Tam and Koya Windtotem, Ironhoof, Nawa, Baine, and Mayla were all datamined for 10.2. Hopefully we get some tauren representation and a continuation of their story in the Plains maybe building ties with the centaurs to protect the Dream and the loas and spirits.
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Would love a druid-exclusive mount this patch, given in Legion the order-hall âMountâ was just a different flight form variation that made many feel cheated.
However these mounts are all pretty cool; keen for the content. 
Would love some more Wild God & Loa lore. 
Actually itâd be neat if the Dream âopeningâ allowed various Wild Gods & Loa that were lost in the Dream (potentially due to the nightmare & the nature of the dream itself) were able to come back to Azeroth and introduce a whole lot more â Both friendly and ⊠not so friendly 
such as blood gods (But allied with us against the common foe â For now)
A little late to this, but I am a bit disappointed that Sabellian isnt the one we go to Outland with. Really feeling like a missed opportunity
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It really is.
- The raid features two distinct types of bosses: Defenders of the Dream will test players, while Fyrakkâs Druids of the Flame seek to destroy them.
- There will be a lot of cameos for various characters in story content that isnât tied directly to the campaign, including the Tyr saga, which will have its big, epic conclusion.
- Patch 10.2 is not the end of Dragonflight, but an awesome turning point in the sotry, with lots of cool activities and stories ahead, though no word on what that might encompass or entail.
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Nah they donât matter. Maybe in next expansion. Although VolâJin has a chance to get cameo in Darkspear heritage. But Honestly? I wouldnât count on that.
Heck there isnât even Gonk in here to justify presence of Troll druid NPCs.
Trolls only exist to be loot piñatas. Even when we finally got an entire, functioning troll empire that wasnât already in ruins when we arrive⊠we raided it anyway for phat lootz. Their Loa only exist to show how much better the Ancients are because âluls Trolls are dumb savagesâ. Iâm really not expecting much from Blizzard to show the Loa any modicum of decent storytelling.
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To be fair I wouldnât say that Ancients are better than Loas. Bwonsamdi was hands down the best death God out of them all, he displayed the biggest care and was actually saving Trolls from the Maw and keeping them safe. Compare it to Elune, if I was nelf and saw it all I would get serious crisis of faith and would dump her forever. Every other god turned out to be a joke compared to Bwonsamdi, although I am willing to bet that it came out completely unintentionally.
And Loas actually help their followers, Ancients didnât bother to asist nelves when they were attacked by the Horde. Meanwhile you saw multiple instances of Loas assisting their followers. So I see even less reason to follow Anceints. Heck Loâgosh was more upset about Varian dying than any elf ever. I looked at this Wild god all sobbing and pitiful and I thought âwow this guy is patheticâ.
But I agree that trolls are always treated as an afterthought, it is clear that devs would rather focus on humans and elves or literally anything else.
And when it comes to Zandalar, I was hoping for Pandaria 2.0 where we devote all the screentime to explore their culture. What instead we got was Titan facility right in the center of their land, azzpull blood trolls nobody ever heard about. Some weird Sethrak snakes which cause even more questions than provide answers. It felt like Zandalar wanted to focus on anything BUT Zandalari.
I so much wanted to see Academy for all chroniclers and scholars that record their history, and for them to have copies on paper but always making stone tablets to make sure that these wonât be destroyed. Kinda like Rio Poneglyph in One Piece, now THAT would be amazing. And would fit their culture.
Zanza the restless first ever introduced Loa of Zandalar, completely skipped, and I was hoping to see him as I have a huge snetiment toward him since ZulâGurub raid.
Heck Zul couldâve been used to change narrative toward trolls finally, but nah letâs make out of him blood slug worshipper, donât ever bring up the situation that trolls are in, - and itâs not in a good place.
AND on top of that Kill off Rezan AND Rastakhan. Because we just canât keep prominent troll leaders to last. We canât. Letâs replace him with his much wiser and much more active daughter, who becomes irrelevant after the expansion is over. Which makes this change even more egregious. Iâd so much rather see Rastakhan get redemption story, than whatâve got.
