

Shadowlands did kind of suck, that is true to a point. This was a funny premise I enjoyed a little bit, but I also think in blog format, it’s not what you’re here to read nor is it what I want to write.

This makes a good time to look back at the Shadowlands, to discuss how WoW went so wrong and yet also was still kind of okay, depending on what you focused on.Ī lot of people on my blog Twitter were using the setup of a tweet-thread about Shadowlands reviews to do a 1-2 punch: here’s my review (1/?), second tweet – it sucked. So with this patch, Shadowlands is over, yet for another few weeks, Shadowlands is the only current content to play.

And ultimately, if you’re here reading this, you already know how a WoW prepatch works – you get some new shinies to play with, the game is fucking weird for a few weeks as it hovers with new systems designed for new content but has you playing the old content instead, where classes and specs feel strange and the bonuses from that content are typically disabled or labeled as “Legacy.” With yesterday’s prepatch, updating WoW to 10.0, the game is now Dragonflight, except not really. Shadowlands was a…contentious expansion, would probably be the best way to describe it.
