Meh, nagas are boring. Pirates are fun if portrayed well, so, more like RL pirates than arrr Captain Hook and the likes.
I do think it is a good idea that Blizzard is trying to branch the story out to different planes and planets, as repeating the same old zomg ubah orc boss with armies lol story gets old too. But… well… they should think things through before dumping them in the game and waiting to see how it all unfolds later on.
Honestly there’s so much story still seeded from Vanilla-Cataclysm. You could easily pick up anything from the overarching zone stories and roll with it for an expansion. Even something in the vein on Vanilla, with several different stories with different threats popping up will be a welcome relief to the dumb rising stakes with no breaks we’ve had.
New ships have a 0.01% chance to drop from bosses. After two patches of people thinking the system is terrible and would be improved by a vendor, .3 adds a vendor.
Their stock rotates weekly, the ship you want is never there.
To tack onto my last post; just like with the Shadowlands or alternative Draenor. Going to another plane or planet won’t hold me. I have absolutely zero attachment to these areas. I do not care for them and I wouldn’t lose out on never having to visit them again.
Not against visiting other worlds but they can’t exactly just do that. Outland got away with it because it’s the homeworld of the Orcs and other races of Azeroth who made it a base of sort for themselves.
The Shadowlands feel like an entirely different world with absolutely no connection to Azeroth’s or Outland’s history and it demanded a retcon (or changes so large it feels like retconning) to even try to make us care beyond the cartoon villain Sylvanas emo speech.
You don’t need other worlds to really make Azeroth feel truly ‘alien’ so to speak. Suramar felt like an entire different universe because of Magic, so I can’t accept that excuse. The only other worlds that could be touched being Argus ordered again by that Titan juice or something and Nathreza even though lorewise it’s supposed to have been nuked but even worlds aren’t truly dead… Just look at Outland.
However, remaining on Azeroth, updating it and making the over-arching narrative of our homeworld advance is always gonna be my first choice.
Yeah I could manage with Draenor because like…orc lore! Draenei lore! That’s neat enough. Learning about the clans. Yeah it was AU but it was mostly relevant.
So many azerothian stories on a smaller scale that could yet be told. Missed opportunities forever.
I mean, don’t they have the literal other side of the planet to still explore? A proper South Sea’s Expansion? Dragon Isles? Pretty sure there are still zones in both Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms to flesh out aswell? How about the damn Nerubian Empire spanning the breadth(sp?) and wide of Northrend underneath… Well, Northrend?
How about exploring the actual Nazjatar Empire instead of removing the waters from the suburbs of Zin-Azshari!?
Anyways; basicly I rather have them scale it down a bit. This whole Cosmic-forces shenanigans have done nothing but harm the Warcraft franchise because the people in charge and the writers just can’t handle it… Even a little bit.
I mean I don’t blame them; trying to tackle the afterlive is a hard thing to pull off, especially if you keep on adding realms upon realms upon realms to it; with many different pantheons and strenghts and weaknesses while making magic and anything magical related as bland as possible.
I mean I just assumed it as truth; because there was this map in Ulduar which basicly showed nothingness on the otherside of Azeroth with Kalimdor and EK being on one side?
But obviously it could be as you said; Kalimdor and EK are that…(I mean obviously Ulduar is dated as hell by now)
But then again, explain why there are no Goblin/Human/EK races-settlements on the western side of Kalimdor???
(I forgot I was editing a post when I reacted to your comment! D:)
First Kalimdor was hidden by Mists, then Pandaria was… Soon Dragon Isles will be… I mean obviously there are still continents hidden away by mists or magic… Or a combination of both!
ultimately they could just shove EK and Kalimdor further and further apart by shoving in more continents in the middle, like they’ve been doing so far, if they wanted to. Nothing really stopping them. idk there’s just something about ‘other side of azeroth’ that doesn’t gel with me.
I mean, ngl, I kinda agree with you there. But I just hope they would use it to give us a proper “South Sea” expansion with it.
Best moment would’ve been BFA, but… That ship has sailed already
And I know you don’t like Naga, but I think it could be used to prop em up as a real threat/enemy to the surface-dwellers of Azeroth(even though it would now make you wonder why they weren’t during BFA and when their Queen fell, etc etc)
perhaps perhaps but i’m afraid naga have had their cool moment and it lasted exactly 2 minutes AKA that one quest in early vash’jir or whatever the cata underwater zone is called, where you have to defend the ship from naga and it’s actually made clear that, shocker, they have a massive advantage underwater.
This then promptly stopped mattering for the rest of the entire zone + every subsequent appearance.