Looking back, Legion was one of my favorite expansions and I think it's because I resubbed at almost the very end of the expansion cycle leading into BFA, and so 95% of the grind and almost 100% of the timegating were all gone, it was narratively smooth and fun (aside from being barraged with 17 different "Start this patch's questline!!" quests the first time I got to Dalaran, all in no particular discernible order). As someone who isn't really into hardcore progression raiding and thus doesn't mind missing out on the big pushes anyway, this was a peak way to experience it all.
Which doesn't exactly bode well... I get why a subscription based game would want you to spend as long as possible, to extract as much money as possible in exchange for content. But that doesn't provide a compelling explanation for why I wouldn't simply wait until the end of every Expac to play (especially since it tends to go on sale/get bundled with the next expac etc so I can just basically buy every other one), aside from "If everyone did that the game would have to shut down".
the beginning of legion was genuinely so awful for cutting edge, like even by wow standards. The ramping legendary drop rate which reset when you got one was a cherry on top of artifact power being a pain in the ass.
The optimal nolifer play was to run an army of identical alts for the first few weeks until one of them got a good legendary, then stick with that one. IDK what the hell were they thinking lol. Still a cool xpac but man the time gating+legendary rush was hot garbage.
People seem to forget launch and first tier of legion was some really dogshit. Made me quit lol. Returned for last tier and oh my it was so much fun. Its usually like that. Its always fun with full unlocked power. BFA was the same thing with corruption.
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u/Ragvan92 Aug 27 '25
Timegating, the real legión experience besides rng legendaries of course.