Lovecraft vs. Tolkien
Which is better?
I say Lovecraft. Is this a hot take?
I actually really like this idea. This was a massively successful concept in Ultima Online and the mentor system in FFXIV is similar.
Ok so on my alt that is on the BFA wagon, I took him through the tutorial island Exile’s Reach where he was introduced as a recruit and we all escaped the island. 5 minutes later I am on a different island and they keep referring to me as a “Champion of the Horde” and I’m supposed to help them for some reason or something. Apparently, there is a war that they need help with, but I’m not sure what that is about. They also keep mentioning about all my heroic achievements like rescuing a princess that I have never met.
WoW isn’t FFXIV in terms of story. WoW is about endgame content, raiding, M+, and rated PVP. Nothing else. They don’t structure the story to be important to new players whatsoever, so all new players coming in being called “hero” or “champion” makes literally 0 sense and its stupid.
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Dragonflight is a soft reboot for the story and narrative.
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How can you choose just one as better?
I guess the only argument I got would be for Tolkien. His war friendly stories are much easier on families around the world. Lovecraft was to much horror for modern war friendly countries around the world.
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Lol exactly. Why do they even bother with pretending the story is important if only endgame matters? I’m some random Tauren that got off a boat 5 minutes ago and they think I’m a legendary all-knowing god-slayer. Why not just put me at the endgame, if only the endgame matters? I’m assuming that the troll island is some holdover from BFA when there was a huge war for Azeroth going on. Since the war is over, what exactly am I doing? The only explanation is that I took the wrong flight path and somehow ended up in the past.
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In dragonflight they literally call you adventurers not any titles.
I think Lovecraft had a better aesthetic.
I know, but to GET to Dragonflight, I have 2 options:
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Make a Cataclysm character, become a hero of Azeroth, travel back in time to the Burning Crusade and defend Outland, then go to Northrend and kill the Lich King, then go to Pandaria for some reason, then go to back in time (again) to Outland (again) to fight the Warlords of Draenor, then defend Azeroth from the Legion invasion, then have a huge Battle for Azeroth, requiring me to go to different islands and help some trolls, then go into the Shadowlands and fight literal gods, then go to some newly discovered place and I’m all caught up and finally in the current timeline with current events.
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Make a new character that exists outside of time and escape an island after crashing into it in the middle of the ocean, then teleport in space and time to the middle of the Battle for Azeroth that I have never heard of, requiring me to go to different islands and help some trolls, then go into the Shadowlands and fight literal gods, then go to some newly discovered place and I’m all caught up and finally in the current timeline with current events.
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Oh, so your all caught up then
No, my highest character is still in BFA. I’m just going off of what other people have told me here. None of this is explained in game by the way. I’m actually playing Cataclysm content right now, so I might as well not even be playing the same game.
Clearly you are not getting some in game experience that’s going to give you the answers you seek.
Do some reading, watch a lore video, you are not getting it in game.
Why do you think I came here? LOL.
Imagine if in order to play the new Call of Duty, you first had to play the previous 3 Call of Duty’s all in sequential order. Or to play Diablo 4, you first had to play all the way through Diablo 2 and Diablo 3. With WoW, the newest expansion is at the end of 3 other expansions.
Well you are not getting the whole lore story on the forum, so I’m not sure. But it looks like you get the basics from the forum, so that’s amazing.
You aren’t supposed to learn anything. They don’t care about cohesiveness or making an even half good story. Most things are either on a pander checklist or they are just planning to outright kill any class and race identity by eventually letting every race play as any class thanks to forum whiners. This game is literally only going downhill, a shame most people on these forums just choose not to see it for some reason.
if you watched the starting cutscene it explains everything. you are a fresh soldier of the horde/alliance and are on a mission to rescue a group of soldiers that were exploring an uncharted island but haven’t checked in for a while. a storm is conjured up and sinks your ship and you wash up on the island where the other soldiers were exploring.
you are pretty much a “war hero” and just like other media it’s cause you saved a single group of soldiers from an attack. the leader of your faction “knows” you because they read the report about what happened on the island.
or maybe you don’t have to know the back story of every single person because this isn’t Final Fantasy in which every single NPC is super important to one facet of the story in some way.
Kind of yeah.
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This would be a useful thing to tell new players. I think most people coming into a new game are going to want to know who the important characters are and why they are important. If no characters are actually important, that would save a lot of headache. Of course when an expansion comes out, everything in that expansion is “THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO HAVE EVER HAPPENDED EVER” and they never update it to say otherwise.
Guess what most of the characters you meet early on are side characters in Dragonflight and are not important. Also, the main cast of characters are alexstraza , khadgar, wrathion, kalecgos, Nozdormu, primalist, and the four primal incarnates. Also, Dragon isles is meant to be a new beginning for World of Warcraft anyways so yeah don’t pay attention to BFA contents.