Blizzard did a raid in a massive, open area filled with NPCs battling each other, with the players at the center of the fight. People didn't like that one either. (Hint: It was Dragon Soul.)
Besides, we're meant to be the focus of the fights. We're the heroes. Having NPC assistance is okay, but you're talking about having them do all the heavy lifting (story-wise, if not in fight mechanics). And really, Blizzard does NPC assistance rather often. Maeiv and Akama in Black Temple, the Red Dragonflight in Eye of Eternity, Tirion in ICC, the Titanic Watchers in Ulduar, Kalecgos in Sunwell, the Aspects in Dragon Soul, the Klaxxi in Heart of Fear (even if they were all dead by the time we arrived)...
Game mechanics don't equate to Lore. Simple as that.
For the same reason that we can go back and solo Ragnaros in MC, or solo the Lich King, when storyline-wise no single human/orc/whatever should be able to do that, Deathwing has to be able to be defeated.
What would the you have preferred the fight to be like? What would you want him to do to show his power, during a fight in which we all could still somehow win? If he just annihilates the whole group, then there's no point in us fighting him.
How would you change the fight, so that you would be satisfied that he was powerful?
Exactly. He gave zero fucks that we were fighting off his siege until we got Ultraxion down and Green Jesus shot him with the Dragon Soul, then he's like, "OH shit, I better get outta here", then we did it again, and he fell (interesting note, Thrall shot him the second time while we were on Deathwing's back. Nice.). Then, he began casting the Cataclysm again, but we hacked off his limbs. I mean, f a kick in the shin can stop a mage from casting a Frostbolt, imagine what losing an entire limb does.
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How do you know those mantid impaled at the entrance are Klaxxi? I assumed they were the mantid that we saved from fear with that special mask in the valley of four winds. They all say how shocked they are upon coming to their senses and that they must speak to the queen. I just figured they ended up getting their audience with her and now serve as a message. The Klaxxi seemed pretty smart, I doubt they charged in before us, considering they asked us to help in the first place. I've just never scene mention that's it's klaxxi specifically before.
But yeah OP we always need help I don't really get what your saying. To add to Rivens list.... Ragnaros the second time around we needed three people to help us. Calen against Sinestra. The list is huge. Pretty much every major boss in the later raid tiers.
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Because if Rag/Deathwing/etc hit the OP with a 1shot blow, we'd be hear the whining about how "hard" it is.
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because its a game...
It's a game, it's meant to be defeated in one way or another, I do agree there could be more to it and some more possible powerful npc's assisting us in the leaders/final bosses per tier like we saw with DS, you might not realize it but a lot of lore came with his death and how it happened before we just showed up But, again it's a game and it has its own set of logic.
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As much as I am against this thread... think about Rag one shotting Domo... why doesn't he do that to the rest of us?
Since BC onwards, we've generally gotten help.
Maiev helped us kill Illidan.
We didn't really beat Kil'jaeden so much as stall him until Kalec could snap Anveena out of her trance and she could turn the power of the sunwell against him.
Malygos would have killed us if we hadn't gotten help from the red flight in the last phase.
Yogg Saron, we had the help of the four Keepers.
Lich King actually DID kill us, it was only Tirion pulling a dues ex machina with his final light prayer and shattering Frostmourne that did him in, with the thousands of spirits within leaving him helpless for us to finish off.
We had help with Sinestra if I'm not mistaken, I think Cael did something there anyway.
Ragnaros 2.0, you only kill him in the heroic mode where Malfurion and Friends come in to help you.
Deathwing? All we did was tear off his armor plates and buy time for Thrall to finish him off with the Dragon Soul.
Even the Sha of Fear we're only able to beat because of Lei shi creating that shield from his fear breath.
As for us 'stabbing at their feet' that's just a matter of gameplay/story segregation.