What does Heavensward actually bring to the table as an expansion?

[Jetstream_Fox]

I honestly don't feel that HW brings anything real to the table in turns of being a true expansion pack. It really feels more like a medium sized patch then anything, a lot of things in ARR needed to be addressed and seemingly got shafted for rehashed content. Adding 10 levels and a few classes that have been scrutinized for being underdeveloped as well as old ARR classes being shuffled up badly it seems they caused more harm then gain.

If we look at housing, implemented in 2.X it was a good idea, but very limited, they added more wards but at the same time that just blanketed the issue going forward. Now in HW we have airships, but not everyone can use them because they're locked behind housing, which is taken up by vastly huge amounts of dead players. So HW in this regard, did nothing.

As for companies they got nothing but airships, but as I stated, not everyone can utilize all the functions, making companies pointless unless you have been in one before all housing plots were purchased.

Classes are screwed up, players get scrutinized for being AST, MCH and I've even seen PAL get hate because they are weaker as a whole or in certain aspects of each of their respected development, even BRD players are still up in arms about the tweaks to class and it's identity.

Constant gating of raid/vendor gear has also stretched the game horribly thin, following the ideas of 2.X is ok when there is a plentiful amount of content, but 3.0 offers a fraction of it. Causing heavy burn out and general disregard.

Crafting and gathering is still meaningless aside from housing uses and again, not everyone can use that aspect. Even crafter based weapons are still treated as subpar as dungeon drops.

I don't really count flying as anything new, since you can't even do that if you don't run around and hit the access points around the largely barren land masses we have.

tl;dr Nothing really got added, a lot of the game is still a mess and HW only added to the mess.