I appreciate this pov Accolon, I have been playing since the Vanilla days and the only reason I continue to play is the story and storylines. Story is far more important than peeps think.

I would love to see more mini-factions and alliances, not just a big red V blue / alliance V horde. Would be interesting to see the two main factions fracture into a bunch of smaller ones, where we can focus on the stories of the actual world itself. The story needs a more game of thrones type of vibe where there are a lot more variables and potential plot twists. There needs to be something at stake. Humans unite, purge the Dreadlord influence from the Scarlet Crusade and make it the vanguard / retribution subfaction of the Silver Hand; defeat the Undead; kick them out; reclaim Lordaeron and restore it to its former glory. A shining new age for Humanity begins. Undead flee to Duskwallow Marsh and begin to rebuild using ruins of Theramore as their base of operations. Horde didn’t grant them support in war against Humans, so Undead leave Orgrimmar. Still part of Horde but it’s tense. Etc...

@Dryzual

2 ай бұрын

I will never get my head around elves being allies with Orcs and Trolls and being on Horde. It would be so much more interesting if the political alliances were fluid and everchanging through story.

@borisfrlic

2 ай бұрын

@@Dryzual Agreed they loathe both Orcs and Trolls. Complete nonsense just to make sure the game is perfectly symmetrical, which is stupid. They should have added Draenei for Alliance, Mok'Nathal for Horde, then elves for both (Blood Elf / High Elf)

I think this is perfectly in line with Holly's contention that the Mid and Casual playerbase is underserved. New players are certainly part of that class. They are tired of hemmoraging players in an effort to serve endgame elites.

Happy to hear they're gonna be focussing on the new player experience. I liked what you were saying, have the new player go through main story quests from Vanilla - Shadowlands or whatever. I saw a comment somewhere, I think on reddit.. someone was saying it would be cool to rework chromie time where instead of her just changing your timeline.. she should actually come with you. they didnt elaborate on it much but it got me thinking it could work something like this: have chromie as an NPC guide, and do the story from Vanilla-current. she will explain stuff to you at the start of a zone or at key moments and kind of get you started and make sure you understand what you're doing story wise. and you would follow along with main campaign questlines (where they're marked with the special "!") and optionally you can do side quests as well (maybe you can summon chromie to you and ask her to temporarily turn off your experience gains so you can do some side quests for a bit before you continue with the main story) then when you're finished with Vanilla, chromie can kind of recap what you just did, and lead you into Burning Crusade and explain a bit about the dark portal. basically always transitioning the player between each expansion. chromie could even give lore tidbits like "Outland used to be Draenor, but when the orc shaman Ner'zhul recklessly opened dimensional portals to find new worlds to conquer, Draenor was torn apart and believed completely lost" she could even take you into dungeons/raids when it makes sense in the story.

as someone who helped a few friends to start playing the game... some of them had horrible experiences and left the game but restarted with me as a mentor. I can tell you how bad it is: For them it was night and day, and I had to tell them: Ignore the game after you leave the island, do not start the Campaign after the tutorial, do not use Chromie time we will just go out there and explore sometimes going places 4 levels above us so we have somewhat of a decent challenge and not 2 shot everything. DO NOT GO INTO ANY DUNGEON WITH THE DUNGEON FINDER, Everyone there expects you to know everything and everyone does BfA or Dragonflight stuff only so... you wont find no one playing them, you will get lost in the dungeon, and you will get kicked, so avoid dungeons. So we started doing dungeons with just 2 people, and it was challenging and fun, and rewarding, and we could do it on our own pace. So... The New player experience can be good if you have someone just telling you what NOT to do, and 2 of those things is: Ignore what the game asks you to do.

