WoW: Dragonflight From A Casual’s Perspective (2023 Review)

Spent the last couple weeks of 2022 playing the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion - so here's my review. Is this a good time to jump in if you've never played WoW before? Is WoW worth playing at all in 2023? I'd say so!
P.S. lmao I forgot to talk about Dracthyr which I guess exist and are cool I guess but not really my thing
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - The Main Story
02:59 - The Sidequests
04:23 - World Quests & Large-Scale Events
05:56 - Dragonflying - budget GW2 flying?
06:58 - The VIBE
08:01 - Professions / Crafting Update
08:46 - Horizontal Progession!
09:57 - Raiding
11:10 - Talent Trees RETURN!
12:43 - Conclusion
#wow #dragonflight #review

[@ivanzanetic9969]

This was the most genuine, no b.s., and most informative review of the expansion I've seen on KZbin. Finally, somebody who can give me a casuals' perspective. Thank you.

[@BloomHD]

Hey thanks man - appreciate the kind words! Cheers 😁

[@newagesoup]

it’s definitely the best casual experience at least since Legion. Possibly since WotLK. It’s excellent! They worked hard on it and it shows

[@brokenfragility]

neither of those were that casual friendly, but they were good yes!

[@MCG55SS]

Like how you reference two of the worst experiences for casual players especially early legion

[@nick1177]

@@MCG55SS wotlk was excellent as a casual. Between catchup buffs frozen badges etc it was a very easy time the only exception here is Ulduar.

[@barkley611]

“Best in a while” - ain’t good enough. People finally shook off their WoW addiction and played other games that have been better than WoW for 7 years

[@Dekipoo]

I'm also a very casual WoW player. I love how I don't feel pressured to do "chores" to be able to progress. I can just login and do whatever I want. I really don't remember the last time I cared this much about the world in World of Warcraft. So far it has been a 9/10 experience for me and I hope Blizz can keep the momentum.

[@AC-hf3gm]

ur comment %100 reflects my feelings as a casual. I get on for the first time and actually enjoy the grind and it doesn't feel like a chore because I'm not forced into it

[@dannettesavas3269]

How do I go solo for dungeons and dragon flight?

[@mariomarques775]

Being able to gear up while not having to be grinding a borrowed power or some raid feels amazing. Just traveling through the lands and finding good gear while vibing to great music

[@zolo1449]

Yea this expansion has been really fun just to log on, progress my characters, and have fun not feeling forced to play

[@cypherdroid]

Haha yeah but how you feel when you dont get an upgrade or receive any loot from dungeons or raids. Amaaazziing

[@Pat-Healy]

@@cypherdroid you also want this feeling to make you want to come back. Imagine if every piece of gear you needed dropped every single time you did the dungeon? You would be done with content in a day

[@cypherdroid]

@pathealy9466 i dont want to spend time killing a boss and dont get anything. The gearing system in wow sucks now, i dont play it anymore for that reason. I like to grind, but not getting anything or something useless for your spec is bad design.

[@Pat-Healy]

@@cypherdroid now? It’s always been that way lol it was only the last two expansions that everyone got loot, this looting system is literally the heart of WOW. Go back and play WOTLK, CATA, Classic…this is how games should be, if everything dropped first time why would you ever need to keep running the dungeon or raid. That’s just bad design

[@Iggypox]

Not to mention the mini games ( climbing, cataloguing, etc), fishing quests ( nets, harpooning, fishing on ice, lave) and after 2 months, the fact that everytime I turn around, there's a new surprise in the game, They did an amazing job this time!

[@meeko6692]

Blizz got the late game right this time. Now they need to fix new player experience. Players are thrown straight into BfA…and leveling BfA dungeons are just brutal. I wouldn’t be surprised if the game would be losing new players just based on that.

[@piotrk7272]

Great video. I’m considering coming back to WoW and it was really helpfull overview from the casual player standpoint. You did a good job describing new systems, upgrades and parts of the expansion, that you like the most. I’m glad that they choose the direction of smaller scale storyline and quests, which makes them more engaging and gives it this cosy atmosphere that you’ve mentioned.

[@Redemptionn310]

Fantastic video. I'm also someone that plays every new expansion on launch, and I usually quit after doing the first raid tier a few times, but this time I feel like the content has more replayability without feeling like it's a chore.

