“Well maybe in this timeline we might get a more cohesive group of people to- By Tyr’s Hammer its murderhobos again, I can’t even.”
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That is how/why raid groups respawn to fight the boss several dozen times before finally defeating it - it’s the Bronze Flight turning back time to just before the battle to try to get a more favorable outcome.
(Though I’d also love if each raid boss got a kill counter and at the end of a season, that counter becomes canon for how many adventurers that boss slew before it was defeated.)
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I’ve ALWAYS wanted this because that’s what I always headcanoned. Although in my version the counter stops after the world first mythic kill.
Every group wipe is a different set of adventurers that got smoked until someone finally beats them and they get to be the ones who canonically took down the boss. Every raid is a battle of attrition as the Alliance and Horde throw themselves at the enemy until they’re overwhelmed.
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Not a headcanon I have, but I have nowhere else to complain about this so I’ll do it here:
The widespread headcanon that fel magic totally destroys souls. A theory which has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but I still feel needs a postmortem as a lesson for the future not to spread dumb ideas, lol.
The reason it even came about in the first place was from an entirely different headcanon that Dreadlords could only be killed by fel magic, which was originally posted as speculation on the WoW wiki. Despite being explicitly labeled speculation, people took it to be a literal canon fact. Then, people took it further and decided it must also mean fel magic destroys souls entirely, and therefore Varian could never come back as a ghost. Of course, he did later. (or he was a hallucination? It wasn’t super clear but I doubt they’d have even bothered to include him if he wasn’t actually there.)
I talked to DesignerDave from YouTube about this, and he made it extremely clear they never had that in mind when writing the game, and in fact it would’ve made Medivh’s return a gigantic, incomprehensible plot hole. The man was practically radioactive with fel magic – wouldn’t that mean his soul would be destroyed? Or does it explicitly have to be used “against” you? That really doesn’t make much sense because either way you’re exposed to it. You’re telling me getting blasted with a bolt of fel energy would erase you completely, but afterbeing marinated in the stuff for several years like a radioactive mushroom in Chernobyl you’d be just fine?
Plus it would also mean every enemy killed by a warlock or a demon would be permanently dead, and that simply doesn’t make sense given how many enemies killed by the player or the Legion have come back as ghosts. It was only ever speculation, and “speculation” is a generous term. “Misunderstanding” is a far better one.
The point is something that had no basis in canon was taken as undeniable fact by a large chunk of the commnunity because read a throwaway comment on a wiki marked speculation, and then took it farther than the original writer did.
The lesson here? Headcanons are good and awesome, but be weary of misinformation. Also, misinfo can spread like wildfire from the most innocous of sources.
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other than the ‘First Ones are ducks’ silly headcanon of mine…
Griftah is Bwonsamdi using a mortal disguise. Like how Havi was for Odyn. They are both trolls, they love conning people and we have yet to see them in the same room together.
We can give us a bit more credit than that. There is strategy, mechanics, tactics, builds, cheesing said mechanics. Put a little of that into the story. Besides, how many trash mobs do we clear over and over again? Surely they drop one or two here and there doing their job as our enemy’s currently best forces. We don’t have to credit every kill to a boss. Their henchmen can get a few too, as a treat.
Does kinda remind me of the videos Hurricane does, you see nearly everyone get absolutely clapped at least once
Actually Fel tastes and likely smells like cinnamon. Per the DH joke.