Interesting conflict idea here would be the Kaldorei just flat out deciding on a “No Horde” policy into Northern Kalimdor/Ashenvale, sparking skirmishes as they attack anything and anyone red trying to enter.
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Let’s be real, the Alliance was actively attacking the Horde in Silithus. The dwarves were considering a pre-emptive strike on the Horde. Sylv - for all her faults - was daubed a villain for getting Saurfang on her side, “tricking him” by pointing out the Alliance will never truly leave them alone.
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I’m quite sure this is how it is described in the Exploring Azeroth: Kalimdor book, for Ashenvale at least. Horde forces and Nelves are still fighting there.
Afaik, the Nelves never agreed to the armistice and are officially still at war with the Horde.
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I love this decision. I’m so glad to see that not every nelf is on board with the way everything played out. Obviously RPers do that and that’s fine but having canon backing makes it so much better.
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Oh yeah, I’m not saying the Alliance is objectively the good guys. But that the narrative or writing tries to make them out to be. Because most of the time when stuff like this happens, Alliance players get a quip or text to justify why “it had to be done” and it’s more often than not presented as actual fact rather than propaganda/false justification.
That’s pretty interesting. Atleast something good came out of those exploring books.
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Imho WoW can also be pretty hardcore. Especially the older quests were much more myth-oriented than cartoonish.
Warcraft III (and plenty of quests in WoW) could become very dark in their own right.
I’m going to say that since WoW started to draw more from hearthstone, I felt less passionate about the game. WoW was never as cartoony and silly as some people make it out to be.
That is indeed what they say. Which, yes, they might think the natural state of the world should be about some sort of anarchy and “absolute chaos” as you call it, or perhaps they’re just jealous because they wanted to rule over Azeroth and the titans took that opportunity away from them, yet we have no idea because it is not really elaborated upon, it is not even a distinction Blizzard is seemingly aware of.
They also believe that the magic of order is responsible for this, and it is unclear to which extent they are right because we, as the audience, don’t know how arcane magic functions in relation to the natural environment and shamanism. It would have been, as Karrash said, a wonderful opportunity to flesh out the world further, create new conflicts with old lore, but no. We get zero.
So for example, do the primalists have a grudge with the titans because they simply took over their rule? If so, what are mortals doing amidst their ranks? Could it be because arcane magic disrupts the environment, or they simply have a grudge with this magic because “magic of the titans, titans were bad, therefore their magic is bad!”? Or is there more to it, and shamanism is somehow in conflict with arcane? We do not know and a core element of the expansion is simply not explored.
(We can take a guess from how Thrall tried to manipulate Jaina’s frostbolt in an obscure book, but it feels a bit of a stretch no?)
We also know they changed their mind about the Primalists - before they worshipped Galakrond, now they are their own thing. We know they are as powerful as the Aspects - yet where do they draw their power from? The Aspects are blessed by the titans, that’s why they are OP. But the Primalists…? Duh, who knows. Just consume the product already!
It is a dragon that sells cheese from all WoW ages, including the Black Empire.
This just isn’t the World of Warcraft of old. It always looks more like Hearthstone and less like WOW.
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Personally, I think it would be more interesting to have some mad Galakrond cultists, perhaps influenced by other Dracthyr/Dragon-kin to restore “the old ways of the dragons” so to speak.
But even if not, they could really use some fleshing out and hopefully the future patches will do that a bit more.
remember when they just added link von legendofzelda to un’goro
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The weird knight-guy? Not sure.
While WoW Cataclysm was kinda… zany? is that a word? …it wasn’t as widespread silly as it is today.
yeah tbf they always did some funnies here and there but it needs to be “earned” in a way. When something epic is around the corner or just happened I would smile at a bad joke, when I just rolled my eyes and know I will in the next cinematic too then a joke does not help at all…
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No, Linken, in vanilla. The one who gives you the “It’s dangerous to go alone” quest.
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Hillsbrad and Uldum were genuinely bad because of it. Runner up goes to the goblin with a block of cheese on his head blowing up a dwarf base.
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Ah, did not even know it existed. Guess it did not leave much of an echo behind.
In general I would say these were rather minor elements of World of Warcraft. Having an overall tone which isn’t silly and cartoony doesn’t prevent you from inserting an exception here and there.
Wasn’t the cata replacement just a Don Quijote parody?
Rather like a one off dragon vendor NPC most people don’t seem to be aware of, yes.
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or like a main character of the time dragon questline. A being with the power over time that should be scary and demand respect (as all dragons should.)
Once they start to make that into a quirky annoying jokefest you really know there is no hope for dragons to be cool ever again
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Bellular is high quality clickbait content which, opposite to YouTube Shorts & adjacent fashion, instead of compressing 5 minutes of information into 30 seconds, he extends 5 minutes of information into 30 minutes; all while flipflopping between his opinions so hard he manages to outpace the neckbreak speeds at which current WoW’s story moves which he complains about.
· Welcome to my new patch launch video! FIVE classes that are fun to main.
· FIVE classes that are fun to alt.
· Welcome to my middle of the patch video!
· NEW UPDATES LEAK?! Let’s talk about it.
· Welcome to my near-end of the patch video. Is WoW DYING? (picture of him raising an eyebrow inquisitively)
· Welcome to my new patch reveal video! We’re so back.
The fact that anybody seriously considers his narrative worth entertaining makes me understand a lot more why Warcraft is so confident to suddenly release some half-baked stuff from time to time, considering how people in this community seem to just shovel absolute nothingburger content into their mouths if it makes their sensationalist-driven serotonin trigger like mentos inside a bottle of coke.
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WoW content creators that appeal to the casual audience in a nutshell.
DAE NEW EXPANSION LEAK? TEL ABIM BANANA HINT?
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random spot on the map THIS IS HUGE!! red arrow pointing at the fan created map
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Unfortunately correct. Blizzard has completely fumbled the mortal side of the Primalists, failing to give them any characterization, purpose, origin, motivation, background whatsoever.
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