got less than an hour left on current token, might not be back for a few days, weeks, or months. might as well post some of my thoughts here as anywhere else?
have been tooling around with my own imaginary ‘what if I designed an expansion?’ thoughts in my head- I’ll bet all of us here have. I’ve mentioned all these ideas before in other threads, so this should sound familiar to some people.
We would be exploring a new continent to the far south, long thin and shaped vaguely like a curving dagger, broken into three main islands of 2-3 zones each. The very southern end would be around Azeroth’s icy south pole where another titan facility and raid would be placed. The middle would be Australia with coastal port towns inhabited by Kul tiran and Zandalar sailors who got marooned over the centuries and a large hot dry desert interior with a Dreamtime inspired dungeon and raid. The hot wet swampy northern most area would be either Indonesia or Indochina inhabited by a peaceful naga civilzation. The main villains would be the leftovers from BFA, Azshara, Xalatath, and Helya, with Magatha Grimtotem being an early throw-away boss who dies in the first raid. It would just be like 2 patches, with a new zone and raid added each patch (‘New Zealand’ and a new Nazjatar-inspired underwater zone for the final fight against Azshara and Xalatath [just before the final battle Azshara betrays eats Xalatath for a power boost and becomes the True Final Boss btw])
The part that’s actually related to the thread topic- the version of BFA’s War Campaign, in between exploring the new lands we go back and defend/repair the old ones. Gilneas (and parts of Hillsbrad and Silverpine) is retaken by the nelf-worgen allies; Forsaken and Frostwolf orcs rebuild/resettle Ruins of Alterac. Tirisfal Glades itself is now a nominally Horde-controlled but techincally contested zone, the Ruins of Undercity becomes a dungeon filled with escaped Apothecary experiments. Silverpine redone ala Darkshore, just undead vs werewolves instead of undead vs nelves. On Horde side you mainly bounce around with all the various council members trying to shore up Horde holdings and try to make peace with understandably untrusting Alliance leaders. Allaince side we go full-blown GoT, including one of the new questgivers being an obvious Tywin Lannister expy who’s sick and tired of Anduin’s goodietwoshoes nonsense. Of course, he’s not exactly in it purely out of love for the Alliance no matter how much he says he is. He and Turyalon play off each other with the paladin being more honest honorable and straightforward- but getting nowhere because ‘Tywin’s’ more ruthlessly pragmatic plans are more resonant with the war-tired, vengeful populace who’s had to bear the brunt of the the incompetent Alliance leaders’ commands. ‘Tywin’ wants to start a new Horde civil war that will finally fracture it from within permanently, this time WITHOUT the Alliance being the whipping boy beforehand. You do black ops stuff getting into Horde territory doing assassinations and even false flag operations. In the end, he still loses, because people on both sides really do want to be HEROES, even the Horde, and he can’t imagine that people can act honorably WITHOUT acting stupid and Turalyon’s honorable if misguided efforts shown through with their basic honesty. He doesn’t die, he just doesn’t become de facto King like he hoped, and can still be used in future stories. In fact, many of the Horde forces he targeted really were the worst of the worst and deserved death, so in effect he ends up improving the Horde by helping them take out their own trash, something he was too cynical to understand.
There are of course many many more details in my head (Helya finally kills Odyn, who dies like Zovaal, confused that he isn’t regarded as a hero for all the bad things he did for ‘the greater good only I could see’) but the timer is at 9 minutes and counting.
Crap, I still have some auctions that don’t expire for a few hours, things in the mail stay for a full month, right? so I can come back in say 29 days and it won’t get deleted?
