For anyone wondering, here are the latest (and probably final) results from that survey. Looks like we have a concensus!
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“Let me tell you about my Training Arc/Beach Episode/how I met your mother!”
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Of all the things I wish for in this game, this gets at the core. Keep your cool hats, keep your Gnome Fro (well, maybe I want that more but), keep all your things…
I wish Blizz would realize what they have here is like a 1963 Thunderbird. (insert your favorite vintage car here)
hire some legit people and create some dedicated teams.
Do a full frame-off resto, top to bottom. Hire a team of graphics/world building (designers?) to take inventory and start redoing the universe. Hire a team of people to do nothing but take inventory of the database and get the removed items, back into loot tables. Go through your own questing experience and see how convoluted it is at this point and FIX it.
They rant and rant about how much time it would take away from the game designers to spend on the old world as opposed to the expacs. Hire more people. Create new teams. Something, anything.
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I mean
Have Gnomeragon be lost forever.
Have the Gnomes scavenge and salvage what they can and make a flying Gnomish mecha-city instead.
Not only does it mean the Gnomes are able to up and leave whenever things get hairy, but they can add allllllllllll of that lovely tech they’ve been building, developing and repurposing from Titan facilities for the past decade of so.
Would also double as the Alliance’s personal Dalaran and a helluva beach-head for any massive threats. Oh hey. Here’s the Gnomes with their floating city equipped with all manner of Gnomish tech. And enough flak guns and guided artillery to reduce an invading army to a fine red mist on a bad day…
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Or they could just hire Gentarn as many of us have said previously and Gentarn could do all the things.
I also want to point out the sheer and tremendous amount of wasted coastline on EK and Kalimdor that could be utilized for new places.
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Legion made it clear the Exodar wasnt repairable.
Looks like we’re leaning into the time skip.
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Idk why I remember that the Exodar was fully repaired in some short story for free when the people Blizz pays to write this stuff don’t remember it
Not that I really blame anyone for ignoring out-of-game easy-to-retcon texts
Headcanon is that we rebuilt the Exodar but we got frustrated that it couldn’t hold a stable 60 fps in our favorite hologram games so we recycled the components into Exodar 2: this time with a particle lance and a new graphics card aka the Vindicaar, which also immediately vanished into lore mystery realm never to be seen again
Maybe vanishing into the lore hole is just an unavoidable consequence of meddling with dimension-traversing technology
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My headcanon back in BfA was that the Vindicaar was stationary over the Exodar after Teldrassil burned and basically atomizing every Horde fleet that got near it, but not even Turaylon could coax the Lightforged into “abandoning” the Prophet.
But in all seriousness, the Vindicaar should have ended the Fourth War as it began. Forget Jania’s magic boat. Particle Lance the Undercity and be done with it.
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The Exodar got repaired, but was eventually stripped for parts to build the Vindicaar.
The Exodar was a transport ship, intended to carry and sustain a population of tens of thousands. The Vindicaar is a war ship, intended to carry an army into battle and provide artillery and logistical support. So now, with the LF Draenei squatting in it in high orbit above Azeroth, no Naaru to keep powering it and much of its energy expended during the climatic conflict on Argus, the Vindicaar is essentially a shiny rock right now.
And without access to Argunite or Azerite or a fresh Naaru to plug into the ship, there’s no way to repower it. And that leaves the Exodar a gutted shell of its former glory on the Azure Isles. The Draenei are stuck here, unless something drastic happens in the future.
If they have the tech for space travel, and live as long as they do (so their greatest minds would just be iterating on the tech), they ought to have been able to blast Sylvanas and turn her into a rabbit or plate of grape jelly.
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They are saving the Vindicaar for when Turalyon goes crazy/corrupted/constipated and takes it over. The Alliance is past due for a civil war the Horde has already had two in the span of like 10 years.
We also have Gnomes, who have functional radiation bombs.
The faction wars get sillier as time goes on, as the Alliance is the faction with the established nations with technical know-how, yet the fantasy Atomic Bomb and Biological Weaponry was unleashed by the Horde in both instances.
I’ve been saying since Mists of Pandaria the Alliance needs a turn unambiguously holding the villain bat. The problem is, now that we’ve turned two Horde Warchiefs into Raid Bosses, the Alliance deciding to put their pants on their head feels less like a natural story beat and more pandering.
Basically Blizzard saying “We see you. And hear your concerns.”
The Alliance turning villainous is about a decade late and we’ve already blown through three potential faces for the heel turn. Specifically Varian (Dead), Genn (Revenge is sated, now Step-Dad to a absentee king), and Tyrande (Who was lectured on the evils of seeking justice for wrongs committed).
Turalyon going crazy/void corrupted is pretty much expected and honestly? Kinda bored with the idea since Turalyon has all the personality of a piece of buttered toast.
I suppose Anduin could come back from the Shadowlands possessed again. Oh! Oh! Sylvanas atoned in the Shadowlands but her body was so broken by the end of it Anduin selflessly lets her co-habitat!
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As soon as WoW tech moved anything past “steel and blood,” it became really hard for me to suspend my disbelief in this supposed fantasy world. I get steampunk stuff, but it’s hard to justify how my wolf-riding, axe-swinging Orc is gonna stand against literal spaceships, radios, explosives, -guns-, lazer beams, etc.
Anyway add it to the list of things I never liked but are now just extra reasons to not come back. Again, I swallowed my feelings throughout all of their crap and especially what they did to the Orc lore, but when they effed up Death that was the final straw for me. It is too inherent to everything my character/I believe.
Not to mention the RL stuff which is of course horrible.
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It is kinda jarring to look back on the Mana Bombing of Theramore and the aftermath being earnest and empassioned discussions about how Theramore was a legitimate target, Jania was at fault, and Garrosh was a military genius for luring so many of the Alliance’s big hitters to the city before dropping the bomb.
I don’t know if we were just all that much younger back then, or if we were still deluding ourselves that WoW wasn’t just going to make casual attempts at genocide using weapons of mass destruction a thing.
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Not only do gunpowder and metal exist alongside spaceship technology, they consistently and frequently beat spaceship technology.
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Physics is just different in fantasy world. Maybe the atmosphere has the consistency of custard so bullets have a hard time getting more velocity than a thrown rock, idk. Custard air also explains how big heavy things like griffons can fly with small wings.
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I mean: magic. If I were a wizard, I’d sure hope my flame shield could disintegrate bullets otherwise why not just wear a bullet-proof vest? Probably a lot cheaper than magic university textbooks.
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I’m a warrior which means I’m just as strong as wizards or riflemen or demon-imbued super elves simply because I believe in myself
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I always headcanon that the Draenei are a lot more protective of their fantastical space tech and it’s not as widely used outside the Azuremyst Isles as you would think. There’s always a lingering paranoia that the Legion, despite it’s current defeat, could always appear again and turn the Alliance against them. Then imagine a fel corrupted Alliance having access to their fantastical space tech.
As for the other over the top technology I headcanon it’s not as prevalent as it is depicted in the game. Sure, gnomes and goblins could probably engineer an iphone but maybe they’re like a typical software dev and don’t know how to make a usable UI so it’s next to impossible for anyone to use lmao
Do warriors still have the ignore pain ability because that about sums up warriors in my opinion.
Pfft pain? Can’t feel pain if you don’t acknowledge it!!
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