I’d say gameplay wise the expansion has been good. Lore-wise, depends on what floats your boat. I don’t mind it and the lore hasn’t really been too offensive towards the larger WoW lore. Lore-wise, I’d say it’s better than WoD, Shadowlands, BfA.
Personally I’d just say that I can feel like the devs who made the quests actually had fun making them and managed to write in a lot more personal introspective quests than your generic ‘raagh big bad go kill!!!’ type of quests. If you prefer the latter, then DF might not be to your liking as much. Blizzard always deals with extremes, and DF’s extreme is Disney-fied emotional character introspective storytelling with focus on renewal and healing.
It’s a much welcome change of pace after Shadowlands’s extreme bleakness, but I can see why some people feel a little tired of the ‘emotion-talk’. However, if you’re a Night Elf RPer, the last patch is a godsend after several expansions of getting pummeled to the ground.
Throwback to the time the Alliance was succesfully invading Icecrown and then the Horde launched a surprise attack on the Alliance’s back resulting in the destruction of both Horde and Alliance legions and the Scourge gaining more troops.
Guys, the more I think about it, the more I dislike the fact we are getting another new playable race added, and that its Earthen for both factions. If they had to add new races I rather had them add Earthen for Alliance and Taunka for Horde or something.
But above all, I would like them to focus more on the other races, like all of them, who need more love!
There are different hooks and angles they could have used to incorporate races into the War Within, from Dwarves and Gnomes to the Taurens, Goblins and Forsaken… Instead the focus is probably going to be on the same set of characters we have had in the spotlight for years already, and then the rest of it on the one and done Earthens.
There is also the fact that they add another Earthen society, when we have the ones in Northrend already, alongside the Iron Dwarves and Frostborn, which would offer more customisation options imho.
I am getting tired of them adding races who look the same but are totally different then the ones we already had(Earthen, Mechagnomes, Centaur, HMT Tauren, Mag’har Orcs) and I would like to explore the races that are already in the game who have been left in the dust for years now
This, really. One of the main reasons this last patch felt so interesting is because it was dealing with night elves - not Tyrande or Malfurion, or Shandris: the darnassian faction with its dynamics, its hopes and its dark shadows.
I appreciate a story arc with a major character but ultimately it is not Tyrande, or Sylvanas, or Thrall or cosmic lore that makes the world come alive. It is the various factions I have come to know and interact with over the decades that breathe life into the setting. They have to keep playing a major part in it.
Give me more about the playable faction, but in a way that actually makes them feel a bit like they are actually protagonists in the Warcraft setting y’know?
Rather than glorified footnote (Gilneas, anyone?) in someone else’s story.
I don’t think that the “evangelist” part means that he’s remotely religious. A bit of googling reveals that he once took part in a panel with another fellow who was described as an “Interactive Narrative Design Evangelist.”
I honestly think that it’s probably a case of corporate newspeak. In a day and age where companies want to turn customers into fanatics, products into obsessions, employees into ambassadors and brands into religions, calling oneself an “evangelist” fits with the new jargon quite well.
Not that I cannot head into the direction of her being Queen and all that. All she’s missing is a Forsaken based group that has been revived the same way as her and outnumber the old brand of Forsaken and restore the true menethil dynasty.
Except for the whole thing of millions of undead from an entire kingdom the size of a continent already having been raised, and the fact that Calia has been very vocally saying that she doesn’t want to take the throne for eight years since Legion.
So, yeah, it could happen; if they ditch the entire concept, aesthetic, lore and plot of both the race and the character.
I can’t wait for The War Within. Emperor Dagran Thaurissan, Second of His Name will be such an exceptionally based leader of dwarfkind. As a sign of magnanimity he will reclaim Grim Batol to secure the fealty of the Wildhammer, and he shall bring the Earthen into his fold.
The Great Uniter and The Enlightened they shall know him as. Long may he reign.
Of all the races they’ve introduced (including allied races) I can’t remember any I’ve cared less about than the Earthen. When I discuss TWW features, I keep forgetting they exist.
Horde-side Earthen will be explained via them being our neutral guiding/hub race for the expansion, so people will eternally use that as a reason for why it’s fine.
Best case scenario, Blizzard will take advantage of the different cultures in order to create a particular sect of the Earthen who align really well with Horde values, who eschew the typical dwarf culture in favour of the more primal and chaotic nature of the Horde.
It’s possible, but somehow I doubt that they’ll pull it off. Even if they did, I get the feeling that this roleplaying community would still reject them because looking like dwarves is enough for them to be considered “not Horde enough.”
