Wasn’t the Primus the master of strategy who never lost any battles and is the creator of domination magic?
Wasn’t he one of the gods who banished the Jailer and left him in chains in the maw?
How did the master of strategy and creator of domination magic lose to a disgraced god bound in chains in the maw who had their power taken away?
Never heard of the primus or jailer before. I think you might’ve had a bad dream friend.
Short version? He got complacent and let his guard down.
You’re not supposed to ask questions.
Jailer promised him the return of Garrosh.
We were all lured in.
We don’t talk about SL here…jk
The Jailer is far smarter than the Primus. Remember, he lured us all into playing Shadowlands by influencing Blizzard to craft that Arthas cinematic short as if he were going to actually be in the expansion. Then in his final moments he died right before revealing his reasoning for everything, the sheer cruel audacity was masterful.
It said so in the script.
I miss Thorgast
The leaked original Shadowlands story that got scrapped for bald bad man could have actually saved the expansion. Originally the primus was actually the jailer, which lines up with the leaked jailer concept art of what is identical to the primus but in jailery robes. Also the silhouette in the original trailer, was of the primus as well (before it was changed).
Other parts of story was the night warrior being a curse from the drust, and devourer invasion events on Azeroth (Thunder Bluff being one location).
The only Primus that matters made me realize when I grow up I want to be one of the harvesters of the sea. 
Yea I had thought there was some foolery going on just by playing the game. I didn’t look up any leak info. The Primus statue in Maldraxxus doesn’t look like him at all and the guy locked up in Torghast that crafts your legendaries doesn’t look or sound like the Primus either. I was thinking they scrapped story and changed it at the last minute before going live.
I haven’t heard anything about Shadowlands originally having a different story. However, there was a ton of datamined assets which suggested a Drust zone and possibly a raid/dungeon were planned at some point.
For example, some of the trees in Korthia are named “Drustvar_Tree” or something like that (i forget the exact name) in the game files. Suggesting that the Korthia we got was either not planned from the start, or was it was meant to be a part of a larger Drust zone.
After all, Korthia the “city of secrets”, did not feature a city or even a town. Makes you wonder if what we got was something that was cobbled together at the last possible moment.
And of course, the Drust story in Ardenweald went nowhere. Futher hinting at it being saved for an upcoming patch that never came.
Primus fell for the old your shoe laces are untied trick.
It would seem the Runecarver was originally the Jailer(judging from the Concept Art) and the Primus was originally Akarek(judging from the Statue).
Of course that would leave us with the question on what the Arbiter’s Orb is which of course is infact a blatant clue that the Villain was still the same Bald Guy as it is ingame.
They simply didn’t want to kill off Maldraxxus’s Leader(which would have happened if he remained Akarek) any more than they did Denathrius(whom they made the creator of the Nathrezim over the Bald Guy who like Denathrius resembles a Nathrezim).
Also on change’s to Shadowlands’ Plot: Could the Archon have been a Villain? The Quests that were shown at the Blizzcon Announcement made it look like failed Aspirants were killed if they failed their trials rather than given time to try again.
Did Afrasiabi’s firing make Blizzard desperate to protect it’s Female Leader Characters to prove that they have changed to the Law Officials?
I have read no such thing! The only source on the Jailer being the Runecarver was the Jailer’s Art and the only source on Akarek being the Primus is the Primus’s statue.
There conversely is no source on the Drust’s Lore being associated with the Night Warrior nor what the plans for the Devourers were.
According to Blizzard the 9.1 Patch was finalized around the release of the Expansion’s Launch so this is no surprise.
In the end all the Drust amounted to was killing off Ursoc’s murderer Ara’lon who proved himself to be an Oathbreaker when slaying his charge.
I seem to recall hearing that the original plan was to kill Denny off. Supposedly when he ended up as a much more popular villain than they had expected they changed it t shoving him into Remoria.
He planned it.
Btw primus was the real bad guy tm
Because plot. Bad plot, but plot nonetheless.
Bad writing. That’s how.
Here’s some fun fact. Primus had gotten his “Master strategies” from a certain time-traveling entity. Whether it may be a titan of Order or even perhaps a certain Infinite Dragonflight. It would explain why he panicked at the last second when we “freed” him with the sigil to give his memories back. Apparently as “heroes” we are outside of time and weren’t ever part of the equation for his strategies. We were never a part of his huge and seemingly uncalculatable part in stopping Zovaal. Or in cases of WoW theories, against his plans.