In celebration of the harlequin transmog, let’s talk about this, shall we?
The Alliance had a significant naval advantage from BfD, but Genn took the entire fleet after only encountering three Horde ships (none of them carrying Sylvanas).
Unfortunately, it turned out to be a trap, resulting in the Alliance losing their hard-earned naval advantage.
Peak clownery.
“There must always be a Lich King”
Oh yeah. The Scourge is going to be super dangerous now that we’ve destroyed their capacity for largescale strategic cohesion.
I got the meta point of it. They wanted to put the character of the Lich King on ice, quite literally in this case, for potential future use.
But now that we’re learned spacemen of the future who’ve experienced the best they could come up with for that future use, I think we can safely saw that wasn’t a clown moment. It was a full butt circus moment.
Sylvanas shooting at the Satan analogue, whose evil agenda she committed genocide to further, because he uttered her trigger word is probably the lore development that made me laugh the hardest.
the whole of the burning crusade? or Bfa?
Kael’thas going bananas was for me the best clown moment in this game, let us transform a hero of his ppl into a power hungry demonic affiliated just for the reason we need raid bosses…
BFA alone could probably provide a 'Top Ten Laughably Stupid Moments in WoW"
Let’s See…
The horde finding a secret path the Night elves (who’ve lived the land for 10000 years) didn’t know about
Interballistic Catapults hitting a target miles away
A giant moist magic tree going up within minutes
The Horde leadership not throwing Sylvanas under a bus for throwing away their advantage in a fit of pique
Anduin defeating a giant tank by leaping up on to it and stabbing it with a sword
The Alliance not expecting the Forsaken to us Blight
The Alliance thinking attacking Zandalar will drive them AWAY from The Horde instead of embracing them as an ally against Alliance aggression; then, when that objective failed, just leave without pressing their attack to ensure the entire city is completely wrecked and genuinely useless to their enemies.
The gold golem boss fight during that raid showing that goblins (you know, Horde members) are trying to steal all the Zandalari’s treasure. Because there cannot be a moment, anywhere, when the horde are not the villains.
Jaina’s genocidal father being demonstratively being made right about committing genocide as being the best path towards the Alliance living peacefully (and no, a ‘Err, no he wasn’t’ moment in a cut scene doesn’t actually disprove it).
The Alliance learning via their campaign quests that the Horde have allied with those evil vampire belves from Wrath… something that the Horde players never learn about. Again, because, the Horde cannot NOT be evil…
Brennadam and Rexxar’s stupefying words about how bad Jaina is being… somehow.
Baine suggesting a ceasefire during the mourning of Rastakhan, who just died fighting the Alliance. Showing that as stupid as Evil is during this expansion, Good is just as stupid.
…Really, this is the overall greatest sin of BFA, and BFA’s Faction War storyline: it makes everyone stupid, and only occurs because everyone is stupid, and it’s so very blatantly obvious that everyone is stupid.
BFA IS THE PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE OF WOW
The Alliance beating the Horde in Swamp Of Sorrows then retreating for no reason which allows the enemy to maintain a grasp on the zone.
I gotta go with everything Skarm said…
BFA as a whole…
facepalm
The Kyrian are feeding the Jailer by throwing souls into the Maw.
What really bothered me about this is they had the perfect place to put them in the Horde war campaign.
Those should’ve been the dudes guarding Derek on the ship. That would’ve been a really cool reveal. And actually made sense.
Voss being the only Forsaken bothered that Sylvanas was violating the only thing they hold sacred, via optional gossip chatbox no less, remains maybe the most annoying thing in BFA for me.
Because all of a sudden the Forsaken are visibly shocked she’d talk smack about the Horde in that cutscene so.
Torturing the free will out’ve an undead? Meh. Some smack talk? Now you’ve gone too far.
About 95% of BfA to SL is a circus
Cata the runner up for being a clown car.
Hey. Hero Chin Dad would have been proud.
Fandral presumably grew Teldrassil in a day.
