Anduin is courageous though. In the campaign he charges into battle despite being separated from the powers of the light
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After holding me up for a bit about his despair. He needed to be in therapy, not in Hallowfall.
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Yeah even as a horde player when I saw Anduin with the lion Headed helm… I was like dam, Anduin stepping up. Thats how they used to portray horde, total Gladiator vibes.
Would of been really good to see Anduin turn into a strong leader like his father… with the added inner conflict of reconciling his pacifist priest healing mentality with his need to be assertive/aggressive and fight for what is best for his people. Instead they metaphorically castrated him into a whiney PTSD character.
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I must admit, I would have changed Anduin’s story a bit in Shadowlands. I would have Sylvanas realise a bit earlier on that the Jailer was using her with no intention of helping anyone but himself. I would have had her work out some way of separate Anduin from him while still having the Jailer think he was in control, and then having both of them fight him in the last raid fight as this big reveal. That way Anduin would at least have felt some sense of resolution and personal empowerment.
Oh, and I would have had Sylvanas die saving him. It’s the least she could do and would have provided some sense of her end being worthwhile.
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Or they will kill him off as he doesn’t meet the diversity quota - he is pale and male. Either by having him turn bad or die a heroic death like his dad.
I mean Genn is already out with his daughter replacing him - although he is a character that no longer fits this era of WoW and should be retired.
They have already introduced a potential replacement for Anduin, Mary “Lothar” Sue - someone related to the original bloodline that ruled Stormwind.
Im hoping he collects himself a bit more soon. I like his story but it so terribly slow moving and often regressing back to feeling he can’t fill his father shoes that it’s a little drawn out. I feel they did Jaina’s trauma a lot better. It just moved along and helped shape her character now. Anduins story feels stale in comparison.
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In BFA Anduin hadn’t had half of his soul ripped out and forced to behave like a demon. Would you be unphased at having someone control your mind and be forced to attempt an assassination of your ally?
In spite of that, when it comes to a fight Anduin is right there with you step by step.
He still has our back during a battle.
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Probably nowhere because he doesn’t have “Windrunner” in his name.
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Except it made her completely non sympathetic. Most players just see her as an unstable nut now.
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I don’t. She actually faced her past, instead of running from it for two expansions. lol
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Anduin is facing his past too. That’s why he is a wreck.
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Its just frustrating because Sylvanas story makes no sense and is logically inconsistent… she intentionally threw the horde/forsaken under the bus to escape her fate of endless torment in the afterlife. So that right there is irredeemable she selfishly chose her own comfort over duty/sacrifice and everything a leader is supposed to represenet… her entire character was around providing for forsaken and the main reason she didnt end her existence was for them, “the dark lady watching over us”.
They made it very clear in several interviews and quests… she was not being controlled/dominated/possessed etc it was all her freewill/seeking to escape her fate.
Then in the final chapter the jailer gives her a fragment of her soul back because he wants her to feel sorrow??? … she already feels sorrow because she saw the parallels between Anduin being dominated and the lich king dominating and her… but she already made her choice to sacrifice the horde/forsaken… that does not get undone.
It just frustrates me to no end because its such a big middle finger to all horde players and worst of all is they might try to bring her back in the future… like wtf.
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Better start saving up for your kid’s therapy now…
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I dunno why she should wouldnt be able to feel sorrow, when every other Forsaken character can. They have the full range of emotions and I dont get why she, as a powerful person, should have less range than them. It’s all moot though, really, as a NPC’s behaviour is dictated by the writers and logic can go out the door pretty fast, as most of us can point out from numerous such stuff happening.
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True true. He is working on it.
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It wasn’t so much that she would feel sorrow. It’s that she would feel regret. Her ‘good half’ was shorn by Frostmourne and trapped in the shard.
It’s still dumb, tho.
Unless this was made noncanon by some supplementary media, Forsaken actually do not have a full range of emotions. Some might be rare exceptions, but most Forsaken cannot feel positive emotions very well or at all.
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Anduin was not so much sad about hurting his friends. He is trying to deal with the small part of himself that liked hurting them. He always saw himself as good and just but then met a part of himself that was the opposite of that. That the world is not as simple as he thought and that realization crushed him.
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Mmm hmm… And how many mind-altering drugs are yours on?
To be entirely fair… that robot was pretty hot
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So what? I butchered everyone in booty bay for a pirate hat. Yet allegedly, I’m some “Hero”?
Anduin can smack a few sprites around and still be a good guy.
Ehhh…
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