@bryanm255

2 ай бұрын

That is still an absolutely horrible expierence. The new player expierence is just dog shit and mostly always has been. Blizzard made the game to care only about max level which is why you get kicked for not knowing how to play or the dungeon. There isn't enough training for a new player. No way to learn mechanics because everything in the outside world dies instantly. Dungeons are useless because again things die way to quickly where you don't even learn any mechanics. Blizzard has a really big challenge ahead of them making new players feel welcome. But they do have new technology where they can make other dungeons with followers. This will help immensely. Story and making new players care about lore characters as well will make players actually care about events in newer expansions. Another thing Blizzard has failed with new players. I get there are new players that don't care about story fine.. but there are others that want to be involved within the story. But without story game is meaningless.

@TheMaxCloud

2 ай бұрын

@@bryanm255 Right, Im not defending the game, Im saying it, the only way you can have fun as someone new, is having a mentor, and that IS indeed a bad new player experience, the game SHOULD be the MENTOR...

Wait, no "Welcome a-BACK"? I have no idea why they don’t do that Illidan questline thingy where you play a scenario as the character reliving their past events. Blizz could create questlines for their greatest bits, even dating back to the RTS days. Imagine purging Stratholme as Arthas, lol.

@bryanm255

2 ай бұрын

You can already do that.. there is a whole dungeon..

Skirmishes and flairs-ups of angers can happen really pretty easy, and you can have splinters of those factions. Anduin and Thrall are good together, Baine, Jaina, all work well together. But what happens when a group of loyalists to Turalyon decide that he's not going to give the throne back to Anduin. Maybe they cause trouble with a group of Horde, making it look like Anduin has gone rogue to start a war to implicate Turalyon as the aggressor. Or the Goblins get tired of being Horde and strike out on their own and decide that getting all the gold by raiding settlements, but the Alliance doesn't know that the goblins (or a faction of them) have struck out on their own. There are a lot of ways to combine and recombine where parts of the main factions have to work together to stop someone who has decided to take their half out of the middle. I like you idea about letting people play through stories that matter. We really need to get people going to the old areas again. I use Chromie Time just to pick a spot and I go for the quests there. I change it up with each alt because I don't think I could level 10 alts through BfA, I would go crazy. I think I've been in every old area getting my alts up to 60. Maybe have the new character go through the area where their racial group comes from, doing the stories from there until level 30, then move to main content of each expansion with only the most important quests in the leveling map. Breadcrumbs for the story moves you to a new zone, maybe not completely in order. Maybe add a Historian of the Void Elves or of the Elves (and combine the stories to see where they split), Achievement so they can track how much of the story they have.

Great video Accolonn! You getting better and better at this, keep up the good work :) Salute from Italy ^^ PS: You are my Favorit African!!!

@TheAccolonn

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much mate.

@TheWarcraftCode

2 ай бұрын

@@TheAccolonn you most welcome

I am curious to see how this all plays out. I would like to see the starter zone quests revised to dig more into the various lore, and seeing the main faction war get moved into more local skirmishes just makes more sense while saving the big faction get alongs for the more serious stuff.

@hobosnake1

2 ай бұрын

I see what you mean, and I agree to some extent. There's two ways that work in my mind. The first is your method. The second is one that I prefer a little bit more: Complete the world soul saga. The ending will result in a "reset" to Azeroth. We know that blizzard is slowly revamping every zone in the old world. It's obvious that their plan is to slowly do this, with lots of progress made in the world soul saga. So they're not going to remake the entire world all at once. So whatever "reset" that happens, it has to leave the world in its current state, cus why would they do all that work on the slow revamps otherwise? So essentially a lore event where the populations of Azeroth are either replaced or they lose their memory. Something like this. The reset could completely unwind the current Alliance and Horde cooperation and turn it back to all out war. So a complete return to the faction war and what made Warcraft 3/Classic WoW so beloved. They can keep cross faction gameplay and have it make sense lore-wise. there's always been cross-faction friends in the lore. Jaina and Thrall for god's sake. I just really hope we get a reset like that. Hopefully it would overhaul the leveling experience to feel like a huge journey like Classic. WoW lost the magic of leveling long ago. Especially with stat scaling and zones scaling to your level. As a noob in classic, I always strived to get to that next zone. To finally be able to kill those scary mobs that could one shot me and were so high level that I can't see it.

