What Your Favorite World of Warcraft Expansion Says About You
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- What your Favorite World of Warcraft expansion says about you! Are you a fan of Classic WoW, Wrath of the Lich King, Legion, Dragonflight, or just World of Warcraft in general? Have you ever wondered what stereotypes exist surrounding each WoW expansion? If so, this is the video for you! In this recent addition to the Nixxiom channel, we're diving into each WoW expansion and sharing what makes each one special, or not so special.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:04 Vanilla WoW
1:05 TBC
2:27 WotLK
3:44 Cataclysm
5:02 Mists of Pandaria
6:09 Warlords of Draenor
7:24 Legion
8:33 Battle for Azeroth
9:38 Shadowlands
10:53 Dragonflight
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MONK! And put Chen on it!!
warrior!
Have I missed a druid one?
Said it once I'll say it again. Warrior themed long sleeve shirt with a bastard sword on one sleeve, a battle axe on the other and a shield on the chest/center. Would be neat
Rogue would look awesome
You missed perhaps the coziest part of WotLK: Grizzly Hills music
He has talked about it in a previous video, I think it was about Wrath Quests.
It's the most overrated thing ever.
It's not overrated if sitting inside their huge hollow tree it makes it even better 🤣
Storm Peaks and Zul'drak had some great tunes too
Oh yeah, fr. So nice to see green after all the snow and BOOM, the music hit as you come in on your griffin.
i grew up poor, and my parents didnt have the money to afford both cable AND internet, so me and my brother chose to have internet. i was born in september of 2003, and played occasionally as a little girl on my dad's account, but got my own account in like 2012, right before MoP came out. MoP dropped in september and my parents scraped up some money to buy me the expasnion and a subscription and every day before and after school i'd sit and just play my panda and it is such a nostalgic memory for me. i miss playing world of warcraft with my dad more than anything else
yoo same im only 20 and ive been playing wow my whole life. I playing it as i watch this haha.
Im 18 and remember MoP the most, it was great and I was sad when it ended
I'm 31, and to this day I still remember Mop as one of the best expansions because it was just so enjoyable. I did raids and ranked arenas and that expansion was my first time really getting into PVP. It was so much fun just getting into arenas and just healing like a boss. Raids were amazing as well and same with dungeons. 😊
I'm a wrath baby but MoP was undoubtedly my favorite. I was caught off guard by how much fun I'd have with it.
I loved mop pvp to death
MoP pvp was peak imho
yea same, it was such a great time
the only reason I’m excited for Cata rerelease is cus MoP is after!!
Dude MoP Classic and my life is complete. MoP pvp undeafeated
Anyone who liked Shadowlands like being tied up, covered in syrup, and spanked because that expansion was pure punishment!
i started in S3 Shadowlands so i didnt notice any of the cons which made it pretty epic :P
also it was the pandemic so we needed sth to do ^^
Edit: the more i think about it, Dragonflight is better tho
I liked SL more than Dragonflight.
zones were really good, loved the PVP, the glad mounts, the Mythic+ dungeons and mounts, Nathria for me is insanely well made raid too.
Hey, don't insult the people that want to be tied up, covered in syrup and spanked!
@PsIXaR0 Nathria was the highlight of Shadowlands minus Stone Legion General that boss was ass but the Raid over all was great. Torghast could have been great it's issue was you had to do it so it became a chore if it was for Cosmetics, different game play, mounts and pets and didn't effect your player power it would have been really good. The cons however far out weighed the positives. I only place it slight over Warlords cause at least it was devoid of content like that abomination.
MoP was actually the expansion that kept me from quitting WoW. I had already cancelled my subscription, but then, they dropped the MoP announcement. I always loved to play Martial Arts inspired classes and the monk announcement, as well as the pseduo-asia-setting hooked me instantly. I had very high hopes for the expansion and when it arrived, I was still blown away. The immersion, the art, the music, the storytelling... to this day, MoP is still my favorite expansion.
Play Stormforge Mistblade 2 with us! The server is going strong. Druid is soooo much fun to play on mop.
MoP is still the most overhated WoW Xpac ever. It had great raids, bosses, lore, PvP, etc. if it wasn’t for the pandas and the bad marketing around it most people would still consider it up there with wotlk
A lot of the 30+ WoW boomers hated it
Prepatch and patch 1 of MoP drove many players, myself included, away. Valor gear given for dailies coupled with bad dungeon design and a narrative that -at the time- seemed un-warcraft'y were the driving forces. Pandaren and the art style were mostly secondary.