[@NielsTichelaar]

Indeed the chores in shadowlands was killing. i could not do torgast one more time. it made me go crazy xD

[@Nick-4K]

I never met someone who mains Guild Wars 2 over WOW. It's cool to hear your perspective on things. Good video!

[@vandakaii2893]

@@mariuszcerta1927 And WoW is not?........................................... HOW MANY GOLD MAKING GUIDES ARE THEIR FOR WOW? Seriously... Your point is stupid.

[@locien182]

This expac is good for casuals like my self now. With kids etc and little time. Questing is faster lvling is faster dungeons are fun so is the raid. I'm not able to burn my self out as I log on do some quests lvl alt Farm do a few keys log off etc. The lack of hard rep ie boreghast and renown gating unnecessary like in shadow lands is welcome from me but some of the elite ass hats might think other wise

[@akh4n]

This video got into my recommendations and it's gotten there so timely. Just as you said yourself "for those who jump in with each expansion and then dips out after couple of patches" I am a casual WOW player, I love the game but wasn't really sure if I even should buy Dragonflight in the first place, but your video got me thinking that I should. Thank you, man! Subbing to the channel for more :)

[@bolt4685]

I had an odd feeling watching this video like, "hmm this guy sounds familiar" then I saw that your Skill Ups editor! And it made sense. You both have a very similar way of speaking with the inflections and accent ofcourse

[@ammardian]

After skipping last xpac because of time commitments, this expansion really feels like a breath of fresh air, I really have had the most amazing levelling experience, where the story was fairy engaging and the side quests were just superb in their own way. I loved how it felt like gear upgrades didn't require you to raid, but they have really been spread out across world quests, weeklies, weekly events, mythic +, pvp, professions etc. It feels as if you can really choose how you want to play for once. I also just enjoyed the renown system a lot more, feels more rewarding the old rep grind, with the account wide unlocks and cool little features that I have enjoyed like rock climbing and spear fishing. All in all, most fun I have had in WoW in years, and really friendly to a casual player like me for weekend play. 9.5/10 (Not 10 because the main story was just a tiny bit generic)

[@vangrail27]

Been playing since Vanilla and I love this expansion so far actually nice to not need to log in everyday to stay up to date with everything. And just came across your channel nice video! Glad others can enjoy wow again. Shadowlands was a rough point in time in wow and broke a lot of people.

[@andreass6275]

Great video and makes me want to get back into it after 15yrs! But don’t have as much time anymore so would only play casually, mainly to experience the lore and maybe a few normal dgns and raid. Great to hear that it seems to work as a casual player

[@yaboi5047]

Im a veteran casual, haven't played in 3 years or so. I'm 64 right now having the same experience you talk about. Comfy, casual, vibing, no pressure. I love it.

[@rzu1]

Saw the video and judging the comments a lot of ppl are actually enjoying the game. Kinda baffles me cause I bought it, played it for few hours and asked for a refund. Well, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@KitPatron]

I really like the DF. After shadowlands, it is a fresh breath where I can just come to the game and play. Just doing some M+ and PVP and I still didn't complete the storyline but it is not required. No legendary staff that needs the grind, no azerite power and covenant progression... just plain game when you have time. GJ Blizz!

[@kevinvegerud205]

Stumbled across this channel, played wow (and only wow) for 16+ years now, was nice to see what a casuals feeling was about dragonflight!

[@alyssalomboy5299]

Dragon Flight is the one expansion I've been able to do so much content. I finally was able to play on my tank with a fresh new start and I've gone so far. I've been able to do more Mythics+, I've finally was able to play on raids, and even tanked for them! I finally got to beat the Raid final boss, it's so awesome and I'm so happy to be able to do it. Dragonflight has been nothing but amazing for me!

[@MrLegovas]

haven't had this much fun since WoTLK (and i LOVED IT) Whats especially good is that its good if you have a looot of time to play (like i did in most of nov-jan) and also when you can log in like 3 times a week. You still dont feel like you are falling behind in progress

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Did they give character models another revamp with Shadowlands or something? I don't remember my female Gnome Mage having so many hair/face options or the determination on her face when she runs lol. Seems like they added even more emotion to their faces and animations. Either way i LOVE the character models, always have but they're really animated now.

[@shootermcgavin7526]

I'm enjoying dragonflight... A lot.

