While the functionality of order halls is great at establishing some longer term goals, my favorite aspect represents something that World of Warcraft has been lacking for years: class identity. It's fun to return home and see all my druid brethren hanging out together. Best of all, I'm no longer alone when I'm in my order hall like I was with garrisons. I like not having to worry about erecting and leveling up buildings, instead focusing on a simple, more focused system of researching new upgrades to my base. While I still have followers that I send out on missions that can take days to complete, there's only five to manage instead of dozens. In the most reductive sense, order halls are the garrisons of Warlords of Draenor. Tending to the new 'order halls' that serve as my headquarters breaks up the questing every few hours. Still, questing for hours on end can be a grind no matter how inventive the quests are, so I'm always relieved when Legion gives me an excuse to take a quick break.
For now, I'm optimistic that as long as Blizzard can keep pace, Legion's endgame will be more accessible and satisfying than Warlords of Draenor ever was.
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Once I've had some time with the full endgame experience, I hope to have a better idea of whether or not Legion will become stale months down the road. World quests are essentially Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls' adventure mode stitched wholesale onto Warcraft, and turns the entirety of the Broken Isles into an endgame zone at 110-meaning I'm not stuck in the same area repeating the same quests over and over, but rather jumping around the Broken Isles day to day completing a variety of objectives for better loot drops. The meat of Legion's endgame raids won't be available for a few weeks, but the world quest system is a smart revamp of daily quests that won't supplant the need for new updates down the road, but should keep Legion from feeling stale during the months in between. Because of that, Legion achieves something kind of remarkable for an MMO: I don't see a question mark on my map and consider it some chore to be completed on my quest to level 110, but an invitation for fun. There are times when Legion is outright silly despite its apocalyptic main story, injecting a wonderful sense of personality into the characters I meet.
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Above: A slight update to WoW's lighting does wonders in some areas.