I am a stranger in a strange land.
āIām a legendary hero!ā I tell myself, as I go dumpster diving for the 4,200,069th time (in a dumpster I had to earn enough rep to dive, to upgrade from trash cans).
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I feel like a heartless monster bent on death and destruction in exchange for shinies. I love it.
Iām a gob just getting a job done. Sometimes that job involves blasting some bad things.
Maybe a day will come when Guuah can hang up that gun of his and just stick to clean work, but that isnāt happening anytime soon.
Im one of the few who liked Nathanos. Kinda wish he was still alive since the rest of Forsaken leadership is boring or lame.
I said this before, but I would be fine with Nathanosā¦if he earned his snark.
He was an obscure NPC before his āmakeoverā, and after he acted like an obnoxious big shot despite doing next to absolutely nothing before that point. He earned nothing, as opposed to our player characters who have saved the world about a half dozen times by the point he was made as a major character.
He earned nothing, let alone the right to worship the ground the player character walks on. The opposite is annoying, but having some nobody come up out of nowhere and act like the PC is nothing? That is just infuriating.
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I imagine that the answer depends on what spec youāre playing. Some of them have all of the durability and might of a wet napkin. Others, like Prot Paladin, make you feel like a nearly-unstoppable juggernaut of justice.
Also:
Thatās exactly it. Punk bought a boost. No one respects a punk that bought a boost.
I donāt really feel like a hero, no. The term feels like itās used more as a stand-in for our charactersā names when NPCs are voiced rather than to actually signify anything. Itās just a generic label.
FFXIV did a much better job with it IMO, building player characters up to that point and, more importantly, acknowledging that many story events are advanced by groups of characters, not just a single one. WoWās story rarely acknowledges this and treats us as though weāre doing everything alone or merely assisting NPCs while they do all the real work.
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I think itās because his feats mostly happened offscreen as initial worldbuilding. He was supposed to be the only human alive ever good enough with a bow to earn the belf title Ranger General, and when he was first encounterable in the plaguelands, heād already been receiving a stream of would-be heroes who die off whenever he sends them off to do something.
I feel his main problem was overexposure; if he hadnāt been a talking head for world quests, I think his gimmick wouldāve been more easily compartmentalized. But players already hated him and Blizzard needed someone to throw on the sacrificial bonfire to shut up night elf fans, and welp.
Now the race is stuck with Calia and Derek Proudmoore, whoās even more blatantly set up to be an unearned right-hand champion than Nathanos ever was. Except instead of being primarily known as āSylvanasās boytoyā, his only notability is being related to Jaina.
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Iām a hobo hero, but still a middle between hero and villain when we get player housing.
How I think it shouldāve been done, maybe him getting his new body, (I really didnāt like the short story of that to begin withā¦but thatās a different thing) he has to re-learn how to be Ranger quality with the bow again from how long he was stuck with his undead body. Sure, heād be training the other Forsaken in archery, but heād be learning alongside them.
He can be cocky, surely, a downright jerk, but maybe showing a bit of patience and understanding that he has work to do instead of just being shoehorned into his position, ego and all. And then, work up to being the mostly reviled character we know him as, but people will understand at that point, that achieving Ranger General-dom as a Human was flat out unheard of.
He deserves it. Just not in the way they did it.
Probably would if I saw my character in the cutscenes. I donāt have the time to read, I want to either watch cutscenes or get into the action and push buttons.
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Iām just a highly effective mercenary who overthrows dictatorships as a hobby.
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My intro video literally says how I was a hero
So yes
I like antihero
Actually, I am.
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I am a chicken.
Eh. Iād argue that MoP was still very much in the āChampionā phase. Which is a fine place for the player character to be, IMO.
It was Legion ā BfA ā Shadowlands that was the āChosen Oneā arc. And Iām glad weāre out of it.
Dragonflight and TWW have us back in Champion phase.
I feel like a violent psychopath.
Just about anyone asks me to put something in the earth before its time, and Iām there throwing around demons, shattering souls, devouring life force, and all around behaving like a monster. Sometimes I donāt even get gold for it, I just do it for the āexperienceā.
And itās not even limited to the open world. I canāt count the number of dwellings Iāve invaded and purged, and by now Iāve had my boot to the neck of several major population centers.
Add to that Iām not carrying any of this out with a lick of the grim seriousness such tasks deserve, and Iād probably give Satan pause.
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