Yep. Cant agree with this enough.
They’re guilty of multiple character assassinations.
- Garrosh
- Sylvanas
- Saurfang
After playing a pivotal role in the [War of the Ancients], Tyrande was promoted to General of the Sentinels and would protect [Kalimdor]for over 10,000 years while her lover and the druids slept in the [Emerald Dream], defeating the Burning Legion as they had done in ages past at the [Battle of Mount Hyjal]. She subsequently stepped down as general, handing the reins to her adoptive daughter [Shandris Feathermoon], to devote herself fully as leader of her people.
Tyrande is a formidable foe and great hero, being one of the most powerful priestesses on [Azeroth]and a fearless warrior; not many that have crossed paths with her have lived to tell the tale. Tyrande rides a mighty female frostsaber tiger named [Ash’alah]into battle. She prefers to fight in forests where she is most comfortable. She uses her speed and mobility to stay at range while peppering enemies with lethal bow shots. She uses her most powerful spells if severely outnumbered or the battle is going poorly. When confronted by enemies, she never hesitates to attack and prefers to not let any escape alive. Her duty to protect her people from danger is greater than her own personal moral code about fighting with honor. If an enemy turns to flee, she will gladly take the opportunity to put a cluster of arrows deep in his back.
Sounds almost exactly like the Ranger general of Silvermoon - just swap high priestess for banshee.
N’zoth powerup = Elune powerup
Nathanos < < < Malfurion (not even close in powerlevels).
Difference waifu plot armor
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They were showing how much stronger she is now that she is empowered with whatever it is she killed him with. Death magic? Even Jaina and Thalyssra don’t know what it is.
It’s an old wrestling trope of having the new guy come out and beat up the champ to show how strong the new guy is.
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It’s an old wrestling trope of having the new guy come out and beat up the champ to show how strong the new guy is.
Nah, it’s a DBZ trope where lazy writers just proclaim that someone has bigger numbers now so that way people can pretend like there’s progression in a character’s story, rather than giving them interesting ways of overcoming a challenge.
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Cinematic was lame. Saurfang despite being old was the one shot king. Sylvanas empowered or not should have had to work a bit harder.
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She did the same things she did in the Attack on Lordaeron cinematic. People are speculating that she has “new powers”. That purple smoke was shown the same way at Lordaeron, including the banshee cry of “For the Horde”. The only difference is she blasted Varok with that purple smoke instead of actually passing through him like she did some of the alliance at Lordaeron.
Dont get me wrong, at this point many of these BFA cinematics are showing off characters with “new abilities” that have not been seen before, so it is possible. Jaina flying a boat into Lordaeron and saving the alliance from the plague is one. Anduin mass healing his troops using the light is another. Tyrande and her Night Warrior which were too little to late and didn’t stop the tree from burning or turning major night elf characters to forsaken… All of these cinematics in this expansion have been kind of dumb in one way or another.
I think the fight went exactly as expected.
She did block a probing strike with a stiff arm defense one time, but after that she was deflecting his powerful attacks and counter-striking him quickly with her seemingly void infused blades. Exactly the fight a less powerful fighter would use against a massively stronger foe.
Saurfang, in his inimitable way, rises to the occasion with even more powerful attacks, disarming her and nearly blinding her in one eye. Impressive.
She, knowing now she cannot overcome his physical power, skill and sheer determination in a stand up fight, resorts to magic. Surrendering the last shred of her honor, and any imagined legitimacy as Warchief of the Horde. As Saurfang intended when he challenged her.
She rightly left the field and the Horde behind. Now we choose a real Warchief.
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Right. The part that is silly is that they (blizzard) are going to spin this that this was part of her plan all along, from Saurfang’s “betrayal” to everything that has happened previously. All part of her “brilliant” strategy. It cant be both ways. This is the same way they portrayed her burning down Teldrassil. Was that her plan or did the word ‘hope’ send her on a tantrum. That is kind of just weak writing. Either she is a cunning schemer or she is just weak and irrational, make her one or the other not both at the same time as some sort of “edgy” misundertood character. AKA Ilidan wasn’t really evil he misunderstood and sent everyone props and love at the end of legion once we finally figured him out…
She wasn’t using daggers just from the length and the way she used them (she sliced rather stab) , those were short swords which would be able to block those blows, however it would require a lot of physical strength on her part.
Considering how the music stops completely, and Sylvanas giving Saurfang a (satisfying) thrashing with no music, it’s clear that her being able to stop a blow that powerful is supposed to be a surprise. She even smirks like “I’m about to end this man’s whole career.”
I’m pretty sure the only reason there wasn’t a record-scratch sound when Sylvanas blocked the attack was because all of that made it implied.
Also it’s just nice to see Saurfang get completely beaten down like the chump he is. Sylvanas only lost because she impulsively revealed to her own loyalists that she was a liar, so it didn’t matter that she won the mak’gora in a landslide, they were not going to accept her as Warchief anymore.
comparing it to the garrosh vs thrall fight, this fight was very disappointing
I didn’t want to see him die either but he’s old, so far from his prime. At some point every soldiers time runs out. Now he is where he always wanted to be, seated with his son up above.
Lmao. That is so monumentaly true.
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