Where is Ji Firepaw?

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Ok.

Where is he? He wasn’t at the feast after the defeat of the Legion. Now we’re getting (spoilers) a gathering of the Horde leadership in 8.1.5 and he’s nowhere to be seen.

We have the Banshee Prince himself, Mayla, Garona, Thalyssra, Talanji, Rokhan, Geya’rah, Baine, Thomas Zellig, Lor’themar, Gallywix, a sitting troll that I can’t identify, Eitrigg, Lillian Voss and Rexxar.

Where is Ji?

Is he back at Orgrimmar running the Horde considering that every other leader is on Kul Tiras?

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his waiting in the shadows for his role as the new Warchief of the Horde

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He took up drinking after his Garrosh-experiences and overselept, surrounded by cheap pandaren brew.

One explanation is as good as any, Blizzard just doesn’t seem to care. If you want to be charitable you could claim he was off looking at the situation with the new mantid queen, or something.

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Punching dinosaurs.

He is taking his time to appear because he vowed to punch every kind of dinosaur but hasn’t been able to find a ladder tall enough to reach a Brutosaur face.

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He’s gonna punch dat dragon in the face!

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The writers just forgot that he still exist. But he was mentioned in “a good war”.

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Who?
Oh yes, that Pandaren who has been useless to the story since his arc in Pandaria was finished.
Don’t expect to see much from him, I doubt the writers even remembered he existed.

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He is an old school Gillette user.

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According to Wowpedia: During the Blood War, Ji accompanied the Horde forces to Dazar’alor and can be seen aboard The Banshee’s Wail.

So he’s doing stuff I guess.

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I think the NPCs lounging around Dazar’alor and the harbor is Blizzard’s way of saying “they’re doing some war stuff, but nothing remarkable”.

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Probably best if he stays out of the Horde spotlight tbh, wouldn’t want his character to get ruined as well.

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Checked and he’s right at the top atop the mast. Good luck getting up there and seeing him without a DH though.

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Ji Firepaw is hiding out at the same place non-Human Alliance Leaders are hiding out.

In limbo.

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Ji seriously needs to make a return here. It’s bad enough that he and Aysa have been in character limbo ever since the ending of Mists, but considering his history with the rebellion it beggars belief that he wouldn’t be part of the meeting, and that he wouldn’t have very strong thoughts on the matter. I can definitely see him siding with Baine after all that happened during Garrosh’s reign.

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He doesn’t need to do important stuff that we can see, but there’s a meeting of the Horde leaders and he’s nowhere to be seen. There are leaders off all playable Horde races, old ones as well as new allied ones.

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It’s really a shame. It seems that Blizz try to avoid Pandaren as good as possible cause they said by themselves that it was a bad to make them neutral.

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true they should have been horde only it would have been awesome to kill chen stormstout in a raid

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It could be that both horde and alliance might be wary of the Pandaren liasons. Both of them may be rivals from two different schools, but they are not enemies and thus it might be risky to allows Ji and Aysa to participate too much into the war plans.

At least this is how I RP the pandaren situation. Allowing the pandaren lisasons too much insight about the inner workings of the horde or alliance may be prone to information leaks. I mean if Ji knew everything Sylvanas tells the other leaders, he whould most likely defect and join the alliance togheter with Aysa. Bringing all the confidential information with him. :roll_eyes:

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Blizzard forgot that he exists. He is an irrelevant meme character who wants to “punch dinosaurs”. That’s it. That’s probably the end of this character’s story. The expression of a desire to harm innocent animals.

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Maybe you need to look for him a bit more.
I thought the same about Aysa cloudsinger, but then I had a classical disengage accident when I was bored in Boralus and suddenly I found her on the Alliance ship’s bow, where she was hiding because of her Panda :panda_face: insecurities.

https://imgur.com/BmkctFZ

So I started using this new and trendy thing called google and I found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/99qxbo/for_those_wondering_what_ji_firepaw_has_to_say_on/