I like it that Kalec is the only Aspect that isn't taking a back seat and is always featured one way or another since TBC, even if with the minor appearances in Northrend and Pandaria. That really keeps his character interesting to me.
What I am really pissed off at however isn't the Aspects being unpresent. I just can't swallow for the life of me why would Blizzard NOT have Wrathion show up in the pre patch at least and smugly declared "I told you so". Forget that, how the Hell he isn't even involved in Legion after all he attempted to achieve in Pandaria is beyond me.
I surely hope Wrathion makes a return in Legion somewhere down the line because otherwise, that would be absolutely garbage character treatment.
Actually, this is exactly why he should appear; it will make for very interesting interactions.
On one hand, the major characters will point out what you brought up in your post, but on the other hand, he will reply smugly that he had to take matters in his own hands because all of us have failed, and had we not interfered none of this would have happened.
He would be a very conflicted character. He is the villain in everyone's eyes, but he believes very much that his way is the best way.
It's not like our spies failed at gathering intel; they failed at delivering it to us (they got themselves killed and replaced by dreadlords).
Did you watch the Legion-intro at all? Does it look like the kind of weather you would cruise around the island in?
With how much they promissed in a recent interview... we are probably in for a "Cain and Abel" arc with him and Ebyssian in the main roles. :P
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End of Cata was dumb as shit. They said that they fullfilled their destiny so they become mortal. Soooo, their destiny was to kill one of themselves, then why were they even formed? I never got it and never will.
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If aspects didn't exist Hour of Twilight wouldn't even be a thing.
As i read long ago their job given by the Titans was to protect Azeroth. I don't know but for me it seems Azeroth still had threats after DW died. They retired a bit early, mabye the age limit was reduced by Azeroth's government to 10k years.
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Yeah they probably meant that, they saw that we're PREPARED and stuff, but as you said still dumb.
Most likely they realised that it would be boring if they were the helpers of all expansions.
Btw a vid came into my mind, i found it pretty funny back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNcGDH7s1qM
Blizzard explained it in an ask developer session before:
So what I get from it is that - basically, Aman'thul's future vision of the Hour of Twilight back then wasn't perfect. Maybe it wasn't detailed enough, maybe he didn't bother investigating too far into the vision, maybe Hour of Twilight was too far off in the future for Aman'thul's power to work perfectly, maybe none or all of those reasons together. However, we know that Aman'thul only knew that the Old Gods would cause the Hour of Twilight, but he didn't know that Deathwing was the cause of it (Nozdormu only saw that vision much later - after WoTA - as well). Thus, the Pantheon blessed the Aspects with enough power to avert the Hour of Twilight without realizing that one of the Aspect (Deathwing) would be the cause of it, making it a stable loop.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
P/S: FML, took a short break for dinner, came back disconnected and now I'm stuck in a queue :/
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Without going into major spoilers, the Rogue campaign goes further into the events Pre-Broken Shore for those wondering. But basically, the Alliance and Horde had no idea the scale of what they were getting into.
There were a number of factions that were missing that should have come and fought at the Broken Shore.
But the Red Dragonflight is probably the most obvious. Despite their powers over life waining, they're fucking dragons. Alexstraza still cares about the world and it's inhabitants. The Red Dragonflight is still going strong and hasn't had any other shit to do like the Bronze and Green Dragonflights. Having them appear even in just the background would have upped the sense of scale of the Broken Shore Invasion. Imagine flighting the demons on the ground and looking up to see Dragons helping cover from above? Every so often coming in and burning up a few demons on the ground.
However we also have a handful of leaders who probably should have been present; at least one of The Council of Three Hammers members, Tyrande, Malfurion, Lor'thmar, Varok, Ji and Aysa. It felt weird they were kind of left behind. As far as leaders go. I mean why isn't Malfurion who lead the surviving forces to victory during the second invasion helping lead the charge? He's been through this twice before. We know he wasn't in Val'Sharah yet because he attends Varian's funeral afterwards. Tyrande went through this before twice as well, but she's absent. The sentinels would have come in handy here.
The Broken Shore is a huge missed opportunity, and could have been an amazing grand scale battle. And despite their new dialogue style with talking heads, that allows you to listen and read dialogue on the fly while the action still continues, they're still terrified of putting more than a small handful of characters together.
But then again they did awkwardly leave Jaina out of the entire final cutscene entirely, so maybe they just can't wrap their heads around it. I love Blizzard, but they make me scratch my head some times.
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I remember Kalec was imbued with a small portion of sunwell power, now time to become a Holy dragon.
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I've questioned this in several posts before. Its nonsense that they are doing nothing after having been assigned by the titans to protect Azeroth. Just because they basically looked at Thrall fire off the Dragon Soul at Deathwing, it doesn't mean Azeroth will never again be in danger. After all, who are they to determine when they can quit defending Azeroth. The purpose of their entire existence is to defend it.
The ending of Cataclysm is when the lore really went downhill.