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Let's hear it; which expansion for World of Warcraft is your favorite?

The Burning Crusade
Wrath of the Lich King
Cataclysm
Mists of Pandaria
Warlords of Draenor

Or perhaps none of the expansions lived up to your expectations and you still enjoyed vanilla the most? Share your opinions!

For me, it was Wrath of the Lich King followed closely by The Burning Crusade. I have fond memories of Outland and remember being really hyped for Wrath of the Lich King. I really enjoyed Northrend in all its splendor. Just about everything in it was awesome: Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills, Storm Peaks, Icecrown, Wintergrasp PvP battles, Ulduar, etc.

Cataclysm hands down, 2nd: mists of pandaria, i liked it becuz of new pandas, I can now fulfill my panda fantasies and ERP in goldshire being a panda

Without trolling (like person above me) i will say The Burning Crusade

The Burning Crusade was also my favorite followed by WotLK.

I feel like every expansion was a little step in the wrong direction. Therefore, my favorite was definitely Vanilla.

That being said, TBC added a ton of cool stuff, so a close second.

Wrath of the Lich King.

- The Class Balance - Ignoring the Deathknights, and for a few patches the Paladins, it was the most well balanced in terms of how classes stacked against each other WHILE still having each class feel different and unique. Every spec was viable and there was no class stacking like there was in The Burning Crusade, hybrid classes had competitive DPS but were still a bit below pure DPS classes, as it should be.

- The Raids - had two of the best raids in the game: Ulduar and Icecrown Citadel. If you've never gone through Ulduar, I feel bad for you, the experience was simply amazing; the bosses were all differently themed and each had their own challenge to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEylX2LJ8c4

- Play Style - Had a reasonable balance between casual and hardcore. While Vanilla and The Burning Crusade were at times unforgiving with the amount of time you needed to invest to do raids and Cataclysm onward were far too casual, Wrath of the Lich King was a decent difficulty, yet still allowed hardcore players to be distinguished amount the crowd of people.

- The Lore - What's that? Zombies? Dragons? Old Golds? Having the story of Arthas come to a close and huge character development, reveals, and background. The story of Wrath of the Lich King (Trial of the Crusader was filler content, even Blizzard admitted it, so don't bring it up) flowed so smoothly and kept you excited and wondering what was going to happen next. There were large quest chains that revealed so much about the Lich King, the Dragons, Titans and the Old Gods that it was almost overwhelming, but in a good way. And let's not forget...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4rc5W4dKY

- Achievements - now hear me out, I don't mean those baby-first-step achievements like getting a haircut, reaching level 10, or not falling out of your chair and breaking your spine, I mean the ones you had to go out of your way to achieve. Be honest, would you have bothered exploring every part of a zone if you didn't get points for it, would you have tried to complete 98% of the quests in the game if you didn't get the awesome title of "Loremaster", would you have murder all the critters of Azeroth were you not already completely mental? To me achievements allowed you to pour time into the World of Warcraft where you normally would not have, making it so there were things other than farming, or raiding, or pvp. They say variety is the spice of life, and if that variety has me trying to kill 15 turkeys in 3 minutes then so be it!

- Wintergrasp - that is all.

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Syphonize wrote:I feel like every expansion was a little step in the wrong direction. Therefore, my favorite was definitely Vanilla.

That being said, TBC added a ton of cool stuff, so a close second.

Exactly how I feel. Even though I try every expansion the last one I actually was able to enjoy was Wrath. After that it turned into complete shit lol

I'm gonna throw a bit of a curveball here - my favourite expansion was Mists of Pandaria.

Yeah, it had its issues. Mediocre five mans and a bit too much of a casual focus. But I loved the actual continent of Pandaria, the lore behind it, and most importantly - the raids. The raids were a blast, save for HoF. The Thunder King raid is still my favourite, despite playing for nearly 11 years now.

I quit for Cata and WoD, they're atrocious. But something about Mists plucked at my heart strings just right. I'm in the minority by far, but Mists is always going to be my personal favourite.

I loved tbc