Legion Thoughts

Meh.

I was really enjoying myself during the demon invasions.  Charging a pack of demons with a huge fucking greatsword was good times.  ... Of course, the boss fights were really shitty for melee.  Not having played the beta, I really hope that the raid bosses aren't as punitive.

Leveled the shit out of my alts too.  All told I gained 179 levels spread across seven or eight alts.  Granted, most of them I will probably never touch again, but hey!  Levels!

*sigh*

I haven't gotten all that far into it, and I'm not going to stop playing, but I don't like this expansion much so far.  The lead-up to getting the Ashbringer was pretty satisfying, if a bit short and underwhelming, and having the Order of the Silver Hand declare me Highlord because of how awesome I am was rad (even if it didn't give me a title, and even if I know every other paladin in that room had also been named Highlord) ...

Did the rogue startup too.  That was kinda cute I guess, in that as I'm walking through the thieves' den under Dalaran, I could hear other rogues gossiping about my exploits.  But that's when the disappointment really set in.  The "Dreadblades," rather than being the elegant rapier and main-gauche combo that I'd been expecting from last time I looked into it, are a pair of ugly swords.  Sure you can mog them, but only into two swords, and the elegant rapier and main-gauche are restricted to an alternate appearance that I'm not even sure how to get.

AND after spending all that money on illusions, you can't even apply illusions to the artifact weapons unless you mog them.  Or at least, not to the Ashbringer.

It's pretty nice being back in Dalaran, although I'm not a fan of the new music and I could only shake my head in wry amusement that the Legerdemain Lounge has become a coffee shop, complete with steampunk espresso machine.

The main leveling plot is, I'm just gonna say it, lame.  Find the MacGuffins?  Really?  Game's going on fourteen years old and that's the best you could come up with?   The Draenor leveling experience had me in tears in places.  Velen's sacrifice still gets me choked up.  Contrast that with my early experiences in the Broken Isles, where I'm involuntarily forced to participate in aggressive action against the Horde.  Literally forced -- entering Stormheim puts you into a scenario where the Alliance conducts a sneak attack on Sylvanas' forces, and you have to complete the scenario to enter the zone.  Not okay.

As I said, I'm gonna keep at it, because what else am I gonna do.  It just feels to me like the game took a giant step back from Draenor.  The invasions got my hopes up that this was gonna be the best expansion since Wrath, but I'm just ... really not a fan of the artifacts, or the story.

Well, whatever.  Back to it, I guess.