Pandas were good
MoP was underrated.
People now days really like and even miss mop im sure more people will come back for mop clasic then cata clasic
@@choonboxthat's wild because I loved the first patch of MoP. The leveling through the new zones, the art/music, leveling my farm, ToES was awesome and so was HoF
MoP was a magical time for me. It was the first time I could experience casual raiding (i.e. LFR flex and sometimes normal) without having to lead the raid or the role. The quest lines, lore, aesthetics, dungeons, raids, and pvp was top notch, and the story was surprisingly rich and immersive.
TBC baby, definitely has a special place in my heart.
Classic and BC were so alive, everywhere was populated. Randoms joining you for quests becoming your buddies for years, standing in the cities asking for ports from a mage or using warlocks to get the group all together. Before accessabilty and dungeon finders making travel and exploration and working with friends almost pointlss. It was a truly magical time..
Humans were just a tad better back then 🤣 today were fucked
@@StonedJesusLover I blame social media, the housing market, and inflation for a lot of that. It's literally impossible to graduate high school, get a place of your own, and afford groceries, bills, and gas on a normal 40 hour/week job. Young adults are stuck in their parents homes until they are 25-30 which degrades their mental state.
I'm 35 years-old and have been working since I was 16 and just this last year I managed to get a mortgage loan that I won't be able to pay off until I am around 55-60 years-old. I work full time as a janitor on the night shift and part time at a gas station and average 65 hours a week and I BARELY make it and usually only have a hundred or two left by the end of the month.
There is a reason humans were better back then, my dad only worked 40 hours a week as a janitor (yes, it runs in the family) and managed to support his wife and my brother and I on that income alone. I did a Google search on the property I am currently paying off (slowly) and the place went up by over 70% just in the last decade, that is CRAZY!
Has the average income went up by 70% in the last decade? Probably not.
Not trying to be a whiny bitch but that is just how it is.
lol it's called the Burning Fail for a reason ... heh
Wrath & Legion will always be peak
Wrath gets a lot of credit for being the expansion where wow peaked, but I don't think it gets enough blame for being the expansion where WoW stopped growing. A lot of the problems that plague modern WoW like LFG were introduced in wrath.
@@hydromancer4916 wow stopped growing in cataclysm
@@user-kp3ii5vi8h Wrong. WoW plateaued in wrath, Cata is when it went down for the first time.
I can only say, as someone who never played the game back then, that when I went from retail to classic for the first time, I was blown away by how good it was, but going from classic to TBC made me quit, and Wrath wasn't any better. Zero nostaglia, just gameplay. I REALLY like TBC and Wrath lore, and as a lore nerd, that should matter, but it's not enough. No opinion on Legion, I might've missed out, quit WoW because of WoD at the time.
MoP and Legion* Wrath was mid
'tis I, the WoD liker who did not start in WoD. I started in Wrath! I still go back and do Garrisons on new alts, and Shadowmoon Valley is my favorite zone in the game. I just love the world of alternate Draenor a lot, and it warms my heart that as the years have gone on, more and more people are beginning to soften on my favorite expansion.
I agree for the most part. Not a huge garrison fan, but i do firmly believe that WoD would be loved if A. They had finished the expansion and B. There wasn't such a bad launch and long content drought between expansions
I think WoD is the best expansion for raid loggers. I hope they get up to at least WoD for Classic servers one day
The Chad WoD enjoyer
WoD had incredible music.
I will die on this hill, wod had the most fun class design, not saying it was the most balanced but the specs were so much fun to just play. They trimmed the fat and streamlined a lot of the stuff from mists which in my humble opinion made them truly peak. Then legion came and forever ruined my ret paladin, absolute trash expansion 0/10 (Jk legion had great content but it ruined my main and forever turned me into an altaholic)
MoP was so good for me that every time a see the videos or hear the music a have goosebumps, such a great experience, no other expansion had that much soul in it.
Well said, true
This is kind of sad to say, but Legion was my favorite expansion because I was alone. It came out the year all of my friends and I started college, a lot of them were either getting crushed by academics or entered a frat that ate all of their time. I went to a commuter school so no one was ever on campus, so I ended up finding friends in wow. It was the first time I had raided and discovered how much I loved healing. I became good friends with people I wouldn't have because blizzard hadn't turned M+ into an esport yet, so it was the perfect content to just chill on Discord and play.
