Spoiler (cinematic)

[Mirishka]

Probably because Legion had a few twists that broke our expectations, like everything involving Illidan and Xera. Frankly I was starting to gain a little faith in WoW's lore team and then they churn this mess out. I mean this is about on par with a teenager's fanfiction, not a professionally written story. This is an atrocity.

Thank you. They can still surprise us and Legion was a great reminder of that.

I really hope there's more to this than just.. going super-saiyan on him. I was already disappointed with the Azshara raid/cinematic, damn it.

[Exkrementor]

basic and uncreative end to a mediocre gameplay at best and shit story at worst expansion.

Thats a D- for grammar but its pretty much the truth.
Stupid ass ending for a stupid expansion. OH NO, THE FACTION WAR IS SO IMPORTANT!!! Oh yeah, and we kill the last old god with the power of 2500 Pearls, 600 Islands and 78032 Worldquests.
Not that anyone expected any good writing from Blizzard.

[KayRule]

What the hell are they doing?

Everytime you think Blizzard is setting up something major they end it almost immediately.

Emerald Dream/Nightmare dealt with in a raid
Argus patch zone
Nazjatar patch zone
N'Zoth patch content

All those things we've known about forever, and each could've been their own expansions, what the hell does Blizzard have planned that they think is so amazing that those 4 ideas had to be rushed to completion?

They're at least making progress. ED/Nightmare was originally handled in a book before Cata. Zandalar was "destroyed" in Cata, and what was Tol'Barad was originally going to be Kul'Tias. Hell, they even said Kezan was destroyed back then too.

Used to be they were so cavalier on cutting all these storythreads off camera in flavor text and books, at least now we're getting raids and zones.

[Faerillis]

Again if this is true and it was not his plan to get into the shadow lands or something then this will be a big cop out.

How would killing the obvious main antagonist of the expansion at the end of the expansion be a cop out?

[SandraMoonwarden]

is it me or there a lot of allerias in void form walking towards nzoth.

https: //imgur.com/iBUkCBN (paste without spaces)

I think it's Sylvanas...

[october breeze]

What the hell are they doing?

Everytime you think Blizzard is setting up something major they end it almost immediately.

Emerald Dream/Nightmare dealt with in a raid
Argus patch zone
Nazjatar patch zone
N'Zoth patch content

All those things we've known about forever, and each could've been their own expansions, what the hell does Blizzard have planned that they think is so amazing that those 4 ideas had to be rushed to completion?

Great ideas like faction war apparently! (/s)

[Kuja]

Oh fuck. Just when we get some old gods stuff leading to a potential full blown old gods expansion, it just dies off(?). But perhaps another Lich King expansion will be equally good.

[Soulwind]

They're at least making progress. ED/Nightmare was originally handled in a book before Cata. Zandalar was "destroyed" in Cata, and what was Tol'Barad was originally going to be Kul'Tias. Hell, they even said Kezan was destroyed back then too.

Used to be they were so cavalier on cutting all these storythreads off camera in flavor text and books, at least now we're getting raids and zones.

They're shooting themselves in the foot instead of the knee, it's what you're saying.

People have written thousands of expansion ideas using those zones, which means the potential was there and the community was receptive. The writers are the ones shrugging and saying "nah, that'd be boring, have THIS instead", only for it to blow up in their face, and force them to rush their way out of that mess and into a new one.

[Theoris]

Okay.
/10s

[Balbuto]

The optimist in me is thinking that this is probably the cutscene that ends normal/heroic version of the fight and that we will get a hidden phase after this on mythic and hopefully another cutscene. Him being "dead" might be part of his scheme and just what he wants us to belive.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Oh god, who did I leave pregnant???

Well, she is a big lady, likes to sleep alot and her bff is made of diamond. You better start saving up for that child support.

[Super Dickmann]

The last of the Old Gods getting offed in a side patch without inflicting any harm to the world or, by the datamined reference to Ra-Den, even killing a single character is as unsurprising as it is tiresome.

@Shadowlands-is-fake summed it all up, so there's not much to add except that it makes the setting into as much of a theme park as the gameplay. There was a point where Blizzard used to be careful about these things, leaving the deaths of the other old gods ambiguous, having us fight guys like KT or Archi, but not their respective bosses, and here we are, dispatching a multi-planet army of space demons in one patch and then following it up by removing both Azshara and N'zoth within one zone. All so we could play Mists again and introduce a differently coloured but functionally identical evil force with treacherous queen attached in Mueh'zala(?) and Sylvanas.