@MSinistrari

2 ай бұрын

@@hobosnake1 That's a good idea too.

Blizzard used to tell more "bitesized" stories. Often the troubles of the land wasn't related to the big bad dragon, that was a problem for kings and nobles. The stalvan chain as it was originally comes to mind. You travelled all across the land to learn about this noble family. To me everything has become about the big bad and the story arch of the expansion rather than the story arch of a small town we adventure too.

If story didn't matter to players then Wrath wouldn't have been so popular. People legitimately wanted to play so they could finish the Arthas storyline started in WC3. I know I was one of them.

You don’t get enough views, brother I am happy to contribute to the numbers. Great video

@TheAccolonn

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate your view brother. Thank you for your support.

I only started at the end of BFA in 2020. It's been very difficult for me, because I have taken so many breaks with getting frustrated with trying to push content and just not being able to do it.

They need to do this.... as I said for the past 6 years, they need to do what SWTOR did, have the main quest chains to tell the main story, have the side quests optional... SWTOR did this with icons you can manually TURN ON or OFF, you can choose to do the side quests later if you want, but the main quest chain gives you a balanced story for those that want to learn about it without all of the junk. Surprising others are just now thinking of this, glad to see some are finally on board with this.

I think it’s the massive learning curve for the game. So many times “yeah I like the game I’m just lost playing”. I get it. Played for 7 years before stopping for 9 more. Back to Shadowlands at the launch of DF and I was absolutely lost. New spells, transmogs, button bloating, I can absolutely see where players are getting lost in translation.

Now you got a brand new sub :D

small faction wars is sort of another "War with in", with the major faction trying to quell them.

Great video, again. I do like the idea of the individual racial factions warring, and not the Alliance or Horde feeling the need to be involved.

I AGREE. i came in as a new player in shadowlands. most of my lore knowledge I got from KZread, rather then the game. I don't mind it being this way because I rather hear it and see it then read it but others might not feel that way. I felt overwhelmed by the lack of knowing about the lore and finding it in game that I had to seek it out with content creators.

I had a theory that perhaps the plunderstorm, and pandamonium timerunning event might be alternate ways, pandamonium specifically and perhaps future more permanent features, for friends to play together and level up as any race, grouped regardless of faction, allowing cross faction races to play and group together in those areas, play together to max, but to not interfere with the main conflict stories and world, so the world remains alliance and horde, but these events or alternatives provide methods for friends or players to meet and play outwith the faction wars. imagine a , for example, northrend similar to the pandaria timerunning, where you can be an orc and a human, and you work together(as friends in the same party) while leveling, and in dungeons, against the scourge etc across the leveling experience, each of the expansions should be timerunning redesigned to work this way, telling the most important story, in this case, the scourge invasion, whereas when you're max, you can go into the old northrend and do all the loremaster side things. I believe this definately would create an alternative leveling and story based, even instance or event based(tho limited time events like that just suck, keep em permanent blizz lmao) stories like this. It could even be done via chromie time - you choose the Burning crusade Remix story - and you can group with anyone as you learn the history of outland and the orcish horde invading via the legion, but dont have to do all those side quests picking up poops.

They should just do a streamlining of the main story quest for every expansion and have you go through each one starting with Cataclysm.

@zevahc3928

2 ай бұрын

Well, I should have watched more of the video before commenting lol

I'm hyper for the Pandemonium event since I never played MOP. If this is as good as it looks I would think they would do something like that for each xpack for leveling.

Underappreciated content creator. Have my like & comment for the algorithm overlords.

@jt5765

2 ай бұрын

P.S get the horde out of my friggin tree!

@TheAccolonn

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate that. Thank you.

