Im finding myself struggling to find any kind of interest in the current story. It all feels very contrived and pointless like the story is just going through the motions. I don’t care about any of the characters, in fact the story is making me dislike the aspects more and more as it just shines a spotlight in their complete incompetence.
I don’t care for these villains at all as they are simply budget elemental lords which makes this entire expac just feel like a cheap version of cataclysm which wasn’t a well-received expac at the time.
The entire world of warcraft feels a bit contrived as well now since shadowlands like nothing really matters. Character motivations and the motivations of the factions don’t make any sense and it feels like it is just the writers making knee jerk reactions to what they think the fan base wants. Nothing seems to make sense anymore and the story is so convoluted and filled with Modern day politics it doesn’t fit into the universe that was built before.
I want to know is there anyone out there that is enjoying this story, not the expac as a whole but the actual story blizzard is trying to tell?
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I’m not particularly invested but I’m not hating the prospect of patches like the last two expansions, so I’m just coasting along. I don’t mind the villains because of it.
What do you mean by modern day politics, though?
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I’m interested to see where the story leads next. I’ll say that Chapter One was decent start. Got people engaged at least.
The expac isn’t terrible. It just really hasn’t explained anything about why people should care about the Incarnates or the Primalists and their hatred against the titans
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All war is bad, peace under any circumstance is preferable. It requires players to completely ignore the reasons each faction is at war.
See the curious thing was that I remember Shadowlands initially being well received as well until blizzard released the first patch content which started to tank the story. It will be interesting to see what the reaction is to the first patch.
Sure its not terrible but nor is it great either, it just kinda is.
I do agree with you that the villain and their motivations are poorly defined, I think that is because there was no groundwork to introduce them at all prior to this expac. They simply just appeared in the story with absolutely no build up except for a sentence blurb in chronicles.
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I’m disappointed about the conspicuous absence of Chromantus in the story so far. He is the perfect villain for a dragon-themed expansion. By himself a match for the pre-Cataclysm Aspects in power, and he’s literally waiting quietly in a vault to be unleashed.
Even animating him shouldn’t be a challenge. We’ve had years of technological advancements in filmmaking and special effects since Cata, including the ones that went into Ghidorah from “Godzilla: King of Monsters”. THAT is a multi-headed dragon-esque creature, and he looks great.
Factor in Azshara and their shared history with the Old Gods… and the story practically writes itself!
That’s what I would have done with this expansion’s story, rather than this increasingly likely “retcon the Titans so we can villian-bat them” plot.
While Dragonflight has good parts, it is not living up to its potential. We’re not seeing characters grow and the threat is new characters who’ll get removed from the story just as quickly.
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I’m just genuinely tired of “SAVE LE CUTE DUCK” quests.
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Speaking of Chromatus I noticed in one of the Interviews for 10.1 that Kalecgos is trying to find out what is holding up most of the Blue Dragons’ return.
It would be ironic if Chromatus(who was in possession of the Blue Dragonflight) was drawing all the attention.
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I think it’s good enough, I’m enjoying it so far. It’s no Wrath or Legion but I’m not sure we’re ever going to get expansions like them ever again. WoW just doesn’t have any more factions/villains on the same level as the Scourge or Legion and the characters that come along with them.
They can try to make more evil factions like an evil Light faction and evil Void faction expansion like people theorize, but we still don’t have a whole lot of build up for either aside from Yrel’s shenanigans on AU Draenor and Locus-Walker. And I feel like they’ll just turn out like Shadowlands where Blizz tries to build up a Legion level threat and it to kind of just sizzle out and not be that interesting.
I think the future of WoW needs to be exploration expansions about finding new lands with mixed threats of the main bad guy for that expac and mixed in smaller threats like this one has. Overall bad guys are the Incarnates and Primalists, side threats are the Djaradin, Knolls, Infinite Dragonflight, Nokhud Centaur, and the Sundered Flame.
Not at all. Dragonflight so far is the worst expansion since WoD. I hope Blizzard abandons it early.
Remember A Song of the Depths?
It mentions the Torches being lit with said Torches being the 5 Oathstones. With Azshara’s servants being informed by the Harbinger(I.E. Iridikron) that a buried primal power awaits with such hunger and rage that will be turned against the heart of the Aspects’ kin.
Wreckage Analysis Report mentions that the Prime Designate can acquire resources enough to breach Avaloren by jeopardizing containment of the prisoners and how would one jeopardize the containment of prisoners to get resources?
Unlocking the prison to get the resources naturally.
