No it does not.
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Well, RIP me. I specifically held off on doing the campaign quest this time because I was waiting for the final LFR wing.
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I honestly expected to read a more expansive post about how the Story of BfA bucked the trends of previous expansions to its detriment, rather then a focus on the Night Elven story problems specifically.
Painting Saurfang’s death as a good thing is rather weird considering it was basically just him losing horribly for 2 minutes before Sylvanas flys off. Sure, payoff of the Horde council ‘might’ be a good thing in the end but it’s not like there’s been actual story support of that yet.
On my actual point, BfA is probably the least centralized story Blizzard has ever made. Between the completely divorced plot threads of Azerite, The War (which shows such little usage of the nuclear parallel that it basically is a separate story), Aszhara and later N’zoth; There is little in terms of a throughline for the expansion.
Even the central gameplay mechanics barely had story justifications, with Azerite armor and weaponry barely treated as anything more then strong enchanted items. The characters speak of Azerite like it’s some fundamental gamechanger; but absolutely nothing comes out of it with the most visible moment of Azerite weaponry, the Azerite Tank, being stabbed to death by Anduin.
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You’re correct about this, and it applies for BFA too. The problem is that BFA had two storylines, and if it didn’t have the faction war it’d actually be a great expansion. The formula applies to one storyline in BFA but not the other.
Sargeras stabs his sword into Azeroth-> As a result, the Chamber of Heart underneath Silithus is revealed-> The Chamber of Heart is used to send a blast of azerite at N’zoth and kill him.
It’s a bit more complicated than that, but Sargeras stabbing Azeroth causes azerite to pop up which is used to kill N’zoth via the Chamber of Heart, which gives this storyline a conclusion while the faction war storyline doesn’t seem to have one.
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