That is kind of my point though. At some level the factions have to be unified, BGs and some localized skirmishes will certainly be a thing going on no matter what. At some level the unified factions will have direct gameplay consequences beyond, say, integrated queues for raids. And this gameplay change will likely be something where quests are less faction specific, and if this is the case, then Blizz might forget to give adequate coverage to certain aspects.
Also, Nelves and Forsaken will likely not have any major grudges against each other after BfA unless Blizz really, really wants to. Nelves hate ALL the Horde at the moment, the only Forsaken they have problems with specifically are Sylvanas and Nathanos, and unless some of them are still leaders the Forsaken are in the clear.
Not to mention new leadership within the Forsaken will similarly lead to a scenario where the only Forsaken who wish to pursue fighting with Nelves would be the ones going for self-defence (Which would be silly unless Forsaken are simply the most convenient target) or the ones who are diehard Sylvanas loyalists who will more likely be framed as enemies we defeat in standard quests.
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The 2 lovers is only the first phase, there is also a phase where we fight her champion, and then a final phase where we fight Azshara directly.
Fair point, we have only had 3 (4 if you count BfD faction specific) so the sample size is not exactly something to draw anything conclusive from.
Don't think she will survive, i will just point out that she does not have a "dead" animation from what i have heard. Though it is of course fully possible, and indeed even the most likely outcome, that she dies in the cinematic.
We will see though, she could live to actually give Tyrande closure for her conflict with her eventually.
They'd have to explain how it can hit anything when it's pointed at Nowhere, AZ, first. It can't turn, only pivot, so you'd have to drive directly at it to get hit and there are no stationary targets of relevance anywhere along the path, most of which is just ocean anyway.
In particular, it isn't aiming anywhere even remotely close to significant Alliance cities. Depending on whether you use the ingame or chronicle map, it's aimed somewhere between Arathi and Menethil Harbor. It might not even be able to hit the same continent as SW.
With interaction you mean gameplay wise we can group with the characters to do content or you think lorewise? Either way this expansion was the last straw that broke the camel's back in the tolerance with the factions for the whole playerbase, nobody feels pride for being Horde or Alliance and even people pretend to fight more for KT, Zandalar or doing rp for their races. Honestly some event that kills both factions for good like the rampage of Arthas in WC3, that would be the best way to getting rid of them in an interesting story
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With all this talk about the last hurrah for the faction conflict, I hope to hell, the other three conflict sources are done too.
Really don’t want the factions to be dissolved into each other. I’d definitely love to be able to play as a Zandalari on alliance or a Tauren on alliance as I love those races visually but my wants don’t come before game mechanics. It would change the game too much in a bad way imo. Yes, it’d allow players from both sides to play with each other but the game has never had that and doesn’t need it. The current story we play through doesn’t need to be about factions warring with each other to be able to have faction problems.
Look at legion for example. I think this was a really good example of the “faction conflict” not really being too present but still being something that makes enough sense to remain in the game.
And yet most of the major story complaints is about what topic? O right the factions. Seriously right now we got basically 3 faction of players all annoyed in the way the story has gone this expansion. You got the Sylvanas fans who dont believe she is acting anything like she normally would. You got the other part of the horde who hate the direction Sylvanas is taking the horde. And then you got the Alliance who are tired of playing second fiddle to the horde and has their stories dropped randomly.