[KayRule]

The last of the Old Gods getting offed in a side patch without inflicting any harm to the world or, by the datamined reference to Ra-Den, even killing a single character is as unsurprising as it is tiresome.

He's already done tons of stuff to shape the world throughout history, including the events of this expansion.

[Super Dickmann]

He's already done tons of stuff to shape the world throughout history, including the events of this expansion.

Most of it through Azshara and fairly easily resolved, and the two can be set up distinctly given that Azshara meant to double cross him. Besides, once he's free he should be doing more, not less.

N'zoth did less harm to both factions than Sylvanas or Azshara. Hell, N'zoth did less harm to the Horde than Jaina, since Jaina resulted in Horde loss of territory at Lordaeron and Rastakhan dying in Dazar'alor. N'zoth killed 0 characters and since he's in a parallel dimension, he has no lasting impact on the real world in his invasions.

[Aeula]

He dies to the memebeam of all essences, LUL.

Anyway now that the filler patch and it’s minor threat are dealt with, can we go back to fighting?

[Lolites]

What the hell are they doing?

Everytime you think Blizzard is setting up something major they end it almost immediately.

Emerald Dream/Nightmare dealt with in a raid
Argus patch zone
Nazjatar patch zone
N'Zoth patch content

All those things we've known about forever, and each could've been their own expansions, what the hell does Blizzard have planned that they think is so amazing that those 4 ideas had to be rushed to completion?

wont argue with the rest, but i kinda cant imagine Emerald Dream being a whole expansion, lorewise (and gamewise in EN raid) its just different look of the same zones, look how pissed some people are when they do that for a patch with nyalotha, can you imagine the shitstorm if whole epxansion is just redone zones? sure, they could bull some zones out of ass, but that wouldnt really be dream

[Soulwind]

wont argue with the rest, but i kinda cant imagine Emerald Dream being a whole expansion, lorewise (and gamewise in EN raid) its just different look of the same zones, look how pissed some people are when they do that for a patch with nyalotha, can you imagine the shitstorm if whole epxansion is just redone zones? sure, they could bull some zones out of ass, but that wouldnt really be dream

Lorewise it's an "untouched" Azeroth, but it's also been shown to be a very weird and, for a lack of a better word, dreamy version of it.

You're thinking of a Val'sharah the size of Kalimdor. But think of what they did with Northrend (not everything was Dragonblight) and Pandaria (not everything was Jade Forest), and add the possibility of breaking the laws of physics on top of that.

[Ophenia]

That's probably something intermediate. Can't imagine the end of expac cinematic to be some lame ass ingame cutscene, as lame as our Artifact Weapon sacrifice at the end of Legion. There has to be another one - or this shitty cutscene is just supposed to be an interphase between the last known phase and something else

Anyway, that's underwhelming af.

Do y'all think Blizzard will remember, one day, that the main problem of Battle for Azeroth was supposed to be some giant sword embedded into our planet's ass ? Or we kamehameha N'zoth, Azshara arrives and claims "Azeroth is free !!!" and that's it ?

[Soulwind]

That's probably something intermediate. Can't imagine the end of expac cinematic to be some lame ass ingame cutscene, as lame as our Artifact Weapon sacrifice at the end of Legion. There has to be another one - or this shitty cutscene is just supposed to be an interphase between the last known phase and something else

Anyway, that's underwhelming af.

Do y'all think Blizzard will remember, one day, that the main problem of Battle for Azeroth was supposed to be some giant sword embedded into our planet's ass ? Or we kamehameha N'zoth, Azshara arrives and claims "Azeroth is free !!!" and that's it ?

Don't expect too much from the same people who turned Sylvanas into Joffrey.

[Lolites]

Lorewise it's an "untouched" Azeroth, but it's also been shown to be a very weird and, for a lack of a better word, dreamy version of it.

You're thinking of a Val'sharah the size of Kalimdor. But think of what they did with Northrend (not everything was Dragonblight) and Pandaria (not everything was Jade Forest), and add the possibility of breaking the laws of physics on top of that.

im thinking of Azeroth with a slightly greenish filter, (like the grey we have when we die), thats what in books dream was, plus more layers, so kinda could get azeroth before sundering in theory, but if they did only the first layer, it would be same zones just in green, if they went deeper it would be just a forests without any civilization or whatever, either way cant imagine it working for whole expansion