[@Chunthoor]

You sum things up very well in your video. I myself have been playing WoW for 18 years and have developed a certain love-hate relationship with the game over the years because I've seen way too much crap in the various addons, but Dragonflight is just wonderful and for me the best addon since Lich King 15 years ago, if not the best addon WoW has ever had. One more note about the main story. You say yourself that you don't know the lore of WoW, so you probably can't begin to figure out the relevance of things, but that's perfectly fine. In any case, the main story is not over when you have quested through the zones, because the story continues when you have collected enough reputation in the individual factions and that leads to the fact that one continues to deal with the world events. On the subject of alt friendliness, everything you unlock with your main char in Dragonflight is automatically unlocked on all your alts, so you basically only have to do everything once and you can skip everything on your alts if you want, but it's fun so you do it anyway.

[@LycantheFirst]

Honest and informative I agree it definitely feels like a good expansion and hopefully a great direction for the game and company

[@isbammoi3358]

Tyyyy SO much for this video. - I'm a Guild Wars 2 veteran (since launch and even as far back as playing GW1), and got into FFXIV about 7 months ago now. Adore both these games - Don't give a single shit about mechanics or min-maxing or whatever - Only care about story, aesthetic/appearance, and RP (just with my own character in the world, like having a headcanon. Not group RP). - Loved ARR in FFXIV and I do EVERY sidequest. Apparently, ARR is infamously considered 'slow' and/or 'mostly boring' or at the very best 'not the good stuff', but I adored it. And I don't care if I should 'only do the blue and main quests' and it's 'inefficient' to do every sidequest, I like to because that's fun for me. Plus clicking every npc for their tiny extra dialogue that no one ever sees but effort is put into anyways. AKA I include this point as I seem to be easily entertained/pleased. - I last played WoW over 10 years ago (played since it's inception before that). Don't really remember why I quit. I can't re-access that account (used to be shared with my sibling and I, it became all her basically after I lost interest). TLDR, I'd have to start completely anew. Dragonflight has gotten me interested in playing again, just for the character creator alone. I'd also love to revisit some starting zones like the Worgen, Demonhunters, Pandarians, and Goblins, even if I didn't level any such characters further beyond their initial leveling zones. But I just... COULDN'T for the LIFE of me tell if the cost would be worth it, especially as a GW2 veteran who LOATHES sub fees (yet ffxiv cracked me on that one obviously). Soooo many opinions about WoW are negative in one form or another, and often deeply so. Many are also into gearing and raiding and mechanics and whatever. Lots of their criticisms are about things/systems/aspects in WoW I could care less about. aka I'm super grateful for this vid. I think I will get it, even if I don't play for long. I'm the type of player who enjoys finding a nice tree or cliff in game and just sitting enjoying the view and music.

[@Agumon5]

Great take on the game. This is what I wanted to learn about as a super casual wow player (only come back once every 2-3 years for like six months). Wanted to know if this expa was worth the hype. Looks like it's solid.

[@MMT399561]

Great vid. Personally, after playing Dragonflight (and its prepatch) for about 2 months, I couldn't get back into it. Not sure why honestly, but most of the points you made in the video I agree with.

[@richardshiflett5181]

Rep should be account wide

[@Shishakind86]

To be honest actually everything apart from story progression, gear and level should be account-wide and always should have been.

[@BloomHD]

Definitely. There’s been some moves to having more stuff be account-wide but things like Rep 100% need to be

[@dr3armer]

It is somewhat now. When you get 10 renown all your toons get 100% more rep.

[@williamstrange6788]

I need some advice, right now I am playing SWTOR, but I have played WoW quite a bit before, I played from Vanilia up to the first expansion where Blizz did the whole level crunch making 60 be the max level again like in old Vanilia WoW. I am wondering if it is worth spending the money to get both the Dragonflight expansion and a 6 month sub for the game. I would be grateful for any good advice.

[@TheBlizzkon]

Happy for you guys :) For me its probably the end of wow for me ☺️ For me to playing the game it was community and mostly friends. I dont want to force myself to play dragonflight since my mind tell me no. And wotlk classic community feel so forced and tryhard. It was a good journey for me vanilla to now and i dont regret it. I wish you all the best ☺️

[@frizfriz]

Excellent review, thanks!

[@nicz]

The graphic feels so comfortable to look at. GW2 always looks so noisy and shiny even with post processing off it makes my eyes hurt.

