So how did Dalaran survive?

[Explorer]

Was any explanation given? No less than 16 legion ships focused at it, and now it's all just ok, kinda never happened, or what?
Not subbed now, but still curious. Did they just ignore that attack of Kil'Jaeden? What happened to his ship, by the way?

[Wishblade]

Dunno about Dalaran and the ships, I guess they just kept their magical defenses going long enough.

Maybe the ships evacuated when we blew up the command "ship" on the Broken Shore and Dalaran blew the Tomb's gate to bits.

Kil'jaeden's ship is probably still hanging out at Argus for the time being but will be involved in the raid later on.

[Manabomb]

Was any explanation given? No less than 16 legion ships focused at it, and now it's all just ok, kinda never happened, or what?
Not subbed now, but still curious. Did they just ignore that attack of Kil'Jaeden? What happened to his ship, by the way?

Plot, just like how Illidan is gud guy 4 lyfe now.

[Dagoth Ur]

Because villains in wow aren't allowed to make any actual impact on the world they're invading and because Sargeras & Burning legion no matter how much more numbers,experience and more advanced tehnology they have, they can't stand against the power of love and united colors of beneton army. /sarcasmoff

They can't destory Dalaran ingame because it's expansion's main hub for players.

[Deleted]

dalaran is powered by all 5 pillars of creation now. it's presumably where they got the power to shoot the tomb door from, and presumably they can also draw on them to empower dalarans defenses.

alternatively: since you didn't see us actually defeating those ships, its possible they didnt attack dalaran at all and that those ships are the ones responsible for the invasions starting next week.

[rayvio]

in the solo scenario we're sent in alone to take out a ship. now take into account how many equally powered heroes frequent Dalaran and would have been sent to other ships, as well as the numerous defences, the fact that one of the leading council is a powerful dragon... the stupid thing isn't that Dalaran was unharmed, it's that we didn't see them kicking arse. would have been great to see Kalec fighting a Legion ship

[Trassk]

The opening sequence was silly. a platoon of powerful legion ships, each one with the power to blast dalaran out of the sky, with the power to shift between realities and space travel, and yet after the "OMG WE GONNA DIE" look on khadgars face, its like right away they just gave up.
Also having a mothership that if you take that out it makes the whole platoon fall, and putting them in ease to reach position on the ground with no defenses inside it but a few demons here and there, yeah, that was stupid as all hell.

At this stage wow feels like a stage production for first graders where the adults are telling the kid how special they are while the play works around their every whim.

[Dr Assbandit]

With the power of friendship of course!

[schwarzkopf]

The true power of Dalaran....
The sixth pillar of Creation...
Greater than all other Kiron Tor power by orders of magnitude....

JAINA'S SALT.

[Felfaadaern Darkterror]

I've played through it on 4 alts. As we're taking off for the Broken Shore, Khadgar says he's got to stay behind and deal with the ships. Not sure how he deals with them. Guessing there must be some powerful wards in place (shields) like those we saw being used before the city was ported from Kara. It's a plot point of course, and clearly not one Blizz chose to dwell on.

[Logwyn]

A wizard did it. How else?

[Trassk]

A wizard did it. How else?

not a wizard.

[Raetary]

we hold them back?

[FelPlague]

Was any explanation given? No less than 16 legion ships focused at it, and now it's all just ok, kinda never happened, or what?
Not subbed now, but still curious. Did they just ignore that attack of Kil'Jaeden? What happened to his ship, by the way?

the first quest you get mentions how dalarans defences will not hold long, so you go and do the assault blowing up the enemy ships

[Friendlyimmolation]

The real reason is blizzard isn't going to blow the kirin'tor out of the sky. They create too many easy story explanations for factions to work together.

[Deleted]

blizzard just dont give a shit anymore about the story in Legion.

A Loa spirit is in charge of appointing a warchief, Dalaran became neutral like nothing happend, Lich King just became our friend, Illidan turned out alive and Neptulon never got captured by the Naga in Cata.

That was day 1 of this exp pack, that tells me all i need to know (nobody is looking out anymore about the storytelling)

[Aeluron Lightsong]

The opening sequence was silly. a platoon of powerful legion ships, each one with the power to blast dalaran out of the sky, with the power to shift between realities and space travel, and yet after the "OMG WE GONNA DIE" look on khadgars face, its like right away they just gave up.
Also having a mothership that if you take that out it makes the whole platoon fall, and putting them in ease to reach position on the ground with no defenses inside it but a few demons here and there, yeah, that was stupid as all hell.

At this stage wow feels like a stage production for first graders where the adults are telling the kid how special they are while the play works around their every whim.

Because it isn't some simple thing to implement. Dalaran is the main hub of Legion and doing damage to it would be...difficult. While I think they should of done it, I think the snark isn't needed here.

blizzard just dont give a shit anymore about the story in Legion.

False, they do, just good ideas are hard to implement despite what players on MMO-Champ think.

[Aucald]

I figured each Class Order champion (e.g. the Slayer, Deathlord, Archdruid, etc.) was dispatched to take down a different ship - you experience the one your player's Order Hall is associated with but the other Orders do their own thing unseen. Dalaran itself assists with some defensive fire until all the ships are taken out, then uses its main Arcane artillery to blast down the door the Tomb once they've powered up with a clear shot.

[Deleted]

That's the problem with a game like WoW: Every bad guy, no matter how awe inspiring in the lore (read: everywhere but on Azeroth when fighting our heroes) they may be, they'll always look terrible, make stupid decisions and we're always going to bash them.

[Lastlivingsoul]

Was any explanation given? No less than 16 legion ships focused at it, and now it's all just ok, kinda never happened, or what?
Not subbed now, but still curious. Did they just ignore that attack of Kil'Jaeden? What happened to his ship, by the way?

There is only one way a Floating City filled with magicians can defeat a Fleet of Demonic Spaceships in less than a 15 minutes..