Time trial dungeons have been in the game since MoP. They were a fun gimmick but they're not content that has longevity. Running through the same corridors over and over again, but faster for the sake of increasing your ilevel is not a compelling reason to play a game.
Blackrock Mountain has been there since vanilla, Blizzard just got lazy and stopped doing them.
Okay. Learning the tank challenge and then finally triumphing over it was actually fun. Sadly you do the challenge once and then that's it. Blizzard never added more challenges, and then eventually removed the MT to drive more FOMO engagement. Rerunning the same exact challenge you already beat before again but for a different cosmetic isn't fun.
some of the best dungeons in WoW (atal'dazar, king's rest, shrine of the storm, siege, underrot, waycrest manor are all cool af)
They visually look decent, but running through the same corridors over and over again isn't fun gameplay.
Balancing tradeoffs is fun but sadly never extended past 9.3. Really highlights how shallow WoW class customization is.
I did like Island Expeditions. I found BFA questing to be boring, and I hate spamming dungeons to level up, so I used Island Expeditions to level up to 120. Sadly, once again Blizzard didn't develop the gameplay and abandoned the feature.
Failed to deliver on the fantasy of participating in a war. There was no challenge. Most of the team AFKed while a handful of guys did all of the work. There should have been PvP warfronts. If they were like Alterac Valley then it would've been cool.
Gave flying for every xpac (idk if you all realize this but before shadowlands you needed to do like 10 achievements in each xpac if you wanted flying...)
That doesn't retroactively diminish how unfun it was to try to navigate those zones before, when Blizzard began designing environments to be as frustrating to navigate as possible and amped up the mob density so you couldn't go 10 feet without aggroing a mob and getting dazed.
Chromie time - now when leveling an alt you can run dungeons from any xpac you want at any time
A start in the right direction but it was poorly implemented. Old content still poses no challenge whatsoever and is not engaging. It's a lonely experience where the world outside of the latest zones are dead.
some banger dungeons (necrotic wake, plaguefall, theater, depths are all cool)
Again, rerunning the same set of dungeons over and over for two years isn't fun.
finally access flying immediately instead of being timegated
This is a band aid and doesn't address the core problem that Blizzard has become incapable of designing zones that are fun to navigate on foot. Also, WoW dragonflying isn't anywhere near as fun as GW2's flying. The animation work isn't on par. WoW flying still feels floaty in comparison, the zones aren't designed to be flown through like in GW2, and you can ascend in WoW which trivializing navigating the environment.
new talent trees are great
You have been deceived by the presentation of the UI. You
see that you have more choices but in reality the vast majority of those choices do not meaningfully change your gameplay at all. There are still only a small handful of meaningful choices. Otherwise, you're time is being wasted as you have to pick trivial nodes. The old MoP talent tree cut out most of the fluff and saved you more time. If WoW's character customization is to become more indepth, then Blizzard needs to actually invest
effort into making it so, rather than just dressing up the same shallow character customization and pretending that there is more than there actually is.
afaik no more dumb skinnerbox progression things like legion artifacts/bfa necklace. just do what you want and get gear
Nice but still doesn't change the fact that there is the little in the way of fun things to do every day for months on end once you finish the levelling questlines and hit level cap.
that's probably your problem, if you're playing the game so much that you even get to M+15 it's time for a break
You reiterate five times how WoW has added dungeons to rerun over and over as if that is a selling point, and then criticize a customer for finding out that rerunning dungeons over and over is not enjoyable?
