Assuming you’ve seen the ending cinematic…what was the point of this expansion? We ended where we started except no more Dalaran and Magni is not rockman.
This expansion feels so…lackluster in terms of lore.
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The dark heart is now juiced up.
They said at a panel that metzen changed the trajectory of what they were planning. This patch would have been the conclusion of the 3 expac saga originally. But cause of metzen, it got changed to what we have now, to make for a longer storyline.
Cause normally you got things like nyalotha being one single raid, or azshara one single patch.
It’s why so much stuff feels random or abandoned. We would have been fighting the titans at this point 
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this could’ve been done in DF btw. How “juiced up” the dark heart is depends on the needs of the plot. Could literally have used dawn of the infinite and had a short compilation of Xalatath absorbing the power of significant events all across time and nothing changes in the end here.
Ok. Could have done a lot of things. This is what they did do.
The expansion ends with SPOILER
Ka’resh(the world soul) being reborn. So now we have two World Souls that will likely impact the story of The Last Titan.
Set up I guess? Its really weird, it felt like we did nothing but chase xalatah, successfully stop her dark heart, proceed to see we didn’t, chased her some more, then chased some big baddie void lord who stole it and she got it back…like seriously, who writes all this? A game of cat and mouse.
We were only introduced to the current incarnation of Xal’atath in TWW. They’ve done a lot with her character in the 1 year this expansion has been released. Also, it’s a trilogy - you don’t wrap things up in the first part of the story. You win a battle and continue waging the war. That’s exactly what we’re doing.
“All luke did was get a sword, then his teacher died and he blew up a space station - where was the story with the bad guys?!”
Midnight should be where most of the motivations and explanations come. The final expansion in the trilogy is where we’ll get the denouement.
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So the muggufan is more muggufany? The problem is Xal and Alleria are wearing very thin.
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Ive been looking at The War Within like Act 1 of a movie. Since this is a saga its split into three parts anyway. Act 1 is the weakest as its mostly setup, Act 2 will ramp things up, and Act 3 will be the big ending.
That’s how im choosing to look at it, anyway.
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Yeah, thats how I look at it as well. They have 3 x-packs to fully develop a story instead of trying to condense everything down into one like they used to do…Which means they have more time to spend on less impactful things.
Well Blizzard fulfilled their promise on us losing at the end of this. This is just the ending of the first chapter and we’ve got two more to go.
But the first installment should set up the second.
A New Hope established the setting, the characters, the motivations, and the call to adventure. The War Within does none of that.
You don’t reveal motivations and explanations halfway into a saga. Go back to the shadows, fanfiction writer.
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I have no idea whats going on. I think Xal is a genie in a bottle or something 
I skipped all quest text, all dialogue, and every cutscene.
I assume we are doing a crossover with Mass Effect: Andromeda.
I think TWW (and a large portion of Dragonflight) was more about us learning things about Azeroth and the Titans that we didn’t know before than it was about any major plot.
We objectively know more about things like the World Soul or those Beledar Crystal thingies then we did before. That new knowledge is likely going to set the tone and raise the stakes come Midnight and The Last Titan.
When you read a book not every chapter advances the plot in terms of action. But you don’t read those chapters and say, “wow the plot didn’t get advanced here so this chapter serves no purpose.” Instead you look at the chapter and say, “okay what did this chapter actually do?” Likely it reveals information about a character or the world or whatever that will come back later, especially in fantasy. TWW is the same. If the plot didn’t move ahead much that doesn’t mean it’s useless it just means that it’s serving a different purpose in the story over all, like a chapter that sets the scene or portrays more characterization or whatever.
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Have you not played the expansion? TWW pretty much established the major plot points that will come into play in the next chapters of the trilogy, especially as pertaining to Alleria, Anduin, Xal’atath/the Dark Heart, and Quel’Thalas.
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That’s fair, but the problem is why didn’t we know these things? Because blizzard didn’t know these things. They make stuff up on the fly and they’re like “see that thing you did was because of this and actually that person is this important.”
I can be patient and watch a story unfold in front of me, waiting for each reveal. That’s good writing.
Changing plot points and adding random characters or events because you accidentally wrote yourself into a corner is bad writing.
Compare it to the last Star Wars trilogy. Even if you didn’t know they changed directors you can tell that each episode is laying groundwork for stories that never got finished, and each movie half ignores the prior.
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Again, fanfiction-level understanding of writing. You can set scenes, portray characters, etc. by actions and telling.
The reason the The War Within plot barely moved is because everything we did in Kaz’Algar felt like a complete waste of time. Nothing has changed.
Before TWW: ‘Our hunt for Xal’atath continues.’
After TWW: ‘Our hunt for Xal’atath continues.’
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