[@dinckelman]

Heavily stylized art will always age better than hyper-realistic stuff. GW2 does look pretty good, especially in new areas, but you're right

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

From someone that has close to 2k hrs on ff xiv..I've gotta say dragonflight is freaking amazing and I'm addicted. Especially to the pvp aspect of the game which I find better than GW2. Not to mention the transmogs for classes look breathtaking..makes you wanna go back and run through old expansions raids just to get those sweet looking gear pieces. Not to mention it's only 15 bucks a month.. so many people complain about that, like dude...it's ONLY 15 bucks, a MONTH.. coming from someone that has mortgage and a number of other bills..it's not that bad.

[@KROOF]

I've been avoiding Dragonflight reviews just a weeee bit -- till I play it myself -- but I really cannot resist watching a Bloom video. I've heard from a few people bout the "budget" feel of the dragonriding, so that is a bit unfortunate. Gryphon and Skyscale just be too good.

[@nicholasmontgomery9626]

To be fair, that probably has more to do with engine limitations than anything else. The game is damn near two decades old. I'm sure anything fancy they would have loved to have done just wasn't allowed to be done by the engine.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

sure doesnt feel budget when Dragonriding, especially when you get all the Glyphs, not bad for an 18+ year old game engine.

[@escapeartist1258]

Nice vid! I've been really enjoying Dragonflight as a casual player too. :)

[@eren__morwen5947]

Amazing video. It's so refreshing to see someone who's not hardcore wow player. You speak my mind, every word

[@Ragoom_]

I adored WoW from Beta til Cataclysm as a raider, then just dropped off a bit, came back for Legion which was fun, but then BFA and Shadowlands just couldn't grab me as a casual, I always felt like I was missing out. This is making feel like it might finally click.

[@peen2804]

I’d say give it a go. They’re corrected a lot of the issues from those two expansions in particular. To the point that in my opinion DF feels like an entirely different game compared to the majority of SL as far as the environments and systems surrounding the player are concerned. This is coming from someone in a similar boat to you. I loved vanilla through cata/beginning of MoP, then took a break through the end of mop until the mid point of BFA. I actively disliked BFA and SL lost me far before 9.1 ever came out. DF has been a great experience so far and continues to be a few months in. Content cadence will be on par or better than legion if everything goes according to plan. 10.0.7 coming soon introducing a good chunk of content before the bigger 10.1. Anyway blizzard seems to be sticking to their guns with the promises they’ve made and DF so far is showing that they’re keen on seeing them through which is honestly the biggest change of all. DF and the ass end of SL were made with large amounts of community feedback along with clear and mostly rapid communication in general and that continues to be their strategy. They could also botch it and kill the game tomorrow but it seems that they’re taking their promise to reinvest into WoW and it’s core evergreen systems seriously so who knows. Not particularly trying to defend blizzard, just that they’re actually trying matters to me, and it indeed seems like they are if that happens to matter to you as well. I know your comment is a month old but hope that helps

[@MongoMinutes]

Veteran player here and I left when they dumbed down the talent trees, and only started looking into the Dragons because I saw and advertisement. Then I saw the talent trees were back and have been glued to it ever since.

[@Atljeepboy]

I left wow around Legion and have been thinking about coming back. I like all the mounts of Retail Wow (and used to have a good collection). I dont PVP and am also thinking about Classic WoW. Thoughts on Retail vs Classic?

[@Voltomess]

I played wow few years ago and I remember ridiculous requirements to be able to use flying mount in new expansions is it still like that in this game?

[@Emidretrauqe]

If there's one thing I'm good on for several lifetimes, it's World of Warcraft's storytelling. A child's drawing is just as wholesome and doesn't take nearly as long to take in.

[@Hecpa]

Yeah this expansion is great and i really like the new talent system and dragon riding that they added

[@hunterfitch5951]

I’ve come back after a long break and I’m absolutely loving DF

[@joelhenry5489]

Gen X casual here. I love it. The richness of the world and the cultures is great. The vibe is mellow. Dragon flying is a great mini game.

[@Kmaitland89]

Dude doesn't even have a DPS meter. Crazy.

[@colesteffen7202]

That's hilarious because I'm the opposite. I've got physical, magical, healing, crits. I love to see big crits lol I can't imagine disabling dmg. If anything my addons have made my game more intense

[@RealStuntPanda]

After coming back to WoW after years of not playing I'm watching a bunch of reviews and I'm sold on buying it but I'm still torn if I should get the epic version. The price difference between base and epic is $25 (considering the $15 value of a month's sub with epic) so are all other things that come with it worth that? I just can't decide. Apparently there's an upgrade from base to epic but I can't find it or discover how much it is. Is it $40? Who knows? I surely don't.

