Don’t want to bash Night Fae or anything, but currently I am more than a half way through the Nigh Fae campaign and to be honest, I pretty much have no idea what is going on in the story. First I was saving Tyrande from the Night Warrior problems, then there was a quick jump to Bwonsamdi and his Muehzala problem, but yeah so far so good I understand what’s going on, then those two spirits appeared (horse and elk) we made a “quick” (long AF) detour from the main plot to some branch of the story where I started to lose the grip on the story and then I rescued the lion spirit, went to Drustvar and now I have no frikin IDEA what is the story about anymore.
I mean don’t get me wrong, maybe it’s just me but compared to Necrolords campaign for example which I finished, the story is a complete mess and really does not make any sense to me.
The two spirits are a Night Warrior and partner, you are trying to get them to tell you how to share the Night Warrior skills in order to see if there’s a way of stopping them consuming Tyrande. The Bwonsamdi quests are about the drust attack on Ardenweald. All this information is in the quest text.
I have to say in general (haven’t done Venthyr yet), most stories I like when starting the expansion. But the separate renown locked storylines, I just went through without understanding or at one point even caring about its content.
Venthyr one is the most cohesive of them all according to Nobbel, it’s clear they had a more thorough plan for their storyline and it also deals with the aftermath of castle nathria.
With that said if you dont read any quest texts you might be a bit confused at times
Cheers mate, unfortunately I don’t have a character that requires Venthyr so far. Even my warlock is Night Fae, and I clearly hope that one would be a Venthyr
Guess I’ll just make one random alt, I did start the storyline as my priest, but changed her to Night Fae as well, since I went from disc to holy ;).
My problem with covenants and the main questline for them is the time gating. It takes so long to go through them initially that by the time that i am at the end i can’t even remember what is going on really or i just don’t care anymore.
Generally SL story is an extreme letdown compared to older expansions.
Like i still remember Zabra Hexx from legion and the fun times i had questing with him as a class hall companion but in SL there just are no memorable characters at all. I liked Gubbins and Tubbins but they too just became npc’s that just stand there nothing more.
And i got to be honest i can’t even remember anymore how Venthyr storyline ended its all blur to me.
I haven’t finished the Kyrian campaign yet, but compared to the Venthyr campaign and Necrolord campaign, the Night Fae one felt like they were trying to cram way too much in and it all seemed a bit bitty. Venthyr and Necrolord follow a more straightforward story thread, plus Venthyr, Necrolord and Kyrian all tie in to each other so feel like you’re part of a Shadowlands campaign. Night Fae is off doing their own thing and couldn’t care less about the other covenants or zones.
I mean, I like the drust stuff, I like the Night warrior stuff and I like the Bwonsamdo stuff, but there’s just too much going on. Clearly the writers had loads of ideas for Ardenweald and just threw everything in at once.
Night Fae and Ardenweald are a pretty sick bunch and location as well. Couple of pervs pop up during the campaign and there’s lots of seriously creepy real life symbology going on in that zone.
For the real story watch Youtube videos with analysis and commentary done by people who care like Taliesin & Evitel or Bellular (after he finished all the sponsor stuff)
The start of the Kyrian campaign has you visit Azeroth too to relive the last moments of a soul’s life before you escort him to the afterlife
But you’re right in that the Night Fae campaign continues threads from BfA, and therefore makes sense why you revisit these zones, whereas the other campaigns are much more rooted within Shadowlands (although feature some old friends/foes from much earlier in WoW history). Just feels like they bit off more than they could chew with the Night Fae campaign.
I see your point. I honestly don’t mind the gating, The only problem with it, is psobably the story line gets lost like that. Every time a bit, and quite honestly forgetting what happened the week before.
Now I just use it to get alts to like 165 ilvl, so I don’t have to spam NM dungeons (with PF skip), plus getting the t-mog.
I’ve only done necrolord and night fae campaigns and night fae one felt about 5 times longer than necrolord one. Didn’t like it and the grand finale was underwhelming.
? what I’m saying is that I don’t understand the story cause it is very branched and is not cohesive. It is a huge tangled web of strange stories that do not belong together in any sane way Honestly I couldn’t care less about the sexual preferences of those two random spirit animals
Speaking of which - don’t even try to assert their sexual orientation as homosexual or whatnot as you cannot know what gender are they identifying with as far as I know they are a stag and a stallion or a mare (dunno here) addressing themselves as he or I so if you wanna play the true SJW here do not assume their genders
Night fae was incredibly underwhelming. Just the leveling questline itself, it didn’t have a story, it didn’t set up for any campaing and then in the covenant camaping, only at that point did they try to set up story.
But instead they set up 3 separate stories, only adressing the Drust which was basicaly just them trying to invade Ardenweald to release themselves, nothing really complex or interesting, not to speak of the two unfinished storylines.
Like Maldraxxus, Revendreth and Bastion were setting up for stories already when you first entered and then executed them in camaping, Night fae was setup for another poor setup
It wasn’t too great imo yeah, though Necrolords (which I grew attached to quickly) and Venthyr (which I didnt really finish but got to chapter 8) were amazing (even thouhg they have the advantage of being tied together in one story) and while I will only start Kyrian on my druid soon, it is clear there is interesting, albeit bit more minor story as far as whole Shadowlands go in store, so I think they still did overall good job with the other 3, so yeah, there’s always gonna be that one weaker zone I guess
and really does not make any sense to me.
