Theoretically the point of the Night Warrior power was to justify her being able to believably fight Sylvanas, who was supposed to be nigh unstoppable while empowered by the Jailer.
Unfortunately, their actual fight came across like Sylvanas wasn’t really worried about it as if she somehow already knew that Elune would withhold the power from Tyrande if they ever actually fought each other and Tyrande started to win.
Sylvanas never had anything go wrong or put her on the back foot, and I feel like that was a huge contributing factor to how sick people got of her by the end.
She exhuded a bad character in a D&D campaign. The one the GM tries to convince you is the best, the coolest and nobody at the table cares.
The DM saying “she was almost dead” while having not even made up an HP pool for them because they view them as unkillable in that moment.
Even if theoretically the point of the night warrior power was to fight Sylvanas, and the fight was better or showed the night warrior power to be powerful, it didn’t actually even impact the plot. Tyrande just kind of shows up, fights Sylvanas poorly and then loses her powers, even the powers didn’t impact the plot, it’s not like Tyrande running around the maw killing some red shirts even impacted the Jailers plans and it didn’t even help us. Her showing up to fight Sylvanas didn’t even impact Sylvanas’ decision, it ended up just being a filler piece that served no purpose. You could remove the tiny side story she got and nothing would really change in shadowlands.
Likely again because they had no plans for the night warrior and was just something extra they threw in for 8.1 since Tyrande wasn’t even part of the actual warfront.
Edit: Think about it this way, what if the fight with Tyrande ended up being the reason she decided not to side with the jailer at end of the second raid, not him just saying “serve”, despite her serving him the entire time and then her shooting an arrow at him. What if Tyrande beater her up so badly and violently while being consumed by this rage that it made her dominant evil personality recede to awaken her past self before Tyrande’s body started violently rejecting what is becoming a huge amount of power and Sylvanas is barely able to escape. Then it would have had a point even there, what they did was make it entirely pointless and the fight happening or not didn’t actually impact anything.
Tyrande jumping like 300 feet into the air to cross a 5 foot gap was clearly important for the greater setting.
If the Night Elf story mirrors the (shudders) heritage quest we got. I’m out permanently. Escort quests are by far the worst type. (Points at a brazier)
I see the sentinels are all with the black eye of the nightwarrior, I wonder if it means something
I’ve been wondering that since Tyrande first got the Night Warrior “buff”.
In a recent interview Devs said something about not adding eye color or certain customizations without a real meaning behind it. That’s why I’m intrigued about the explanation of Black Eyes where at first I thought only Tyrande got them, then I thought perhaps other night elves also had them by being exposed to Tyrande’s energies as to explain why players were able to choose those.
Now that the Night Warrior saga ended we have to wonder why they still have those eyes.
Yeah, the fact that is all of them that have the black eyes to me shows it is deliberate.
I recall some flavor text mentioning that the night warrior power affected those around Tyrande during the events as well, but i might be misremembering this, at the same time, she had a very small squad with her. Who knows.
They had to be told twice? Unsurprising from what we’ve heard about the office culture; it also happens to explain the night elf story since Cataclysm.
Did you reply to the wrong post? I’m having a hard time understanding what you said.
It’s annoying how in SL they tease us with night warrior importance. Tyrande was the only one who defeat leader’s kidnappers. We learned that previous Night Warriors had the power to destroy entire nations and even the Old God. For some reason, it seemed that Jailer’s forces didn’t want Tyrande to leave The Maw.
However, the entire culmination of plot about this forbidden, dark power ends with the transformation into a rocket of sparks and a nap during the final fight with Jailer. There are many things they did wrong with Tyrande, but forbidding her fighting Jailer is one of their worst mistakes in SL.
Reminds me of Siege of Orgrimmar and the literal black Heart above Garrosh and not have Vol’Jin shoot it as he promised in his threat. That would be poetic justice.
When the Alliance and the Horde go to war, they don’t play pattycake. As in a current real life example in the minds of each faction "There are no innocents on the other side."
We don’t have an explanation as to how they got it in the first place. If they got it as a side effect of Tyrande’s Ascension (Decension?), they weren’t around when she was purged of the Night Warrior so there’s no reason that they would have lost that look.
Except that ain’t true, in BFA Alliance was constantly going on and on about the innocents on the Horde side.
Apparantly someone forgot to pass that memo to Jaina.
Ironically it was Jaina that was extra conscious, after dazaralor she thought it was a low blow to continue the war while the Zandalari were in mourning. While Shaw was much more pushy to continue the operations.
I wish she thought about that before sacrificing all of that night elf manflesh on a gambit with no gain.