BFA has to be one of my fav expansions. I really liked the storytelling, and how balanced the screentime between Alliance and Horde characters were. For every progression on the story about Jaina's path to forgiveness, both to herself and by others, we got the story of Zul's betrayal and Rastakhan's relationship with his daughter. Ofc we can't forget the crazy pre-expansion burning of Teldrassil quest that I to this day get shivers from, from the fact that I experienced that in real time. My Anduin loving heart was also happy, bc he got some great storytelling too.
When the content drought was at it's worst I actually got the chance to dip my toes into the roleplay community, where I got a lot of fun and goofy memories. I was never really bored that expansion, which makes it one of, if not my all time fav.
bfa zones were really good. Loved mechagon, drustvar, and nazjatar
@@jonp449 nazjatar yesss! Zuldazar was just peak!!
The burning of Teldrassil was a character butchering for Sylvanas tbh.
Anduin content is why I liked Shadowlands 😂 that I loved the Venthyr aesthetic
I've been a fan of MoP since day 1 and it's been good to see it come around to a lot of players
Cata and mop are still my favourite era of wow. Cata got me into raiding and most of my friends played at that time. Legion was an exception where everyone came back for its full lifespan of the expansion but after that it was never the same. Still love the game tho
"Legendaries that made you feel like a titan walking among men"
*-While showing Sephuz's Secret*
Yeah, as a healer I got Velen's Future Sight legendary as one of the last in our guild; BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP ME FROM ENJOYING THE FUCK OUT OF THAT EPIC EXPAC!!!! Cant wait for legion classic unironically
That fucking ring, dude. That drop singlehandedly destroyed a good relationship I had with our raid team's other Assassination Rogue, because he dropped it the same week I dropped Mantle of the Master Assassin and that little bout of RNG made some heavy out-of-nowhere animosity start fermenting inside him, directed towards me. He started holding me to a super high standard in parses, kept trying to catch me underperforming or making a mistake so he could point it out to the RL somehow, all because he felt he deserved the legendary more than me despite both of us having no competition for Mythic spots. He ended up getting Zoldyck and I thought that'd be the end of it, but then I got it too, and that shit was the dealbreaker. Dude legitimately started griefing me.
I love how fair and balanced you were with every expansion. I was honestly expecting just making fun of some people. Very well done video.
My favorites were Pandaria and Legion! I earned the Lightbringer title right when I finished the antorus raid for the first time. One of my most memorable moments in my gaming life!
Thank you for this video!
Legion was the best expac don’t @ me. When BFA came out, Blizzard pretty much said “let’s take all the fun stuff from Legion and completely remove them”. Never went back to retail after that.
Legion being the best is debatable but the second part of what you said is just spot on. Really makes you wonder wtf was going on through Blizzard's heads at that time when they decided to do this.
I've been playing since TBC, and Legion was the most fun I had with the game since WotLK.
You leave a comment and expect people not to reply? Are you slow or something?
This comment is nonsense, BFA took everything from legion and turned it up to 11. The borrowed power, the the weekly and daily WQ grind. Even the devs have said exactly thar.
@@borek92the irony in this comment lmao. Calling thar mofo slow, when the extremely common phrase “don’t come at me” goes right over your head.
Even though Dragonflight isn't my favorite expansion, it is the best expansion to date. It just does everything non-story related as good as or better than the best aspects of previous expansions and on top of that it does more.
Truly. The Story is meh, I don't think it's the worst it has ever been, but it's far from great. The rest is insanely good though.
@@aFoolsMartyr The story is bland because they try to be politically correct, which makes it impossible to write an interesting, immersive story with interesting characters.
Otherwise yes, the rest of DF has been fantastic.
Citation needed.@@ivankovachev8835
My heart belongs to MoP.
i started tbc two weeks before release and the game caught me right away. the atmosphere, the players, everything was perfect. i've never had such a good and formative gaming time as back then, although i still enjoy the game a lot today
I'm the TBC baby, the description it just fits me so much omg. I started by wow experience with this one and finished with Cata.
I started in Wrath but Legion and Dragonflight are my favorite expacs, just for how engaging the stories are and how the profession systems worked.
2:50 Arthas is the fantasy version of Vader. How can you not love his character arch.
Or the fantasy version of Horus. After all, Warcraft is "inspired by" 40K. And for a long while, since i didn't play the tabletop and haven't looked at artwork, I always imagined Horus as Arthas, much in the same way that KaelThas was essentially Magnus with extra steps.
except star wars fucking sucks.
I started playing in late Vanilla but I still loved WoD... the zones are gorgeous, the soundtrack was a masterpiece, the Iron Horde was a good adversary even if the time travel stuff was silly. Seeing the world before it became Outland is really neat, and when you go back to Outland afterwards it feels all the more tragic.
