I don't like how they went back with the techno-Legion feel from Burning Crusade a bit with the new Mo'args and such. I was kind of expecting Argus to be a festering hive of infernal industry and not some untamed wilderness with talbuks and untouched ruins.
Though I also thought the purpose of the AU plot device in WoD could have been a way to "reset" WoW with us getting stranded as refugees in a foreign Azeroth of a different timeline or universe where events unfolded slightly differently and we'd have to carve out a living and form alliance with the natives.
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Yes more magic and mystery. Add some more true gods along with Elune use DnD as inspiration again.
I know it's canon that the Eredar were already super advanced like 20 thousand years before our time but it's still weird how we go from dirigibles on Azeroth and shitty Goblin rockets in Outland to an inter-dimensional armada. Not only that but we're essentially pissing all over them with our pot-bellied warframes and conveniently placed portals.
The power level between us and the Legion just feels way out of whack since the Legion should really have no problem smashing Azeroth to bits with the amount of fire power they posses but I understand it's all for gameplay reasons so I'm really not that mad.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The whole greater power thing is fine, I'm just tired of spaceships.
If I wanted Sci-Fi I'd play Swtor.
tech is tech, in a game of pure sorcery and sword tech even if its just a simple westfall shredder has no place,if this company wants it that way then this way it will be, but i guess you are one of those nostalgia whores who always qq about the game but dont stop cancel their sub.
Edit : Also dont forget that back in the magical beautiful classic/TBC prepatch wow , draeneis came to azeroth with SPACESHIPS.
no one said WoW is a game of pure sorcery and sword, we said it's gone too far with the tech and it doesn't make sense
blizzard has always struggled with scale but at least in the past it was mostly things like having no idea how to construct a chronology, not the kind of things we're seeing the last few years in WoW
yes, WoW always had a bit of steam, and TBC may have took it to a different level by adding a bit of cyber but it was still handled a bit tastefully, and the idea of travelling to an alien planet and seeing alien things still kept it slightly grounted
the current situation is those overblown elements taking center stage and converging with an overall indulgence into overblown and bloated story and world-building elements which destroy the little modecum of humility the setting had
Blizzard messed up their own game / story. It's almost as if they had to cut a lot of people from the WoW dev team and looked at StarCraft to fill in the blanks for a story involving demons. Oh wait, the WoW team did cut / lose a lot of people that made the original Warcraft / WoW lore. Hmm...
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The most bizarre part about WoW is that, if you look it from outside, so to speak, you can't tell what time of history is the plot set on. On one hand, you have medieval kings, priests, swordsmen (both the traditional and the knightly type, cf. warriors and paladins) and archers. On the other hand, you have advanced technology such as helicopters, grenades, chemical warfare and even dimensional-warping ships like Tempest Keep. Not to mention the whole time-travel issue, that was silly when it was introduced in BC (seriously? what the **** did we need the Caverns of Time for?) but it went completely apeshit-crazy with the AU Draenor.
The Caverns Of Time at least made some sense with the Bronze Dragon Flight. WoD was Blizzard trying to force an idea that they almost instantly abandoned after committing to it. Legion is literally Blizzard saying "We don't really care anymore, so here is some StarCraft to fill in blanks. By the way! the Void though!".
i like the industrialization brought by the iron horde, i like the advanced technology of the legion.
in the illidan book, there's a dead world with brass skyscrapers. the universe isn't in a single technological state, and i love it.
magic means there will always be swords and sorcery, mixing it with scifi elements will always be the best.
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that's what makes wow great. it's not set in any specific time period, and it fucking works. it's amazing.
I think the same, OP. To me, all this giant spaceships and lazers and planets stuff is becoming too much (in warcraft-wow vanilla to wotlk the "tech" was minimal and not too intrusive).
I love Legion and I really dig that WoW has it's own fantasy setting where it's high fantasy combined with sci fi stuff. It's a little bit for everyone.
I personally would like the plot to focus on the Alliance vs Horde aspect. Kinda bring back that faction hatred again.
Short of being stranded on a planet and not having access to Azeroth's resources, we're never going to be able to go back to simple and basic technology again. Same reasoning as to why we'll never just be adventurers again.
This is what I am aiming towards as well due to the very nature of homegrown villains and adventures! Something within our range.
The titans and being involved with celestial affairs have catapulted us from Elwynn forest directly into the primordial chaos of fabric shattering and time echoing dimensional creation.
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But within the realms from WC1-Classic then back to WOTLK there was a sense of swords and sorcery over the steampunk vibe. The industrialisation has always been there and I enjoy that, but with the end of MoP and SoO, then with WoD its seems it is becoming more Command and Conquer than WC.
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I 100% agree!
No, its far too late for that personally the entire story was like this from the start most people just dont pay attention, go back to Outland in WC2 and you can see "space" has always been there from the start.
Ion was also asked recently how crazy he wanted the genre to go and has already given his view on it saying that there are many void creatures/monsters beyond Argus we have yet to face.
Meaning, its likley going to become more sci fi, not less as the genre goes forwards.
I for one, am okay with this, traditional fantasy is a boringly used trope, LOTRO has that if your into it.