No, because unlike the Old Gods, all her impact on the story was personal. Ultimately she wanted her freedom instead of following the programming of parasites.
When has Blizzard ever pulled off the lovecraftian horror? That type of horror is about our insignificance in the great scheme of things, of the innate horror of things that are utterly inhuman. And that just doesn’t fit -and has never made to fit- the adventures universe of WoW.
Old Gods might have been inspired by eldritch horrors, but they have been nothing but parasites sent by an even bigger threat.
1:35min ending cinematic that explains nothing.
100% hot garbage. We just…kill this super powerful Old God? Just like that? No, no, no. 0/10 agreed. Do not like.
They shredded this patch and xpac lore a-la-game of thrones…
0/10
So many plot holes…
We could do a 40 plot holes list like angry Joe did for rise of Skywalker
So all that cryptic stuff built around legion with Magni being a pawn or the possibility of Anduin maybe being manipulated by N’zoth was wasted and ended up not being a big deal.
I hate to think that, but it definitely did feel wrong if that’s truly how N’zoth goes out.
It feels like this was the paraphrased internal dialogue regarding 8.3’s story.
“Ok. We know what they want. Now how can we punish them for daring to harm our precious dark queen and forcing her to leave the Horde? I know. We’ll do everything wrong intentionally and claim we were subverting expectations. Then we can get back to basking in her unholy gaze.”
Honestly I kind of hope that if there is a Mythic mode N’zoth cinematic, it goes thus.
Players wake up, Scourge is rampaging. N’zoth is MIA and we have to go Shadowlands.
Even bigger scrub than all bosses previously fought.
He didn’t do a darn thing. Just acted like that kid in the back of class glaring at everyone and writing questionable signs. But doesn’t amount to anything. Everyone expects him to become a bully or worse. But becomes his mother’s leech.
Even ignoring the blatant plot holes (how did azshara get the tidestone and scepter of tides with especially the later when my shaman has it around his hip), the story was really bad because the “big bads” don’t do anything.
It’s like a “different villian every week” expansion with no actual overarching big bad doing things. Azshara actually shows up in 8.2. Does literally nothing.
N’zoth shows up in 8.3 and does…absolutely nothing. Oh no a desert and an already destroyed zone from 3 expansions ago got messed up! Who cares. All of the lore character deaths this expansion have absolutely nothing to do with the actual “big bad guy” raids.
I sincerely doubt this. It was always known from day 1 that Azshara was going to be one of the big bads (she was advertised as a raid boss at the blizzcon BFA reveal) and with her inherently meant we were probably messing with N’zoth.
See that’s where you’re wrong although they may seem like boring characters they are just as important as God is to Christianity. They just play the opposite role. And for N’zoth to be killed off so easit … well that’s the joke. And it’s on Blizzard
I think the expansion had a good inital kick , with the whole teldrassil thing and the war. But when the patch 8.2 and 8.3 arrived, everything went down the drain.
What was the purpose of the whole darkshore thing ? Tyrand got mad and then blizzard went "lets forget about this for a momment and go submarine.