I could go on and on. But yea itâs obvious that in this patch Trolls arenât meant to be revelant, and I actually would be fine with it IF they wouldnât put any Troll NPC in this expansion. Both Darkspear and Zandalari, becuase both Zandalari and Darkspears were against Peace treaty. If theyâd be sour about it, why would they go rush and help nelves out of all the people? They had perfect in-universe explanation why would they not be involved.
However what surprised me the most is that Worgen arenât there either - or I didnât see them on the screenshots. They are very close with nelves. But then again Worgen are the afterthought race in the Alliance. So I guess it fits.
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I guess what I meant by âAncients are better than Loaâ was in the way Blizzard portrays them.
Most of the time, what kills a Loa? Betrayal. Their own Troll worshippers thirsting for more power.
What usually kills an Ancient? Demons. Old Gods. Elemental Lords. Ya know, some epic and powerful being that is equal to or more powerful than the Ancient.
Even Rezan, the great and mighty Loa of Kings⊠dies because Zuul betrays Zandalar. It wasnât even Gâhuun that does it⊠just a Troll hopped up on blood magic.
EDIT: Bwomsamdi was sort of an outlier that even Blizzard admitted they had planned on making a villain until they saw how much people liked him.
I guess it depends on how you look it at. The only thing that would put Loa down would be their own worshippers.
But at the same time, Zandalari - a priest society would never raise a hand against Loa, becuase what would that make out of them?
I might not remember it well, but I think Ghuun was involved in Rezanâs downfall. That blood magic had to be something else if it put the Mightiest down, but I agree it shouldnât put him down if he was the strongest. At worst it would weaken him/ lock him down/ and knock him unconcious. But to kill?
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WaitâŠreally?!
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Yeah. He was supposed to die in shadowlands originally. But blizz changed their minds because people loved the character so much
Yeah, I canât remember which interview it was, but Bwom was suppose to be the end boss of Da Other Side dungeon. However, when they saw how much the playerbase liked him and the performance of the actor, they changed it last minute to be Muehâzala. Thatâs why the cutscene of him making a deal with Rastakahn seems so sinister and then itâs like he does a 180 in Shadowlands.
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Damn, I didnât realize that and Iâm glad they didnât go through with it. Bwonsamdi is one of the best characters to come out of BfA. I still get super tickled whenever I die in Zandalar on a different class and he has something unique to say about it!
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One of my favorite lines when you die is when he says Looks like ya got in ova yer head again and then laughs about it.
His voice actor is amazing and really bought the character to life
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If Bwon would be down, then both Zandalari and Darkspears would be ooked. Bwonsamdi was their patron for years and helped reclaim their islands. Imagine losing your patron to villain bat. But to think we were this close 
(there is no better emojiignore those fingers that are up). Itâs just⊠really hard to describe.
Death of VolâJin didnât teach them anything.
I also laughed out loud when certain dragon died based on his visage form in DF. Old habits die hard, eh Blizzard? Youâre so predictable itâs laughable. Especially now.
Not to mention that Muehâzala was being set up as a major antagonist for the third Traveler novel but never showed up.
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Alot of it is information that was mentioned in other interviews and what not but more detail is given with Vyranoth and Wrathion seeking out the Storm and Nether dragons.
To quote:
"One storyline in 10.2 involves Vyranoth and Wrathion âforming a kinship with one another, this feel of they are almost misfit dragons, you know they donât necessarily fit in, so they form this really nice bond with each otherâ as they reach out to new allies in the Thorignir Storm Dragons of Stormheim and the Netherwing of Outland - two groups who also remain apart from the primary dragon flights.â
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Yes! Storm Dragons are my favorite and was hoping to see a return of the Thorignir this expansion.
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Dreadlord armor set data-mined. Though itâs unclear if it will actually be in the patch itself or a future one.
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