What story would you write? Would it be a horde vs alliance expansion like bfa? Would you have a big bad right from the start, or would you slowly build up future characters and villains for future expansions? What would the overall plot be? What would some of the character arcs be? Would you have new zones, or stay on the currently explored continents?
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Donât ask me to make stuff, man.
I only have two settings: Cutesy kawaii and mindbreaking weird.
Sylvanas starts to realize what sheâs become and works to become a good leader that thinks long term rather than just trying to win at all costs.
Anduin realizes that he canât keep being so naive and that he canât change other people he can only change himself.
Illidan Stormrage loses the respect of the Illdari when their Hall Leader tells them about that cringey âI am my scarsâ line.
Ebon Blade apologizes to everyone about the whole grave robbing thing, but points out that it was for a good cause.
Xaâlath decides to stay with the Shadow Priest PC and they skip off into the sunset to commit blood sacrifice and feed ravens.
Alleria hears about the whole genocide thing and joins Horde.
Jaina still confronts the demons of her past, but you know without Ashvane to distract from her own mistakes, instead WoW becomes a courtroom drama show.
The End.
After defeating Sargeras together, we realize itâs not productive being racists and learn to accept each otherâs differences. So we move onto playing with doggos.
Iâm not sure of the path I would take, but It would be along the lines of having the Alliance and Horde having a close story line together in the early part then drifting apart with less and less âforcedâ interaction as the game progresses. Rather than the BfA âIâm gonna kill youâ more like a âleave us the heck alone.â True, there would be an endless rant about who had the better story (no change from what we have already). However, It all would be somewhat similar to the Battle for Mount Hyjal where we all worked together then drifted apart. The next expansion could be a soft reset of WoW where we started with a more or less clean slate.
I donât think the âHigh seaâ expansion theme was bad, but that war campain and Sylvanas leading the Horde magicly because of Volâjin last words was cringy for me.
What about offending Cat lovers?
Edit: That also kinda favors Worgen.
Why should we worry about offending 2nd class citizens?
after Legion? i would rewrite/retcon the entire thing after 5.2
I mean, if we are gonna go back that far. Iâd prefer re-writing everything after vanilla.
TBC was a joke of a story. WotLKâs story was boring and cliche.
Then we should make a new game after warcraft 3, like one that night elves never joined alliance
TBC and wotLK story is waaay better and passable than the crap that came after mop
Id make twilight.
Because it would be super low effort, and the only case where something isnt a better love story than twilight.
Cuz bfa is a literal dumpsterfire.
At this point its hard for me to see anything lich king related as anything but a star wars rip off.
And you think that everybody wants their race to be a Paladin now? Here comes the stampede.
After dealing with whoever the Big Bad is at the end of BFA, thereâd be a peace treaty signed as both sides get rested and rebuild. Then as the next exp begins weâre still working together because our leaders finally realize that we should always start working together because thereâs always a major threat at the end of the catastrophe that makes us work together any how.
But we the player characters get sent to the Second War by the Infinite Flight because the Infinite Flight sees us as threat to their plans in the future and sticking us an a totally different time line is their idea of the best way to stop us meddling kids.
Chromie manages to find us, and helps us find the mcguffin that will send us back home but its broken and we have to repair it by finding the parts at the end of the story line in re-imagined zones. Major lore characters would appear but hey, youâre a nobody and either they dismiss you as mad or donât even bother with you because youâre a nobody so telling them about the future is useless.
After getting the pieces, you fight the Big Bad blocking you from going home, you defeat them and go home. Where the factions are now fighting and the peace treaty worthless because the Infinite Flight shockingly tricked people thanks to their shape shifting into our leaders. You then set off on an EPIC quest to save the leaders, save them, then face the real Big Bad at the end of the exp and win! Yay.
Either that or a dating sim.
I would give the Horde the Troll Expansion they have always wanted, while I would give the Alliance Pirates in the British Isles, and a bunch of Lovecraft themes.
Iâd use the Expansion to finally kill off the Faction War, and unleash an Old God on to Azeroth. It would be so great, Iâd call itâŠ
Let me think
Oh I got itâŠ
Battle for Azeroth
Itâs got such an nice ring to it.
You mean sanlayn and updated model worgen?
Think about it.
Donât know about the story but gameplay wise, here are some things off the top of my head.
Well first, I would listen to player feedback during the beta and PTR, which is something Blizzard hasnât done.
Nightelves and Forsaken establish somewhere else in new capitals, not the ones from Kulâtiras or Dazarâalor and this before 8.1. Could see the cities work advance through patching.
I would add PVP vendors from the start because why break a working formula for 6-7 snowflakes that were unhappy and wanted a boring bar to fill up while doing nothing and getting gear thatâs a downgrade at the end of the week.
On that note, War Supply Crate would get a tweak allowing for the gear that you get in it to not end up being a sure bet for the Scrapomatic.
Of course, currencies would make a triumphant return, because yet again it worked fine and like many things, did not need change.
Tier sets would also be making a return, because why in Amanâthulâs name would you remove an iconic progression feature that made the game more enjoyable and changed dynamics in rotation? Oh thatâs right, because of Azerite gear!
NO MORE AZERITE GEAR.
Raid/Tier sets will look good and badass this time around, like theyâre supposed to, and the people in charge of designing them for BFA end up either in the Stockades serving for a lifetime or are sent to be impaled on the Spires of Orgrimmar listening to a toy train set forever on 7.1 DTS surround sound system.
Primary stats get back to being more important than secondaries. Because duh.
Zones would be bigger in sizes (horizontally), but wouldnât be the huge mess we have since a while with the exaggeration in maximizing space over verticality. Not every zone needs to be a vertical maze, lots of us actually like the flat designs of Mulgore for instance.
Also zones would be more of a single big continent, and less islandish.
Talents would be changeable on the go, as long as not in combat. Because why not really.
Glyphs making a return.
Skill trees making a return too, not sure if Iâd keep the current Talent system.
Gladiator Stance makes a return as well as many pruned abilities, auras, etc, that made the game more enjoyable when classes had more than 4 buttons to press, or at least had options in using different stuff.
More Allied Races present at the start of the expansion, less time gating to get them.
Doubling the bags slots. Mechagon and Nazjatar alone are a pain in the ash sorting out your bags with the amount of useless junk taking all the space. Weâre in 2019 Blizz, stop adding just 2 bags slots per new bags every expansion, it doesnât make a damn difference.
Portals that used to be at locations where we used to have portals are still there. i.e. Org and SW portals in Shrines in Pandaria will get their other buddies back around them.
Reputation Quartermasters for say Mechagon, Nazjatar and well, pretty much all zones wonât have you need to spend $50-$75 in tokens to earn the Rep Mount you should have gotten when earning Exalted on the get go. At least it wonât be frickinâ 420k gold.
A rework of the personal loot system in raids, if not a total wipe of it.
The removal of the LFR tool for raids as a whole, however dungeons would keep the feature.
Island Expeditions and Warfronts are scrapped from the game for good and the people in charge of designing them are sent for a one way ticket to the Scrapomatic.
No more advantages towards Reputations for the Alliance, well Humans as it is greatly unbalanced for something as important as it being linked to stuff like Pathfinder, Warmode, etc.
The punchcards may get Scrapped for some kind of currency. Or at least will sell for more than an insulting 12 gold.
The weekly Tortollan quest will always be for gear, no more useless ressources or gold that youâd gain without even thinking doing other quests anyway.
Bonus: Feralsâ âmeowsâ and Huntersâ pets annoying noises are muted when entering an Auction House.