There’s plenty of Darkness in Dragonflight already. It’s the same Evil vs Good as has been all the way through World of Warcraft.
You can’t judge it on one Goofy, cartoony and fun Cinematic which was designed to capture a new audience, when there is already plenty of of Lore material out there in the game already showing the Darkside of Dragonflight. Have to missed references to Titan Deceptions, Old Gods, Infinite Dragons and Primalist? That information is live in the game for you to see, right now!
If there’s anything that they should “slip” players, its an Infinite Dragon skin for their Dracthyrs. Not a Vampire class that’s completely irrelevant to the current story and theme.
I really enjoy that they’ve been keeping hush on the main antagonist of the expansion so far. It has really kept us guessing with the clues they have been dropping.
I love the old story as well. But those times are gone. Let the game evolve.
When i wrote about vampires as a class i never imagined it to be in dragonflight expansion.
I even specifically wrote that it takes place on an island west of Northrend called Vestal, which is inspired by the scottish highlands. Which is home to Witch hunters, which will be the main foe of the vampires.
I also imagined 2 classes to be released in this expansion.
The vampires and the mercenaries, whereas the mercenaries are a group of mixed fighters that will do any mission in exchange for gold, but as the vampire population has grown, thier main foe are vampires
Thier specs were witch hunter, highlander and alchemist.
Also, if there was a poll. I bet the vast majorty whould prefer to play as a vampire than dracthyr.
What has any of that got to do with World of Warcraft? It sounds like you’ve found some really obscure part of the Lore and decided to make up an entire expansion around it.
I could never image that being more than a questline.
A poll would be interesting. But where would you get the data. Sure you can put the poll up on the WoW Forums, but we’re all the dredges of the WoW community. Put it on Reddit, and you’ll probably get a different answer. Put it out to the population as they’re buying the game from the game store, and once again you’ll probably find something completely different.
Needless, after Shadowlands I think people are really fed up with dull and grey death themes. I remember even during 9.1 it had gotten too much and too depressing. I doubt we’ll venture into another Death themed expansion for at least another Decade because there are other topics and cosmic forces to cover. Who knows where the storyline would have gone by then.
If you are not aware, wow has completely changed path, the feel it has now compared to a few expansion back is tremendous. Hence why most say they prefer old wow or classic.
The developers nowdays come up with entire new lore all the time and even change the lore. Almost all the new races we have gotten from BFA and onwards doesin’t exist in lore, but just made up.
It feels more like the blizzard team just drags on to keep this game alive, and make up lore to keep it going, when it should instead ended with WOTLK imo.
And perhaps a wow 2 or warcraft 4 being created after that.
The lore nowdays are cheap. Reviving old characters, bringing back old foes aka old gods, even thougth they are defeated.
I could very well see an expansion around vampires and witch hunters, if written well which i am skeptical about, hence why the lore is so bad nowdays.
I bet many will appreciate that expansion
more than this mess of expansions we have gotten lately.
But that’s the reason why they bring back and build on Old characters. Because they’re known to the average player and have a heroic story behind them.
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve played this game since Vanilla and had no idea there was an Island west of Northern called Vestal, let alone inhabited by Vampires and Mercenaries. It’s a very obscure part of the Lore which the vast majority of the player base doesn’t know or care about.
Going with famous characters and carrying on and building on lead storylines sells digitals. I actually know people who only bought Shadowlands just because Uther was in the first 2.5D Cinematic.
See the thing about classes being added isn’t them being added with some story at a specific moment, the story permits the addition of whatever object, class, race, etc, at any moment because the respective world meets the criteria for whatever object, class, race, to bein in that world. Those are the only requirements, nothing else. Not when you or I feel like they should be added but at any time at any moment.
If while we are running across flowery fields and singing with Elsa, I mean Jaina about the relatives of the sea and boom. You got playable vampires. It makes sense, why? Because, as you say, there’s plenty of darkness not just in the current expansion but in ALL of them.
And please, stop insinuating I’m some kind of nostalgia powered barrier keeping WoW from evolving, cause maybe you haven’t noticed but I’m posting using a dragon freak avatar instead of a classic avatar. I don’t have a problem with evolution as long as it’s … well not idiotic and would like to see people who make reasonable requests be listened to.
I don’t really care enough about this subject to keep arguing with you, tbh.
But have you considered asking for class skins? It was a cool idea floating around much earlier in the year just before DF was announced. The idea is that they take existing classes and reskin them so their spells look different. For example, Shamans could become Tidesages, Hunters could become Dark Rangers, Paladins could become Void Warriors. It was a cool idea, I imagine the best match to Vampires could be Shadow priests.
Its just that adding a Class into the game is a huge undertaking for Blizzard. All the additional balancing involved is a lot more complicated it might seem. That’s why they don’t do it very often, and in fact only choose to add them when it really pushes the story forward.
I’m not insinuating that at all. I’m saying that Blizzard are pushing the story forward using current popular means. They choose their stories on what they think will be popular to the Masses, and what Markets well. 2 years ago, they were Marketing Shadowlands with the Venthyr, who although not stated to be Vampires, it was obvious they were inspired by vampires.
