In Your Opinion, Who Has Had The Worst Character Progression?

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@Benedikt-emerald-dream

I did manage to get through that questline and I’m glade other quests here suggest it was an anomaly. Since that was the only time I saw him behave sensibly.

Okay, I haven’t been able to find the forum post tracing Garrosh’s progression, but here’s a link to Alex Afrasiabi explaining how they originally planned for Garrosh to be redeemed and become a “strong Hellscream leader”:

Everyone just watched?

Warlords of Draenor makes a pretty deliberate story jump, can you explain what brought about the idea of this alternate Draenor as opposed to another new world present time? Why this particular threat? I think it starts with Garrosh. When we first made Garrosh back in Burning Crusade, I remember Metzen and I sitting down – and I did Nagrand, Garrosh was my guy – and we were sitting down and thinking like, we wanted – at that point, even then we knew, in WoW’s development we knew – we lamented…

And here’s part 2, explaining what happened in Stonetalon:

Everyone just watched?

The “Garrosh was my guy” part and the “he’s not going to just be some throwaway, he’s Hellscream’s kid. We’re going to make him something legendary” part. Source? The Stonetalon part is actually in that same interview, too: Cataclysm seemed like he was going in a different direction for a while there ... He was. He was? Tell us about that – why he had that shift. Miscommunication. So Stonetalon … Me. You did Stonetalon? I did Stonetalon. I didn’t stick to that path with Garrosh. I …

Out of curiosity, why were you glad that Stonetalon was an anomaly?