People complained on and on about the Jailer and how he was a throw-in villain, that retconned the lore and other rubbish,
But has anyone considered the fact that the Primal Incarnates are also a bunch of throw-in villains that nobody has ever heard about? All I know is that they like Galakrond.
Also, what’s this business about YEARS having passed since the Shadowlands, only to find Lorethemar Theron married to the Nightborne leader, we spend two years trying to stop the end of the entire freaking universe, and fixing up the system of death to make it a fairer one, only to find that our leaders have been busy mucking about at Moon Guard goldshire or whatever, saving the universe sucks sometimes
Well if Blizzard was smart, they will bring in Chromaticus (Don’t know if I spelled that right) the Five headed Tiamat dragon that we have yet to see in game.
Will make all other Dragons look like cute baby lab puppies…
They’re proto dragons which have been in the game forever. Adding details or fleshing out the lore is not the same as retconning (although they have done that in the past). The idea that we can only have characters/villains/races in the game that were mentioned way back when just seems odd to me. I want them to introduce new things otherwise it just gets stale.
The Primal Incarnates remind me of Deathwing. Giant scary flappy things that are out to destroy the world as we know it. The only thing missing is rearranging the world. Which I missed the first time, because I started in the last few months of Cataclysm.
As long as they don’t ruin a bunch of good lore like Shadowlands did, and as long as the story is told competently and we’re not left guessing about major plot points and basic motivation, Dragonflight will be better.
A magically hidden island having angry dragons is a much easier pill to swallow than super giga mega death god titan+++++++++ played 4815162342D chess and was somehow behind literally everything.
I disagree that all villains need to be pre-established characters. A lot of villain concept work better in the surprise reveal. What made Shadowlands so meh was he became the mustache twirling kind - appear, say a line, and run off. He had an undeserved gravitas. The enemies in Dragonflight so far are localized threat that /could/ spread elsewhere. As to the “why now” factor that is yet to be seen so the jury is out.