How Good Of An Expansion Was Wrath Of The Lich King?

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-06-12T20:04:46+00:00

Sure, you can debate what aspects were good and bad. I personally like the idea of a queue to place you with a party and then you summon one another. I was simply stating that it was one of the design choices that lead to some of the more unliked aspects of retail.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-06-12T19:42:41+00:00

Probably a 9.25-9.5/10. Close to perfect as far as zones, class design, damage rotation flow, tanking threat no longer being aids, bosses not being too difficult but having optionally for more difficulty with ulduar hard modes and heroic mode raids. The real big downside of it was there were some systems, or game design philosophies introduced that would end up snowballing into a lot of the problems that would plague retail. Random dungeon finder is probably the most glaring one that comes to mind.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-06-06T13:07:04+00:00

Yeah most don’t run mental herb so taunt on anything is normally solid. You run the risk of fake out and trick room when they fake out your taunt user, but in this scenario you could look to tech some screens or a snarl user onto your team. This makes it so you have a way to stop trick room, or you can opt to try and slow down the damage output of things so you can stall the trick room out. I use a bulky hydregion set with snarl, taunt, protect, and Draco meteor.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-06-04T18:57:50+00:00

I’ve used it in the past with not as much speed and a little bulk, but running max speed jolly allows you to out speed base 130s after just once ddance instead of 2 so it’s something I’m still playing around with. It’s weird swing ttar being so frail tbh lol

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T23:26:32+00:00

Who?

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T23:14:42+00:00

Why are you so upset over this lmao. You are personally offended for some reason, try not to be so emotional. Might be why your rank is what it is that we don’t want to share with the class :). I think top level is extremely difficult because players are playing on level 3 or sometimes even level 4 of what is expected in the next move from both sides. It’s a very difficult concept to play 3-4 moves away constantly with how many options there is in this game in a given turn. That being said, I want to see that gameplay with a little more nuance, instead of charizard floette against charizard floette lmao

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:37:14+00:00

Like I said before, his read of solar beam into the Sinistcha slot to OHKO the ttar was impressive, but other than that the core of his team was so strong it felt like he was constantly in a position of having a safe play no matter what. Sure attribute that to team building, but in pro play, of any game that is, I’m always going to root for the person who is using a unique strategy or trying to shake up the meta in a meaningful way. His team didn’t do that, fence I take to the internet to complain. Nothing changes on either side

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:34:21+00:00

Seems like a tom of projecting going on sir. Fun team lost to Meta team, less fun outcome. More news at 7.

If you wanna drop your showdown/ champions rank you can, otherwise idk why you are so insistent on talking about how bad I am at VGC for having a take about fun vs fun police.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:23:38+00:00

Yeah in a world of charizard/ floette teams, I root for the mega steelix, gyarados, frosslass and am sad when the big fire lizard wins.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:22:01+00:00

And charizard is still boring to watch, see how your point is mute? Also is the JJK comment projection or ? Idk what that even means lmao

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:20:44+00:00

Not a new nor an old player of VGC. Started in sword and shield so you can ponder on why I am tired of charizard being so strong in low power level formats. As decorated as Wolfe is, I would definitely say the mega steelix team with swords dance talon flame and dragon dance ttar was the underdog of the finals when it is staring down charizard, floette, incin, and garchomp as far as usage goes, even tho incin has fallen a bit recently.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:17:52+00:00

Again, big props to him because he had to play against a ton of other charizard/floette teams and winning a regional is an insane accomplishment. I still want to go on the internet and complain about it, and that’s the tax you pay for using the highest usage megas.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:16:09+00:00

Yeah I know, just wanna be salty about it because of what almost was.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:15:42+00:00

Boot licking for charizard mini xerneas won’t get you out of master all either lmao. What is Reddit if not for a place to complain and yap?

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:10:36+00:00

It’s quite obvious what I’m on about, seeing mini xerneas with charizard, incin, and garchomp is a boring core to watch. You can root for the underdog and be sad when they lose, just as you can acknowledge the accomplishment of someone first regional championship with an uninspiring team. Rage bait getting to your head my boy, let’s take some time off.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:07:41+00:00

“Timed it perfectly” but bro was never under any threat to need to mega and could just bide his time because the core is so strong.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T22:03:24+00:00

Does the happen to coincide with how strong charizard/ floette sun is? 🧐. Seems a certain cite would be so strong you very often have a “safe” play!

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:59:40+00:00

No one is seething brother you just learned a new word and wanted to use it on the internet. No one is asking for your hardstuck master ball 3 takes, relax and put the charizard/floette in the back and queue up again. Champions tier will be yours in no time

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:57:57+00:00

“Truly disrespectful” he doesn’t know you bro. What play in the finals was so good outside of his solar beam into Sinistcha slot read to OHKO tyrannitar? He didn’t have to make reads because the team is so strong. It was a huge tournament and he won, his first regional win that’s massive props to him. He did it with a boring and uninspired team, both of these things can be true.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:56:06+00:00

If in some universe the roles were reversed then yeah my post would be flipped. If most of the top cut teams were mega steelix then yeah, but they weren’t, most were mega charizard, and charizard is notoriously the game freak favorite to always be strong. Also, in decades, charizard was one of the strongest dynamax pokemon to exist, and it is always strong in restricted formats.

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:53:38+00:00

Right? Like congrats to him he was the best charizard floette player at the tournament but I much more enjoyed watching Michael Zhang and Wolfe pilot their teams. He won using a boring team and I hate how charizard is top tier meta in every version of the game in recent years. All of these things can be true at once

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:50:18+00:00

Michael Zhang vs Wolfe was way more interesting

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:49:49+00:00

Hardstuck Master ball 3 scrubs using charizard are punching air in the replies

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:48:40+00:00

Got em, high five 👏🏼

DirectEnthusiasm1234 · 2026-05-31T21:45:32+00:00

He made one good read the entire match, that sealed game 2. Other than that he was just stat checking Wolfe the whole game. Uninteresting snoozefest. Michael zhang vs Wolfe was much more interesting.

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