steps out of the shadows
Don’t mind if I do…
(OP worries there’s nothing to do RP wise but I can confirm there’s at least 7 evil forsaken ladies a week trying to conquer Azeroth - and somebody has to stop them!)
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Well we at least know leaders are missing and the Scourge is supposed to be running rampant.
Azerite was never wrapped up.
Scourge and world blood is what our life is now.
Whatever happened to that enormous sword that got shoved into the desert? I guess we’ll never know…
Dunno what you mean, it’s exactly where you last saw it: Embedded in Silithus after having missed the heartchamber.
Honestly Blizzard haven’t really given us much to work with in terms of new things to integrate into our RP. The story is limited to a small group of main characters in a dimension we don’t really have access (I know this is debatable but idc).
WoW is an old game, and it needs the occasional injection of new world building to keep things alive and kicking. BfA for all it’s faults did that relatively well by introducing new races, new lands and a faction conflict.
Shadowlands added a very brief and very poorly explained/implemented scourge invasion and that was it. It leaves you with another 2 years of no real world building outside of the afterlife which isn’t a normal RP hangout like Cathedral Square is.
Obviously the game itself not being much fun to play outside of RP is a major factor too, but everyone has already talked to that point.
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We don’t talk about that!
One of the main reasons why rp is bleeding players a lot, partially to ongoing neglect but also because shadowlands doesn’t really provide much you can actually integrate into your everyday rp to shake things up and keep it feeling fresh.
For the sake of the health of overall rp, a lot of smaller quality of life changes could be made among other things to greatly enhance what we got and provide incentive for people to get creative again.
If people from AD would be so kind to give this a watch and spread the word, this might help a bunch because I’d really love topics like this to get big enough to actually reach the people that can do something about it.
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Barring the ‘night elves are constantly being nerfed by Blizzard!!’ crowd, I think almost the Burning of Teldrassil was universally agreed as a great roleplay motivator. You have this objectively terrible incident with civillian casualties that both factions can react to and draw inspiration from (vengeance on the side of the Alliance and questioning leadership on the side of Horde, both interesting premises) and even as BFAs plot drifted away to Nazjatar and N’zoth, we still saw it’s relevance across roleplay.
The problem with the scourge invasions is that while yes they are villains and scourge invasions within cities are a destructive thing, there’s nothing really to fuel that vitriol. Instead of having something to blame for all this death and destruction, it’s more akin to a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake where it’s less about taking the fight to the baddies and more about preparing and recovering from a semi-inevitable destruction. Which is still an interesting premise, but it can’t exactly fuel years worth of roleplay on it’s own like the intentional burning of a city did.
Sorry if I covered some of the points you already did there, but seeing it laid out like you did made me realise part of why Shadowlands hasn’t made that same impact on the playerbase.
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the problem with teldrassil is while it’s an interesting inciting incident they then proceeded to do basically nothing with it more or less immediately.
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Were there even any night elves at lordaeron (probably some rando archers, but there certainly weren’t any named/prominent nelves).
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idk, been ages since I did that scenario and honestly I don’t care enough about wow lore to look it up
it’s possible like shandris or someone was present in non speaking part or something I guess?
still think Lordaeron should have come before Teldrassil and it’d make BfA’s first half or so make a lot more sense
On the one hand, yeah it sucks they squandered their main plot going into BFA.
On the other hand, Blizzard letting roleplayers tell the story was probably the best accident they could have stumbled into. Like yeah it made the expansion weaker but could you imagine if they did the whole Tyrande seeks redemption thing in BFA?
I think in this case less was/is more.
Editing this into here because gosh I wish.
It certainly would’ve made it more interesting. Now you have a direct reason for Sylvanas to go on the offensive as that attack would basically be unprovoked from the Alliance’s side, but then you’d be making Blizzard make Anduin even slightly in the wrong and we can’t have him being anything but totally and utterly infallible for whatever reason.
It says something that I wondered at first if you meant their WC3TFT expedition to Silverpine before remembering that, oh right, there was a battle for Lordaeron in BfA.
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Which, for all the hype, they did even less with afterwards than Teldrassil.
At least there’s some closure knowing Kaldorei won at Darkshore and retook what’s left of their lands. But Forsaken and Lordaeron Human roleplayers… They don’t know what really happened with the rest of the Kingdom during the war, or what the situation’s like post-truce.
I mean, we do know for the most part, really.
The Alliance had to bail the hell out after the Siege, so aside from the loss of Brill and Capital City there’s not really any reason to think anything else in the area has changed, other than that apparently the Alliance… claimed the blighted ruins of southshore?
I wish them good luck with it.
Possibly! On the other hand we have those War Campaign mission tables, which have Alliance armies apparently move into Silverpine and Hillsbrad (more than only Southshore)?
Didn’t the 7th Legion take Shadowfang and Gilneans Fenris Keep? It’s really quite vague if they were actually successful - and if they were, whether they stayed there or not.
There’s counter-missions where the Horde do the same, so at best they’re ‘contested’.
Armies moving through places also doesn’t mean they’ve settled/reinforced it, and they presumably got told to GTFO once BfA ended.
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It would’ve been interesting if the Alliance took some land and resettled it. Would make for more potential conflict between them, the Forsaken, and whatever Calia’s trying to do over there. Is she part of the Forsaken now, by the way? I never really followed that.
Blizz has danced around actually saying it but she is their representative on the horde cOuNcIl so, yeah? idk, both her and Voss are wack
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It’s a job creator, Tehya. Come mop up the gooey remains of your distant relatives! I’d actually like to know how that’s going. But there’s a lot I’d like to know. Such as how everyone’s dealing with the rampant Scourge. Guess we’ll never know. Unless 9.2 has something to tell us.
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