While I would generally agree with such a sentiment.
Sendrax’s death was done to show how big a deal the primalists were.
Villains so generically boring that they they were swapped out and forgotten about before the final patch.
Her character and her death amounted to literally nothing in the end. Her entire character existed just to make terribly utilized villains seem threatening and it didn’t even do that.
To be fair, you’re not the only one who was upset by this. Me personally, I don’t care very much. Though I think Blizzard could have done a better job. Honestly I think they needed more time, better pacing and breathing room to let the character grow. Her inevitable death would have meant so much more.
Which ever dev wrote that series up did a good enough job, but they needed more time/quests. Just my thoughts anyways. 
Also, I’m reading her voice actress was Dorah Fine, and she’s very talented. Blizzard should work with her more.
Sendrax had her Fithraegar moment from Oblivion
When we first entered the Isles and met up with Sendrax I was rather worried we’d have to deal with that excruciating voice for the entirety of the expansion. Needles to say, the moment Sendrax burst into flames and died, I jumped up in joy from my chair. I think that characters existence was perfect in length, didn’t overstay its welcome.
/shrug You knew she was doomed as soon as the NPCs around her started talking about how bright her future was in the [whatever the drakonid military organization is called].
At least it wasn’t the PTR voice. That was face melting bad.
Yeah this is how I felt. Sendrax was a walking trope who had red death flags from the get go.
WoW in a nutshell. No one ever gets proper buildup or development and growth in this game. It’s always rushing from one dramatic point to another.
That being said, do we want Blizzard to give characters a considerable amount of time to develop and grow? You think you do, but you don’t.
There are three characters in particular that Blizzard has given multiple expansions of content for their character to grow. First, Jaina. They gave her several expansions to deal with Theramore. Instead of character development, though, she stagnated as a miserable angry hag hating the Horde at the expense of everything else and refusing any of the growth offered to her in books.
Then Tyrande, who sought vengeance for Teldrassil, became a Night Warrior… then kinda just stagnated and did nothing with it until Elune was all like “yo calm tf down”.
Finally, Sylvanas, 'nuff said.
Blizzards idea of giving characters time to grow is “Make them angry and swear bloody murder, let them fester for 2-3 expansions, then either change their minds, redeem them, or make em a raid boss to kill off”
Sendrax’s flight didn’t notice she was missing or dead, “is that an egg?” instead of “wheres Sendrax?” or “what happened to Sendrax?” It was just terrible writing I suppose.
“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become Yrel.”
I’m pretty sure someone acknowledged her sacrifice after that. I think it was Alex.
No Blizzard didn’t and you’re naive if you didn’t see the death coming a mile away. They practically told you straight up when the NPC commented how they’ll be a great soldier and squad boss one day…that is basically narration 101 for impending death to this character.
Remember too dragonkin aren’t, hierarchy speaking, near the same level as actual dragons let alone the aspects. In fact, Blizzard has a side quest where you shut down a terrorist attack under the eye of Alexstrasza who listens to your opinion and more or less ends up making peace and acknowledging the unfairness in dragonkin being mistreated as much as they have been (especially since they kept the dragon isles functioning while the actual dragons were off being stupid and worthless all around azeroth).
Sendrax was a nobody cadet. It makes sense for her peers and direct superiors to know/care about them on a direct and first name basis, but not the higher ups. Do you expect the POTUS to actually know and be directly impacted when a random soldier grunt dies in battle? They are big picture focused and while they can care about the fact a number of individuals died, it’s often just not in their mental capacity to spend such time and resources digging into the specific individuals unless it is/was some kind of outstanding or otherwise extremely noteworthy feat or act.
My eyes rolled far more of seeing a red dragonkin, a flight who embodies fire itself, actually affected by fire…let alone the actual stupidity of the act/plan itself. Sendrax acted hastily to jump in and die to save that single egg instead of reporting to superiors of the situation and/or trying to come up with a simple tool to push or otherwise lift/move the egg away from there.
And timing wise, was it really in that much danger? Was a few minutes really going to make a difference? They made an emotional choice fueled by their emotional state having just participated in slaughtering corrupted whelps and lost eggs. Narratively, it was meant to put you in your place and realize these folks are evil…but canonically, a red dragonkin dying to fire ESPECIALLY when we siege the keep the dragonkin soldiers actually BOAST about how dumb it is to try and hold them back/stop them with fire and those are full fledged Djaradin and established are quite capable and established dragonslayers. It was just so implausible a death. Would’ve been better if she stayed behind and held off the primalists giving us time to get the egg and escape with it which while still a dumb plan, at least gives it more plausibility.
Well to be fair, we do kill things made of fire with fire. Not sure how that works but yeah. Oh, and we also shoot fire under water.
You have a point she should have been immune or really resistant to the fire. Instead she went up like a pair of pajamas made of old newspaper. Fire resistant… they just don’t resist very long.
Sendrax as a character was fine I guess (DF story as a whole is fine, it’s delivery as a children’s cartoon is what’s terrible)
That voice was terrible.
Almost worse than chromies.
Once upon a time, elemental resistance was a thing and damaging spells were ineffective to creatures of that element. For example, rogue poisons didn’t affect mechanical beings and a frost mage didn’t like having to go fight water elementals.
I don’t mind so much things changing for gameplay purposes…but lore is lore and while it may be all but tatters at this point, is it really asking too much to spend a few minutes thinking through the narrative they’re giving us to make sure at least the big things make sense?
Like I said, there is an incredibly obvious and just as easy way to have killed off Sendrax that give us the “sacrifice myself for the good of others” and that’s just to have her face off against a big threat or reinforcements of enemies while we escape with the egg itself OR report back and have the Majordomo fly us back in time to see her die trying to rescue the egg herself seeing that said big bad threat has come and there literally was no more time to wait/watch.
If Blizzard really wanted to go the extra step, they could’ve had Sendrax pull US from the fire traps if/when we step into them in the previous quests mentioning while she is resistant to fire, these traps are somehow special and can harm her despite what should be immunity or a massive resistance to fire but that she couldn’t bear to see us harmed along with some clear and obvious immediate danger and/or significance to “this” egg that justifies acting NOW.
Because even being more pragmatic, the red dragons have no problem breeding. It isn’t like the black dragons who’d be extinct if not for Sab and his folks (the one who should be the true Aspect over lamehorn and talkion). There was no super immediate danger to that egg and seemingly no resistance to a dragon swooping in and rescuing it.
You’re saying they created a character, managed to get you to care about her, then sacrificed her in a way to provoke an emotional response?
Almost as if they are telling a story.
Get yelled at for being a fire mage in molten core. I remember that. That one guy was so useless. Forgot that he was fire and every fight got chewed out. Got turned into a joke and the guild leader would remind every one, to make sure they were not speced into fire.
She was a annoying character ,i laughed when she got one shot for no reason. Voice qxting was terrible for aomething that was suppose to be a warriors going out and killing mass amounts of enemies with her claws and weapon, acted like a baby. Glad she went poof
My partner who also played df said the same thing annoying and terrible voice acting. just doesn’t match
Yeah, we could have seen her willing to pay the ultimate price but somehow survive… even if she got messed up pretty badly. Would have been cool to see her progress.
As a tank, it felt stupid
I can just stand in the beam and be fine, but well guess not