Agree with all your points. I started in late TBC, but always loved WoW lore from the OG RTS games I played as a young child. Spent hours reading about the landmarks and stories about the outland in those days, and seeing it all uncorrupted and meeting some of the near mythic characters was awesome. I also loved the garrison, and managing the war table.
i agree with this but there was not enough content and it grew old after about 4 alts
@@caraziegel7652 to be fair, four alts is way more than the average player can maintain
@@happytoastfudge i dont raid . . . i have like 22 in retail and 4 in classic, tho only 1 retail is maxed and only 4 are in dragonisles
I've started at Wrath with my friends but Cata was our golden age. That was when we had highest number of players in our guild online...And literally everyone quit when MoP came about(except me). Our second golden age and my favorite expansion was Legion,I've managed to convince most of them to come back and we had so much fun...
7:52
Nixxiom discussing Legion: "Legendaries that made you feel like a titan walking among men!!"
Also Nixxiom: Shows Sephuz's Secret.
As a person who's favorite expansion is Dragonflight, I really do just want to have fun and ride around on dragons. Legion is my second favorite though. Good story.
surprisingly wholesome video, not what i was expecting from the thumbnail lol
DF is my fave, with 2nd a tie between TBC and WotLK and Vanilla a very close 3rd. I've found everything from WoD to SL incredibly frustrating lore-wise but I adore their aesthetics.
I was definitely in the TBC camp for the exact reasons you listed since 15 bucks a month was a bit hard to push for with parents, but managed to get the game around the time when it first came out despite it being in high demand. Loved seeing Azeroth as I leveled up and eventually got to the point where I finally got to go through the dark portal and see the armies of demons sieging it and the alien atmosphere that got me hooked.
I have a strange relationship with BFA (specifically the Ny'alotha patch) because I acknowledge that the gameplay/systems were not good, but it was a unique time, during Covid lockdown I decided to become a GM of a guild and ended up having so much fun and making a lot of friends. The guild did really well in terms of progressing through raid and having other fun events. If it weren't for that I probably would have hated BFA though. Otherwise, I am a Classic WoWer at heart and have hardly touched Dragonflight.
Ive always said Legion was my favorite because it’s when I started playing the game fully and having a subscription. Id say Wrath, but the only thing i did was get spawn killed by death knights as a kid with a trial account, so i cant say much on that lmao
Similar experience here. I started playing wow during wotlk but I was a dumb 12 year old and didn't know what I was doing. I never even got anywhere near max level before I stopped playing. I started playing again towards the end of legion after a 6 year hiatus from wow, and THAT is when I really dove deep into wow.
I mained DH like everyone did and had so much fun just questing and doing my class hall. Then I got to the suramar storyline and just fell in love with the lore and rep grinded like there was no tomorrow so I could play as the nightborne. Ever since then, I've mained a nightborne character every expansion. There's nothing quite like experiencing Suramar city for the first time.
I was a dumb 12 year old in TBC so WRATH was when I was at least in high school I played a bit more with that expansion lol
Same, I started to play in WoD but it was Legion pre patch when I hit max level and even thou the WoD logging screen is THE nostalgia to me as I leveled to it, I loved Legion as an expansion.
MoP was my favorite. Purely because it was one of the few expansions, where PvP got some love for once.
As someone who got WoW on release day, MoP was probably the most fun I'd had with the game since TBC. TBC came out when I became 18, and being in an EU guild meant we had some really amazing IRL meet-ups. WotLC was amazing too, but with the same people.
Cata came out and I didn't have the time, but when I got to MoP I'd made a whole new group of friends and we enjoyed the hell out of it. The amount of content was insane and the highlight for me was the Green Fire unlock for my lifelong main. This game, for me, has always been based on the things I did with others. Not what I've done.
It may have been a warning sign, looking back. The game becoming more mobile-like in MoP. The farm was just an introduction to the Stronghold we got in WoD, but that's how things go. I dip my toe back in every now and then but it's hard to keep up.
Mists of Pandaria still remains of my favorite expansion, even in retrospect when looking over other expansions.
My favourite expansion is Warlords of Draneor :) And I started playing in TBC.
