Well I personally wouldn't call it this way, but the Mechagon feels extremely out of place in this expansion this is for sure. I know they tried to do a mixup but it steers too far away from the main story lines to which we didn't get any development. And this is sad. I would rather see what Tyrande is up to against the Horde now that she possess Night Warrior power than suddenly exploring gnome's lore (no offense to gnomes, it's just the timing is a bit off IMO).
What I wanted with this post tho is not discuss good/bad storylines and how Blizzard writers suddenly become 'bad'.
It's just that I'm a casual player now, I play the game for a few dailies and cool lore. And I feel lost when I see so many story lines simply abandoned or put on pause despite the fact that we just got a major patch which ideally should continue the stories established by previous patches. I'm eager to see what they have for us but at the same time afraid that if they couldn't develop any previously established lore in this patch, they might as well not be able to unveil it properly in the next patches. And the waiting time is becoming too much for me to even care about it. I wondered if some of you guys have this too.
The war with the mogu is gone into during the leveling process. It was in no way a surprise. You fight against them starting in Jade Forest, but also in pretty much every other zone as well.
5.1 Landfall was about the faction conflict in Krasarang: https://wow.gamepedia.com/5.1
We already knew Garrosh was the endboss, but it wasn't assumed that we somehow would not be addressing the threat of the Mantid, Mogu, and Sha.
Yes, the story content is worriedly low for every player that is not content with a couple quests per content patch. The factions introduced are also very local in scope and time. They feel introduced as clutter to fill up a zone with no lead in except... of course a patch brings a faction or two.
I generally like new patches, but i don't think there is a healthy mix between story content and repeating dailies.
So according to the information the Alliance had, and Rastakhan never addressing what Zul did, the Alliance was more than justified in sacking Zul'Dazar. The way they saw it, the Zandalari had declared war on them, Rastakhan had never offered peace since Zul's attacks, and the Zandalari were siding with the Horde actively as well.
But she got her revenge, don't you know. She killed a few goons and a whole Valkyr! Darkshore even if retaken is completely ruined, Ashenvale is Horde's and next on the clearcut, burn, and pollute list, and no real losses have been felt by the Horde, but the Night Elves got their revenge. /nods solemnly
Please go jetpack around the latest Timeless Jungle Mecha Underwater Island and collect shit, pay no attention to plots that the devs don't want to talk about any more. Teldrassil was cheap publicity, after all.
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Nope, Alliance is never justified in fighting back, self-defense, or doing anything but bending over and taking it. That's been the message for fifteen years.
Why no, people don't just like Sylvie for T&A: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ery-Cinematic/
You can tell by all the "Azshara out of nowhere comments" who did and didn't level an Alliance character.
Ashenvale is the Horde's? During the War of Thorns the Horde pushed through Ashenvale and into Darkshore, but they don't seem to have kept a hold on Ashenvale any more than they previously had. Given that the Horde forces can barely hold onto their base in Bashal'Aran in Darkshore it seems exceedingly unlikely they've held Ashenvale in any capacity. It actually appears as if the Alliance is resurgent in Ashenvale - Splintertree Post being under attack, and an attack on Stardust Spire rebuffed completely. There seems to be little to no evidence that the Horde has claimed Ashenvale in any real sense.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Source? Please don't say table missions.
Considering there's no longer any living Night Elf population since even the civilians were murdered, exactly who would you say has a hold there?There seems to be little to no evidence that the Horde has claimed Ashenvale in any real sense.
Why no, people don't just like Sylvie for T&A: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ery-Cinematic/
In the complete absence of anything else, would seem to be the only real source of info on the matter.
Only the Alliance enclaves in the path of the Horde army would've been attacked in earnest - and we know both Forest Song and Raynewood Retreat are still in operation by the Alliance. Astranaar received the brunt of Horde aggression, but it seems that Sentinel Thenysil has also retaken control of Astranaar for the Night Elves and the Alliance.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I believe a lot of these will go completely unanswered for maybe an expac or 2. I'd prefer it if they did. Right now, they are establishing a lot of future lore that can be built upon later. A lot like the whispers in legion, they have been built upon and they slowly start making more and more sense and I'm almost certain most of that will be covered before the end of the expac. The story connected to bwon and the shadowlands could easily become an expac and having MYSTERY surrounding it, much like argus, makes it feel all the more better when we finally get it. The epic, fabled moment. People loved mop, but I'd rather not have something like it come out of nowhere again with such a drastic and different feel/setting. While it is an expac that could be argued as one of the best we've had in terms of class design, feel, and raid quality... and while I actually like pandaren and all that... I'd rather it not happen again. Yes, they were in lore. Yes, they were in WC3. But a whole expac? With zero prelude? I felt robbed at first lol.
Keep in mind it was rumor in 8.3 Sylvannas turns the tables against the alliance. Leaked a while back, if it proves to be true. It would mean she has aquired more power, one could speculate from Azshara or N'zoth himself. There's also talk that shes being controlled by N'zoth himself. Leading up to the point were she releases him. Azshara has no plan of doing that just to use his power for her own. Guessing in 8.3 when Sylvannas makes her move against the alliance. You see Anduin meet up with Jaina,Thrall, Saurfang and Baine to come to a mutual arrangment.
There was one q against mogu in jade, no in valley of the fot winds, no towloning steppes major part in kun-alai, no in krasarang, no dread waste and one small q in krasarang wilds.
Only valley of eternal blossoms they have more mogu so at tops 2 area with major and 2 with small and 4 with no mogu.
As we faced only organized mogu forces which can be called an army at the end rep grind or in the mohushan palace(before 5.2) while alliance and horde war was what started the pandaria.
The very first one, you just have to level up your heart first.
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If you were actually paying attention, you would know that Ashvane and Zul are working with Azshara. But you probably the type who skips all the quest text.
We had to naga invasion also alliance had pretty much the same treatment with uldir and g'huun compared to the horde and also many people skipped krasarang wilds in mop which in itself take mogu threat away and only major mogu threat in mop was in kun-alai story becayse of the Lei shen.
That is simply not true. I literally just ran 3 alts through MoP and it is fresh in the mind. The rest is not true either, but the Jade stuff jumps right out. There's 3 different questlines with Mogu in Jade Forest. Your argument is entirely invalid. Mogu were a third of the story of MoP. Their dungeon was available prior to max level. It is no surprise we fight them in raids.