Daily reminder that the boss they were building up for TEN YEARS was reduced to a SINGLE patch that had REHASHED zones as its open world content (idc if blizz uses old zones but for such an iconic boss to not have his own zone is APPALLING), NO MYTHIC PHASE, and a 20 SECOND end cinematic (i don’t count the freaking in-game anime beam “cutscene”)
Blizzard should be ASHAMED.
Well it did have a mythic phase, it just wasn’t as exciting as people wanted it to be.
Well Azsahra is still at large.
It did? I don’t even remember. That goes to show you how POOR it was, absolutely awful
Well N’zoth was the baby of the Old god group, I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did seeing as we can literally take out C’thun and Y’ogg Saron solo, both being more powerful than N’zoth…
It appeals to all the 8 year olds that play the game.
1: They weren’t building up to N’zoth specifically for 10 years.
2: Taking 10 years to build up to anything is bad, because you have to explain why it took 10 years, which everything that takes 10 years fails to do (Looking at you, Thanos).
3: Even if 1 and 2 were wrong, this is not even close to the most egregious example of bad writing in WoW.
4: We don’t require a daily reminder that WoW, and all Blizzard properties, have awful writing. WoW reminds us daily on its own.
5: N’Zoth probably isn’t dead, because see above points.
Here is a bonus more egregious example of awful writing:
I was doing the Horde-side war story quests yesterday and I had to get some Alliance Sea Wizard to help me. Despite dying five seconds ago, he resurrects into a fully skeletonized Undead. After his family is afraid of him because he is inexplicably an angry skeleton who throws void magic at them, he agrees to help the Horde on the condition that his family is spared when the Horde wins the war.
You know what would ensure that his family is safe? Not helping the Horde win the war. His motivation makes negative sense, but he’s central to the entire plotline of the horde war story. Good writing, everybody.
At least N’zoth just wasn’t impressive. He didn’t actively sabotage his own goals for no apparent reason.
You assume that Blizzard is done with N’zoth and that there isn’t a plan for him in the future.
Don’t assume.
Eight and a half, thank you.
N’Zoth was the weakest of his kin after all.
That isn’t an excuse for such an piss poor effort at a patch that literally has his name in it
I mean we all knew they had all but abandoned BFA to work on shadowlands, which is why I had 0 expectations for 8.3.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, it wasn’t a single patch. The entire expansion from beginning to end was all about the old god threat, culminating in Nyalotha itself, the war campaign was just a side story. In fact, if you count the buildup in Cataclysm, N’Zoth was the focus of two expansions.
I’d rather we didn’t have another WoD for SL and for this patch to be less enjoyable as a result.
He has a mythic phase. lol
None of the Old Gods are actually dead, by the way. We killed their physical forms.
The Old God Pantheon’s probably going to be resurrected for some Void Lord raid. Putting money on it right now.
8.3 was honestly fine. You’re just being overdramatic.
N’zoth attacking Uldum and the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to try to turn the titan facilities against us was a solid plan, and the invasions changed the zones considerably, so it wasn’t like they just threw a few enemies in a tiny portion of the map that wasn’t used and told us to go there and wreck stuff.
Not every boss needs a unique ‘mythic only’ phase of a fight. In fact I personally hate those, because it means you have to raid mythic to get the entire story and not everyone does that. Good example of that BS was Mythic Highmaul in WoD where you defeat and kill Cho’gall. Because if you don’t raid mythic, he shows up at the start of the raid and you never see him again for the entire expansion.
And the ending cutscene? Well that could have been better, but that’s the price that needed to be paid to have the player character feature in the cinematic instead of major NPCs.
Not the first time they wasted N’Zoth because he was wasted in Cataclsym too. Maybe old god expansions are just cursed
n’zoth was “allegedly” killed… i’m still wearing my tinfoil hat saying that everything we experienced was part of a last ditched desperate effort for n’zoth to fake his death and go back into hiding.
N’zoth was never the kind of old god to operate openly and obviously, suddenly launching full scale invasions is VERY out of character for him, something he only started doing AFTER the stuff he was doing behind the scenes got revealed by c’thuns blundering.
once his manipulations got revealed, he knew the heroes of azeroth would never leave him alone until he was dead, or at least THOUGHT he was dead. so he layed out a very obvious and simple trap to lead those heroes into his personal pocket realm… a realm where he has complete control over what the heroes would see and experience.
during the heroes romp through his kingdom, he lets them kill some of his lesser lieutenants, but more importantly, eliminate some of the heroes former allies (ra-den) and former servants of rival old-gods (il’gynoth) all so the heroes don’t suspect that its “too” easy (despite him literally opening his front door and letting them just stroll right in)
then, when the heroes, his “chosen” (odd that he would choose to bless the very heroes that are coming to kill him, and would continue referring to them as such even if they cleanse his “blessing”) finally make it to him, in order to kill him… he really doesn’t do all that much except roar at them and flail around a little bit, until the heart of azeroth “somehow” manages to punch through into his personal pocket dimension at “the last minute” in order to blast him… a weapon that he basically spoon fed the heroes information on how to activate.
Nah, n’zoth played us all, and has just gone back into hiding for a while to lick his wounds and try to rebuild from the damage c’thuns blundering did to his plans.
(edit: I’m not saying that this was some sort of super clever 5d chess move by n’zoth or anything, I think it was a desperate gamble to try and get the heroes off his back)