There's a number of reasons for it. If put very short, I finally got into raiding thanks to LFR, and it was glorious - raid mechanics were extremely fun, various and rewarding. Also Frostfire Ridge music is absolutely beautiful. I liked the idea and convenience of garrisons. I liked the zones, the way you travel between them, how zones were packed much denser, and dungeons were also very cool. Zones as well, still remember world-raiding Lord Kazzak. There was so much to love about that expansion, but all you hear about it is "omg no content worst expansion if you like it go see a doctor". Well I've never been the guy who lived in WoW for more than a year at a time, and who needed for the content to fill up his every conscious second in life. I'm more of a "mkay, the expansion is finally ready to be conquered, let's explore it" kind of guy. And for me it was great. My only complaint would be the fact that orcs were main enemies for 2 expansions in a row, it was just tiring, but Gul'Dan is a cool enough enemy to have in lore.
I've been playing on and off since Vanilla and my favorite expansion is Dragonflight. Genuinely think it was awesome from beginning to end. Beautiful zones and music, solid class gameplay and balance, fun dungeons and raids, dragonriding was a slam dunk, and I enjoyed the story
Started like a month before Cata launched, leveled to 85 as a DK after getting a gnome rogue to 55. Loved every moment of it!
Fun fact: I got to max in MoP without ever touching Pandaria! Still have no idea what's on that continent to this day
Loved this video!
My favourite expansions in this order:
Wrath Of The Lych King
1. After playing WOW since the first day, it was the first expansion I felt as a competent WOW player. I lead my raiding guild. We had progress. I had great connection with my guildies. My character was always prepared and Priest was so much fun. I played Holy for 25 man and Discipline for 10 man.
2. The thematic was amazing. Loved the story, the lore, the zones. The quest were more fun and more advanced technically. The lore was deep. I was really into it.
3. On a personal level I was very involved with Norway at that moment. The country was attracting me for personal reason, and that expansion was just evoquing it
4. That expansion was the theater of the love story with a Norvegian guy I spent 7 years of my life with.
For all those reasons, WOTLK will always stay my favourite WOW expansion of all time but also accross all games. That was MY golden age as a gamer.
Vanilla
You described me perfectly.
1. The begging. The discovery. The game that transformed me into a gamer for the first time
2. Totally a DnD fan. Started as a hardcore roleplayer
3. Loved the adventure feel, the social interaction with players, the exploration, the lore and the long, meaningful progression
4. I was pretty addicted!
BattleForAzeroth
I missed Legion, because that's when my relationship with the Norvegian boyfriend ended and in all honnesty I could not play the game because of the heartache it caused. Just hearing the Suramar music caused me PTSD. I had so much hope in that expansion, both on a gaming and relationship level, and everything fall appart.
1. Battle for Azeroth was my COME BACK to the game. I changed faction, I created a new character. It was a fresh beggining
2. TROLL LORE! Oh my god! Zandalar for ever! Never felt so much hype about a race and the lore. The music made me feel amazing and wanting to overcome anything.
3. Now I was a full time streamer, it was my first expansion ever I could NO LIFE and say it was my work. How amazing was that. I was "working" 14hours a day, and for once I was not the last one of my guild to be max level
4. I had gathered a guild again. We were raiding together. Progressing together. It was fantastic!
5. It was my second "WOTLK" style experience. Felt great and gave me closure.
I left Shadowland after the passing of my dad. The grief made me disconnected with everything I used to love. Then the drama in WOW happened, which discouraged me to come back. I though I was done for real with the game.
I also got busy with the release of my own MMORPG (a old school inspired indie MMORPG Embers Adrift )
But with Blizzcon, I heard Chris Metzen call, and I'm coming back home. Playing Season of Discovery for now, and catching up with Shadowland story. I hope to be able to play the story of Dragonflight before The War Within release. Cause I want to witness this. I want to be there for WOW 20 years anniversary!
That was a wall of text. if anyone did read this THANK YOU!!
I do unironically love Shadowlands, and it's for exactly the reason you said: the covenants.
I got so invested in the individual stories of each of the four and what each stood for, and questing through the zones was just a good time. Seeing Ysera again, and just everything about Revendreth was especially amazing. I ended up creating several roleplay/story characters for them, and I haven't done that since Legion!
Also Ve'nari. I adore that woman.
Not my favorite at all but I thought SL was better than people give it credit for. Very grindy though
If you say you enjoyed shadowlands, means you are the type of contrarian andy who thinks disagreeing with a popular opinion makes you look smart.
The release was awsome one of the best things I’ve experienced in wow and it slowly got dog shit
It really wasn't that bad. I enjoyed it. It had its flaws but I liked the zones and story and the class design was awesome.
@@rorysmistakesthe story? Holy shit.
