re: What was the best WoW expansion?

TBC was my favorite, but WotLK was the best expansion for growth and the direction Blizzard should have continued. They made WotLK, reached the pinnacle of success, then they decided to take the game in an entirely different direction with Cataclysm and the game never really recovered from it in terms of player population.

Cataclysm was when they started fricking with talent trees and streamlining/homogenizing classes.

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Arms warrior use to be my favorite spec because all the stance dancing required to be great at it but, now it's just plain boring.

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I hate class design in WoW now. Each class used to have several fun specs that felt so different from each other, but now every spec for every class has this super obvious rotation and leveling up isn't interesting at all due to the removal of spells and talent trees.

And I've seen all the arguments for how the old talent trees in WoW were bad design, and I completely disagree. Giving the player a way increase the power of their character rather than the game automatically doing it for you is part of video game development psychology that Blizzard ignores in all of their games and is a big reason why they aren't as addictive anymore.