Okay, I have a lot of takeaways, as expected. All of them are good, because this Heritage was (to me) probably the best one that’s ever been. All of it, incredible.
Will block out any spoilers below, since I’ll be talking about it in-depth.
My thoughts
- I loved the introductory with Romuul, it was very cool to see some emphasis on Draenei magitech and the importance of artificers in their culture right from the jump.
- High Artificer Ataanya is an instant favourite, sassy and curt. I hope we see more from her, she’s incredible.
- I liked her apprentice Beruun, as well. It was cool to see ‘young adult’ Draenei depicted.
- Re-visiting Auchindoun was a DREAM. To see it being rebuilt and reinvigorated to it’s original purpose was amazing. Soulpriests are some of my favourite lore, being a part of their rites was such an awesome worldbuilding experience.
- It was also amazing to see the revival of vigilants with a new purpose of assisting the Auchenai in their duties. This is a great part of Argus lore that I hoped would carry over.
- It was cool to see Arzaal representing the Man’ari and I thought his extra dialogue was interesting in highlighting that there are VERY few Man’ari actually on Azeroth and most of their penitence is being served on Argus.
- I always love to see Hatuun, his dialogue exchanges with Velen make their relationship very interesting and complicated. I also love that there was some dialogue regarding Hatuun’s thoughts on Outland Broken.
- Despite the frustration with the gathering quest due to high population and low drop rates, I did really love re-visiting Bloodmyst. It was a major nostalgia bomb for me since I started playing WoW when BC was current.
- Sironas was a really cool call-back! (I kinda wish they had used her old model for nostalgia but I know it probably looks a bit janky now!)
- The Tishamaat was a super interesting concept and a really cool way to explore long beloved Draenei characters.
- Speaking of which, there were A LOT of ‘deep cuts’, characters like Maladaar, Dornaa, Akama… the list goes on!
- I noticed Velen freely using ‘Eredar’ to refer to the group present (Man’ari, Broken, Draenei) which was refreshing. It really seems like they’re moving toward reuniting under that overarching racial title.
- The new city! I wonder when that will show up. I’m hoping this will be something akin to Dalaran, like a floating city. Ahhh!
Overall, 10/10, it was long and encompassed SO much of what I love about Draenei and their lore. Lots of worldbuilding, incredible storyline with hope for future development.
Small critique is that I wish there was a bit more ‘Shaman’ lore, but there wasn’t a lot of focus on the Light either which I was pleased about since that has been explored in-depth ad nauseum for the Draenei.
I will 100% be doing this again on a Man’ari toon. It was all I could hope for!