Can we get these Hearthstone characters in WoW?

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I am slightly annoyed that Blizzard decided to give Hearthstone 10 characters with pretty awesome backgrounds. Honestly WoW needs new blood and their backstories are relatively well crafterd. Also, apparently the Hearthstone timeline diverges quite abit from WoW one, I guess we can say Hearthstone is an alternate timeline now?

Dev Note: The Hearthstone timeline diverges from the Warcraft canon at many points. (Hijacked Dalaran, anyone?) Notable to Year of the Gryphon, the Exodar crashes, and the Sin’dorei join the Horde, during the events of King Varian’s kidnapping, approximately one year before the Invasion of Outland. (See Book of Heroes: Valeera for more info.)

Side note, it also gives abit more clarity on the timeline with Varian officially being kidnapped a year before BC.

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Yeah let’s bring them all into wow. No argument here.

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Well that was fun. Celestalon of all people liked my tweet asking Danuser if they are canon or not.

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Honestly, they should just make cannon hearthstone expansions.

Like they can have their silly stuff with the Dalaran Heist, and Scholmance school…

But things like their expansion on Gadgetzan, these new Horde and Alliance characters, organizations like the various gangs, expansion on B-grade villains… this is all stuff WoW Desperately needs in it’s world building in order to build up new threats / allies.

Like… it’s inane. The newest expansion gives the Horde more flavor than the entire War Campaign of BFA did combined. Not just any flavor, but the actual flavor that most fans of the Horde can get behind.

The stuff with Galakrond was interesting, if somewhat disjointed / confusing, and they’ve even brought in hearthstone characters (like Sir Mrglton) into the game already. (He is in Stormheim)

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lol, one of these is not like the others.

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I like to think this is the real reason why Khadgar disappeared during BFA / Shadowlands.

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I like to pretend Hearthstone is the real timeline and retail is the alternate universe, soon to collapse in on itself and disappear.

Hearthstone’s story tends to be more enjoyable.

Dalaran Heist? E.V.I.L.? Lots of dragons? The Darkmoon Faire full of Old God… stuff?

Can we steal their story team?

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I’m not a fan of the Tauren he looks strange to me. Most other seems fine even though the design for a view could need some work. Most seem cool though.

HoTS and Hearsthone to some degree seem to make Warcraft more justice in a sense than WoW.

Normally HS is his own separate thing. They could use characters from it if they wanted though.

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Hearthstone doesn’t have to worry about being constantly badass and M E T A L all the time, which is why they are able to splurge like this.

If anything I’d rather they keep those things the hell away from the base game cause all they’ll do is ruin them.

Same with the interpretations of the WoW characters in Heroes of the Storm.

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No matter how I type this it comes across as vaguely insulting and it’s not intended that way so I apologize in advance.

I often see Alliance players refer to the storyline as overly “METAL” and I don’t really understand. Is this primarily something seen in the narrative from an Alliance perspective? Or have I just been missing it?

I don’t really recall seeing a strong metal influence. I know there is a decent amount of “dark” that would be higher than strapping rockets to Dalaran to steal the city, but Warcraft in general has played into a less cartoon-ish genre (while still allowing for regular use of poop quests).

Is this just primarily with perception to the Horde (for instance, having Forsaken, and Orgrimmar being covered in spikes)?

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I think it’s more of a reference to how…well over the top and borderline unbelievable a lot of the content comes off as. At least that’s what people told me in the past.

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Same for me. There is nothing much “metal” in modern WoW left. “Cool and over the top, galactic super fantasy” fit’s better.
The “metal” things in WC3 were neat.

Now we have what… Maldraxxus landscape? Kind off?

I agree fully with this.

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I think the “metal” description comes more from how over-the-top a lot of the dark themes are played up seemingly just for the sake of having their visuals without much deeper exploration than that.

It’s like how a lot of metal album covers feature these super evil-looking demons, zombies, witches, etc. and many of the songs are about those demons, zombies, murderers, witches etc., but the album never really goes into WHAT those represent. Just shoots out these images and goes “ooooh, spooky! metal!” which, I mean, mood. Nothing wrong with that. But I hope my explanation helps for why people might draw that comparison.

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Looks like an advertisement for shampoo.

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Not gonna lie, I spent a couple of minutes googling pictures of fluffy and shampooed cows after seeing that picture.

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They have very hairy legs.
Nobody wants to see Mechanical Lazul?

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That doesn’t follow.

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There are literally infinite timelines which means permutations of said timelines where the events of Hearthstone happen in the manner they did is pretty much a possibility.

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Not just Alliance players. Horde posters also use the term to express our frustration at the writing team’s obsession with making the Horde ultraviolent and vaguely evil due to some apparent misguided notion that this is how people want it to be. As Vozul said above, it seems to be just for the sake of the visuals without any thought given to what it says about the faction. And yes, the obsession with spikes is part of that.

Anyway, when we say they have metal or “M E T A L” moments, it’s usually meant sarcastically.

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Something being possible doesn’t make the possibility canon. It is possible Anduin is secretly a clone.