion was ass. AP grind, titanforging and the order hall chest, farming legendaries, no pvp gear. Everything was a slot-machine. Contrary to a lot of other classes, I got no awesome order hall tied with incredible campaigns and noteworthy weapons (the hall was ok, the campaign was great, but comparing it to DKs, Warriors, Paladins...), I found no redeeming qualities. Mind, I totally understand and respect it when people say they loved the xpac, I'm happy people did. I however think it's totally valid to genuinely dislike it for objective reasons.

[@imRehnzy]

WoD really easn't as bad as people like to paint it out tbh. I thoroughly enjoyed it. yeah there wasnt as much content, but some people have jobs and shit to do. The PvP was fun, the questing i loved, timewalking was fun as an OG player. Wasn't the best expansion, but it was good fun

[@partolo100]

before I look at worse feature, I have a feeling garrison is 100% honorable mentioned :D

[@Muffnman007]

Mythic was not new, it was just renamed heroic and they added a difficulty in between normal and heroic. But Mythic doesn't really fit there, what else you gonna call it? Semi Heroic? obviously that sounds shit so they renamed heroic to mythic and added a difficulty in between which got the heroic difficulty slapped back on it but in now way are those raids heroic as they were just as easy as "normal".