Sylvans never shown any strategic genius she was often described as, I could see her blighting anything because she didn’t care for anything but to see Arthas dead.
Retarded thing is retconning Drannosh’ death where we saw him being killed by LK himself. Making him die to blight is completely off.
Yeah dude, but its one thing to be dumb, another to be suicidal. “Hurr, durr, I will blight the Horde, it should work out great for me.”
maybe he didn’t actually die from that since arthas has to run away like a little wimp moments later and actually died from the blight
He saw LK pulling his soul and feed it to the Frostmourne.
It was terrible retcon.
Was working great so far, she found a scapegoat in Putress and in the end Horde came to save her city from Varimathras.
everybody believed her for ears at least lorewise.
Since in the cinematic we can clearly see Arthas taking Drannosh’s soul, pretty safe to assume he’s absolutely dead at this point.
Insane day when a human paladin is defending Sylvanas, eh brotha?
Tbh after thinking about it more I do think Sylvanas doing it is fine really. It wasn’t really needed but it is still fine.
After-all Sylvanas wouldn’t of cared about what the Horde/Alliance would think of her for kill her armies, she would have just killed herself. No one could of imagined the power level Arthas gained and continued to gain once he became the LK.
That would be extremely inefficient from her part. Do you think she would waste Blight if she wasn’t sure Arthas would be here to take all of it?
I personally doubt it.
Why would she care? Arthas almost died, sure she incurred the wrath of her Horde allies, but by then she would have already committed suicide.
I just don’t like this kind of retcon, no matter what logic or explanation we can imagine. I had one lore vision of the Wrathgate in my head for years, now someone’s gonna tell me “Nah.”
I’d like to add that the video is still available on Youtube for free for anyone to watch. It feels awfully weird to watch that and think “I cannot trust my eyes, apparently.”
As usual, her fanboys are overreacting (not saying that you are one of them, obviously). This is far from being the worst kind of retcon. If you want an atrocious retcon, a retcon that really changed the lore in a massive way, look at the Eredar retcon in The Burning Crusade, the “Demons transcend time and space” retcon or the “Illidan was always a good guy in The Burning Crusade, we were just mean” retcon.
This “retcon” of the Wrathgate actually makes sense. It makes sense for Sylvanas to unleash everything that she has on Arthas by luring him into a trap (which almost worked). It makes sense for her to disregard the consequences, since she would have already committed suicide anyway (that was her original plan). And it makes even more sense for Varimathras to stage a coup, then, since Sylvanas would be at her weakest and her plans would have been foiled.
I mean, ugh, who cares? Sylvanas is a bad villain anyway, you might as well just go along with it.
Besides, this wasn’t a retcon. Chronicles Volume 3 already hinted at this possibility that Sylvanas was involved in the incident at the Wrathgate.
It’s not first nor last time (I believe) she was extremely inefficient.
The version for years was that it was rogue Apothecary.
But it was her order to create plague and motivate all her forcess to Northrend to fight Arthas but on separate path than the rest of the Horde.
So either she is incredibly incopetent as a leader as she gets constantly betrayed.
Or she is this uncaring for Horde to not bother if she wastes around 4k Horde soldiers in the process of achieving aim.
They actually think people have forgotten one of the most iconic moments in wow…
But for the retcon they will never be forgiven…
history is just a set of lies told by the victor why would wow lore be any different if we can retcon our real life history why can’t blizzard
I am too torn between my faction, opinion on lore, nostalgia and forum friendships to give a proper opinion.
So I will do the wise thing and go cook dinner.
Wht Chu Cookin’ dere?
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Because we don’t have proof of what actually happened. Just some contradictory points of view from sources we can’t say for certain. That’s why historians exist. To record and try to find the truth.
In this case we have had recorded proof for 10 years that claimed something. That’s why the retcon makes no sense. For it to make sense they have to redo the cinematic, rewrite quests and rethink all the consequences of that particular retcon.
Something they will never do because they are too lazy to think and work.
Instead they come up with retcons as if starting tomorrow we’ll all delete our memories and reanalyze everything from scratch.
I’ll take a badly written story with its good and bad parts than any retcon anyday.
Stories are made to be set in stone after you have finished them. You only have oneshot when telling a story. It’s a gamble you assume. Will they like it? Will they hate it? That is for your audience to judge.
Any change that comes after a decade ends up in failure, especially when it involves key moments of the story.
Slavic tortillas, actually. With “ajvar” and smoked meat and such. Google ajvar, you gotta have something similar.
We care, because it doesn’t match with our wotlk ingame xperience. Not to mention that it worked directly against her cards, when Varimathras and Putress overthrew her rule and made her revenge impossible by almost killing her, before Arthas was defeated. Also, literally trying to summon Sargeras in Undercity/Lordaeron. It just lacks context and is glittered with plot holes.