Patch 8.1 - The Fate of Saurfang Quest Chain

I hope everyone siding with Sylvanas will be executed as war criminals when she becomes a raid boss.
And by executed i mean their character permanently deleted.
Now THAT would be a real refreshing story experience

The problem with this whole Saurfang narrative is that to the player there's very few that question Sylvanas' actions within the Horde, besides boringfuck Baine. Like we don't get the perspectives of the average peon or grunt and there's no appearance of dissension within the ranks.

Originally Posted by Aeula

It's great that we're finally getting choices. Though personally I won't be doing this quest. I'm not interested in serving either Saurfang and his Alliance puppet masters or Sylvanas. I wish they'd kept the third option in-game so I could say screw it to both of them.

Some people are just....

it's a good thing to have choice, hopefully it will matter in the future and not force me to fight Sylvanas anyway

I think the game could benefit from decisions being meaningful and permanent. Character defining. Perhaps with each major choice, a direction of storytelling. I would certainly feel like my character is on a unique path of his own, even within the greater story and while still being a horde member. It would feel like he's is collecting his backstory with each decision he's making - and over time, I'd have this whole history of my own (my character's own). Even if it's just a handful of quests throughout, here and there. It might be hard to do but it's exciting to think that the game could go in that direction. It would be really refreshing and fun. It would offer a cool kind of progression, in that we'd have these personal histories and interesting consequences on how we handled certain situations - that set us apart from even our closest fellow horde members. A possibly needed role-play that sticks to our characters and really builds your character's story. Really exciting to think about, as I'm already excited about this quest and what it means for my character's future.

Pretty simple for me: I'll be picking Saurfang on my DH main and Slyvanas on alts.

I'll definitely be picking Saurfang on my main and Sylvanas on my alts. But i'm not leveling any more alts to 120 until after flying (so probably 8.2 or 8.3).

I don't ultimately see how this will change anything (the choices we make) unless they do some sort of end-game raid where if you sided with Saurfang you fight Sylvanas and watch the "other" raid fight Saurfang or you side with Sylvanas and fight Saurfang and watch the "other" raid fight Sylvanas. Much like they're doing with Alliance/Horde in this Siege of Zandalar raid. You still "fight" the same bosses but lore-wise you're watching the other faction fight them.

Then in the end, the resolution is the resolution and whatever Blizz wanted happens.

Originally Posted by Preach07

It's a poll. The story will take one direction, or another. There will be winners and losers. The community will have colletively made a choice about how the story should unfold. If this is actually what they are experimenting with, this could be a cool new dawn for the game. Or not, who knows. But I like to think it will matter what you choose, in the indirect sense that they will go with whatever most people opted for, at least if it's very very clear like 70-30 or more.

If this is true it's a neat concept, however I would be angry if you're on the losing side of the poll. Hopefully the outcome acutally has meaningful impact in game.

Originally Posted by Deuse

Yep, this is my interpretation. Without Blizz being straightforward that this "vote" means anything, you're just giving up a toy. I would side with Sylvanas but I'm still trying to earn that mount reward for 300 toys! Not exactly an even choice.

Those so called Pet Battles have made me millions upon millions of gold for a couple mins of my time....who is laughing too the bank now?

Originally Posted by dangthe

Some people are just....

...incapable of finishing sentences?

Potential Browncoat Firefly reference?

In either case, looks like I'm dropping some money on a frog mount tomorrow

just do it!

Originally Posted by Walkerbo

Great, for continuing to fight for the Horde and support my war-chief Sylvanas I lock myself out of getting the cloak toy
Why is the reward only available to those who turn traitor?

You don't have alts? Also, that toy is crap.

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Originally Posted by Vilendor

I hope everyone siding with Sylvanas will be executed as war criminals when she becomes a raid boss.
And by executed i mean their character permanently deleted.
Now THAT would be a real refreshing story experience

I hope every traitor will be send to alliance to become a alliance rabid dog

It says that "other rewards will be available" if you side with the insane genocidal cretin. Any idea what that might be? A Sylvanas body pillow would be appropriate.

Originally Posted by Walkerbo

Great, for continuing to fight for the Horde and support my war-chief Sylvanas I lock myself out of getting the cloak toy
Why is the reward only available to those who turn traitor?

Because Blizzard doesn't know how to do anything proper nowadays. Just another proof. I will not betray Sylvanas even if they were rewarding an exclusive mount. Hang all the traitors with Saurfang at the front!

Looking forward to taking Saurfang's side (right choice and get the toy), traitor Sylvanas needs to be removed. She doesn't deserve being Warchief, will be glad when it's taken from her with force or she's just removed from position.

My guess is they have 3 story lines picked out for this expansion based on how the player base votes. That would be the coolest way for them to do this, let us the players decide the path which the story goes.

Will do main with Sylvanas and alt with Saurfang.

it's a good thing i have an alliance and horde at 120.. although most of my characters are alliance i have a few horde i plan on working on and yes i support sylvanas hell no to saurfang..

I wanted choices for so long, but am super disappointing by this. I'm also not buying that people really care about this choice. It is literally Garrosh vs Vol'jin all over again, and it seems like old horde view choice as clearly Saurufang whereas new Horde all have hardons for Sylvie. They should have made drastically different rewards to make this choice real and meaningful...

Originally Posted by Skildar

I'm choosing Sylvanas for sure, Saurfang is the reason this whole war went south... The guy can't assume the consequences of his choices and actions, and when he does it's to break the horde, ok good job orc...

It's what happened during the Second War too. When Gul'dan broke off and took like, a third of the Horde or something like that with him to hunt down the Tomb of Sargeras, Doomhammer then split the forces that were sieging Lordaeron to go after him. If he had just stuck to his objective and ignored Gul'dan bringing them 'dishonor' then they would've defeated Lordaeron and controlled nearly all of the Eastern Kingdoms, barring some holdouts like Ironforge.