[@howiefeltursnatch8901]

Yea ok for casuals but you didnt mention you need to do EVERY side quest to unlock the main story(Rep). All the keystone M+/Heroic raid+ gear out ranks the crafted stuff so if your not a high end raider your stuck with low lvl gear rating unless you want to spend days and 10s of thousands of gold to max rank anything. EVERYONE plays the FoM classes only. PvP is total trash. Have fun waiting 30-40 min ques for the "NEW" solo shuffle if your dps spec. The horde totally suck in pvp. Every BG is a death match ppl only go for kills when it does nothing for the objectives but lose every time. So play ali if you want to do objectives in pvp. Plain arenas is all the FoM classes/groups(Look at the leaderboards) Not trying rain on anyone parade but if your not that serious of a player then dont waste your time. 1st month maybe 2 you will have fun after that just a back burner game. And Fyi Ive been playing off and on since day one and play 2 characters not 10 alts like some ppl do. So I have some background with the game. And good luck finding ppl that can do keystone15+ cause after 15 it gets nuts.

[@_Travey]

Loving world of Warcraft right now. Chefs kiss to retail and classic wow, and the devs are going hard with patches/balancing/etc

[@jessemorgan2009]

Returned to wow years after having left to play GW2, ESO and a few others. Dragonflight is a ton of fun.

[@bludhunter2394]

I played wow in 2006 for a month and thought it was a dumb game 16 years later gave it another try because I saw a KZbin video of a demon hunter gameplay gave it another try and this is probably my favorite game of all time I’m the dumb one dragon flight story and as awesome and did legion really cool and almost done with bfa and wow just the coolest games I’ve played I’m hooked trying to go through every expansion to see what I’ve missed

[@Voltomess]

I played wow few years ago and I remember ridiculous requirements to be able to use flying mount in new expansions is it still like that in this game?

[@BloomHD]

Not in Dragonflight! Flying is kind of it's whole thing so you're introduced to it very early

[@annonono]

Nice video! I agree with you, i just think there's some problems regarding loot. I think the wow dev team should respect our time more, switching from group loot to personal loot in LFR and allow Pugs to choose personal loot instead of group loot. Heck, they could just copy the FFXIV loot system (tokens instead of loot) and it'll feel much better. 3 weeks of normal+heroic+lfr and 0 set pieces don't feel good and no one should experience this

[@scevvin7788]

Having not played since WotLK you honestly have convinced me to try it out, at least. Great video.

[@MrLegovas]

Dude, for me since WotLK is been downhill. Dragonflight is the first time i really had fun in WoW and not just "chased the dragon". And in different ways too - questing which is like "meh" to me, in professions, in PVE and defenitly in PVP. Also very alt-friendly

[@Cuse330Ci]

Great review, and you're right. Some of these quests were wholesome AF.

[@NatteBadMuts]

any chance you could maybe list your used addons? UI looks clean!

[@BloomHD]

No addons actually - Dragonflight brought along built-in UI customisation! All natural baby :)

[@NatteBadMuts]

@@BloomHD Ohh Thats actually really Nice

[@George_K.]

IIRC there's no Chromie time if you're a newcomer to the game - I think you only get to do the BFA story after the first 10 levels

[@James-kv3ll]

Oh no. You complimented WoW. My deepest condolences my friend.

[@ITPhilK]

Probably my top 3 expansions. Been playing since Vanilla and they knocked it out of the park especially after the sub-par expansion we just got out of.

[@dannettesavas3269]

Can anybody tell me how to set myself up to do solo dungeons please please please

[@jsavoni6478]

I havemt played in solo long... like after lich... I'm tempted to go back.

