I feel like people are sleeping on Merrix. WoW can do some pretty wonderful things with this character and I hope to see more of him. Frankly I am invested in his story.
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Also AnubâAzal, just killed it with his intro of making a game of seeing how long Gazelowe could play possum.
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Nah brah. Itâs the foot master chasing her that is to be feared.
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You will never get anyone as good as Garrosh again.
They do have new writers now, so there is hope for the story overall, but characters like Garrosh arenât common.
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I donât really know if you can have compelling characters shown through wowâs story. Part of the reason why the rts characters have so much pull is because we played through THEIR stories.
In wow it boils down to watching awkward cutscenes as we see bits and peices second hand. I genuinely think blizzard needs a different game to push lore for wow to cannibalize. Hearthstone is a better vehicle for story telling then wow. Least for characters that are not the player character.
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This is actually very true as well.
I forgot about him but he was good too. I wish Blizzard worked more on bring characters like this to front.
I disagree that this is in itself the issue. The old writers believed the burning of strathome was unjustifiable when we have confirmed facts from the bronze dragon flight that if it didnât happen all life would of ended on azeroth with a legion victory.
Its important to seperate the work of fiction from the author.
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Uhhh you took my post out of context, why?
I LIKE that we have new writers. DF and TWW have way better writing than SL ever did.
They can and have, but the problem is that the side characters are usually good, with smaller more well contained stories, where the main big expansion long stories fall flat. Time constraints and financial limits seem to be the biggest issue, simply allowing the authors more than less than 2 years or 4 to write a story and draft it would solve much of the problem of the main plots usually having context cut to save time.
You canât cut corners with a good story, but at their current pace theyâre forced to, 1.5 years will be even worse for writing. Very few authors have written good stories in the span of 1 year or less, and theyâre usually one offs they made when sick or dying in bed.
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It wasnât to bash the writers just to point out that we might get something like that again but it might take years to be put into a more over arching story later.
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This would make sense if WoW had never managed to produce good content in terms of storytelling.
Itâs not the case.
DK questline is extremely good.
Gaânar questline is extremely good.
Garrosh on stonetalon mountains was extremely good.
BFA may be controversial but this exp actually had many decent fanservice moments.
Its not like WOW couldânt handle good content.
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Yeah, I just think itâs almost impossible to outdo nostalgia.
Pretty much every character listed in the OP
Which was my point
Everyoneâs a gold-star certified deputy hero so nominate yourself.
My point is that TWW characters are like 5 tiers below Denathrius.
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I believe a good part of why weâre having so many demanded assets and features added to WoW recently, is simply that Kotick is no longer at the helm as Gallywix personified IRL. The CFO and CEO are no longer shouting at employees to produce more for less and less.
The creative teams and devs can finally BREATHE without a toxic work environment and the financial division of Activision standing by with the aluminum baseball bat.
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Hmm, I would like to see more things like the Terokk quest from WoD. Were you play as him and fight Saberon. It gives a more immersive experience and I had hopes they would do the same for Tyrande. To let us experience her rage instead of just reading about it or seeing the aftermath of it. There are a few things that could help people feel better connected to WoW characters.
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I donât understand, Does this mean that in a non-toxic environment the content is slower and of lower quality? because this is what we are getting
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Weâve yet to see what work theyâd produce in said environment. Keep in mind that they work on expansions several ahead of time, so when DF and TWW were being worked on, we were still in the minefield of the SL lawsuits and other issues, same with BFA and SL in legion.
If the Microsoft acquisition and lawsuit aftermath had any positive affect, weâll see this in Last Titan and possibly Midnight.
If what they said about working 3 or 4 expansions ahead is true, it explains why Bfa-DF was such a fiasco. So we can expect slow improvements potentially over the next three.
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