So at the end of The General’s Conviction they make a point of showing he’s wandered off to find a good place to die on his own terms. Yet when you kill Ansurek he shows up with the Weaver and Vizier.
Is that just a mistake or was his death a fakeout, you think? That quest clearly takes place before the raid.
whats the bet this is yet another no quality assurance fail after microsoft fired them
the battleground basically has no plot
bugs unfixed (not nerubians) everywhere
I just did the Viziers renown 7 questline and he comes out. Straight up says who he actually is to a full crowd of Nerubians. But when you do the ‘kill Ansurek’ questline, the other members of the Queens Silken Court don’t know who the traitor in the court is…
So either this questline happens after Ansureks death and there are still those loyal to her in the city or the other two members of her court are as incompetent as DBZ movie minions.
He looked for a good place to die, couldn’t find one, so now he’s here.
The only way I can explain it, is that they all decided to stay silent and be loyal to the Vizier over the Queen.
Reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.
It was merely a setback.
He’s still look’n. Figured he’d scope out the throne room, maybe die there. That he turned up as Ansurek was killed was mere coincidence.
Anub’azal simply pulled a Lillian. Wanted to die alone but for some reason changed their minds.
Still an odd line for Lillian to say after her encounter in MoP Scholomance.
Only in death does duty end
Head canon is that scarab lords are just massive dreadnought/dragoon sarcophagi used to house injured Nerubians who are still alive but too injured to serve
Offscreen he basically did a Nerubian rendition of the Saurfang story but survives in the end.
He’s coming back to snuggle the bipeds for warmth…
Blizzard again with the “introducing you to a refreshing and compelling character you progressively bond with throughout the story only to kill them off in one patch in a way that doesn’t even bring any extra value to the narrative”
Everybody loved Anub’azal, having him die offscreen when by all means he should have been our very first evergreen friendly Spider Lord character was ENDLESSLY STUPID and should be retconned straigth away
Yeah it’s funny how you can love a character so instantly.
He reminded me a lot of the General dude from Nathria. I love that sort of straight to business and having fun doing it sort of attitude.
It also reminds me of how they removed Krexus. In that Draka cartoon, he looked so awesome and sounded cool. He looked like an ugly powerful creature who was noble and righteous - clearly helping Draka when she had no where left to turn.
And then he goes splat like 2 seconds after we see him in game.
Sad. I liked him alot.
maybe we will fight him in last titan and he will only be at a sliver of health and still own us
Anub’azal knew that all that awaited him was moping about how bad war is, so he hung it up.
He does kick the bucket. His body is found overlooking the city after the quest.
Yes, it’s stupid.
I didn’t know that. I’ll unlock the quest myself with the reset, I got the others to max reputation first.
So it looks like the raid happens before Rank 7 quests.
I honestly feel like it’s such a waste of a good character.
Like, it’s not even a “oh no, my favorite character died, we gotta get revenge!” it truly happens for no reason. It doesn’t feel tragic. It doesn’t really accomplish anything. It just feels like an afterthought of “we should probably have a protagonist die I guess”.
Anub’azal is a fascinating individual. He’s not nice. He’s actually a bit of a xenophobic prick. But once you prove yourself to him, you start to understand his values.
He’s the first allied, living spiderlord that we meet. Arguably the most iconic nerubian type since WC3.
And he just dies in a pointless mak’gora/tal’darim death ritual for no particular gain. AFTER Ansurek is already dead.
If Warcraft is missing anything, it’s well-written dbag characters who are on our side without falling into the friendship-is-everything archetype. It’s what Nathanos would’ve been if he wasn’t a terrible character.
Seems to me that the end of the campaign as well as the story quests for the severed threads happen after the Ansurek fight. You essentially assassinate the queen but the Nerubians keep fighting until you defeat their army, recover their former heavily mutated queen, and send Xal’atath on their way.
The “our chance to strike” quest is given basically at the start of the campaign so it isn’t that surprising.