Brennadam was a last minute change.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman.../#316fa71d517a

"You mentioned in Stormsong, the Horde coming in and assaulting a city, that was actually kind of a last minute plan. We had different plans for the content there that we actually implemented and we played through. We felt it wasn't quite what we wanted, and so we took that angle with that one."

LOL so the original plan is that the horde was not meant to be attacking the city in the first place. What is the alliance writing team doing? Throwing the other faction on the road because the original idea is not interesting. Now Rexxar being strange during the foothold quest is starting to make sense.

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LOL so the original plan is that the horde was not meant to be attacking the city in the first place.

We do not know what the original plan was. For all we know, the original plan could have been that Sylvanas was going to turn Stormsong Valley into Gilneas 2.0, and so the writers decided to tone it down.

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No, we do not know what the original plan was. For all we know, the original plan could have been that Sylvanas would turn Stormsong into Gilneas 2.0, and so the writers decided to tone it down.

No according to early datamine's the town was overrun by Quilboar's it's a simple case of the alliance team thinking that would be boring and defaulted to the horde. No wonder that area seemed so out of place with everything else.

[CreatureLives]

Weird. How can you make a last minute change that is almost the entire zone like that? Like, what the heck would have been in it's place? The main story of Stormsong is the Old God stuff and the Horde invasion and the Horde invasion has the most quests.

[Kieldon]

Well, there was the difference in "Warchief's orders" item. They made her a little less of a bitch.

[BlakeArt]

Funny how there is litteraly no major "npc" fortress of the Alliance in Zandalar acting as aggressor there, but, yeah, there is one for the Horde, as usual. *cough* BIAS *cough* *cough*.

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Weird. How can you make a last minute change that is almost the entire zone like that? Like, what the heck would have been in it's place? The main story of Stormsong is the Old God stuff and the Horde invasion and the Horde invasion has the most quests.

As I said during my last post early datamine's had Quillboar's ransacking the place. I find it odd that there is nothing like this during Horde questing, it seems the alliance team doesn't know what it wants to do.

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No according to early datamine's the town was overrun by Quilboar's it's a simple case of the alliance team thinking that would be boring and defaulted to the horde. No wonder that area seemed so out of place with everything else.

The War Campaign has only just begun. Who's to say that the Alliance won't retaliate and give the Horde a taste of their own medicine by ravaging some random Zandalari farming village ala Brennadam? If the Alliance writing team can write such extreme storylines, why can't the Horde writing team.

[CreatureLives]

As I said during my last post early datamine's had Quillboar's ransacking the place. I find it odd that there is nothing like this during Horde questing, it seems the alliance team doesn't know what it wants to do.

Honestly, Quillboars might not have been that bad. The Quillboar stuff right now is kinda lame because there is no real reason for it but if it was the main story of the zone Blizzard really could have done some cool stuff with them and I always like it when an old enemy returns.

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The War Campaign has only just begun. Who's to say that the Alliance won't retaliate and give the Horde a taste of their own medicine by ravaging some random Zandalari farming village ala Brennadam? If the Alliance writing team can write such extreme storylines, why can't the Horde writing team.

Maybe they wanted to focus more on the land that you are questing in than the silly faction conflict? It's just ancetodal from my observation there is a reason why I have seen many people say they overall prefer Zandalar.

[Haven]

The War Campaign has only just begun. Who's to say that the Alliance won't retaliate and give the Horde a taste of their own medicine by ravaging some random Zandalari farming village ala Brennadam? If the Alliance writing team can write such extreme storylines, why can't the Horde writing team.

Because one writing team tries to move the story forward and make things interesting, and another has sworn to uphold one certain faction's moral superiority no matter the cost.

[Divada]

This kind of explains why Stormsong is a little bit of a rushed mess, concept wise. Pity.

[ausoin]

The War Campaign has only just begun. Who's to say that the Alliance won't retaliate and give the Horde a taste of their own medicine by ravaging some random Zandalari farming village ala Brennadam? If the Alliance writing team can write such extreme storylines, why can't the Horde writing team.

Its seems pretty likely when/if Kul Tiras invades with Jaina spearheading the assult, the result would be Rastakhan death, this would be the the final straw for an officaial Zandalari alliance with the Horde, with Talanji since she is being preped up to become a leader, and a Blizz poster hints at a Jaina-Talanji conflict.

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Its seems pretty likely when/if Kul Tiras invades with Jaina spearheading the assult, the result would be Rastakhan death, this would be the the final drop for an officaial Zandalari alliance with the Horde, with Talanji since she is being preped up to become a leader, and a Blizz poster hints at a Jaina-Talanji conflict.

Pretty much, Alliance are going to kill Rasta, it's evident by the end of their war campaign. Through that they are going to push Zandalar fully to the horde camp.

[Verdugo]

The War Campaign has only just begun. Who's to say that the Alliance won't retaliate and give the Horde a taste of their own medicine by ravaging some random Zandalari farming village ala Brennadam?

Because Zandalari already have almost everything outside the city ravaged.

[gcsmith]

No according to early datamine's the town was overrun by Quilboar's it's a simple case of the alliance team thinking that would be boring and defaulted to the horde. No wonder that area seemed so out of place with everything else.

Right... except this would have been decided upon by more than one team...

oh and the quillboar story is still there...

[Florena]

Funny how there is litteraly no major "npc" fortress of the Alliance in Zandalar acting as aggressor there, but, yeah, there is one for the Horde, as usual. *cough* BIAS *cough* *cough*.

Well the alliance has no 'major fortress' on Zandalar but you know there is this thing called the war campaign where the Alliance goes to Zandalar and kills people, plants bombs in horde camps etc and the final stage is doing prep work for an invasion on Zulzadar.

[Verdugo]

Yes, originally it made Sylvanas even more flat out evil

In Stormsong, the Horde come in and assault a city. This was a last minute plan

Thank you, come again.

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Right... except this would have been decided upon by more than one team...

oh and the quillboar story is still there...

Stormsong is a disjointed mess, having this area also focus on Quillboar would of added to it. There is alpha footage of Quillboar ransacking the city, along with the early datamine. Now we have blizzard themselves saying it was last minute change.

Also it's known they have two writing teams, one handles zandalar and the other does Kul Tiras. I doubt they are communicating much at all because the current changes that dialled down the evil meter was due to the player base kicking up a fuss.

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No according to early datamine's the town was overrun by Quilboar's it's a simple case of the alliance team thinking that would be boring and defaulted to the horde. No wonder that area seemed so out of place with everything else.

yeaa. for the horde is not known for attacking towns, and or burning them to the ground.. Insert One of many examples at a later date.