@@aFoolsMartyr Yeah, the stuff with the jailer was really really weak, but the zone stories and covenant quest lines were awesome. That kyrian quest with the guy in Redridge...
@@rorysmistakes that I can agree with
The descriptions about Wrath of the Lich King and the part about been around a cup of chocolate reminded me of nixxiom's old video about his favorite places on WOW also the Cataclysm, and Legion descriptions are on point
I loved legion the most, and a lot of it had to do with you Nixxiom. Thanks for the great memories and making the game feel alive on youtube
Mop was my absolute favourite since playing from BC
if your favorite expansion is vanilla, you have to move on man, she doesn't love you
I didn't get to play a lot in WoD as I didn't hit the max level until Legion pre-patch, but I still watched videos from it as they introduced me to WoW and the WoD logging screen & music is the WoW nostalgia to me.
Man your vanilla lover description was pretty on point for me XD the social aspect is half the game for me, and the immersion into this amazing world is the second half. TBC holds a close second spot for me
Legion is my favorite partly because you were the hero leading your order against world-destroying evil demons, but also because of the Mage Tower challenges. These challenges forced the player to master the fundamentals of each class and specialization. I developed an attachment to every character I completed the Mage Tower with, and I'm glad that Blizzard eventually brought the Mage Tower back for all players to enjoy, with brand new rewards (even though the old weapon transmog rewards are no longer attainable).
Legion was my favorite as someone who joined in Cata and took a long break between MoP & Legion. Class fantasy was top tier, loved feeling like a proper agent of the Lich King for once, doing his bidding to destroy the Burning Legion. I have such fond memories of that and miss it in the subsequent expansions.
Wrath is my all time favorite and you absolutely nailed that description.
There was something so special about that expansion, it was one of a kind man.
WoD content was amazing despite being too short, having a life to deal with didn't weigh too much on it.
Garrison was a bit controversial but the music, the design and the vibe of that expansion were amazing.
TBC for life baby, still waiting for another BC server.
Cata Baby, fight me!
I entered WoW at the like the very end of Legion. Barely figured out what Mage tower was before it was removed. BFA was held in a special slot in my memory as the beginning of my journey for guilds, raiding, and introduction into my favored class Paladin. Shadowlands, as someone who only stuck it out for Season 1, unironically was also another favorite expansion as it was my first time I was remotely interested in the story and was my first time I delve into PvP, high M+, and Mythic raiding. Dragonflight was my first expansion (well, going to be) where I am able to witness all its seasons without "going on break" due to college.
No regrets.
I literally paused the video and gave you a thumbs up for your TBC section. Lit-er-al-ly perfect!
Legion still has yet to be topped for me
So true king.
legion was topped 10 years before it came out
@@CsDeathshadow blasphemy
Legion meant so much to me as someone whos been playing warcraft games since warcraft 2. It wrapped up so many loose ends and gave storylines to every class! First time i dipped outside my mage and shamen mains just to see what was going on with the other order halls, so amazing
Good video! Enjoyed it!
As someone that started at the beginning of TBC. I got to say...MoP is a very underrated expansion. The raids were sooo good. Throne of thunder is by far one of the best patches probably after Ulduar for me personally.
I started in TBC after watching my older brother play the game for weeks, His character was a Night Elf hunter named Lidor. So naturally my first character was also a night elf hunter lol. But Wrath is definitely my favorite Expansion, you were dead on about that Cozy feeling. I will always have fond memories of trying to help my brother tame Arcturis in Grizzly hills and just chilling to that music. I also really loved the howling fjord and fighting back against the Vrykul. The entirety of Utgrade Keep is still one of my all time favorite dungeons.
I started WoD as a first time player and can confirm it was my favorite. Loved everything up to it and garrisons was a lot of fun.
He really hit the nail on the head for me with BFA.
Really fond memories for me and I defend it to date.
I didn’t like how the war ended but the journey was GREAT!
Dragonflight is currently my favorite expansion of wow. I pre-purchased it and was not disappointed. My main before was a demon hunter and i loved the Legion expansion but dragonflight stole my heart. Nixiom is 100% correct about dragonflight lovers, I'm actually very surprised that he got it down to a T.
Hope everyone is having a great day and enjoys the tuskar soup 🍲
I started in Cata and it holds a special place in my heart. I finally decided to start playing WoW after I watched the South Park episode on it and immediately fell in love. I would play it religiously, and it got me through a rough patch after I lost my cousin. I was on my undead warlock running dungeons and I decided to vent to the group I was with and the support made me shed tears. Cata will always hold fond memories for me, and I fully intend to play Cata Classic.
