In what way does the writing depict him as being flawed? I’d like to know. Any flaws that he might have are depicted in a positive light that makes him seem like a better person for having them - for example, he’s so nice and wholesome that he’s a little too forgiving of his enemies, isn’t he just swell? Character flaws only matter when they’re detrimental, rather than just being aggrandising window-dressing.
I find him to be thoroughly uninteresting and without any meaningful fault.
I maintain to this day that BFA would have been the perfect in-depth Varian vs Garrosh expansion.
not to mention that being The Good Guy always works out 100% of the time for him.
Anduin would have been fine in a way, but I agree that Garrosh should have replaced Sylvanas in the faction war.
Personally I liked the character of Anduin pre-BFA. I loved the role he got in MoP, with him trying to understand the world alongside Wrathion: two young men with a lot of questions about the world. They were both growing to become something new and have an impact on Azeroth.
Anduin was seemingly developing towards a new character in Legion. Varian’s Death was changing him a little. However as of BFA he has regained too much immaturity. The issue I have with Anduin is that he’s not a realistic character: too often his approach in BFA appears soft or too trustworthy. So often being a saint doesn’t make a good king.
In a world such as Warcraft, he has to become less soft; he needs to take a bit of the spirit his father had.
I really don’t think Anduin has the force of personality to seem even remotely interesting when facing HELLSCREAM.
The thing with Anduin is what they said above. Anduin is far too unrealistic considering the world he lives in and the experiences he’s been through.
In the Varian comics he is shown to be far more balanced while still leaning peace but with high courage.
He wishes he had his father’s physical and martial fortitude in other medias… To be strong because he’s aware that his inadequaties could doom him or his people far more than his Warmongering father was.
In BfA it was a complete regression back to a star dreamy kid. Basically they infantalized him and made his character to be 1D “I’m a good golden boy”.
Anduin BfA is a joke. Especially when we’re talking about a royal who had been in very life threatening situations and sometimes through his wits got through some of them (Pandaria, Garrosh, Moira).
It doesn’t help that whatever actions he does is somewhat whitewashed and disregarded (Arathi meeting) when he definitely has some responsability in it.
Along with Allied Race Death Knights, will we see more class-race combinations?
Nothing specific at the moment. Many of those decisions are based on the lore perspective; obviously it can be done, but it’s more of whether it’s the right time and it makes sense. Legion and the Class Halls introduced Gnome Hunters and Mechanical pets because both the supporting fiction and mechanics like new creatures being made supported the idea. Certainly there may be new combinations in the future, but they also like the idea of some restrictions, so it really just depends on what they think makes sense at the time.
The tauren rogues+mages and worgen/goblin monks dream yet lives!
Inb4 we get blood elf druids or draenei warlocks or something else that requires a borderline retcon or asspull to introduce when other options that require basically no lore changes at all or literally exist already continue to be ignored.
Blood elf druids make more sense that tauren rogues 
This is my oddest hill to die on, but Anduin’s brief questline in Legion was probably one of the best in that expansion. In an expansion where you’re the leader of your class, personally killing huge names like Cenarius (well freeing him but you get the point), Kil’jaeden, and Gul’dan, and likely have one of WoW’s most iconic weapons in your hands…
A brief questline focusing on one character’s doubts and the burden of expectations felt very refreshing, and well-handled. It felt believable.
BfA anduin is… None of what I liked about that, sadly. It would’ve been interesting if his constant optimism ever backfired, but it never did. He always has some way out or things just perfectly go his way, which is just lame, but then again, not unique to Anduin (side eyes the rebel plotline)
Show me a blood elf druid NPC. Because I can show you a whole quest with Grimtotem rogues using energy and rogue abilities, and we know a number of them defected during the Shattering when Baine exiled Magatha. So it’s extremely plausible they brought some rogues (and mages) with them, and then been asked “how do you do that?” by a younger tauren.
If there is a blood elf druid NPC though then fair enough. That’s not a complete asspull.
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/High_Botanist_Freywinn
“Nature bends to my will!”
Welp. There we have it then. Ideally the combo should also exist in a allied/friendly form but this at least shows they’re capable of nature magic, albeit through twisted means. I’ll concede to that. Iirc only hostile NPCs were troll druids for example.
Draenei warlocks however would be bonkers. Given we see tons bit they’re universally hostile and were chased by demons across the universe for thousands of years.
I agree with you, but I’ve seen several people making comments about that they could maybe want to fight fire with fire etc.
But the thing they forget is that we don’t play as the race, but a faction within the race dedicated almost soley to that fel/demons is bad. A Draenei would not be a Draenei anymore if they go away from their very core principals and believes, they would be another Man’Ari/Eredar.
I think it COULD be done but for a similar reason to orc warlocks. I remember people hating that combo back in the day as it flew in the face of the Horde we saw in WC3 which rejected demonic power. And for good reason.
Blizzard could twist some excuse into existence, but I’d rather they just add the combos that don’t need any lore or race twisting at all to make playable first.
Worgen monk. A panda got over the wall, done.
Goblin monk. A panda washed up on the island, done.
Tauren rogue/mage, less morally stingy Bloodhoof asked a defector from the Grimtotem how they did their thing. Done.
Only reason I would see it work personally is if they actually went out of their way to make Man’Ari(for whatever god-awful reason) join the Alliance. Then it would make more sense that we’d play a Draenei or one of them, not a Draenei who is abandoning litterally everything their faction is about.
Even so, I would not want it.
This should have worked already, since they made a Pandaren litterally bend time to suddenly always had been present at the Draenei crash site.
Hey just to throw it out there but now Morality is Objective now in WoW.
No longer are there debates about doing a thing for the greater good or correct from a certain point of view because now the Arbiter (played by Keith David) just tells you if you werea Good Person or a Bad Person
Tmw you wake up from a coma and some fat bear person has dressed you in his student uniform while you were unconscious
I’m so happy they did this, since we no longer have to worry about the weight of personal conflict and decision. Now we have set universal alignments decided by someone else!