[@dave8413]

When you do +20s, its not chill and cosy, but hell :D

[@onyonrong9244]

Keep in mind, Chromie time is NOT available to fresh new players. After Exile's Reach you're dumped into a capital city with no direction, quests to go into dungeons you can't queue for, and flyers that don't actually explain what they're for. No MSQ here either to explain what the hell is going on. LFR is a mixed bag from mine and others' experiences as well, and does more harm than good for new players since the experiences can be so awful that it'll just turn them off completely. The low raiding population in retail compared to classic should be noted here. The game also doesn't explain what guilds are, how to join them, WHY they're so good, etc. They needed/need to streamline getting into normal raiding with a composed group instead of raiding with COMPLETELY randoms players. The servers also don't display any sort of faction balance or an accurate population or which servers they're connected to. Faction population for your server matters a LOT for the auction house, for example, even if there is a lot of cross-realm instance content you can do. I rolled on a fresh account, picked a random realm, came into Stormwind and there was ONE guy there who called me an idiot for going on the server. Apparently that server and its connected realms are just dead on that faction's side, though this was an issue that I thought sharding was SUPPOSED to fix but the world was just completely dead.

[@XJoeyJordison666X]

jesus this happens every xpac launch its just honey moon phase df is not that good....

[@jorgebellidolavado6382]

The problem it need to be above from good A easy mode for legacy raids is important but not available. Not for veterans/returning players, but new ones who doesn't know about wow beforehand. They are mandatory in order to understand expansion below 9.1.5

[@Sticklemako]

It's a very chill and reasonably fun expansion

[@moresnare]

They should rename this expansion to "Dragonglide"... Our flying mounts have been rendered useless. Just an observation, folks, I still enjoy playing the game. : )

[@somewhereupthere785]

I dislike Dragonflight. The leveling professions is gated behind Renown (reputation), the dailies are every three days, event timers are not announced, the quests left zero impression on me except for a very few. Shadowlands was a great leveling experience and so was Warlords of Draenor.

[@BrljoMrljo]

Well, you talked me into trying. Damn! my wife will be mad lol.

[@nelsonribeiro9394]

I love the fact that we are not against an old god or some shit, just good and old Dragons and magic nerd stuff

[@spectre1725]

I started to play wow again 2 weeks ago. I have no chance catching up with the professions making them completly useless to me. It's very frustrating and I think that it may hurt the game more then they can imagine. Everybody that will come back because they heard the new expansion is great and will of course have missed the start is damned to not be able to do professions. Overall I think the expansion is great but the profession system is simply not well thought through

[@dinckelman]

The real question will always remain how the game feels once you hit max level. If it's still an aimless M+ grindfest, that will render your achievements useless, once the next patch hits, then... it's still WoW

[@cristianoddi1675]

Imo late content it's the best part of the game. It s not Just about m+, u can improve your ilvl and parse/progress in raid m/ push pvp rating.... If u quit After the First raid clear in nm/hc that's not a gameplay problem...

[@UltimateGamerCC]

endgame can be whatever you want it to be, ilvls are closer together than they ever been, the Raid of course has the highest, followed by PVP, M+ is slightly weaker and World Content/Crafted Gear can get close to M+ level. basically the endgame is what YOU make of it.

[@westloves]

Cool to hear a casual loving the DF experience, for no lifers like me I’m loving it so much.

[@dannettesavas3269]

Would you happen to know how you can go solo for dragonflight dungeons I’m 73 and I can’t remember how are used to do that thank you

[@DarkScreamGames]

The big expansion-selling feature of Dragonflight, is that the expansion is good. That's a feature Blizzard hasn't offered in many years.

[@jmoore9157]

Nice video but this former WoW player (10 years) is much happier playing GW2. There’s still areas I haven’t even explored yet in open world. Without having to pay for a subscription, there’s no feeling of having to get my “money’s worth”.

[@nekrovx]

Agreed but I'm a former FF XIV player for 10 years and finally burnt out and started to play GW 2 also, just the world exploration , world bosses and skill based combat system have me hooked I just got to the HoT maps and am trying to solo the Champion hero points (even though your not supposed to) which is super fun cuz I gotta be on my toes.

[@Baard5Szomoru]

Indeed GW2 is so much better I don't know where to begin... When you play WoW again you feel WoW is like, so empty... So simple... Not as good as I used to remember. I'll never regret buying GW2.

[@_Travey]

Kekw dead game

[@ignan1923]

Ironic cause a played a lot of gw2 and I think it sucks compared to New wow

[@Youriik]

I've got like 3k hours ik Guildwars 2 and recently started playing wow. Really enjoy it so far

[@KvapuJanjalia]

After playing WoW for 12 years, I've just discovered what TAB key does. It's a whole new gameplay experience for me.

[@vandakaii2893]

It literally switches targets hence the title of its combat called "Tab Targeting" ... You played for 12 years and never noticed that?