Neither did Garoosh, remember?
Eh. I still think Zandalar and Kul Tiras are some of the best stuff Blizz has done in modern WoW.
The places are just dripping with atmosphere, passive world building, intrigue and such a rich sense of history and culture to them.
They’re also like the only old hub towns that don’t feel eerie to revisit past their prime as Blizz did a great job making them feel alive. Markets bustle and boats/bronto busses make the rounds. They don’t feel like a ghost town like so much of old content does.
Plus they’re just gorgeous. Seriously if nothing else those two zones need to enable dragon riding as I desperately want to be a leaf on the wind over such gorgeous vistas.
Like there’s a particular spot in Zuldazar. Right under the bridge to the Zoccaola. I liked levitating over the water there right around sunset. The beautiful colors, relaxing ambient sound, and giant friendly sea turtles floating around were so gorgeous.
I don’t think I’ve ever said that about a video game. Ive only said that about like twelve places IRL. It’s a masterwork.
Unfortunately it’s attached to the dumbest story and most asinine gear system I’ve ever seen in the genre.
oh absolutely. As a fan of Kul Tiras from back in the War 2 days, going there was an absolute dream. The story just sucked on a whole new level haha
“you can’t have Frostmourne because it’s broken.”
::Proceeds to magically reconstitute the great sword into two one handed swords that, together, contain more mass than Frostmourne had before.::
It’s just such a bizarre expansion.
Because all the Zandalari and Kul Tiran stuff is pretty fair to good. We got some amazing characters like Bwomsamdi out of it. And while they were annoying as a gameplay AP grind obligation I realiy quite liked the island expeditions. Mechagon was also pretty fun. And it was so cool for WM. There was that one rare boss that was a walking safe and having to play tug of war aggro with it with the Alliance, while people are zooming around on jetpacks and throwing robo land shark torpedoes at eachother remains a favorite all time gaming memory.
But like everything else seemed so out of place. The whole war story was at best dumb when it wasn’t offensive. And the whole old god, black dragonflight stuff feels only semi relevant now.
It’s just a shame. If that’d been a high seas adventure expansion all about uncovering treasure and strange new islands I think it could’ve been one of the greats.
Are you a Halloween in real life
You’d be surprised how often I get asked this question. Including by people who know me IRL.
Above all though, Saurfang’s last words being “FOR AZEROTH”.
… Who was that for? Who TF was that for? After Sylvanas started BFA by giving us one of the best FOR THE HORDE’s on record, only for that to have been a complete lie, you had to end it, you NEEDED to end it with a proper, say it with your chest, FOR THE HORDE.
And shouted by a proper Orc Warrior? C’mon opinions about Saurfang aside that would’ve been pretty badass and tied up things in a neat little bow.
But no. No. For Azeroth.
That’s not a battlecry. Thats the equivalent of PLEASE RECYCLE!!! Good advice yeah but it ain’t going to make you want to jump top out’ve the trenches. Bah. BAH!.
Number one for me has got to be the infodump at the end of “De Other Side,” where Mueh’zala randomly confesses to a bunch of crimes. Pretty sure I actually laughed out loud at the screen the first time I heard that. I half-expected him to add, “And I’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling adventurers!”
Runner-up goes to the Gorilla Gorge/King Grong story in BfA. The Horde PC goes through a lighthearted storyline liberating peaceful intellectual gorillas and helping overthrow their tyrannical leader. That’s it. It was one of the few Hordeside stories in BfA that was actually just genuinely fun.
But then the story jumps directly from that to “Noble King Grong loves the Alliance and the mean Horde raised him as undead! Oh, and the goblins are enslaving and skinning gorillas!” It’s hard to convey in a summary just how jarring and nonsensical that feels. It’s one part “multiple chapters are missing from this story” and one part “man, the writers are drunk on the villain bat.”
Literally dripping with atmosphere when it comes to places like the Zandalar jungle and … Drust. (My character will never play tea time with a child again.)