So is this thread and 1294 of your posts. What of it?
At least the scenario adds a little flavour and some hype for the next patch.
"The diamond king has been made a pawn"- Magni is probably under control of the old god, nzoth
"Her hear is a crater and we have filled it"- Azeroth has been corrupted probably
"Drown yourself in the circle of stars to find him" -this is a stretch but when you enter the chamber, you go down via a circle of star(s)
"5 keys will light our path"- The temple of elune has all the keys, Nzoth is probably coming as we are distracted by Sarg.
someone somewhere mentions nzoth has been freed basically
omg not to mention how many people tell us that the legion is not the true enemy...
It's very likely misdirection all in all. Also its very odd that the trash you kill starts as old god stuff then ends as demons... "Its nightmares", what a lie. He changed the "nightmares" into demons to convince us, the only threat to Nzoth and Azshara, to leave. It would be absolutely pointless if it wasn't misdirection.
To me it kind of came off as the whole "Gandalf side quest" of the Hobbit movies... all building up to something we already knew, that... gasp, Sauron Sargeras is coming back.
But I mean it's just some little constituent part of the patch, so... meh, so be it.
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Scenario #1.
Blizzard continuously builds the story over the expansions. Within current patch they add a piece of story that tie with next patch content making logical connection.
Result:
Outcry that "none of that was news either"
Scenario #2.
Blizzard continuously builds the story over the expansions. Within current patch they don't add a piece of a story that tie with next patch content. Players on patch day one receive automatically a quest to follow to Argus.
Result:
Outcry that developers throw pieces of story not tied together in any way, "they should have add some reason for us to go to Argus".
Conclusions:
People will qq about everything, no matter what.
We are weeks away from a new patch and you expected this quest to give you hints to an expansion that is probably 6-8 months away? What?
This seems a popular argument in this thread but honestly I don't quite understand it. At the end of WoD we didn't have the faintest idea the void would be the next threat after the Legion. Where did we get this idea? Why, during Legion of course. Why is it so far-fetched to expect some more hints along the way? I don't agree with OP that the scenario was pointless but this seems a poor argument as to why the scenario couldn't provide hints towards the next expansion. Especially considering the first raid we had this expansion had an immense amount of hints towards the next expansion and not legion, if blizz is willing to do that, why not now?
If it wasn't so obvious what Magni said to us, there wouldn't be a "problem".
- We fight the Legion
- We know the Legion has it's base on Argus
- We fight Kil'jaeden to close the portal to Argus
- But Illidan brings Argus right on our doorstep instead, with the words "sometimes fate must be forced" or something like that
At this point it is very obvious that we should go to Argus somehow.
And two months later Magni comes by and says we must go to Argus? WOW! Thanks Capt'n Obvious!
Its a matter of the expectation that there will be hints. If there is suddenly a new quest available weeks ahead of a new patch then simple logic suggests that the quest is going to be related to the patch and that's the only expectation a rational person should have. Could there be hints? Absolutely. However, to expect them and then get upset that there are none is kind of ridiculous.
Well atleast it was ingame and it was full of cool rooms.
They've done quests like this before to lead up to the next patch. I'm sure we'll get more quests as the weeks follow. I personally liked it. We haven't seen Magni for a minute, so I thought it was cool.
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Meh. I liked the 38 million AP.
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