What’s being suggested here is some kind of attack on Thunder Bluff, whether that’s just the next stage of the campaign or an actual raid. In any case, how is it going to work?
If the former, what are Sylvanas loyalists going to do here? Just “play along” like they did with liberating Baine? Or are they actually going to take part in the invasion and make an enemy out of at least 80% of their own faction’s leaders?
If the latter, how is the raid going to work for Horde players? Are they going to have different bosses depending on who they sided with? Wouldn’t that hugely affect raiding guilds whose players made varying choices throughout the campaign already?
I feel like Blizzard bit off more than they can chew here
Not joking, I unironically do not believe Blizzard thought that far ahead for the “loyalist” (still don’t like calling it that) option. It was not in the first build.
I still think they will have to turn on her at some point but it will be later on when she absorbs an Old God artifact and reveals she never cared about the Horde in a speech or something. My theory is that they threw this in for people that believe she is doing what she does for the Horde, and once it’s obvious she isn’t you’ll turn on her.
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Hopefully.
Would give me a reason to actually play the war campaign and unlock those allied races I’ve been neglecting.
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Simple: Sylvanas and Gallywix are going to reveal a new Azerite weapon that devastates Thunderbluff.
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Well, they did say at Blizzcon that we were gonna fire that big cannon in Azshara…
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That sounds like the perfect Azerite weapon.
At this point it will probably get fired at Thunder Bluff, but the Tauren don’t need to worry Jaina will make a magic force field that protects it…
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loyalist “route” was added in as a bandaid, but no effort was put into it to make it mean anything. remember “zekhan will remember this”?
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I honestly don’t see Thunder Bluff being a raid. I figure that any attack on/defense of Thunder Bluff would be a scenario and at most a dungeon where fought off a sneak attack by killing the enemy leaders.
it could be a warfront, where the alliance plays the defenders with saurfang rebels, and the horde players can play both, so they can join attackers or defenders
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Remember in MOP when Garrosh sent forces against the Echo Isles? Yeah, it’ll be like that scenario. Maybe we’ll see Rexxar, Rokhan, and Chen again. And, of course, the alliance will somehow get a robodog or something this time.
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that robodog has nothing on me, i am a good pupper girl
I don’t want to save the Horde, I don’t care if Sylvanas burns Thunderbluff. Let her just like the tauren let her burn Teldrassil.
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Yeah I don’t care if the horde is saved… I think ill join the hunters guild in the alliance anyway. Too much in fighting in the horde… no cohesiveness.
Well…
I doubt there is going to be any real attack on Thunder Bluff at all. The real target will be Stormwind.
So here it is. No player will be in on any attack on Thunder Bluff. All players will be attacking Stormwind.
If you as Horde have a problem with attacking an enemy stronghold, then you have no business being Horde.
And I doubt either will be a raid.
Personally I think Sylvanas is going to abandon the Horde very shortly (she can’t win and she can’t die) and the loyalists will be sacrificial lambs for her escape.
And the loyalists willing to die to cover their Warchief’s escape will end up being forced to find a Spirit Healer then join the Rebels when it’s apparent that she isn’t going to bother looking for them now that she thinks they are dead and that if she finds out they are alive will label them a traitor for surviving?