For the past few expansions Blizzard built N’zoth up as this massive threat that should never be released. We saw efforts by his forces to free him during the 4th war that came to fruition. The last “surviving” old god to ravage Azeroth…was reduced to a patch raid boss.
I’m not talking N’zoth as a character when I say he was a massive letdown. I’m talking you built him up to be this massive threat, and instead of giving him an expansion like he properly deserved with the build up you gave him…you reduced him to a patch on one of the worst expansions in WoWs history.
That is why N’zoth and all of Ny’alotha was such a massive letdown for me. Because all the build up meant nothing in the end.
He had a full expansion, wtf do you mean? Uldir and Crucible were totally dedicated to fighting his forces, and everything with Azshara turned out to be him. Literally one out of the five raids wasn’t dedicated to him.
Uldir was a research facility with a titan-made old god. They studied old god corruption in general, not specifically N’zoth. The whole thing about Uldir was Ghuun.
Is easily forgettable and the first time anything with N’zoth showed up in all of BfA. Eternal Palace was the first time an effort was made to release him by his more powerful minions.
I think most threats feel like a joke in this game, but it sticks out more with N’Zoth due to him being based on Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep, a being powerful on the scale of Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann’s final arc.
The lore never really explores stuff like the Twilight Hammer. From our perspective, joining it puts you in the loser jobber faction. Why would anyone ever join it? To become powerful? Well it clearly doesn’t serve that purpose if we’re farming them for loot.
N’zoth’s treatment comparative to what and how C’thun and Yogg-Saron were treated was basically akin to a wet fart. Both C’thun and Yogg-saron were mere fractions of their true power, whereas N’zoth was fully unleashed and what did that amount to? oh, he took over two zones and talked to you sometimes. How truly terrifying his power was.
It would have been interesting to have a Rise of N’zoth expansion with a Nyalotha experience like we had with Suramar in legion. Navigating the streets of the waking city fighting old god goons would have been fun. Alas another missed opportunity.
I get that N’zoth was supposed to be the weaker of the old gods but you’re right. He was the one that was fully unleashed while the other two were mere shadows of their former glory.
Most of the BfA leveling zones may have ended in a quest to go into a dungeon and kill a tentacle monster, but I’d hardly call that buildup.
Shadow Over Innsmouth is what I’d call buildup. The protagonist investigates a town, discovering over time that it has been taken over by Deep One, and at the end finds out he himself is becoming a Deep One too. He didn’t just get corrupted gear slapped on him in the final patch, it was happening the entire way through.
I care more about how poor the Nzoth fight is. Instead of a deep and elaborate fight with multiple intense phases, they basically make you fight the same phase 3 times with slight twists.
It’s akin to fighting Deathwing’s fingernails as the actual last boss.
His greatest power was forcing you to abandon all you knew about gearing. Less ilvl is better, wearing that belt makes eyes melt you, etc. Cats and dogs living together!
Basically they decided to abandon the Old God story to pursue the cosmic forces and Void story. That is the reason why N’zoth is just a throwaway villain.