Wrong! This story was written by a group of 12 year old’s in a Yahoo chat room.
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Lol he wishes he was like the Burning Legion. The Legion were intimidating for so long. The world was close to oblivion several times due to the threat of the Legion. The Legion only sort of became a joke with WoD, where they just kind of show up and twirl their mustache and get beat out of nowhere. Archimonde almost destroys the entire planet in WC3 and then he just shows up to get merc’d in WoD. And then of course that carried over to a degree with Legion, where they kind of like… offered some Tauren and Discount Night Elves fel soup before getting beat down.
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I’d like to point to LEGION when we were put into the brunt of the assault and it felt as intimidating as an angry emoji.
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This could save him. Kinda like the old “One Winged Angel” trope. But even in that, the beginning stage is supposed to be cool/charismatic/massively evil. People loved Sephiroth’s final form but they adored his previous form and personality beforehand too.
Because I want to play a game and not have to watch an entire chapter from a book every other quest I do.
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I don’t find the Jailer intimidating nor do I like anything Sylvanas related, I’m just fully aware people like to take the piss out of the story sometimes when it’s clear to me you do infact have misplaced expectations.
This game has never been centered around the character or their motivation rather it’s always had a villain we work to take down.
We haven’t seen enough of SL’s story to judge it.
That said, SL’s story is absolutely fine from a writing perspective. If you take it how it’s presented (there is only a handful, or even one, Maw Walker, rather than thousands) it makes sense and is perfectly acceptable as a vehicle for game mechanics, while also having the benefit of effectively tying into WoW’s existing lore and doing a better job of approaching a master-mind villain than WoW’s previously done (Hello Scooby-Doo villain Arthas).
It’s not Spec Ops: The Line by any means, but it’s fine for what it is (so far) the best Xpac story we’ve seen since MoP.
The leaked version looked cool, if he got that ‘core’ he’s missing to turn into that, would be neat. I just think the treatment he’s getting is very cliche and boring. It’s clear Danuser isn’t great at leading a writing team and they don’t have enough time to flesh out the character.
I think their strength is in just silly one off moments.
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Why are they sacrificing life seeds in Ardenweld for anima and then letting me spend it on the conductor to do glee club reenactments for Lady Chromeberry.
The whole things is convoluted knot of McGuffins and now we’re the prime McGuffin and the story is playing us.
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I expected to be entertained by a story, not insulted by being told that Sylvannas Windrunner still has hope for redemption, or not to be insulted by this ominous figure that couldn’t keep four people captive.
But nah, look at the visuals, just don’t think about it.
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The Anima Drought is over once you kill Sire.
Notice that you lose the “drained” debuff around the Castle once you turn in Remornia. Through the efforts of mortals rescuing souls and bringing them to their proper realm the normal state of the Shadowlands is slowly returning.
To be fair to Thanos, Tony Stark literally invents time travel to defeat him. I think you’re doing Thanos dirty on that one, comparing him to the Jailer who has let his eventual downfall freely come and go.
You aren’t told that she has hope for redemption.
It’s clear you do not understand the characters involved, look at it at face value and go on trash talking it without actually realizing, everything is intertwining as intended per the character’s involved and their personalities.
Yeah, villains usually lose and pride is the favored method of doing so. Go figure. It’s pretty piss-poor to try and use “I know I’ll beat the villain so he’s bad!” as an argument for the story being bad.
WoW is, also, a game. The Maw is definitely one of the more punishing zones we’ve had, and with the ramping ‘watch’ mechanic blizzard did an excellent (if frustrating) job of marrying the story-based threat with the need for players to actually be allowed to play the game.
Again, this is an MMO dude. That puts massive restrictions on how the story can be told as well as what game mechanics can feed into it. Expecting some kind of authentic single player campaign, ala Witcher 3, in WoW is setting yourself up to be disappointed. You can’t tell that kind of personalized story in a massively multiplayer game.
I haven’t and was playing glee club with Lady Chromeberry before the raid was even open.
And how does anima allow that anyways? Is she using it to pay the actors and not telling them I’m going to kill them for it?
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I’m not comparing him fully, read what I wrote. Who ‘underestimates his foes’ nothing more, nothing less. This is a clear mish mash of azshara, and n’zoth who let you in, do what you want, but need you for their own goals, underestimating your potential or whatever.
Thanos comparison is 'cause he acts literally like the Jailer is acting and wouldn’t be surprised if they used Thanos as a ‘slight’ inspiration.
Blizzard determined, through I assume market research, that the best way to tell a story in their MMO is to not tell it. Leave the player wondering why events are happening. Just look at Sylvanas and the Jailer, what are they doing? Find out in 10 months. Oh, it’s just a build up to the next plot, and expansion, oh.
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That entire cutscene was a self-fellatiating scene of Sylvannas, once again, flipping personalities.
The only personality these characters have is whatever the writers feel like at the moment. This ‘read between the lines’ crap is how garbage like this is considered ‘good writing’.
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I know that and I’m not using anything as an argument for the story. He’s not done well. He’s the embodiment of the typical cliche big, powerful villain yet does nothing to really stop us 'cause he has pawns.
I don’t have any misplaced expectations of the story in WoW and know what they will do. That said, it’s not impossible to change a few small things to make the Jailer all of a sudden not look like a waste of time.
The Avenger’s underestimated Thanos… What are you talking about?
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Read between what lines. But I guess it’s hard for you to know what you are watching and just like to look at face value what is happening and automatically trash it 
This is unbearably hard to keep up with you with your predictable attitude that literally summarizes a lot of people in this game