09/28/2018 12:47 PMPosted by SurénaWell, the alliance war campaign actually starts with the objective of preventing the Zandalari from joining the Horde.
But by the end, the alliance seems to have abandoned that idea, and is planning an attack on Zuldazar.
Which... will cause the Zandalari to commit to joining the Horde.
Also something will probably happen with the abyssal scepter and Derek Proudmoore, since that is the way the Horde war campaign plays out.
I don't think that any additional provocation will be needed. It's just going to be alliance bumbling in, catalyzing the Zandalari joining the Horde, then suffering some type of setback.
If you weren't happy with the way Lordaeron went, then you won't be happy with this either, most likely. I'm sure they know that. Probably working on the PR response already.09/28/2018 12:35 PMPosted by Byniri
I completely forgot about Brennandam.
It's so glad that Horde players are involved in that story and informed of it, otherwise everyone might completely forget that that major story plot happened.
/s just in case.
It's not a major storyline. It's just something that they threw in at the last minute because they were unhappy with what was there originally.
This was explicitly stated in a Forbes interview.
Brennadam is a microcosm of the problem with faction development in general. They ran out of time to make the alliance story in the zone interesting, threw in a Horde attack with some violent aggression. Which doesn't really serve either faction's story.
Yep, the attack on Brennadam was originally supposed to be Quilboar. The stuff with the Horde was added last minute. Quilboar were IIRC supposed to be THE main antagonists of the Stormsong Valley zone but that got changed.
It reminds me a lot of Gorgrond in WoD where the zone was much more industrialized and dominated by the Blackrock clan but they made a last minute change because of, ironically, complaints of too many orcs to what it is now. Because of that, WoD was delayed and we probably lost out on a lot of content due to that setback, like Tanaan being a 6.0x zone, Farahlon in its entirely, a possible Shattrath City raid, etc.