Warns Anduin? She does the exact opposite. She tells him that the Horde are fine and that she doesn’t want to commit Dalaran to the Alliance because that’d mean kicking the Horde out.
Then in the later parts of 5.1 she flip-flops and warns Varian.
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Chi-Ji. Just read the chapter where he resurrects her after she’s shot. I’ve thrown my copy of the book into a dumpster somewhere so I can’t provide an exact page.
To be honest, I'm glad that they're fixing her and somewhat taking her away from being the Alliance Garrosh.
It really irked me how she flopped her entire personality in MoP, having her be willing to defeat the Horde but no longer be a Garrosh/Sylvanas about it makes me have hope for her.
Warcraft always had both it's tolerant peacemakers and warmongers.
Jaina was a peacemaker who turned 100% warmonger in MoP, bringing her in the middle isn't such a bad thing, especially after her BFA story.
Ugh. Why is pressing the advantage to bring a swift end to the war a bad thing again?
It's not.
But Golden can't have her new assumed personality doing something that is not morally pristine.
You know, the shit Jaina gets for being so bipolar is nothing next to the endless forgiveness she receives for pretty much everything she's done.
Daughter of the sea!
Yeah!
Agreed. I'm not sure how some are correlating this to "weak writing". Jaina has always wanted to believe the best in the Horde, but she always gets stabbed in the back. She wants to go to war with them, yes, but she does it in her way. Lets look at a few of her actions against the Horde:
1- When a few of them betrayed her in the bell incident, she imprisoned those that didn't fight back. She wasn't killing them out of blood-lust.
2- When the siege of Orgrimmar was over, she didn't ask Varian to destroy the horde by assassinating all of the leaders present, She called for them to be dismantled.
3- When she lost everything at Theramore, she almost obliterated Orgrimmar. But she was convinced to come back to her senses. If she would have indeed been a warmonger, she would have destroyed the city.
She was always restrained in her actions, and i think the death of Rastakhan may have resonated in her deeply when comparing it to the death of her own father. I think that subtlety is actually good writing.
Jaina is a character that had her beliefs shaken, broken, mended, and broken again through years and years. I think it would have been lazy writing if these major incidents occurred and she was the same old Jaina, don't you think?
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" ~Einstein
Wish more people would take that to heart.
Oh look Jaina Sadmoore is back. Warbringer my ass, Jesus Christ.
This bothered me more than that tbh.Anduin Wrynn says: But our mission was to drive a wedge between the Zandalari and the Horde. Instead, we may have strengthened their bond.
Thankfully Halford slapped some fucking sense unto him:
Halford Wyrmbane says: More than half the Zandalari vessels were destroyed in the initial strike, and the Horde fleet is in disarray. Their remaining ships cannot hope to stand against the Kul Tiran navy.
@Daemos daemonium She has politically correct and "feminist" (in quotes because its not the one that means equality) agendas which appear to be getting through the cracks and into the game.
More on topic, it'd be interesting to compile the Jaina of even patches and the Jaina of odd patches into two distinct storylines, just to better illuminate how violent her tonal shifts are. Such as in 5.0 where she wants Dalaran to be neutral and is seemingly repulsed at the notion of expelling the Sunreavers and their Horde compatriots. Jump to 5.1 and she is taking to the streets leading the purge without listening to a shred of logic. She comdemns an entire people without hearing the full scope of the story. She condemns an entire people with no evidence. She condemns an entire people when the only guilty party wasn't even associated with the Sunreavers.
Prior to that, she claims Theramore to be a neutral port, yet whines when the Horde calls her out for aiding the Alliance. Her city gets nuked, and somehow she deems herself blameless.
In 7.0 she abandons Dalaran in its time of need, and shows back up in 8.0 (or only pre-release material?) pretending to have played a role in defeating the Legion. She is so unstable.
The problem is after he became Lich King, he just sat on the Frozen Throne for like 5 years or whatever it was, and then everything he did as LK was more or less told in Wrath. I did like insight into his home life, scenes with Calia and Terenas exposed how he was as a father, Arthas' interactions with Jaina and Kael'thas, and how much losing Invincible affected him. Everything that WC3 had already covered was boring, yeah, but I guess they told her to paint a complete picture.
So many angry losers waving their torch and pitchforks at a blank wall. They're that desperate to cry.