Compare all of the examples that you listed to all of the void elves we’ve got who haven’t gone insane, and the evidence skews towards them resisting the Void rather than succumbing to it.
Just like how the existence of Cyana Nightglaive doesn’t mean that all Illidari are weak-willed fools moments away from serving the Burning Legion.
Honestly though, Alleria could have brought along more help than just the void elves, but I guess Blizzard wanted to keep down the voice-acting budget for this patch.
Except they are, and they admit it to be an everlasting danger for all of them. And even when they are not, they still remain a threat to themselves and everyone around, able to literally combust from every serious injury or mental trauma. But somehow the void elves don’t share this amount of work hazards, or at least don’t mention it so explicitly and openly, not to mention burning on the job the way DHs do.
All of these void and shadow things yet not a single Forsaken religion crumb
I sigh
Between that and how questing as a Forsaken has felt this expansion we may as well rename them to the Forgotten
I dread those druid updates.
If they insist on making all the healers super sparkly they should at least add another spec that isn’t.
You’d think at the least Alleria would like, idk, ask her husband to bring the spaceship filled with anti-void, void-resistant and void-killing people and things explicitly made to kill demons and void. The Army of the Light has previously fought on fully-corrupt planets of both Void and Fel.
You’re telling me the AotL rocked up for the Hallowfall fight and the Fourth War but won’t rock up for “hey if we fail the literal universe will end in 1 nanosecond”?
Vindicaar never beating the useless allegations. Lightforged in disarray. “nooo our light cannon can totally blow up Orgirmmar!” stonks have never been lower.
Another excuse for the lack of involvement is that Alleria’s character development has been reset, therefore she’s back to not wanting to involve anyone close to her out of fear of them getting hurt. So no, she wouldn’t want to drag Turalyon into this mess, because she’s back to keep him out of it and wanting to solve it all on her own.
But that just highlights how the resetting of her character development is a big issue.
Yet more proof that forcing this weird Cosmic Void plot upon her has literally had no benefit to her characterisation beyond consistently causing her to have to be factory-reset every 2-3 years as the plot demands. Gods I miss when Alleria was just a cocksure, snarky Farstrider.
Even funnier because she specifically left the Void Elves behind in the DF quests leading up to TWW because she didn’t want to put them at risk while Xal’atath was around.
Alleria Windrunner says: It’s best if I leave. I’m a danger to you all, so long as Xal’atath’s gaze is cast upon me.
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Radiant_Warnings
Only to turn around and drag them to Voidland with Xal’atath.
Just watched a playthrough of the K’aresh campaign and while I should probably wait until I’ve experienced it myself - I’m going to go out on a limb and say it might be one of the best patch-campaigns the game has ever had - up there with the Isle of Thunder and the Divine Bell (while not beating Suramar and the Frozen Halls IMO, if the latter counts as a campaign)
Feels refreshing to say. The game has so many terrible campaigns, but this ain’t one of them.
As for the new patch, the funny thing is, I had a storyline hook involving the Shadowguard made for Des back in Legion when we first met them, and it was before TWW came out I intended to involve them into Des’ current storyline again. Then lo and behold, we meet the Shadowguard first during the pre-patch and then in Undermine again, and now this.
I honestly have to say, I am quite looking forward to it, and I can live with Brokers just being a different brand of Ethereals , given we already kinda knew they were.
And who knows, maybe the story -will- take him to K’aresh IC!
