I think a story about renewal and the dragons being restored perhaps is a nice break from being in shadowlands. It’s colorful, lively, and fun looking. I’m excited to play back on Azeroth. The cinematic looked sort of weak but the dragons are the titans creations and there is room to expand on our story there. As long as the dragons don’t turn out to be robots, I’ll be good. Lol
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Alt swapping amongst classic toons is also super creative.
How many more toons do you have to go through?
I agree, but we gain in levels and we only can do that by facing and defeating a threat. What threat could there possibly be on the dragon isles which surpasses the jailer?
No villain was established.
So none really. I couldn’t give a crap about the Dragonflight from an RP perspective.
the point is that all of the streamers and fan fictioners dreamt up all of this and blizzard literally just said “Ok ill do all of that so we can stop crashing and burning”
the point of this expansion is getting back to basics, going home and having a good time.
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You might be on to something with this.
Its to tell a more grounded story that everyone has been requesting rather than a cosmic one. No one wants the villain to start in the beginning of the expansion, they want to explore. Conflicts shouldn’t be a huge thing instead keep it simple and fun. Dragonriding is finally a thing and looks great which is why we’re getting flying from the start in the Dragon Isles. Also, this could bring in dragonriding boss fights…. (Galakrond)….
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I don’t know. Nothing has to be a bigger threat than the jailer necessarily to be a huge threat anyways since he was a god. We know there is something else out there to be afraid of, maybe we will find clues there on the isles. Wrathion almost seems desperate to prove himself and also terribly curious about powerful things so I think it will be more of a step towards a bigger threat. The calm before the storm much like mop. But I’m just typing out loud lol it could end up anywhere, we seen how wild the story can turn out.
Levels are gained through experience not just by defeating stronger enemies.
Azeroth was wounded greatly by the incidents of Legion and BFA, lore wise we haven’t left the Shadowlands since entering. Azeroth in our absence and without threats returned to an era similar to the Cambrian explosion. (Ok, maybe not that drastic but a total old world revamp would be nice)
The dragon thing was a good choice, it returns us to a more simplistic start to an expansion.
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I like it 
there doesn’t have to be a big bad evil every single expansion, it’s a nice change.
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We can’t keep just progressing towards the bigger bad every time a new expansion comes out or we’ll end up killing a literal god and put an end to the space-time continuum.
Also welcome to RPGs:
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You gain levels by getting experience. You gain experience by doing things and learning from them. Welcome to real life. You get further in life by doing and learning new things. It doesn’t have to be something more grand or massive than the last thing you ever did. Just something new or different.
I agree, they just never provided any reason on why I should care about the dragons.
OP is just bored at work I think.
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We are discussing a game, where progress is achieved by earning xp. Generally from killing things, specifically only things that are a threat.
This is the perfect summary of Shadowlands.
and how has that worked out?
I honestly didn’t pay attention when they talked about the lore, but I believe that should come over the next few months if they didn’t talk about it.
I see. So you are saying there will be no threat in the dragon isles. I don’t think that will be true. Again, just because it won’t be as big a threat as the jailor or whatever doesn’t mean there isn’t new things to do and learn from which will grant us experience.