[@Babugue]

I don't even like WoW, just watched 'cuz your videos are always amazing, and that one didn't disappoint as well, great content, Bloom… Still, more Guild Wars! xD Peace ~

[@JynxedKoma]

"It's like Torgast... But not *shit."* 🤣🤣🤣

[@OregonCrow]

I've been having a blast. :)

[@ricardomolina905]

I think it's a cause of the mandalorian effect (the series was obviouslybeter compared to the shitquels). The bar was set so low in the last 2 expansions that the only way was up.

[@vandakaii2893]

I keep saying the same damn thing.. Its not even a good xpac its just that the last two were so bad that this is jsut good enough to be enjoyed then hated..

[@jonathansoko1085]

I want to love guild wars but its "progression" system being how it is makes it so hard to care. I remember playing for 500 hours and i had the same gear. The best part was the group world content, not the dungeons or raids. I hated all of that, every bit of it but the open world was the only fun part. But even there, i put that many hours in and i dont remember any actual meaningful upgrades. I got 100000 currencies and zero satisfaction for any of it. WOW sucks today, hardbody but atleast upgrades and loot feels like loot and upgrades.

[@lilroza2k]

ORIBOS AIRPORT LOLLLLLL my god that got me cracking

[@Sleepless4Life]

Wow didn't think people actually played Wow for the lore. Good vid nonetheless.

[@Ohmygodbruh]

Wow player since release. I like the expansion but it do not give me this connection to lore, to community as I was feeling before. In general I pushed two toons to 70, one to ilvl 385 (raids with guild), and I do not feel any urge to continue. It’s good but not for me anymore.

[@mike4088]

It’s a great expac

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i think this expansion is not only great for casuals, but great overall, the outdoor content is solid, the classes with the new talent trees range from cool to OUTSTANDING, it's like Nixxiom said; "Blizzard are farming W's lately" with Dragonflight coming off to be a HUGE W. i feel sorry for anyone so jaded towards Blizzard that they cant just enjoy the game, it's the best it's been in flippin' years, arguably ever... but of course we have to wait and see what the rest of the patches bring, to which we know that there will be 6 patches, 2 major, 4 minor.

[@BloomHD]

Agreed! That roadmap is looking nuts, fingers crossed they can deliver

[@UltimateGamerCC]

@@BloomHD well they did do patches in 77 days during Legion, and without any borrowed power to workaround as well as having 100 more devs working on the game, i sincerely believe that they can do it.

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Glad to see after back to back failures after Legion (which was our last time in wow) they seemed to have added the fun back in

[@mattt6201]

Definitely not horizontal progression and professions are very grindy atm.

[@buckweebit7357]

Battle grounds?

[@sonielotaku3293]

As a casual player im enjoying it so much

[@Shredow2]

"There's no big expansion selling feature" Well, there is a new race/class combo thing. Though it doesn't seem to have inspired as much hype as older classes or races did.

[@CoryD918]

I’ve actually enjoyed dragonflight. I leveled a toon to cap and had no interest doing anything further during shadowlands. Though I think the evoker class is pretty lame, I think the content of the expansion is strong so far. Now I will never put anything past blizzard to mess things up but so far on the right track. The only thing missing imo is difficulty. The dungeons are easy even under mythic+, raid is simple, and the tier gear looks super lame across the board. I remember grinding for the awesome tier loot but now couldn’t care less other than stats. Whoever did the design should be ashamed. Just a bunch of rock looking toons. LFR also needs to be tweaked because it just encourages people to join, die once, leave with no consequence. These people will never understand the struggle of getting a 25 man together and those who did join, were typically committed because the wait could be infinite

[@eren__morwen5947]

I'm the most casual player of wow and I love every second of it

[@RanRayu]

a lot of good in the game, i just dont trust blizz will be able to keep this going, but its a good first step. and the one thing that keeps me from actually playing the game more is the community. its just as toxic as ever, its just generally not friendly and absolutely not welcoming to new or returning players. for fun i thought id see how the players behaved in 50 dungeon runs over 7 days, 27 times when i suggested we change tactics after wiping a couple of times i got told in various ways to die. xD in the end i had 6 runs out of the 50 that were fun and friendly all the way through and actually enjoyable. the wow community has this deeply ingrained mentality that other players are there to waste your time and are a barricade that blocks your progress that you need to surpass. and seeing as blizz doesnt do much if anything with reports... yea this isnt likely to change, ever. the community cannot fix itself, blizz are the ones that need to step up to promote non-toxic behaviour and actually punish toxic people. but they seem unwilling or incapable of doing that.

