Seriously. This isn’t getting enough talk. This choice between four covenants realistically only boils down to one.
“We want the ability to retcon anything we want because we can’t be a&^ed to construct a consistent universe.”
Blizzard you lazy useless f&^%s
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eagerly waiting 4 the icy veins guide on which covenant is best for my class + spec despite the devs desperately trying to tell reassure us that that’s not going to happen!!!
please go easy on them they don’t know what a “lore bible” is they just like saying words
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Can’t wait for my Paladin to join the Necrolords because their ability offers 1% increase in DPS.
Realistically, though, they’re just going to open up multiple covenants around the halfway point when they’re forced to admit their system doesn’t work.
i’m ready for death to have no meaning because you can just go to wow hell and hang out with anyone who has ever died or even kill them (again) and steal their ghost loot
“i’m so excited for my character to meet their dead loved ones so they can learn to let go and experience ~catharsis~ even though they’ll be able to hang out with their dead loves ones anytime now and go down to the ghost bar to get ghost booze meaning that they never really lost anything in the first place” - wra’s biggest brained roleplayers
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This is a good tagline for the expansion.
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“No ones ever truly gone”
-Palpatine Laugh
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I was thinking this at first too but all I’m hearing is that the covenant skills are underwhelming and it won’t really matter that much. I think that’s likely the best case scenario.
Either the new convent powers matter, or they don’t matter. there really isn’t an inbetween
the best case scenario would have been for covenants to be an entirely cosmetic + narrative choice and having any cool new abilities just be… talents
anyway i’m gonna peace out again yeet
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What makes me laugh the most about it is they put out the Chronicle books to “simplify” their lore and codify the OFFICIAL VERSION™ to make storytelling more consistent going forward.
And then before the first book was even released, they’d contradicted it. Now they’re flat out saying everything in Chronicle is “open to interpretation”.
And then they wonder why people don’t buy their books any more.
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I never understood why anybody was willing to buy a $40 hardcover book of lore from a company whose signature is retconning everything on a whim.
I want to be charitable and say that they love the lore they get in spite of the retcons and/or view the retcons as just extra lore.
Of course, it might also be possible that there are people in the world who, unlike us, can still feel joy.
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people buy elderscrolls lore books and that lore is about as solid as water vapor
I assume theres just people that enjoy things because orcs haven’t killed their family yet
yet
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Give it a few more expacs. They’ll get around to it.
super hell has vacancies
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That’s where Saurfang went, only to get booted out for being insufferable.
he got booted out of super hell because he’s insufferable, not evil
unlike all the night elves that burned to death in their tree. super hell was waiting for them
joke’s on you because death doesn’t matter
In the Elder Scrolls’ defense, the entire Elder Scrolls universe is built around the concept of Unreliable Narration. It’s why after various games the provinces those games are set in suffer horrific accidents to ensure nothing done in those games actually matters in a meaningful way.
They learned their lesson after actually giving players a choice in Daggerfall, and ended up having to make every choice canon by way of a Dragon Break.
WarCraft, by comparison, openly revises what happened in previous games to suit the story being told. Hence why Ogrim Doomhammer, an Orc more evil than Gul’dan, can be made into a saint.
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