At this point I don’t know what raising galakrond does for the story. It’s a neat story beat to riff off, but I agree with the sentiment there is no real threat there. He was bested by preempowered dragons. We champions would, theoretically, stomp his face - but power continuity is difficult in a game/story like wow.
I like the idea of murazond much better. We are never shown what leads up to the end time dungeon, and maybe efforts are made to significantly weaken him prior to the encounter to make it a little more believable. I don’t much like timey whimey stuff because you can’t really make it matter otherwise it just is this weird 90 degree storyline pivot because reasons.
The primalists are a neat threat. If they are anti-titan this could be a good lead into a void xpac in they favor the old gods in any way. They can be plenty scary enough and plenty powerful enough.
We have systematically been removing titan tech over the expansions, and killing off old gods, too. Azeroth is becoming a pretty hostile place to the cosmic forces.
In 10.2 they will cut to Nathrizim Team 6 who wrote a book about their top secret escapades instead of being quiet professionals like SI:7. In the tell-all we will find out everything happening in Dragonlands was a distraction. While we were busy, Sire D has returned the Jailer’s husk to the Shadowlands and naive Pelagos accepted his request to give this boy his soul back in the name of “fairness”.
Naturally the Jailer anticipated this too and immediately claps Pelagos then takes his old job back.
NGL… I’m down for more Shadowlands lore. Danuser has confirmed in recent interviews that we’ve only seen a tiny part of the entire Shadowlands - this was fan theory for a while but has received official confirmation.
10.X would be too soon but if we go to the Shadowlands ever-so-briefly in 11.X as like a VIP (the same way we returned to AU Draenor by ourselves in BFA, rather than how the entire Alliance/Horde forces stormed Draenor during WoD) that would be pretty sweet in my opinion.
I still can’t believe Anduin Lothar hasn’t appeared in WoW at all. It’s crazy. Doomhammer has a very brief cameo in Warlords but got clapped before he was able to be a character in any capacity.
In my opinion, Shadowlands failed in properly exploring the concept it introduced in both Revendreth and Bastion of “Memory Magic”. There are ways to physically manifest one’s memories and this wasn’t used as a concept for a dungeon? Really?
We got a very brief glimpse of how Blizzard COULD HAVE used this, when we delved into Uther’s memories (as Uther) and his Dreamscape was all jumbled up, but the idea of using this to actually do a dungeon of some sort could have been amazing. It’s basically Caverns of Time, but you can do non-canon stuff without having to deal with the ramifications of changing the timeline. Blizzard did this briefly during the Legion Druid quest-line where we went into Malorne’s memories and helped him defeat Archimonde instead of him having his neck snapped, I think there’s plenty of other cool stuff you could do with this.
Let’s say we need some piece of information to unravel some scheme. We pop into the Shadowlands briefly and delve into the memory of some poor sap who has the information we need. Maybe his mind was tainted by the Old Gods, so when we go into his memory, the place is all messed up with Old God influence. Yada yada. You could write this a million different ways. Just depends on what you want to do.
As long as we respect the Veil and make sure only a very few select Champions are crossing over and not going all willy-nilly all over the place, I think it is fine if we have very brief return visits.
Murozond is basicaly confirmed already. The last boss of Uldaman dungeon confirm it. We just don’t know if he will be the final big bad of the expansion or if will be the villain who will set the way to the real big bad, like Kil’Jaeden and Azshara did.
There’s nothing INHERENTLY wrong with the idea of “fighting on his back” or whatever. The issue is simply that MECHANICALLY, Deathwing’s back wasn’t a fun time.
Being SO gargantuan, he’s far less likely to do barrel-rolls and the like. Boss encounters could totally involve scaling some tall mountain(s) and activating Titan constructs to weaken him, and then have the whole last “wing” (heh) of the raid have us scaling (heheh) his body, hitting his weak points, ultimately bringing him down, and maybe even using the Vindicaar to nuke him with an orbital strike (being unable to target him while he is moving?).
I feel like a cool “secret boss” or perhaps Mythic-only boss could be after bringing him down, before dying, he actually take on his own “Visage”. Sort of like Frieza from DBZ, I could see it being kind of cool for this huge, monstrous dragon’s ultimate form being something deceptively small and unassuming.
It’s easy to imagine and say how epic you want the fight to be, but given WoW’s dated engine it’s not easy to create and design a fight that’s practical and cinematic against a GIANT boss, especially one that’s going to be a dragon so I assume it will fly and move around alot.
At best you’ll be fighting trash spawning out of their left leg or something lol
It would be worse than Deathwing, because at the start of Legion they nerfed the camera zoom-out. It is now impossible for you to have your camera zoomed out like it was during Dragon Soul.
But as to “what can the devs do”? Revert the camera nerf. Shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
It’ll be a two zone/phase fight… one group outside and one group inside and they have to rotate. The outside group is distracting him while the inside group attacks from within but every so often he flushes his system so when the butt hole opens up the inside group has to run out before they’re hit by a cone aoe brown spray attack. The outside group then has to rush in from the mouth and take over.
There you go blizz, I just created your final raid boss for free.
Well as its immortal so can’t be killed I don’t see how that would ever be a fight and more importantly as its story involves oh so much rape I doubt they wanna put it in game.
