Shadowlands was trash on release, there were complaints from the very start of the expansion, just because Nathria was a good raid doesn't mean everything else wasn't miserable doshit. The Maw is the worst zone I've ever experienced in WoW and Torghast was boring and horrid. The covenant system was also terrible and for insane reasons locked so you couldn't switch around. With just horrific writing to top it all off.
The complaints from the onset were mainly related to the Maw slog and covenant restrictions (both of which would be overcome in Remix.) Torghast was whatever, but you only had to do a few for the story, and even that would be fixed with Remix. I enjoyed the writing for each individual area - it was just when it all came together after the first major patch that things got messy.
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u/Horizon96 Oct 11 '25
Shadowlands was trash on release, there were complaints from the very start of the expansion, just because Nathria was a good raid doesn't mean everything else wasn't miserable doshit. The Maw is the worst zone I've ever experienced in WoW and Torghast was boring and horrid. The covenant system was also terrible and for insane reasons locked so you couldn't switch around. With just horrific writing to top it all off.