Been playing again since its F2P for me, pretty easy to make the 25k gold just through garrison missions. I'd like to try LFR for HFC but 2 hour q times basically makes it impossible for me, didn't I see something about blizz addressing the long LFR q's?
The game is still fun, but not as fun as the glory days for sure. But to be honest the fall from its peak (BC imo, I really enjoyed wrath too but that began the simplification of everything) is mainly due to blizzard actually listening to the majority of the playerbase. "My class can't bring x to the raid, I need more utility, why do only shamans have hero" etc... The homogenization of the classes is the worst thing to happen to WoW honestly. Players complained about classes having limitations, and blizzard said ok here's your cookie. I remember when shamans were horde and paladins were alliance only. That type of distinction between the factions was really cool. I get why they changed it, heroism is a baller spell and totems have (had) crazy utility. But now several classes have bloodlust and shamans barely use totems. I've been playing hunter and all 3 specs are so similar its pretty dumb. Stop making all the classes similar to each other, make them unique and different. Personally only shamans should have bloodlust, we got the LW drums for the other people (25% vs 30% haste). I'd rather see blizzard fix the current classes before adding a new one.
As we all know now, WoD turned out to be a total dud. I really loved it that first month, the leveling, the zones, the initial garrison experience, was all great. But once you realize you have to spend time every day in the garrison to do basically mandatory stuff the burnout came fast. Garrison are a cool concept that was poorly implemented. Like others have said it should be purely optional like doing pet battles. I did pet battles for an hour when they first came out and said this is cool, but I don't want to waste all this time and never touched them again. I'm really curious how August 6th goes down, i'm keeping all my hype at bay so i'm not disappointed again.
One change i'd like to see is with LFG tool. LFG and LFR I believe are necessary for the majority of the players and that's fine, but since its so easy the loot should be reflected more accordingly. What if when you use the LFG tool to find randoms, the loot would be 620 compared to 630 like it was at launch at WoD? But if you have 5 ppl then use the tool (just to save travel time) you get 630 gear plus a bag of goodies. Bring back the social aspect. I know we got challenge modes and mythic dungeons now, definitely in the right direction for sure. I don't really mind the way LFR works now, clearly worse gear and no tier pieces, seems ok to me. Just fix the q times for when I actually want to try it.