How do we gain access to the Zaralek Cavern to face Azshara’s potential ally? By activating the Mother Oathstone. How do we do that? “The Lord of Ravens will turn the key.”
The 5 Torches will light the way for the Void-spawned servants of Azshara and the 6th and final Torch which guards the lock to Neltharion’s Realm will be opened by none other than Odyn himself.
I’m sure considering the big door in the Temporal Conflux and the big space awaiting a World Tree the Bronze Dragonflight’s Realm and the Emerald Dream will both be Zones after Zaralek Cavern.
So far, no. We are still just getting more questions and secrets then answers. Some things I still want to know that really should be answered all ready;
- How did the modern Primalists come in contact with the Incarnates? Specifically Kurog
- What are the “terrible bargains” Iridikron made? If the Aspects want our help they should just be straight forward. All the cryptic stuff is really annoying, since Blizz has been doing it for years with no real results, I.E Old God whispers.
- What makes the Dragon Isles so different from the rest of Azeroth? The Isles supposedly went dormant after The Well exploded because “all the elemental energy was drained”. Why didn’t that happen with other parts of Azeroth?
- Why are the Oathstones so important? If they were so key to the Aspects power you would think we would have known about them prior to DF. And for that matter why are all of the Oathstones inactive? The only ones who really broke their oath were Nel and Kalec since Nel went mad and Kalec disbanded the blue flight.
All in all I’m less “I can’t wait for what happens next” and more “can you just tell me what happens next”
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So far it’s competent and inoffensive. Which after the 4 lane clown car crash that was BFA to SL is all it really needed to be.
I do think though Blizz needs to remember World of Warcraft is fundamentally a story about the Horde and Alliance. That’s what’s playable. That’s what captured our imagination. That’s why most of us are here.
But it seems they really struggle to use them in the narrative unless it’s to blow eachother up. Which just strikes me as so creatively bankrupt. As the Red and Blue team being rivals on the friendly to bitter spectrum and working together poorly is arguably more interesting then them setting eachother on fire.
Still as of right now it seems they’re going for an uncomplicated fantasy adventure module. And so far yeah it’s fine. We got some dragons, we got some Greco-Nordic-Egyptian robo gods, we got some funny little guys you help out. The new big three villains have great humanoid visages that tell you from character design alone what their power set is.
Yeah it’s all pretty good to fine. Not on the edge of my seat. But I’m also not watching cinematics through my fingers, ready to shield my eyes from whatever thundering stupidity happens next, so massive step up from everything else from the last 5 years.
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The one burning question I wish blizz would answer already, is how do the the Elemental Lords feel about all this? Are they backing the Incarnates in a bid to free themselves from their planes/old god corruption? Or are they rightfully angry at the Incarnates who are seemingly trying to usurp them as leaders in a new elemental hellscape on Azeroth?
I need answers man. 
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Absollutely Now that we’re going to fight an Incarnate whose name is a soundalike for Frak!, I expect to run into a cigar chomping NPC named Starbuck. Bonus two of them, male and female as in the crossover comic.
Unless it’s a goblin/gnome teamup in which case it’s mandatory.
They’re like the least interesting to team up because they’re basically interchangeable.
I’d be more interested in seeing a Troll Witch Doctor and Gnome Engineer try to solve the same problem. Just the Troll’s esoteric magics very stubbornly refusing to be quantifiable. A MHP and a Forsaken Lock’s different approach to navigating a humanitarian crisis. I’m picturing the Forsaken actually having better ideas but heaven forfend we get demons to do the heavy lifting. No Sir Complex of Martydom needs to show off his gains by physically helping every indivisible out’ve the flood.
There’s options is my point.
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Pretty much so far. When it came to the Horde and Alliance working together I was expecting be this “keep your distends” kind of thing. But no, its a 100% joint effort.
Only downside I have to complain about I was kind of expecting more from that burnt scared up Night elf (Forgot her name) that was helping the primalist.
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I kind of like that the Incarnate siblings all seem to have actual personalities. Talk about low bars to clear, but I was expecting three more Razegath screeching about the TY-TANS.
The fact that they also seem to care about each other to some degree is sort of an unheard of dynamic in World of Warcraft. I dare say they’re in danger of being interesting.
Speaking of low bars, the Dracthyr finally seem to be doing something in their own expansion. Good for them, I suppose.
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I’m happy as long as the factions and their drama stays in the burning dumpster where they belong.
No, I’m not really excited about the story. It seems basic and self contained to this expansion. The story beats aren’t well thought out and are happening out of necessity. I think this is what we can expect from the story for now on. Shallow reasoning with basic premises.
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