I swung back in to try the heritage questline
Draenei Heritage Questline spoilers
Was interesting as a little update to what Draenei are currently doing since they’ve been rather low-profile since Legion. The friendly Eredar was particularly good since the quest which added that customization didn’t do much to define their role in society, showing them re-integrating into the world helped tie that up.
Portraying Auchindoun as being semi-active was cool, I’ve known some people who RP as Auchenai even though the organization has been in a somewhat ambiguous state for a while.
For being a millennia-old demigod-like being its funny how Velen keeps getting paired with characters like Hatuun and Illidan who sort of bully him. His apparent lack of pride and maybe even wavering self-confidence is an unexpected characteristic for immortal grandfather mega-priest man
Going around at the celebration getting gossip from all the characters was probably my favorite part. Was surprised to see Naielle there, afaik the first appearance of the main universe counterpart to a WoD character.
Which did make me think of the largest Draenei loose end that didn’t get tied up, the status of the AU Draenei led by Yrel. I didn’t really expect this to get touched on at any rate, Naielle just brought it to mind. Getting the Yrel side of the story which we only saw from the mag’har perspective is something I’m sort of interested in, but I guess we won’t see AU Draenei again.
Velen’s proclamation that we’d build a new city “on the ashes of our exile” was sort of surprising. In some ways the questline re-established us as a dispersed, wandering people by featuring remote locales like Shattrath/Auchindoun and visitors from Argus and the Ashtongue (Akama did appear, though not very prominently). And his phrasing is ambiguous, he brings all these wanderers together without clearly saying, “Azeroth is our home now, check back later for the new draenic condos we’re building for you all!!”, we just get this one line and a glimpse of a hologram of a building.
I assume any future home will be on Bloodmyst/Azuremyst rather than Argus or Draenor but who knows, especially since we have plot outlines for the next 3 expansions and none of them seemed to be about Draenei.
Anyway I thought it was pretty fun
I did the Gilneas questline too, which I guess is old news now but it was new to me.
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I didn’t really enjoy that one as much, Scarlet Crusade showing up again somehow was random and quickly resolved, and the Genn/Tess family melodrama just felt maudlin to me.
Tess becoming Queen didn’t have a lot of punch because she is not the most developed character (maybe people who did the rogue class hall know more about her, but from my warrior perspective she has basically just been a background character with no personality traits I know of).
Good for Mia that she got some voiced lines I guess? I’m not sure she has appeared anywhere since like Cata.
I guess the Gilneans and Forsaken are both sort of in the midst of an identity crisis since a lot of their story was about fighting each other, and they’re not gonna do that now, and having scary curses, and both of them have new leaders in Calia and Tess who are not cursed in the same way as their compatriots. So I dunno where their stories are gonna go.
Nice for the zone to get some NPCs in it rather than just being empty but it made me feel like the worgen are at a story dead end