I mean, lets be honest here, can everyone really get immersed into this in an MMO?
In Legion it was “Oh the artifact weapons, they chose you and only you, you are special!” while there were literally 1000 people standing there RIGHT NOW with the same weapon equiped…
Then in BFA, the Heart of Azeroth was even worse because it would have been so easy to just make it a piece of Azeroth given to those who are willing to defend her instead of another “This unique artifact chose you and you alone” while EVERYONE ran around with it…
Chosen one Stories work in Single player games, and even there they became boring. We play an MMO with other people, let the game world reflect that.
If they step away from it now they’d heck up the entire lore even more, they’d have to do some kinda full reset.
Not that I care about the immersion too much tbh
Agree.
I remember walking in the class hall, with my Blood Elf paladin and she was being praised, for things she never took part in other periods of WoW.
I agree - in Legion it would have been fine to be just a member of the class hall, rather than the destined, chosen one leader. Same with the heart of Azeroth - there’s absolutely no reason why a whole load of us couldn’t have more than one.
Legion’s artifact weapons don’t make a whole lot of sense, being one-of-a-kind legendary weapons that we’re all just supposed to pretend no one else has? Still, I loved my artifact weapons and it didn’t matter that everyone else has the same one. Especially with unlocking the different skins to make it “yours”. I miss my weapons…
I don’t understand. Why would that have to be the case? The “Chosen one” is a nameless, faceless character. If anything it would be easy for blizzard to make one character for each class and just be done with it for good. Let players go back to being soldiers, not the one to step on the skulls of slain gods.
Whenever we step into raids and important scenarios, we should be along side the heroes as grunts and footsoldiers.
I think our Grunt days are behind us, but yeah, we should be the army, not the leader. An Elite army at this point, Veterans who have faced many battles, but still “just” an army.
Why? You assume your character has made it through each and every expansion worth of history, but that’s not actually canonical. Blizzard doesn’t have to acknowledge any player’s character beyond minor events or as a contributing factor.
Honestly, while “Hero class” sounds cool, is it really that different from a normal Class?
I mean, what are Hero classes?
We have the Death Knights who broke free of the Lich Kings control, which is a great achievement, but nothing that would seperate them so much from other classes.
And then we have the Demon Hunters, some Emos who fought with Illidan. Again, nothing that really seperates them from the other classes.
There is no reason these classes couldnt be part of the veteran army.
it would be realy easy to remove all the hero, chosen one from game, give us patch 8.3, make us fight some mega avatar or N´zoth, make us loose big time, and have N´zoth drain us totaly, to the point we bearly survive, some insane plot twist where we get saved buy someone we never would think of.
and bang new expac, we are drained, Azeroth in ruins, and we have to start over to survive.
I wouldn’t call sending tortoise (land animal) into the sea “saving”, but asset reusage aside, it’s something on the side you do, it’s not the main spotlight of the story, it’s as if you called Elon Musk a billionare for wiping his butt every day.
I thought the implication is that there is literally an army of those wearing the necklace, especially after the Azshara encounter and that they made the chamber unphased.
Also the faction is called Champions of Azeroth.
Another thing - NPC in the voiceover calling the player “hero” or “champion” - that’t just the way the VO works, in the subtitles, they always call you by the name.
But yeah, the hero/champion makes it feel a bit too pompous.
Though some long to be a regular soldier, there is also the aspect how can you spend your entire wow life never progressing and just being a grunt forever.
I like being the champion, I like the special tasks we are given (I’m not talking about saving critters from fires or turtles on a beach). You would not be summoned to speak to the Warchief and given any special task if you were just some grunt.
I know some dislike it, personally I think it makes sense. In my view I have risen through the ranks to become what I am today etc.
Right around the time the Lich King fell did I feel like my character should start gaining some damn recognition for the things he’s done.
I hate… HATE! doing mundane quests that are below me, go fetch your own flowers, go dirty your own hands finding a key that’s literally buried in sh*t… all that stuff I can’t stand it… ofcourse you HAVE to do it or you can’t progress further.
I remember during WoD, people kept calling you commander and acting like you’re a bigshot leader of a garrison meanwhile you still had to do these ridiculous quests you’d normally send some peon to do… /pass (if it was up to me)
Blizzard makes you feel like a “champion” but on the other hand they don’t, and that’s the frustrating part. I really wish they’d write for either and not both at the same time.
These days though… whenever there’s some dumb quests being offered I don’t really have to do;
Before the artifact weapons multiple people ran around with Sulfuras, Thunderfury, Mannoroth’s tusks and other unique items, so it didn’t matter too much to me.
The problem how they handled the PC in Legion might have been a bit to extreme with calling us champion all the time.
But it would have been hard to write the story without us being our classes’ champion.
I think they did overall a good job in BfA where we are more part of some kind of special force team under the command of Halford instead of being the most important person in existance. Treating us like some noname directly after Legion would have felt pretty strange.
And what are we?
I am pretty sure at that point in the game, every player Character is a respected War hero.
keeping with the lore, even the most casual of us fought when Naxxramas threatened us, stoped the first demon invasion when the Dark Portal opened, fought at the front line in the War against the Lich King, saved the whole world (literally) when Deathwing woke up, did stuff in MOP, WOD (I wasnt there, so no idea what the goal of these was) and fought the Legion again in… well, Legion…
I would say every Character should at least be a Veteran, a few of them even Legends.
I say that puts us at least at the level of Elite trained Demon Hunters, wouldnt you?
The problem is for me that stuff people did gets retconned eventually.
“Varian killed Onyxia, not a brave band of heroes.”
Another issue is that making your character the “chosen one” makes it harder for people to actually play a roleplaying game.
For example a game like Oblivion is way more fun than Skyrim, allowing you to fill in your characters role the way you want it