I remember playing Warcraft 3 when it released at just 6 years old, and i played it all the way until World of Warcraft released, a month after release i showed my parents the game and they both wanted to play it so they got accounts, then my brothers got accounts, and i had a character on each of their accounts that i would swap in between when they weren't on their accounts. I loved every bit of all of it. You absolutely nailed the WotLK section, and to this day Wrath and subsequently Cataclysm for me will never be beaten by anything. I know all the hate cata gets but it was right in my teen years at that time and I was just LOVING all of it.
I was most drawn to the MoP xpac for the forested areas but mostly the battle pets. After learning and watching many You tubes on it , esp. Hazzlenutty's , built up a vast array of pets teams. On days where I just want to kick back I'll look for new pets , do PvP pet battles and just kind of like summon various pets to go around with me while doing gathering. Got to love the dragon flying to.
came into the game in vanilla, but i really got into it during tbc i still remember buying the expansion and game time cards in stores
Wholesome af vid. Breath of fresh air. Thanks fam
I started late vanilla and still play retail, but Cata holds a special place in my heart. I just love the feeling of the areas.
Been playing since BC but my fave to this day is Battle for Azaroth. Zandalar and Boralis had the best vibes to quest in and the whole expansion felt like a return to format
I started at the tail end of Dreanor (like, 2-3 months before Legion dropped) but it's hard for me to pick between Legion or MoP. Mop was really fun to explore and the zones were gorgeous. But the Legion artifacts were one of the best/most fun things WoW ever did. Could've used more balance and less grind sure, but working on those was just FUN for me. Plus the story was really neat. It felt like things had built to a proper climax.
I have missed these kinds of videos❤
I was just about to return to WoW after an 7-8 year long hiatus from the game after Legion. Thanks for the video man, cannot wait to see what Dragonflight has to offer. I've been eye-ing on it, but have to get back into shape with something before the "WorldSoul Saga" kicks off! Any class recommendations for Dragonflight?
Shadowlands lover here. When I tell people that Shadowlands is my absolute favorite expansion I always get the "what do you mean how could you actually enjoy that xpac?" and I always say the same thing: I started playing wow 3 days before SL dropped, so it's what I know the best outside of the few days I leveled. It's the xpac I played when I truly fell in love with this game. Even now, I genuinely wish I could go back to the SL days and forget about DF all together so I can hearth to sinfall and do laps around Oribos
I'm one of the MoP people, and your analysis was spot on. On top of that, I was just having so much fun and felt immersed in the amount of content to do. It felt like the perfect balance! I would almost argue that Dragonflight has had too little good side content.
To answer why a Shadowlands player may have loved the expansion, I'll point out one thing: The dungeons were honestly pretty solid and the raids were not bad. I might be in the minority, but I really loved the dungeons in SL, especially the crazy seasonal affixes (like relics) and the ways covenants interacted with their respective dungeons.
What I didn't appreciate was the sheer grind of the expansion. I remember going into season 1 as a frost mage. Entering CN on week one. Seeing two pieces of loot drop per boss, if that, in my 30m raid group. I got zero loot on week one. I was bewildered. I joked that maybe the dev team thought what made classic wow so popular was making bosses drop next to no loot. I couldn't understand it.
And then that sense of not being rewarded just kept coming. Venari's rep was a painful, unpleasant grind. Seeing +40 rep in the chat box was depressing. Anima was cool, until it wasn't. I need HOW much anima just for this cool soulshape?
And then the droprates came in. Some rares in SL have such low drop rates on their pets that they rival the original drop rates of the MoP world boss mounts. Hell, some rares didn't even drop their mounts unless you were at the right renown level with a certain covenant.
And then, of course, Sanctum happened. We all know what happened next.
Playing since Vanilla and MoP was Peak. The content, the solo Dungeons/ story things and the music is so iconic. love it
As a WotLK lover, I can just say you got it right. I grew up on Warcraft 3 and tragic hero-villains are just the best thing in fiction.
I was hoping for at least one sarcastic comment, but you kept it very professional and gave your honest opinion as to what each expansion says about someone. Respectable, I can't complain, though I still hoped for a little trolling. Good video.
I started in Vanilla at 1 year mark. I loved the first 3 and MoP. I’ve played up until DF came out, but now I live in Classic vanilla. I’m happy again
Actually yeah, accurate. Draenor is my favorite expansion, it was also when I started playing WoW. So I was all into the whole garrisons, getting the stablemaster with going out and taming future mounts, etc.
