levelling in Torgast isn't a bad thing for people who like to play solo RPG's and/or hate levelling and/or aren't overly social/community oriented. And I would totally concede that for the current Retail player base it's probably an appealing option.
It is a bad thing, however, if you care the littlest amount about the MMO genre and what the MMO part of MMO-RPG once stood for.
I have left the Retail building, so it really doesn't affect me beyond further reinforcing why I'm never likely to play Retail ever again, but I still shed a tear at this development.
Don't be ridiculous. Leveling the "MMO-way" is fun once, maybe twice. Then you've done all the quests and just want to experience the endgame on other classes. And it's not a retail problem either:
I've played Classic only a few months at the release, but even then trade chat was full of "lf mage level boost" spam. Many people just want to play the endgame. The endgame should be filled with "MMO", leveling as a concept is due an overhaul since Blizzard stopped giving us new abilities with WoD.
Vanilla leveling was a one time only thing only to be experienced by new players. No expansion will ever be able to recreate the mix of content available, missing knowledge and curiousness a new player got in vanilla.
Since TBC WoW was solely about the endgame and doing solo Torghast is no different than using lfg tool or mage boosting you. Also Torghast can be done as a group.
Uh she wasn't immediately turned... Arthas had tortured her soul and then transformed her into a banshee and tortured her further going as far as locking her up in a coffin or something. She didn't just transform after being killed. Arthas personally took time out of his busy genocidal duties and made an example out of her because she put up fight against the Scourge defending Quel'thalas.
Even if that was the case, that still doesn't make the Uther treatment plausible at all, since Arthas surely would have noticed if a soul was left standing around (he clearly could see and interact with those) after he toyed with the one he made into a banshee. Not to mention no one cares about the pure living Sylvanas anyway, her whole character became popular because of what happened to her. Having her good persona remain is just a cheap cop-out, as it still wouldn't be the actual Sylvanas people have come to like/hate for the past 20 years.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Torghast can be ran with friends, I can see me and my friends levelling alts through torghast. That's not solo, it's exactly on par with questing/dungeons experience.
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Maybe Arthas's father DID split? A king killed by his son while his kingdom was in desperate need of heroes... Might have some issues accepting that fact. Perhaps we got to see the good, forgiving side of his father.
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All things considered, I'm still excited as ever for 9.1 to launch. Loving the way this expansion's going so far, hope it continues! We're finally getting some great stories.