[@s.b200]

Were you playing horde? Thats where the higher achievers tend to go. Im a semi-casual player in the Alliance nowadays - after playing horde for way too many years :p the vibe for dungeons and raids is just so much nicer on the Alliance side. And more accomodating to new players. Since this update came that we can now mix horde and alliance in some dungeons/raids I got a nasty reminder of how toxic the other side can be sometimes.

[@RanRayu]

@@s.b200 oh i played both, and often got told to crawl into a ditch and die on both sides. its not so much horde or alliance being toxic but the player base in general. and its mainly because the vocal toxic part of wow thinks of other players as obstacles to overcome and that everyone is out to waste their time. in ffxiv the vocal players see other players as allies in the journey to the end of the dungeon.

[@s.b200]

@@RanRayu I'm very sorry you had such a negative experience in wow

[@vandakaii2893]

That is a endgame game play issue as a lot of dungeons are timed in m+ which basically turns the dungeons/raids into time trials.. It forces tanks to be quiet and push the group forward as fast as possible.. I love Mythics but I hate being timed as it kills the vibe. This has created a good bit of toxicity cause one bad player brings the whole thing to a halt and yes it then turns into a "I have to be good enough to carry this scrub" mentality cause if not then no one gets ANYTHING and it just becomes hours wasted for nothing.. NOW IF they removed the timed runs it would chill the playerbase out a lot more in dg/raid pushes like it used to be.

[@RanRayu]

@@vandakaii2893 it comes from m+, yes. but it has become so normal for people to act like that, they also do it in normal dungeons while not even max lvl. before i stopped playing df i didnt even get to m+ to have people there be toxic. xD its just one example of how blizz made the game in such a way that it makes a lot of people in it toxic, and unlike ffxiv there is no consequences to being toxic, cause blizz uses an automatic report system that doesnt do much if anything, and the ffxiv team has real gms.

[@COREcasual]

Let's just hope they make enough money from it to continue making a good game

[@jonathanwilliams3713]

I'm glad there's optimism from the fans of this game, but I burned out pretty quickly on the expansion. Once you kind of do all the open world stuff (which gameplay is still pretty mid, despite the exploration vibe being very good), it's still the same formula of monotony. Log in, do raid, log out, log back in next day, do a few keys for sparce loot, get bored, log off, wait for the next week. I don't see them deviating much from the boring seasonal plan that drives this style of gameplay since it's been what they've been doing for basically the last 6 years. There's really no community in this game, nothing to get people to collaborate outside of the prescribed raid times for your guild, which I'll be honest, is misery. It's impossible to find a group of 20 people who you all like anyways. Much prefer the smaller content sizes of other MMOs. The crafting system doesn't bring as much to the community as I thought it would. I'm sure it helped Blizzard sell more WoW Tokens, though.

[@VeGohan]

@Cegydygr yeah u just plain wrong buddy

[@VeGohan]

@Cegydygr sure i will have my fun

[@vandakaii2893]

@@VeGohan He is not wrong a lot of my guildies and me have done beat just about everything and just about all of us have our pvp gear.. It went to casual and now everyone is moving on to something else.

[@nicholasfry4253]

Kinda sad to see all of these people coping so hard about DF but what can you do, this happens at the start of every expansion.

[@anthonyjones8797]

I came back to WoW after a 4 year absence as a casual player and I do not think the expansion is casual friendly.

[@Trazynn]

Previous expansions focussed too much on the plot. The player was taken from cut-scene to cut-scene. It was a total soap opera and the world was a setting frozen in time to suit those particular events. Dragonflight puts the plot aside and lets the world 'breathe' again. The player is an insignificant worm in a vast world again, exactly how an MMO should be.

[@zentraveler1834]

I’ve never enjoyed fishing and collecting herbs

[@arvidberg4857]

You should really branch out more! Youre the most underrated mmo content creator!

[@arvidberg4857]

vullpera is a bad meme though

[@BloomHD]

Hey thanks! I've for sure considered it - I play a lot of different MMOs, but it's mostly just about if there's something to say about them that hasn't already been said 😁

[@Plutoquintana]

Gw2 is a nice game too, just sucks that the graphics are so bad. Feels like playing a game from the early 2000’s