JohnRhinoTheThird: Best feature is LFR. Without it, I wouldn’t be a raider.

SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet: One thing worth mentioning about Exile's Reach is that it is much more tuned for people who have never played a video game before in their lives. It covers basic camera controls, movement, and "turn around to hit an enemy behind you".

I've been running experiments on family & friends in the 60-70 age range (none of whom have ever played any sort of game) and had them doing various games under supervision. They don't even have WASD down, and any sort of movement of their character seems to completely throw their spatial awareness out the window. Exile's Reach let them ease into the concept of navigating a 3D world, where it otherwise would've been totally overwhelming.

So yes, it's babyish and dull to anyone with really any degree of experience with games at all - but that's not what it's for. Veterans are going to blast through the tutorial no matter what anyway - but for an 11 year old? For a 70 year old? Pretty good.

xsteelersx6: Heroic dungeons were my favorite TBC addition personally, but you're right that the tier sets were banger after banger.

diablioscortes862: Best feature of cata is easily the transmog system

waveeyes: I'd give Dual Spec for Wrath. At the time it didn't impact me too much, but as someone who's mained non-DPS for most of my time in WoW having the option to swap to DPS whenever I'm doing solo stuff has been huge.

And while the current system of swapping to any spec you want is even better, this was the first mention and deserves a shoutout.

rileth52: Warbands, I didn't think it was a big enough thing to be marketed like it was. But since playing TWW it is legit one of the best changes blizz have ever made. Sure it took way too long but it still feels great.

mcfarvo: Maybe the best feature is the friends we made along the way

VegetoStevieD: The best feature of vanilla is that it doesn't feel like it has "features". It's a world that you live in.

"Features" are what you got when they removed the requirement to feed your pet as a hunter. Now it's not a pet, it's merely a dps mechanic. A "feature". Likewise, to the world, and the lost soul of it. They kill Azeroth with "features".

Sistik123: Vanilla >Tbc>legion>wrath>the rest.

DonWinther: I feel like transmogging from Cata should be mentioned. It opened up a whole new side of the endgame for casual players, that WoW hadn't seen before

dogwithsunglasses4051: I think Shadowlands best feature was actually the Tier Set Katalyst, because it fixed so many problems with tier sets and their transmogs in one go. First you finally could get tier set pieces from other sources then the raids with Mythic . And you were able to even change items with no setbonus attached to tier sets, wich made it possible that every set has for every difficulty every gear slot available for transmogg, wich wasnt even the case up until legion. Also, sometimes the non set bonus items had better stats for your class. Also, awakend raids was a Shadowlands feature tho they were called fated

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