It's quite ridiculous that certain people assume players just want to get the max level, it's just false. Max level is the one thing i couldn't give a rat's @ss about, i don't find excitement in it as there is just nothing exciting in repetitive content like raids, dungeons...or gearing up in general, given how worthless items are these days, replaced constantly. Retail completely lacks leveling experience, that MMORPG experience, a very important aspect, and until they work on that..i cannot play it. Rushing to max level completely demotivates me from playing the game as whole.

Even when I stopped playing WoW, I kept tabs on the story because I was curious where it would go. I returned to retail when they announced the world soul saga just to experience the story. Story is the most important part of the game imo. I never liked the faction war because I think it's a distraction to keep us away from the real threats around us, but small skirmishes between sub-factions make sense.

Why don't they make campaign quests for the leveling experience and it's like you travel around with Chromie. The campaign quests would lead the player through the 20 yrs or so and Chromie ports you to each new campaign zone (to save travel times) when the previous area quests are done. By the end one should be 78 or 80 depending if you did other stuff i.e. other sides quests.

How id fix WoW: 1. Have a complete overhaul of the leveling experience. Create voice acted questline (MSQ) that takes you through each expansion. Create a Race questline, class questline as well. 2. Have a max level permanently, and only do horizontal progression moving forward (akin to Guild wars 2) 3. Player housing, instanced, completely customizable. Race based furniture and decor to encourage crafting, farming, etc. NPCs move in, marriage, family. But keep cities useful with vendors, events. 4. Make every dungeon and raid tiered for Solo, Duo, Trio, Quad, and 5.

I hope the faction war comes back into the setting sooner rather than later. The correct way to do the faction war is to never end it. It should always be a piece of the game's setting but it doesn't have to be a main focus most of the time.

@Desolate-Utopia

2 ай бұрын

I always enjoyed the faction war it just never landed well because Blizzard refused to commit with every fiber of their being. Horde players always got sick of their leaders either being killed off or villain batted, though not directly related to the faction war aspect. I think a good way to do it properly is to drag it out just like they're doing with the World Soul Saga. Let tensions simmer, let certain events spiral out of control, let particular groups declare neutrality. Politics is complex.

I feel like a Destiny 2 type of story would be great! You start with your race, and you play the first 10-20 levels in your zone doing your quests, learning about your race. Then you run into bronze dragons that tell you about the danger the current expansion presents and that, to prepare, you must understand what transpired. Then you have a timeline, and it makes you quest through the important beats of previous expansions while narrating the story to give you context

@haks8639

2 ай бұрын

I'd love a system like this

@Ghostalking

2 ай бұрын

@@haks8639 and it’s completely evergreen because as the level cap increases, a new expansion is also added to the timeline for players to play through on their way to the new current expansion!

If they made evey part of azeroth instanced where u zone in and and you are the same level as the mobs then max lvl players could go back and play thru all the quests without feeling stupid op

I miss your old room/background with the blue-red vibes. Good vid though!

I am not a hater. I love your videos. : ) I watch each one that I see on you tube.

This is great; we as guilds can just be considered mercenaries rather than champions or heroes. The new player experience goes like, Hello, Hero, new player, be like, who are you? I just got here.

For me it all depends on how they implement this war. If Blizzard can deliver a good and enticing story, then I'm all for it.

I be playing wow for 3 weeks. And I boost a Character 2to 70 I am so confused , but I am still having fun

So we’re basically going back to how they did battlegrounds in vanilla? I guess it worked we shall see

They only have to remove the forced tutorial isle and make new ppl choose what expansion they want to do for chromie time (they can even sort the expansions with numbers which order you can play them for the complete story)

They thing the game lacks is class & race fantasy. That is the foundational pillar. That is what makes the WORLD come to life. This is especially glaring when it comes to cosmetics. World of Warcraft barely has any new cosmetics that would make you think you’re in the Warcraft universe.

