Basically the Horde had taken the Temple of the Red Crane and was holed up in there. Varian and Tyrande were discussing how to defeat them, Tyrande wanted to just storm in there and Varian had to explain to her why just rushing in was a stupid idea and why drawing them out was better.
Now you aren’t going to fool me into thinking that a human in his thirties, forties knows war better than a leader of a people from over 10k years old. They really did Tyrande dirty there for the sake of making Varian look good.
They did it in Varian comics too, it’s one of the things that pushed me into throwing that book in the trash (exaggerating, I don’t put books in the trash but the feeling was here) in the volume 2. They needed Had Forgotten Everything But So Badass Anyway Varian to explain to Sentinels how to take ennemy in pincers. I could never get over how much I dislike the Wrynn and human potential ever since.
Bros, there’s too many small fantasy races who overcome their advantage with technology or magic. They’re generic and lame.
There’s also too many long-lived races (usually elves tbh…) whose stories are essentially having been a former master race brought down and forced to learn humility. That’s generic and lame.
There’s also too many races which are functionally just humans with some extra bits glued to them and have a summarised version of a non-European culture tacked onto the end.
I hate tropes. Remove them all. If you like them, don’t speak to me. Don’t even read this post. Click to the cross at the top right of your browser and stare at your desktop you utter cretin. You complete buffoon. You disgusting animal
It’s for the same reason they are giving humans customisation options to exactly replicate real life ethnicities, and the same reason the windrunners inevitably all end up with manly human men.
Humans are the self-insert race.
I mean, they even straight up said so at the customisation panel at Blizzcon. And for the OOC majority of players, I am sure there is no problem with that! It’s a bit painful from a lore perspective though.
In BfA they do the same thing, but on a grander scale. Dumb down every character in the story(particuarly the Horde leaders) so it can look like Sylvanas is a master schemer who no one can figure out.
MoP follows the usual trend of having self-contained leveling zone storylines and the like being fine to really good, and Blizzard’s attempts to push overarching storylines (usually faction war) ending up dubious at best.
WoD was no different. In and of themselves, the questlines were fine. The problem was the contextualisation of timetravel paradoxes, multiple realities and how they overlap, and so on.
As an example, if Spires of Arak had taken place in MU and simply been the player travelling back to a vision of the past where they get to see what would have happened if the Arakkoa had a helping hand back then, it would have been possibly my favourite questing zone! I still love it, but it’s a bit tainted by how they did the whole expansion.
I love Warlords of Draenor leveling zones. The expansion not being that good overall is not going to change my mind about that. Warlords will be a time I remember quite fondly for the remainder of my WoW career, probably.
I mean, isn’t this the case in BfA aswell? The zone storylines were great, I especially loved Drustvar’s and Nazmir and Vol’dun, but then came the overaching faction-war…
Exactly, hence ‘the usual trend’. BFA is if anything even more extreme. The contrast in quality between the independent, self-contained continent storylines and the war campaign is stark indeed.
The time travel Garrosh arc being poo and also thrown aside pmuch as soon as we arrived. It was just a McGuffin to get us there then forgotten until midway through Nagrand & part of the legendary chain.
Lack of content. The content we had was really fun, even Garrisons. But they had promised, up until the day it launched, -alot- more. And then didnt do anything to rectify it. We had 1 actual content patch for an entire expansion.
Tanaan and it’s storyline(Which they have admitted was a last minute decision cus they didnt know what to do due to cuts to WoD) was one of the worst things they have done in WoW. Up there with Argus in terms of dissapointment.
Both are atrocious choices, and whoever thought they were good ideas should by law not be allowed near any form of writing material again. That includes paper, any type of pencil, crayon etc and computers.
I like to think that, with the Mag’har scenario, Yrel just played along during the moment and actually was like ’ Yeah, keep cheering, Imma get all of you bish-as s orcs later for killing my sister."
I still found it rather pathetic how the Mag’har scenario played out. It was extra LOL when Eitrigg was like “We too know how terrible it is to be opressed. The Alliance in our world is trying to opress our freedom as well.”
Especially when this is canonically after Teldrassil, lol.