No one expected a perfect expansion. But what we have gotten is an expansion which totally disregarded - no, destroyed - years of work and dedication in the name of ‘leveling the playing field.’ Blizzard flattened out the bell curve with TBC, so now all the people that never hit 60 can have a chance to never hit 70, while the players who represented the core of WoW’s fan base, who committed to the end game, and worked to get into the top of that bell curve, well, they basically got to see exactly how useless that dedication was.

The gear we worked so hard for - the months spent learning, grinding, wiping, and waiting for drops - were rendered utterly useless.  The time spent pre-expansion in the end game would have been better spent doing anything else.

But a lot of us were all right with that at first. When TBC released, we put our heads down, grinded our way to 70, and saw exactly what was in store: reputation grinds that aren’t hard but certainly take up an absurd amount of time, and loot tables that ensure that nine times out of ten everything ends up a shard.

Blizzard should have thought about its end game raiders just a little more. Would it have been so hard to tie Naxxaramus to the expansion? Couldn’t Kel’Thuzad have dropped a tier 4 token? Couldn’t Nef have dropped the Kara key? Couldn’t tier 2 and tier 3 gear have been tied into an upgradeable quest? Why did Blizzard have to destroy what we had worked for, cancel it out like it hadn’t happened? Instead, the new end game threw out the baby with the bathwater, and the time sinks threaten to turn WoW’s most loyal fans into a legion of burnt out crusaders.