I agree with the level overhaul thing. The leveling experience is a mess. I'd propose something similar to chromie time but as a "here, let's get you caught up on what's going on," in which you play through the important beats of the past expansions, each segment capping with playing through a summarized version of the raids. I.e. picking the important fights that you could run with players or npcs. Then moving to the next expansion. But as for the faction war thing? I'm over it. Honestly after legion I rolled my eyes like why are we, the players, who in game stepped away from the factions who were too busy scrapping with each other, to form order halls and get shit done suddenly bowing our heads and following orders from the faction leaders that couldn't be bothered to save the planet from a kegion invasion? I think if they want to reignite faction conflict there should be an option to flag yourself as a neutral "mercenary." So that you don't have to take a side. You can still participate in, but not have to align yourself with the faction of your race. So we don't get another case of players having to be okay with their faction leader burning a world tree and committing mass unaliving of a race...

I hope we get more war narrative man. To be honest her statement didn’t fill me with as much optimism as it did you but there is a new BG coming so hopefully it fits into the narrative and isn’t just then throwing a bone to a starved dog.

lol - I've never heard you being called a hater - to me, you seem like a fan of the game (and I am salty personified -altho not by the game just by some decisions, sometimes). I always watch your stuff - keep it up.

@TheAccolonn

2 ай бұрын

Oh, there's many on Twitter that call me far worse but I appreciate you, thank you.

im like 3 minutes into this video and i gotta pause it to comment.......... people thought you were "just a hater" for thinking the new player experience is bad?! the new player experience is SO BAD it breaks my heart for new players. i see the comments from new players on my videos saying how absolutely confused they are and they try so hard to figure it out but just cant. i can tell how incredibly overwhelming it is for them. they dont know where to go, the story is a mess, they're forced to do things they dont understand why.... idk the new player stuff makes me so upset. i hope blizz can find a way to make it easier

For New players. Blizz didn't even upgrade the Command Board after all these years. New players are guided to it and you can't even browse through all the choices, you just have 3 options.

i liked how each expansion had it's own "catagory" of levels. Vanilla content was 1-58. Burning Crusade was 58-70. Wrath of the Lich King was 70-78. Cataclysm was 78-85. Mists of Pandaria was 85-90. Warlords of Draenor was 90-98. Legion was 98-110. And then Battle for Azoroth was 110 to 120. Thing is, from my experience learning the "behind the curtain" of WoW, the "level cap" cannot go higher than 122 because that was just the maximum the foundation of the code can recognize. This is why they "revamped" the leveling system "killing two birds with one stone." By doing so, you have no idea what the lore is. i would rather they be honest with the players and explain this handicap, perhaps figure out how to upgrade their system to recognize a potential infinite level system. Then revert back to that old system of leveling that required you to experience the game going through each expansion as they happened. Thank you for reading my comment.

But Holly has undead posture, she's such a Lilian Voss image.

I think they skirmishes are they way to go, because personally I'm tired of the faction war. It had its uses, and it had its time, but was we head into the World Soul Saga, it just doesn't make any sense for us to be going back at one another's throats. All it would do is weaken us. Which could allow for a devastating attack against bothsides. But then all that will do in the end is force us to team up and pool our resources so we can fight the BBEG.

Faction wars coming back will be heralded by one extremely clear and concise in game choice, remove war mode, make the world pvp again, nothing else will ever change my mind about the factions

I don´t actually mind that the faction war seems to have a comeback, i only ever disliked it because of its gameplay implications. Most "serious" players are on horde while the only races i play are on alliance, not being able to chat/play with friends or trade of the opposite faction etc. Storywise it could be interesting although it may not be 100% for me as the stories i enjoy most are the lovecraftian void and old gods, which i am hoping will get their spotlight in TWW and Midnight.

Gilneas proved beyond a shadow of a doubt how stupid their “friends” thing is. Sacrifice the all the good worldbuilding done (Scarlet Crusade and Gene Greymane, in this case) just to avoid conflict. Idiotic.

