World of Warcraft: WoD

Rawr!
So WoD has been out long enough now that someone needs to review it as a long term expansion. My opinion being only mine, but meh, I will do it anyhoo.
Firstly, the storylines and quests are mostly spot on, with more fulfilling endings, well done cut scenes, and promises of more to come with things like Tanaan Jungle and the "Netherstrom" area in the future. The settings feel good, for the most part, and some of the new creatures are awesome. The Missions in the garrisons and picking buildings to suit you is great.
Now, I wish they hadn't gone a little overboard with re-skinning. The mounts, the beasts, even the battle pets, though, battle pets they always have, but good grief, soooo many re-skins. The garrison building picking is limited, because some you realize you HAVE to get to be effective and some you get them, used them for a bit, and now they are useless pretty much (Inn) and you have to put in money and resources for something else. The sheer overabundance of ore you get from your garrison is crazy, and I really really hope that they add more recipes in 6.1 to eat up all that extra ore in every profession.
The dungeons, well, they are typical dungeons. Not insanely impressed or depressed about any of them, except quite disappointed in UBRS, having been a fan of the orig, and sure there is a nod to it with the arena fight, but, it feels like a waste to redo content instead of add.
The raiding so far, is typical raiding, nothing majorly amazing or jumping out at you.
Once you finish the awesome story in each zone, you realize that some are beautiful and you want to go there all the time (SMV Nagrand) and some are just places you visit for dailies and mount camping (Frostfire Gorgrond). At least Gorgrond has the delightfully ironic war between dirt, and the evil plants that eat dirt, but it is kinda just a huge nothing. Frostfire's scenery is so boring and redundant that I still haven't gotten my hordie main to 100, despite almost 3 alli's up.
Blizz did a wonderful thing with the 'random upgrades' with gear, and a long tedious thing with the grind for all reps. They gave us a toy box for our crap, and then gave us a ton of things that should be considered toys that aren't so our bags are still full. Still nothing about a tabard collection tab, though, in the future, they have announced heirlooms will get one, which will rock.
They put the totally awesome treasures on the maps, and the rares that anyone can tag, only to leave you feeling like you completed a zone once you get/kill them, and now what else is there but a fishing daily or pet trainer to draw you back. I fell in love with the Spires of Arak from the first moment they drop you at the entrance and a laser is shooting down into the stunted forests while refugees flee. The entire story was captivating, and the veils all matched the people who dwelled there so perfectly. The curse of Sethe and the three gods, and even just the fun voice acting for the hunched, crooked, Talonpriests was so great. But after the story is done, you are left with an open end and nothing else to do in the zone except go to one corner and farm rep for hours.
Now, every zone gets left behind at some point in this game, when the next expansion comes out, usually, but it is still this expansion, even the beginning of it, and zones are becoming pointless. The garrison is just rinse and repeat, like checking an app on your phone daily. The camping and the rep farming takes hours of monotony. After the very well done initial content, being 100 feels like a let down. 6.1 is coming soon, so hopefully that will help comfort everyone standing around in their garrisons with no reason to leave except to destroy their banks full of ore.
In conclusion, I have enjoyed WoD tremendously, and would suggest that if you haven't played it, to do so. WoW feels like WoW again, for the most part, and some of the content is just awe inspiring. But, take it with a grain of salt that the leveling content is better than the max level content right now, and that once maxed, it will be more fun to level alts than to grind away on your main until more content is released. I do see WoD having a bright and prosperous future though, based on the improvements over MoP I have seen thus far.
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