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oh sorry, Bellular started to read the summary of the story, it had nothing about orc & humans & elves & dwarves, so I fell asleep. It always amazes me when lore nerds defend the mediocre to really bad story of an MMO, ignoring all the people walking out during the movie.
What I love the most about the quest storytelling in this expansion is that it's more like silly DnD problem solving scenarios than "witty" wacky Marvel banter last two expansions often suffered from. I love that many of the activities aren't about killing, like how we deal with that yeti and how we find out that the big chonky good buy is actually excellent rescue and therapy dog. This feels like I'm living being interacting with other living beings, not just emotionless mercenary walking from one currency dispenser to another and murderhoboing everything on the way. I like how different the side activities between different factions are, like being park ranger with centaurs, creating soup in most chaotic fashion imaginable with tuskars, scheming and training military with black dragons and finding treasure chests with expediction. Little things like that create much better faction identity than for example any of the BfA and Legion zone factions had
What we are witnessing here is the WoD effect ladies and gentlemen.
except this time it was not one bad expansion, it was two.
Thus when represented from a Catastrophe narrative to a so-so.
the Narrative becomes ten times better than it actually is.
Just like with the Legion expansion that gets praised to the skies despite the expansion having a down turn after Zurramar in quality and content.
Their new dungeons are way overdone with complexity in m+. Otherwise it’s an improvement.
Meh. I'm never going back. They lost their chance
Rough microphone. Usually I like to stick around through the ad as if I am supporting the channel. Not this time
Bro. I don't know what you're on about. Let me just log on, before all the boa gear, as my level 19 twink paladin and do some pvp.
they just need to fix all the lore they broke during BFA and SLs..
I am glad DF obviously sets up Murozond story. But main story with Primalists — pure boredom.
Let me save you 18:02 minutes. No, it's not.
WoWs lore will be back on track once they retcon Shadowlands. Just a couple of small changes/clarifications and it’s fixable. For one, clarify that Denathrius had his own goals separate from the jailer.
Tired of your clickbait titles. Dying channel.
Laughable story compared to FFXIV story. No im not a FFXIV andy, i actually love and enjoy both games atm
A definite improvement but let’s not kid ourselves in comparison to other games and mmos out there this is still pretty bad
Boa had the start right, but then they derailed and input all these mechanics for getting gear and the gear itself, and we were thrown into the abyss of doing everything but play the game like we wanted, so we did a collective ragequit. Shadow had a random good theme but only revendreth was really cool. All the other stuff was crap. The grinding was worse than ever. So if DF has some, it's so acceptable in comparison to the last expansions.
story is still meh at best, the fact we're still parting with wrathion instead of throwing him in a jail cell is absurd, having to go back to shadowlands even for that one quest felt like too much they really should let us forget that place exists, writing Malfurion out of story AGAIN is so dumb. rewriting all centaur lore instead of making it literally any other race or even a new race in that zone was such a terrible decision.
Half the fun is watching the haters cope.
The lore sucks this exp pack in my opinion. I never started playing wow for dragons i did because i liked the Horde. And my faction has 0 involvement or progression being made at all what makes all this lore meaningless.
I feel the story is lost in what they want to do. They want you to have a relax adventure but at the same time feel urgent that the threat is coming better stop it now, but is then slowed right back down again. Like they want you to take a slow quest with relaxing adventure but felt that if the big villain not thrown at us immediately at the start people would lose interest. Also the villain is pretty bland because other then Titan betrayal we get nothing to tell us why they doing anything and the actions of the villains and their minions are painted to be really evil and i no way grey. Also just the more Norzdomu talks the more I am disappointed in his writing they are legit afraid to use him in any way, so he exist to simply to tell us the future is cloudy except me going evil that gonna be a thing. This in turn makes him feel powerless, and inactive. But the final issue is why are the Horde and Alliance Factions not involved with this you think a world ending threat would be worth them getting up and getting involved but they are totally ignored as existing.
i think you forgot to add the patron scroll into your premiere timeline lul
Doomers are out in force I see. It must really chap your asses that “wait a month” didn’t result in the game death you were expecting.
Dragonflight's biggest strength is the environmental storytelling. Warcraft has always had subtle things in every area that show you what the peoples of that area actually do. Shadowlands just.. didn't have that. because immortal spirit beings have no reason to forget their mining pick, crash their vehicle, or leave a bones behind for us to find. Anything that happened in Shadowlands before we got there was told to us directly by lore pages, or NPCs, with no room for imagination.
lore should never trump gameplay. forcing players to do the campaign quests makes the game boring. lore should be optional always. i have never found WoW's lore to be very good to begin with. I really don't get what people see in it.
Not at all. I personally HATE anything dealing with Azeroth proper. Why can’t Blizz just give us a WoW/Diablo/StarCraft story crossover. Like the space goats run across some Protoss, Terrans land on Azeroth and hunt the fleeing Zerg while hell opens up and maybe a Westmarch Crusader could show Pallys how the class is done. Maybe add Necromancers finally. Just saying, would be EPIC.
you think that until they retcon all of it at a moments notice
Just wait until they're no longer satisfied with the playerbase being happy and want more sales and fck it all up again. Lets enjoy it while we can.
for me it still sucks, that lore is coming time gated or in the current case renown gated…