if this is the end of nzoth then it will effectively be the worst expansion ever
if this is the end of nzoth then it will effectively be the worst expansion ever
Doesn't change the fact that he is the runt of the litter, we have fought a titan, admittedly with the help of the pantheon, but still if we can go toe to toe with a titan I am sure our artifacts that are super juiced up on titan blood would be more than a match for N'zoth.
N'Zoth is a schemer, a planer, but most of all, a huge blob. Its hard for that to be deadly/dangerous in itself. The interesting thing is his scheming and they did a lot of that in BFA, pretty much from the start of the expansion in some areas. There was even talk about him during early stages of Legion, so don't come here and say that he has been pushed away before even being talked about.
More importantly, N'Zoth as a character does not stand alone, but is clumbed together with the other old gods, who have been a villian since WoWs 3rd raid. He is not something new, his theme is not something new and his entire pressences is not new. I think it would have been a shame if they had tried to create an entire expansion around him, because it would just have felt like a 2nd Cata again, with old gods everywhere.
N'Zoth got to show his face in BFA, be a major talk point for the most of the expansion, have a high note at the end and actually be the final boss of the expansion. There is no risk of theme/Old Gods fatique, he gets to go out in a story focused major bang with nobody being set up after him. I don't think you can ask for more/better in a character situation.
That said, we can talk all along about his actual character or his death, but then again, how much is there to talk about when it comes to a literally pure evil corruption god, who wants to kill/overtake the planet, and how would YOU kill a mega creature like N'Zoth with anything other than a big hyper weapon?
May the lore be great and the stories interesting. A game without a story, is a game without a soul. Value the lore and it will reward you with fun!
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You don't have to actually corrupt someone to make them your pawn. You just have to be able to take their intentions and turn them to your benefit instead of theirs, I.E. Azshara finding a way to use the Heart of Azeroth and the power we have been accumulating in it for her purposes instead of ours.
Inb4 it ends up just being a fake video they put in and then it turns out the true cinematic is just waiting once 8.3 launches LUL
So the Heart of Azeroth is just a Titanic Dragon/Demon Soul?
"How you build your character is not a feature of a MMORPG, it is the feature. Everything else is secondary even the gameplay itself is secondary to building your character, its the kind of stuff you think about when you are at work or school and couldnt wait to go home to play WoW or Diablo 2. We have all done it." ~Into, 2016
It wasn't a continent that was the problem. It was the fact that the Titans couldn't rip the Old Gods out of Azeroth without causing serious damage to the World Soul, as they had delved too deeply for the Titans to safely remove them. WE aren't ripping them out, we're just killing them. As to the cinematic, I wouldn't be surprised if N'zoth had a plan to gather up all of that HoA energy fake his death, and try to resurrect his pals.
I hope there's a Mythic only phase to the fight with N'Zoth where you climb his back and try to break apart his carapace while trying to not get shaken off, so you can blast him in the squishy bits and win.
I mean, if they're gonna go Dragon Soul, may as well go all out.
Oh no...
We defeated N'zoth? IN THE EXPANSION WHERE THE FINAL BOSS WAS N'ZOTH?! HOLY SHIT!!! How shocking. And now the Heart's likely going to implode on us like the Artifacts for another crappy system? Oh wow...how shocking. I am...so...excit---
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It's a far more powerful version of it. Yes.
Not surprising, but just silly. And already 'done' in Dragon Soul.
Oh well.
That cinematic is... ridiculous.
So that's it, we get tired during the fight, N'Zoth is playing with our will, we're about to give up and then the "Diamond King made a pawn to fill the Heart of Azeroth that been used to free N'Zoth" cheers us and we find a second wind.
Then he and that robot-like Titan construct, that were goofing in the background with some "which button should I press? Oh no, not that one!", find the way to start the big lazer beam and focus it on us.
And then the power gathered by the Heart Of Azeroth is unleashed on N'Zoth, who dies in a huge white flash.
And after that, everybody falls in love, peace is here, XoXoXo, hugs4free blablablah, and the game changes to World of Care Bears.
I think I'm gonna slice my veins if they don't bing something else, because this is the worst writing ever.
Worst than WOD last patch.
Please Sylvanas, next expansion, burn that world to the ground.
It doesn't deserve our time and money anymore.
Well that was underwhelming. And so obviously the Heart of Azeroth will go the way of the artifact weapons in 9.0 and that's fine. I just hope they stop giving us these artifact things already and focus on class design instead. Bring back optional talents that are truly optional.
It's fine. We have so many throwaway epic villains roaming free, we just pull out another one from the hat. Or resurrect another quickly.
Hey i totally get your point. I also have had some great ideas about how a Black Empire expansion would look like and they could have made a very uniquely Old Gods expansion, that stood out from Cata. They could even make N'zoth a structure instead of just a boss, him being a constant pressence throughout the entire Black Empire zones, as his mass/tendrals are literally there, with zones of Aqir, Mantid and with allies in the form of titan constructs coming to Azeroths defense.
But that is the thing with most things in WoW Lore, you can make anything into an expansion if you want to. But if you had to choose, "another" old god expansion is not unique enough for the game. And N'Zoth is just not iconic enough to carry an entire expansion on his shoulders, both when it comes to the actual game, but also a face for WoW in general.
That is atleast what i believe.
May the lore be great and the stories interesting. A game without a story, is a game without a soul. Value the lore and it will reward you with fun!
Don't let yourself be satisfied with what you expect and what you seem as obvious. Ask for something good, surprising and better. Your own standards ends up being other peoples standard.