They should have never tried to stray away from the faction war. The conflict between the two factions is what put the “War” in Warcraft. Killing the end bosses of every expansion was not where the “War” came from.

@tascharahernandez5867

2 ай бұрын

With war bands being implemented another faction war wouldn't make sense.

@spindoggytheexplorer2915

2 ай бұрын

@@tascharahernandez5867 even a sub par writer could make it make sense. Nuance exists.

@UnitedWeStand1985

2 ай бұрын

@@tascharahernandez5867 correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t war bands just a fancy way of making everything bound to your account and not a single character. So I don’t understand how that applies to a faction conflict or war…

@TheVakles

2 ай бұрын

Well the war has gotten bigger than that at this point in the lore. The "War" in the name has multiple meanings, Azeroth is the world that the cosmic forces have crafted their war on against each other, it also means the wars we've fought each other, but the factions have started to notice their part of a much larger war than the faction one.

@mustafaalg3030

2 ай бұрын

@@UnitedWeStand1985 guild v guild my guess the idea of warband

We came back for classic, but can't play retail, Last time we did play retail was close to the end of BFA and we just didn't know wtf was going on! We stick around with your community for the discussions especially around the Lore, we loved the tinfoilery. Its a shame for Blizzard really, but the story went so bad after Legion.. we just cannot return!

I prefer the war in world of Warcraft. It would be cool to see the gilmeius and the and the undead go at it. throw in Scarlet crusades and have alliance and horde secretly sending them all supplies that would be a good time

Once we all start getting old. The younger gen wont be there to play these old MMOs anymore. They will be playing other things. Times change and generations change.

I really don't care about what people say, i'm 100% in for faction war and can't have enough of alliance vs horde

The point about her mentioning the racial starter zone in regard to her Night Elf was something i'm happy to hear. Over the last few years and with the new player island, it feels like you have little to no racial identity. Everything is overly homogenized in the worst way possible and i don't like that. Racial fantasy be that Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Troll or whatever else has always been a big thing for me.

It's never going to be as it was.

I don’t know If I like more “faction war” content, it’s like it does not make sense at all right now…

Ishnuu-allah, Luv ur content, bro.

I disagree. I think what they need to do is what they did with the isles but with Thrall, Jaina, Andwin and Bane. Make a main villian for this story, have the character tell you about past adventures (novels and expansion)and make it last from level 1 to 60. Then they can throw you into dragonflight 60 to 70 and so on so forth. But yea a new story were you and the main heroes work together to beat a main bad guy and were little by little you learn the lore or personal things ti build a relatiinship with them in the chill time between quests.

just give us cutscenes explaining all the stories

I wouldn’t call you a hater by any means but both you and pyro could very easily host an “Ancient Aliens” azeroth edition

The island is fine. But forcing new players to play BFA is the problem. Case in point.. Days9 recent foray into both Classic and retail wow.

Yeah man its called the OVERTEN WINDOW. if you are early - everybody will call your opinion radical and stupid even if its common sens in a fiew months from now.

Great video. I find you positive and negative. I should say constructive. You cant always be positive about things, this damn game ebbs and flows. I find you very underrated and appreciate your candor.

I get the POV of individuals being ok with cross faction guilds and still having faction tensions. but if Blizz is taking the route of allowing cross faction anything. The faction war itself just seems obsolete and unnecessary gameplay wise imo. like maybe this is a way of phasing out faction war, but really, at this point, why not remove it entirely?

Acconlonn i started in 2022 i was lost i was confused.i kept making mistakes i had people lying to me sending me to area an porting me places that i had no business in the tory was all over the place. the story was confusing to follow. but the players were equally as off putting. the new player experience sucked!

Faction war is overdone, we been enemies, allies over 20 over and over we can win without being friends. It never worked for me.

