You just can’t flippantly kill the master of schemes this pathetically, the black empire deserves an expansion.
It was put best when I read someone say its like playing bc and after you beat illidan you have a few quests to gear up and then you fight Arthas out of the blue and kill him.
You just can’t do this, its so stupid N’zoth and the black empire fall so easily.
I heard rumors that supposedly the devs feel held back by previous lore characters and want their arcs finished so they can make original story lines, but there is tremendous potential with n’zoth and an lovecraftian expansion.
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If I was Blizzard, I would make it like this:
N’zoth the Old God is dead. A little piece of N’zoth survived though, in the Blade of the Black Empire, which turns red and becomes N’zoth, Blade of the Black Empire.
Xal’atath wields it.
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“good job killing an ancient evil that has plagued azeroth since the dawn of time, here’s 93g and a bit of azerite that I should honestly just directly infuse into the planet instead of giving to you”
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There’s a chance we might still see more about the Black Empire in some form in the future. There was a lore interview a few weeks ago where they mentioned the door for it isn’t closed.
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[Can] The Black Empire is a huge part of the Warcraft universe, and especially lore geeks like us were looking forward to seeing it in all of its glory for years. Are you worried that you might be wrapping this particular story thread a bit too quickly in just a patch, or can we look forward to more in the future?
You never know where we’re going to end up going in the future. There is a chance we can revisit the Black Empire in more depth. We don’t have any plans to make it today. But I think if you look back at World of Warcraft’s history and lore, any content update we do tends to be pretty heavy. We did the entirety of Argus in a content update and that’s a whole planet that had tremendous depth to it. The Black Empire… We are not going there as much as we are focusing just on N’Zoth and Ny’alotha itself. So we’re definitely leaving that door open for the future. But I think we’re all pretty happy and proud of the offering we have, of what you get to explore in Ny’alotha, the ability to take down the final Old God of Azeroth. It’s going to be exciting.
Sylvanas is the one who kills N’Zoth with an arrow. He’s just indulging us with a vision.
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The old gods in general got less than what they deserved in attention. They could have pivoted entire expansions toward them but instead put them into content patches. How is it old gods are less important than all the other villains except sargeras.
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I see where you’re coming from. Personally I’m fine with it since I’m a bit tired of #corruption #madness being in the background of every expac. I’d prefer characters just being evil because they’re evil like Sylvannus.
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How do we know she’s evil for sake of evil? Verdict is still out.
She’s been entirely sociopathic and self serving so far. But hey at least we know she wasn’t #corrupted and can explore this topic.
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I hope that N’Zoth’s essence simply infected a baby somewhere, and he gains a mortal form… Imagine an Old God with a physical body, capable of movement as well as machinations… For all that they are capable of while standing still… We’d be in for some trouble Deathwing only dreamt of.
Baby devil? Isn’t there a movie out there with this plot?
They explained a similar thing in Legion when people expected an Emerald Nightmare expansion.
The reasoning was there isn’t much variance in the landscape and enemy type in the Emerald Dream.
I imagine it would be the same thing here.
Nyalotha is amazing, but frankly, its a bit all samey.
Lots of tentacles and whatever.
Either way, even though the visual representation of us killing Nzoth lacked potency, don’t think it was done “flippantly.”
We used the engines that created the planet and an artifact imbued for years with the planets own blood to release a hyper charged blast directly into the old god’s eye, which we strategically battled to reach.
It was no small task in the lore.
It just seems like it is because players don’t focus on the events that lead up to the end, and the end itself was so poorly delivered.
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That’s exactly Xal’atath. She got the body of an Elf and now she is an inconspicuous mobile elven Old God.
Blizzard only seems to answer wishes with monkey paws. Chances are Yog, C’thun, and N’zoth’s spirits are back with the void lords. We’ll fight them after they get mashed together as some goofy hulk made up of eyeballs, tentacles and mouths.
inb4 she’s confirmed corrupted in Shadowlands.
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Feels like they wanted to just close the book on old gods (not including their graveyard in shadowlands)
I think bfa was just disjointed in general. The whole alliance v horde stuff took away from the old gods story. Why didn’t they just focus on the old gods instead of theme this expac as horde v alliance. Wouldn’t be so repetitive and more of the same old “tentacles” as you say.
Also there were previous major gods in older expacs that they crammed into a patch when they could have given them all an expac together like say, bfa (renamed) and made it exciting and fresh.
I don’t think stuff is really over for him.
Nzoth / Voidy stuff sees all possibilities and has known this as a potential possibility.
My bet as well he infused part of himself into the blade and maybe we will have Black Empire xpac post shadowlands.
We get back from dead realm and stuff will have gone haywire while we were gone.
With all the old gods back from death.
Sylvanas states nzoth when killed is going to the maw to go serve death and I’m sure he’s not going to want to stay there too long.
In the meantime I believe Azshara will be the one to be master minding things while we are gone again.
She skeedoodles off to some “true throne” and will be up to something in the meanwhile.