Honestly there's lots of things I did enjoy this expansion
-Bwonsamdi is a chad 110% of the time
-Denathrius is the best villain we got in it, and he actually feels like an organic extension of the Nathrezim.
-Brokers are awesome and I hope we see more of them
-First Ones aesthetic is fucking rad, and I honestly like a lot of their concepts. Kind of want to design a First Ones-themed class now...
Still, very much hoping April 19th has something we can actually sink our teeth into. Ready to go home for a while.
Eh, couldn't be worse than the Sanctum of Domination cinematic. Definitely a better end cinematic than BfA and WoD. Not that it makes it any better, of course.
Would be really great if the threat he's talking about just turns out to be the other cosmic forces. His whole thing is practically the same as Sargeras, but through domination rather than destruction. Same for the Titans trying to order everything, as well as the Light and Void with their usual stuff. Not sure about Life, but maybe the players' perspective has been through Life all along idk. Basically it starts with someone being threatened by the other forces, leading them to do their thing(Burning Crusade, Domination, Ordering, etc.) and the other forces reacting to it in a similarly extreme way, leading to the cycle that we're in. That would make it so that instead of Zovaal being behind everything, it's actually all of these gods unwittingly playing each other with us being caught in the middle of it.
All of which reminds me of a whisper from Everliving Statuette that says: Hope. Betrayal. Sacrifice. Faces change. The tale does not.
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Haven't you notices that they are repeating expansions lately? Draenor was extremely similar to Outland. We had a Burning Legion expansion in TBC. Faction war was done in MoP. Old Gods as well. Death was dealt with in Wrath. So, the Emerald Dream is the unnecessary one? Give me a break....
As for originality, there are a lot of inspirations already in lore that do not, necessarily, require new stuff to be made up. So, it would still be kept familiar:
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Eme...am#Inspiration
Remember the Mag'har?
We recruited them from the alternate reality after the Dark Portal was destroyed and closed.
The voice actor was hired to keep going after the initial launch just because of his awesome voice.
I, personally, can't wait to see a proper Cosmic War feature him front and center leading his own agenda instead of being shackled to the Bald Man. He is a much more fun and interesting representative of Death than Zovaal, and I'd rather see him leading it.
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More personality for a main villain would be excellent—thus far, the most personality we've gotten out of an actual main antagonist is Garrosh.
I wonder if this conflict will get resolved or amplified next expansion. The last message about it happened in 8.2. I'm interested in what Blizzard is cooking up with that, since it's been running since WoD.
We are about to 100% get an increase to on Void leaks now that the tease kinda sounds like Void Lords. Crazy how that works
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I don’t know. I really think this is not how Shadowlands was supposed to be. Everything in 9.0 makes somehow sense, even if it’s just little (in the case of the Jailer), but after that it went downhill and the story became subsequently worse with each patch.
I refuse to believe that Blizzard‘s writing team is this bad, because the entire story was just terrible. Something messed up (not really talking about COVID or the scandal) their expansion plans and they had to reduce everything to 0 to just wrap it up and get it done. If this was planned all along, time to say goodbye I guess.
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If there are Void Lords, there must be Void Overlords, too. Looking forward to them!
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Which would basically render all previous expansions useless. Thanks but no, Shadowlands did enough damage to the lore.
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I'm 100% convinced that the bigger threat Zovaal was talking about is The Crooked Serpent/whatever gave birth to the Devourers and pale orcs on Draenor (a 7th force beyond Void and co). Bellular recently uploaded a speculation video about that and when I watched the cinematic I was like "omg so spot on".