So are we being controlled by N'zoth right now?

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Because if we aren’t, then this has got to be one of the most asinine series of decisions our characters have ever made.

So first we agree to help a talking old god dagger collect a bunch of powerful artifacts, which is pretty dumb already. But then the dagger leads us into what looks like the maw of either N’zoth itself or at least a massive void creature like the ones in Dragon Soul, and asks us to offer up the artifacts we collected. Apparently having the foresight of a blind goldfish, we oblige, which results in N’zoth’s minions stealing the artifacts and an old god eye growing out of our forehead.
We then have the option to not get rid of this old god eyeball, which I guess you could take as a sign that we ARE being meddled with.

Then, when we beat the last boss of the Crucible of Storms, N’zoth himself presents us with the now empty old god dagger and asks us to bring it to Sylvanas, mentioning off-handedly that doing so will eventually result in his return. So we take the dagger and toss it into the ocean… yeah, of course not. We instead take the dagger and bring it to Sylvanas.
And as a cherry on top, upon receiving this dagger, Sylvanas starts talking about how Anduin doesn’t know what he’s dealing with.

So, are we supposed to already be completely enslaved by N’zoth, or has our characters’ brain just stopped working altogether?

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if you want good story telling and lore, it died after wotlk.

Enjoy the ride and turn off your brain then you might have fun, wow is a cluster ¤#"!

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I think it’s a little of column A and a little of column B.

I was under the assumption my characters were being manipulated by Xal’atath and N’zoth and the characters that chose to get rid of the gift were the stronger minded ones and those that didn’t were weak minded or just wanted the gift for some reason.

Actual reason is probably bad writing but eh.

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i chose to dodge this lovecraftian plot line altogether, so i am not. :slight_smile:

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Same here, haven’t been doing it cause what i understood it is just leads to the new raid. Not doing raids so not bothering. So it seems at least i am not controlled by N’zoth, yeay!

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I’ve taken it on two, rejected it on two, just to see what happens and if it is indeed some sort of different plot direction we get either side. I doubt it. Bit fed up of the silly eye on the chars that took it. At least when they finally open the Crucible in LFR I should be able to ditch it and get back to normality.

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Imagine calling TBC classic and woltk good lore.

  1. classic lore had one good thing and that was Onyxia

  2. TBC was just random as hell

  3. woltk made no sense overall and to make the lichking look threatening , they had to create the nexus wars.

And they still made the lich king to a cartoon villain

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Yes but whole thing will save the existence of Sylvanas . For everything what she did … and because of that there is not going to happen SOO 2

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All hail N’zoth, Our lord from bellow, the ancient and most wise, long may he reign as the one true old god!

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TBC was about illidan, naga and Kaelthas and BT… wich is a major part of w3 and real core to the game

WOTLK was about stopping Arthas and the scourge? wich is a major lore point since warcraft 3 and most fans love

if you did not pick that up well thats on you :stuck_out_tongue:

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I smell a traitor, N’zoth saw this. N’zoth will punish the unbelievers when the time comes.

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Oh and hey forgot to say earlier but N’zoth called and asked you all to send all your gold to me. And first born battle pets.

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Wait, the Lich King was supposed to be threatening? If anything, I pitied how he would always run away like a Scooby Doo villain every time we interacted with him.

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N’zoth only gives, never takes. N’zoth sees as us a collective, a hivemind. You must have rejected the gift, watch the shadows. One of them can be one of us, assassinating you for rejecting the gift.

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N’zoth reveals the truth, N’zoth shows us the path, N’zoth leads us to fulfil our destiny!

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Only that the people we faced in TBC had nothing in common with the Warcraft characters outsite their name. It was a mess and they were made villains just to be raid bosses. tBC was not good story telling, it was rule of cool.

Stopping arthas was a major lore point ? For illidan maybe. For us ? No, not really. The scourge was something dangerous. But not the world ending thread it was always told.

Arthas plan had 0% Chance to succeed. And all he did was run around and taunt us. He was acting zero like the Warcraft 3 Arthas and than we had a random tournament, Nexus war and old god. All this while fighting Arthas ? We must have had a lot of free time. Good story telling.

And I love two things.

  1. how you don’t even mention classic lore

  2. how you act as if the only good lore is the one which was established before WoW, while ignoring that the Deathwing lore predates Arthas by 4 years and twillight dragons WoW by 2 years.

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I’ve seen more depth in bottletops than this drivel storyline.

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you are not alone! high five /’

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classic lore is mainly how the 2 factions started building up after w3 and blizzard wanted to see how to take the warcraft universe from there.

So you don’t think stopping Arthas was a major thing for the alliance? after what he did? allright then.

your points on TBC - whatever dude i don’t care if you think its bad or good lore, i liked tbc was a good exp.

I never said wow in general had good story or lore, for me it DIED after wotlk, thats the turning point for me, where i didn’t care anymore or followed whats going on i just play the game now for fun.

It was obv when cata was announced that blizzard truly had hit a deadzone and was starting to dig stuff out of their "#! story wise, and in the same time trying to have it include players as the hero character.

But all in all wow and the direction of how the story and lore is heading, is just terrible if you ask me and im pretty sure most warcraft fans agree on that.

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While you are at explaining wow lore, could you, please, clarify the physics behind Marvel superheroes abilities (preferably, in equations)?

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