I think part of what made the Orc/Draenei ones the best isn’t just all the npc’s is that it offers little moments to flesh out your PC and lays the groundwork for potential future storylines. Although following this up will be hard since it seems like a great capstone for the draenei’s story
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Draenei should be playing a major role in the Worldsoul Saga because the Light vs. Void story line is important to their story and is even mentioned in the Draenei intro. Probably in The Last Titan.
You do know Lukou has been a Loa for a long time, right? Yes, originally from the RPG, but she was also mentioned in Battle for Azeroth (albeit from an ability of 1 specific champion the Horde get), I know she’s new’ cause most ppl don’t know about Lukou.
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I liked it a lot, tbh.
It hit a lot of points I was looking for.
A big one was going a little more into the relationship of the Darkspear with the their loa.
There are a few things though; the only new non-loa character was the antagonist and the existing troll characters didn’t get to do much, outside of Rokhan (who is getting pretty good characterization here otherwise).
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Weaker than the Worgen one? When did you turn Alliance fan Ere?
I’m truly happy for troll fans who enjoyed the quest. God knows you guys deserved it. It’s nice see the draenei and the Darkspear get some much needed love and actually have their lore expanded on at the same time.
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It’s obvious the designer has no clue about troll lore.
Happy on what? This is just a repeat of the Zalazane plot.
The designers are not required to know the made up lore in your head.
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The Darkspear have the same Loa as the Gurubashi and Vol’jin was supposed to regenerate. None of these issues were touched.
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Voljin coming back would be something epic for the entire Horde, he was the best Warchief, it shouldn’t be locked away behind a heritage quest that not everyone is gonna see.
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Actual troll fans seem to be happy and I’m glad that aggravates you to no end
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Things I liked :
- Rokhan being proactive and great chieftain. His respect to the loa, his devotion to his people, and that sick one liner at the end. <3 Love it. More of that please.
- Bwonsamdi being there being lovely once again
- Jani being fun again, but I’d rather have other Shadow hunter Loa present like Legba or Ogoun. Legba is Loa of Speed so I believe he would cover the issue of getting fast from one location to another.
- Overall message, that Darkspears adapt and becuase they’re not the strongest, they have to work around whatever life throws at them, and I’d also add that because of that trait they produced the most experienced veterans among trollkind.
-Fighting Muehzala was fun (but poor Echo Isles, it seems that they constantly get assaulted and cannot take a break)
- I like that certain NPCS were updated like Gadrin who lost his red head color to grey highlighting that he is old.
- the coverage of the importance of Rush’kah
- travel to Zul’Gurub
- The concept of holy trinity (soul, mind and heart), too bad that Damabla was replaced with made up loa for the “brains part” >:/
The Bad:
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I didn’t like the idea that Darkspears abandoned other loa. Not cool, Especially when in BfA you met traces like in Ty’Jin that he follows both Lukou and Dambala.
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I’d so much rather have Dambala as Darkspear “brain” loa. He is Loa of deceit and treachery, he is extremely cunning and teaches the Darkspears how to outwitt their enemies. But Blizzard in their maturity thinks “treachery = evil”, instead of approaching the subject from creative point of view. That this Loa protects the tribe from schemers, frauds, liars by teaching them how they operate, and outwitt them instead. Damabla takes appearance of the Snake. It would be amazing visually if we had Snake Loa. I always imagined for Rokhan to have his blades blessed by Damabla, and the questline had Rokhan’s baldes blessed! If only it was Dambala I’d be extatic. But this is like “eehhh”.
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Lukou - I groaned so much. For years Lukou was popular among roleplayers, especially female roleplayers. She is compassionate and benevolent, but she was meant to be associated with water domain and life. And I think it’s extremely trivial and shallow approach to turn her to a DRAENOR PODLING. Get it? Because Plants can regrow!
Her title is also wrong, she Loa of Healing and respite, NOT regeneration.
I’d so much rather if we had beautiful troll female that resembles water nymph. And I always believed that Lukou had a temple in STV where the Nagas are, where there is infamous font of miraculous water that has amazing healing abilities.
I thought that place among waterfals high on the hill was perfect Lukou shrine. And I even remember making stories of paying tribute to her, and then having access to the blessed water. It would be a great throw back to the vanilla quest, and visually it would be more impressive if we fought in location like that against Naga who were present there for years, and Lukou being weakened was that Darkspears were exiled from STV and nobody bothered to RECOVER her shrine. Wouldn’t that be better explanation than Darkspears “abandoning her” outright? And I always thought that She would beautifully compliment Bwonsamdi. He being troll male and embodying death, She being troll female and embodying life.
So Lukou plot for me completely missed the mark. She had massive potential, and we’re stuck with an ooking Podling. I swear I want to shake someone who come up with it.
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Rokhan with elephant mask. Please don’t… Either give him a mask that looks like from WC3 reforged or don’t bother at all. He looks ridiculous with it. Don’t cover his handsome face. >:(
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Forcing me to wear this artrocity.
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Reminding me that Zandalari lost Rezan Which was ridiculous idea
And the most amusing but not surprising at all - Not even mention of Vol’Jin. You’d believe that at least one Troll would reference him. Bwonsamdi also didn’t hint “You might get a new ally soon enough to make Darkspears stronger”. So not even that.
Haha.
Overall the questline was fun, cannot say. But me as a long term troll player I am really frustrated on the choice of the Loa and how they were depicted.
And the low effort masks. Mask should be the most important part, and the additional ones don’t even fit the trolls - it’s almost like these items were made to be a wall decoration and NOT to be put on the face!
Also this!
Trolls are the only race that is denied unity. I guess Darkspears and Zandalari are the only ones that matter and are allowed to be tied to each other.
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My dude I am on the unofficail troll discord server. No one who is a devoted roleplayer can be happy about this repeated story beat.
… and im on the official wow forums… and?
Troll players are happy.
The game not syncing up to your delusions is immaterial, or rather, a blessing probably.
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My dude, we have a couple troll fans here literally saying they’re happy or at least pointing out things they enjoyed about the questline
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Ere is not a WoW fan nor a Horde fan nor a BE fan.
They’re either incredibly disturbed (really, “march on the offices”?) or a dedicated troll.
I don’t know which is more sad and concerning.
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My post reached almost a thousand replies in less then two days I think I have more support here with my opinion unlike yours and the rest of alliance fans acting like they own the forum. You are just like Zerde.
Almost nobody agrees with you though. Reaching people and them agreeing with you are two entirely different things. You’ve had multiple people, many who play both sides, tell you that you’re wrong
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… i dont think you know what that word means.
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