We will be allies in The Last Titian, SMaller wars would work better.

I found silly that this factions are forced into conflict for narrative purposes and then all that antagonism gets suspended when the new shiny threat comes along. It’s childish.

I think you're having a bit of wishful thinking. There may always be some underlying tensions, but I'm willing to bet both factions would be tired of losing their people to a never ending conflict. The only way faction war could make sense is if they side with opposing forces, but that still would be tricky, both sides occupy the same planet and wish to live on it.

Lol they tried to sell faction war in BFA that was a joke

just let me do all instanced content cross faction. I can queue arena cross faction, but not skirmishes. I can queue M+ cross realm, but not heroics and timewalking. Half my characters are horde and half alliance. This gets annoying 😂

WoW has HORRIBLE new player retention, even for a returning player many parts of the game can be extremely convoluted and the community doesn't help either. The few new players I've met either on retail or SoD always say the same: ''I enjoy the game but I can't do group content because everyone expect me to know how to do everything or they want me to pay for a boost'' EDIT: Also yes, family and feelings are fine when they're done right (and they haven't) but in a game called Warcraft violent conflict always has to be a big focus.

There's also the race bias, which tends to reduce every subject on the Alliance to "humans take the lead" and everyone else has sit by, either getting punched in the face or doing nothing.

These people and people who complain about long leveling are lazy and manipulative. They are prideful of avoiding hard work at all cost and then lying to themselves and others that they indeed work very hard and trying to get as much credit for as little investment of time and labor as possible. Now doesnt context make the leveling changes make sense?

Fantasy racial pride was stamped out, faction pride was stamped out, now they wonder why players don't care about their characters anymore...

It's easy to say all of this, but how are they gonna pull it off going through every xpac's story even in a condensed form is new xpac lvl's of work if not a ton more. And if they did pull it off, guess what this is the wow community people would still find a reason it sucks lol. We better not go back to a faction war bullshit, that would just be a cop-out to all that has happened up to this point so if that is where we are going once again i'm out story wise lol. Also no matter how good the story in wow could be would stop the toxic nature that is inherent to all mmo's.

They got rid of all my favorite leaders so I don't really care about the story anymore. They will never go back to full war because of the new leaders wanting to hold hands with each other because people are soft now days and don't want war in a game about war....You are living in a fantasy if you think they will every bring WoW story back to the awesome god mode it used to be.

Not excited for more faction war.

There needs to be an overhaul much like Final Fantasy where on 1 character you must do the main story but only one and all levels in other ways. Warcraft - 1-25 (learning the game basics as well) The Burning Crusade - 25-30 Wrath Of The Lich King - 30-35 Cataclysm - 35-40 Mists Of Pandaria - 40-45 Warlords Of Draenor - 45-50 Legion - 50-55 Battle for Azeroth - 55-60 Shadowland - 60-65 Dragon Flight - 65-70 War Within - 70-80 Midnight - 80-90 Last Titian - 90-100 Only the story you need and lock the talents/levels behind the story wall, not the XP wall so as you progress through the story you level no but killing mobs. you start the story at 1 in your race zone and will only reach level 25 when you complete the original Warcraft story arch. Add races, class, and crafting-specific quests, so that every time you play there are quests unique to that experience just like in vanilla where you had to quest to get raised dead or a totem, this adds reliability. Look at SWTOR every class had its own story, take from that and Fainal fantasy to make Warcraft the best gaming experience for all, and make everything needs to be done ONLY ONCE! This would solve all there problems PS make Crafting Matter and add Guild/Player Houses to fill the world areas with life

Ty bro changes from dogshid to elephant shid . Ty for the wow news video i look at your wow videos if there any good things in the game .

Younger gen doesnt play mmos. Look at all the old mmos still out there. Like Everquest, Runescape. ESO. Guild Wars. They all struggle on getting new players. Even FF14. Younger Gen dont play MMOs. Sorry to tell ya.