Now I know he’ll likely never be brought up again, since he was a villain from the books, but Chromatus would make an amazing villain, maybe not for a whole expansion, but at least for a raid.
For those not familiar, Chromatus is a 5 headed Dragon, who has the powers of all the Dragonflights, he’s more powerful than 3 dragon aspects combined (he was fighting Alexstrasza, Ysera and Nozdormu, and they had to retreat, realizing they couldn’t win that fight). Finally, he’s indestructible, after knocking him out, the Aspects and Thrall couldn’t destroy his body, so they imprisoned him in some blue dragonflight prison.
I think a foe that cant be destroyed will be interesting, seeing as how the player characters destroy everything in their path.
I totally forgot about him, but he could be a cool villain if we ever visit the Dragon Isles. I really don’t want every expansion to be magical realms and other planets, so it’d be cool to just fight a dragon again (unless the most damaging thing he does is flap his wings on a park).
I’m pretty confident that Ultraxion, the twilight dragon boss in DS, was originally planned to be Chromatus.
-Both are Deathwing’s “ultimate creation”
-Ultraxion drops a chromatic drake mount even though he’s a twilight dragon. Chromatus is a chromatic dragon so him dropping it would make more sense
-it would explain what the Twilight’s Hammer was doing inside the Eye of Eternity in the raid, they were there to wake him up. As of now the TH being in the Eye is never explained
But original plans and final version aren’t the same thing, so Chromatus is still asleep in a blue flight prison. Yeah, I’d be up for seeing him again.
Twilight of the Aspects made it seem like Chromatic Dragons aren’t really properly alive, but rather were animated by some form of “false life” provided by the Old Gods, meaning mortal death just didn’t “work” on them. Not entirely unlike how Deathwing was functionally unkillable as long as N’zoth wanted him to be so. They weren’t a “bred” flight like the Twilight Dragons; the Chromatics were basically made by melding the flesh, blood and energies of dead dragons from the primary flights and then empowering the results to “live.” Not exactly undead, but not truly living either.
So with Azeroth’s Old Gods all deafeated, it’s uncertain if Chromatus is still “alive” or if he and any other hypothetical remaining Chromatic specimens will have canonically dropped dead with the provider of their animation no longer present.
That said, even if such were the case, one supposes if the Old Gods were to return at some point or if some other entity of similar nature and power came to Azeroth, Chromatus might feasibly be brought back.
I’m sure Blizz is ready to whip up yet another kamehameha laser that conveniently reveals itself as the perfect god-killing solution in our time of need.
I think that is the problem. A tiamat like boss would be awesome to fight. But Blizzard would probably want each individual head to be targetable and that would be a pain to create.
Actually with Anima presenting a new type of magic that Chromatus was not built to be immune to he very well could have a glaring weak spot in his normal immortality.
Well, my thinking there is it represents a type of magic that normally does not exist in the living world, thus he was not engineered to be immune to it
It’s amusing to me that the dumbest, most deus ex kill in the game is the Lich King, but everyone adores that story despite the constaint whinging about “macguffins” because Arthas is so beloved.
Well, it was a lot more dramatic, and at a period of time where people had more faith in the storytelling. Tirion calling upon the Light for one final blessing was pretty cool. And Tirion himself wasn’t as much of a controversial character, and it was the first time that kind of major deus ex machina happened in a boss fight. The Lich King was hyped up throughout the expansion and the payoff was adequate. On the whole, the context favored a favorable outlook on the situation.
Then you have Thrall, who as a result of his switch from Warchief to World Shaman became a lot more controversial, in an expansion that was also controversial, ending up feeling like he was stealing the kill since the Demon Soul is what blasted Deathwing to pieces primarily, unlike the Lich King where the lion’s share of the work was done by the heroes.
Then there’s N’Zoth, where he’s literally kamehameha’d from a machine from across the world and he dies like Sauron, after all the build-up he’s had over years. The payoff was very bad on N’Zoth. This is at the end of another controversial expansion, more controversial than Cata. By this point, faith in the storytelling is at an all-time low.
In both of the latter situations, the context did not favor a favorable view of the situation.
Actually, many — Including myself felt the way they dealt with Deathwing, Arthas, Ragnaros and Sargeras were done neatly with a well-tied story (Deathwing maybe less so).
I’d find it INCREDIBLYstupid – If we defeated them ‘Normally’ by flinging a bunch of spells and swinging weapon that were equivalent to toothpicks at a being that can cleave an entire planet in half.
— If they did do that and said they were inspired by FFXIV, and said we defeated all those foes with no powerup or without having any main-character tie-in, I would dead-set throw my computer out the window. That would be the epitome of garbage story telling and absolute dog $#!%, vomit taste in writing.
I mean, don’t get me wrong — Blizzard are responsible for terrible story writing (As we all know from BFA and Shadowlands) , but as far as those villains go - The ones you mentioned were handled relatively well, and if you’re unaware: Were actually well received by the majority of the playerbase.
Chromatus is a threat I am not sure they will touch because how problematic some bits of his lore are. Plus rebooting the indestructible murder machine seems counter to what Iridikron would desire, as that thing would almost at once be out of his control and seeking to er… reproduce forcefully.