You are correct in that Bluzzard was facing a lot of scrutiny during Shadowlands. I enjoyed the variety of gameplay and having several unique movesets to play around as well as the dungeons. I believe Shadowlands had the best M+ out of any expac, although there were several classes that got the short end of the stick and I can understand where they are coming from.
I loved my time in Shadowlands for one sole reason.
Convoke the Spirits.
What a good video, damn. Also, classic MoP when.
I was gone during the WOD launch so i never saw it's trailer, but looking at the Garrison, it looks Nothing like it does in-game...the trailer actually makes it look Pleasant, the river going across it, the elevated cliff where the portal tower is, the bridges, that looks so much better, smaller, but better.
When WotLk came out, I stayed up for the midnight release to get my collector's edition. I didn't sleep for 36 hours because I was so engrossed in playing the game. Definitely had lots of coffee by my side, and once Tims opened in the morning, I was off to get some of that before returning to the game.
As someone whose favorite expansion is Dragonflight, you hit the nail on the head. It is FUN, it was exactly what we needed after Shadowlands nearly killed retail it is a good time with lots to do and good vibes. It's honestly the expansion probably closest in vibe to Vanilla with its sense of adventure and smaller scale threats and I don't think enough people give it enough credit for that.
I reached Hall of Fame in Legion only for me to have it for like 15 days when they announced they removed the Hall of Fame status and character build protections. I was the Beast Master Hunter named Kithrine who was 1 of 3 man team to beat the Emerald Nightmare Mythic+ and claim the record of lowerest party to complete that extremely difficult raid 9 hours later. Thats why Legion is my favourite (kinda). I started in MoP and loooooved the story and the beautiful areas of Pandaria.
One of my fondest memories from wotlk is going to grizzly hills to find my irl friend who would spend half of his playtime fishing and listening to the music and chill with him.
WoLK is definately my favorite, even when it came out I didn't get to play it much, or even reah lvl 80. Enjoyed all the zone musics and overall feel to it.
TBC is my nostalgic fav, but BFA is my modern day favorite. Yea the mechanics weren’t great at the beginning but I loved the zones and storyline. The thing that clinches it for me though is how solid and tight knit my guild was during that time.
I fit every category you put together here. Ever since WCIII I have loved this universe.
i started in mid season three so really recently and i love it its great. really hoping war withing is as good or better than what ive done so far.
I very rarely watch your videos, but this gave me an interesting perspective.
I started in February 2007 with BC, never played Vanilla, but got frustrated quickly, back in the day your had little help online and everything was kinda difficult and new.
At the End of 2007 I returned and started to love the game, not skilling all 3 trees as a lvl 28 mage was probably helpful. From then on, I loves the game. WotLk was the addon I definitely played the most, together with friends and school mates, man was that a time. After that the game kinda went downhill for me. My best friend started played in Cata, we played until WoD, he did some of the hardest content, but we didnt play after wod really. Every addon I level one of my chars to max and then stop. Except Dragon flight, I just couldnt bare even the first 30 minutes, it was so boring. Thank you!
I was watching it expecting to hear some satiric humor but it was really wholesome and kind. It's good to hear that people have their different opinions about the expansions but it's still the game we love....or love to hate.
I have met (1) individual in my journey's around Azeroth who claims Shadowlands as their favorite expansion. Her reasoning for this love for the expansion is because she developed extreme Fictophilia for Sire Denathrius. To this day she raid leads Castle Natheria transmog runs every week solely for the pleasure of it.
MOP fan here, started in WOTLK, but played my hear out in MOP mostly because of the guild I joined and the people I played with. Miss the people and the game. Good times.
Cata isn’t necessary my favorite but I started w Cata and a Worgen Hunter was my first ever character, so I have fond memories of Gilneas and Darkshore and that area
I started in BC and absolutely loved wrath, but I was also in my teens so I didn't understand it fully from a full lore perspective, but I respected it greatly. My favorite expansion though was definitely mists. I liked the pandas and monk healing was the first time I finally felt like they made a class just for me. I loved the gameplay of it and I still believe it was the best version of the class. The raids were great, the lore was nice and it was the first one my husband and I hardcore raided in. The tillers farm was also fun for me
Legion was fantastic for class lore, it felt amazing to play and fun
Honestly, I've enjoyed every WoW expansion to some extent. Even WoD, even Shadowlands -- they all brought some new fun experiences. I started in BC but every expansion has a place in my heart.