At first I was very sceptical after reading so many negative reviews, but I had a whole week time and I decided to buy it. It makes a lot of fun, I spend the first 20-30 hours doing all stuff and exploring the game, some quests, travel... Then I focused on the main story and it feels a lot of deeper then previous Bethesda titles. You really learn to like some of the NPCs and they don't feel like some dead pixels anymore (Skyrim, Fallout) and you have to make decision and you really feel the impact, some decisions are really tough... I also like the new skill system, finally Bethesda got rid of the old one, I hope they will keep it for the next Elder Scrolls game. My biggest minus is the inventory system, there is so many stuf you can collect (tip: stealing is useless in this game, there too much worthy stuff in every enemy base) and it don't take much time to fill the players and ship inventory. For that I installed a mod to make ressources weightless (Yea, it's cheating, but for me it's only time I save myself) and a mod that removes low valuable objects, so it's mucheasier to loot.
It's one of my favorite games so far. I love the story and graphics. There are few problems yet, but I can ignore them. I'm really enjoying the game so far. If you don't want to play on a PS4 or Xbox One, than you can ignore 90% of the negative critics. If you are afraid of the bugs, just wait few weeks or months and enjoy the masterpiece.
I have my own way to play WoW, I'm collecting Mounts, often in old content areas and leveling many alts. I really loved the world and setting of BfAand therefore I rated the game with a 10. Many people rate the content, bugs. It wasn't really relevant to me, I've done like 3 or 4 island expeditions in the entire BfA time and few warfronts to get my mounts. I'm not a mythic raider.
Disappointing, buggy. First you have to complete the linear questline/campaign to get level 60 and to unlock the covenants. The questline contains many cinematics and a lot of talking and following NPCs. When you hit level 60 and you like to level up a twink you can choose to do the same again or skip it (Threads of fate), the campaign will be marked as completed and you can already choose your covenant at the start. Well now you can choose your first destiny for yourself. They are some Quests in every area, you can already do world quests by leveling and few bonus objectives. I like the idea, but not the implementation. The bonus objectives are very boring, you have to kill mobs and click on items, you will get 1-3 % for each on your progress bar, it can take up to 20 minutes to complete one and you will get ~18k EXP, thats ~5% on you progress bar. I tried to combine it with normal Quests, but only in a few cases the area of the bonus objectives and normal quests matches, The other problem that disturbs me is, that all areas in Shadowlands are full of enemys. If you want to go from A to B, there is almost no safe way, you nearly find a horde of enemys on every place and you can't avoid them. They unmount you, you kill them, you mount and after few meters you possibly get unmounted again. There are not many normal quests, you can see the start point of every possible questline on the map. Some of the quests are very bad designed, for example. I saw a quest on a hill, I tried to get there and had to run through a place full of enemys. I was unmounted few times and always had to fight against 4-8 enemys (not super easy for a non healing class) and as I get there I get a quest and had to kill 12 more of them and use a spell on the dead bodies that could go wrong and you had to kill them again. Of course you had to kill other enemys by doing this quest that were not relevant for this quest, as I finally completed the quest, I got 8k EXP (~2,5% for level progress bar) and no other quest... And sorry for my bad english, I had to deal with some buggy quests and decided to write the review to free from my anger.
