Seriously, why is it that we can have a continuation moving forward with the Blue Flight, but the Green Flight has to stay tethered to the past and have bad storyline to bring back a dead dragon?
Merithra should be taking over and become the next Aspect, just like Kalec did. Shoehorning bad storyline to bring back a dead dragon is another line of bad writing. It needs to stop.
Merithra should be developed further and would negate the need for destroying stories. Change the image on the splash screen, make Merithra newly in charge, leave Ysera where she belongs and stop making death seem completely stupid and irrelevant.
Heck, a new major NPC like Merithra is also a good way to make more diversity storylines, as well.
Hello, I see you posted a thread about horrible story. This is the result of terrible writers trying to write women in roles of importance with, apparently, the only way to do that is by killing men off and/or making them look incompetent! Little do they know that by doing this they lower the overall bar for everyone only making their âstrongâ female characters look incompetent as well since, apparently, they canât do anything of renown without men first, haha!
I think writers today have an issue where they donât want women to have any flaws but its the flaws that make characters interesting and great, so their female characters end up being dull and pointless. WoW has always had great female characters but beginning with BfA its like they suddenly donât know how to write them anymore.
This is not a woman problem, its a mentality of viewing women as weak and for some reason need unflawed heroes to represent them.
The greatest example of this is Star Trek The Next Generation. They set Worf up as being a total badass and great warrior, so each week to show the baddie was tough they would have them beat up Worf. The end result is that people viewed Worf as a weak character who talked a lot of trash.
This is why characters need to earn their way rather than tear someone else down so they can short cut their evolution.
huge agree on this point you made, especially with lore characters.
Utherâs death in war3 was a great example of this. Not only did it seem like death was a real consequence as you said, but it also made Arthasâ character feel more sinister in-game.
too much mind control and resurrecting in this game now
Because they didnât think of Ardenweld revival back in WotLK. And no, I donât agree with Ysera coming back alive, itâs just this isnât a great counter to being disappointed to her coming back. Itâs also not like the blue dragonflight has ever been associated with revival vs. green. The best revival Blue ever got was Sindragosa.
Iâm not equating them on some Ardenweald level at all. Iâm saying itâs dumb to leave one dragon dead and not the other. How itâs achieved wasnât part of my argument.
I simply think itâs bad form to want to move forward in storylines, but suddenly we canât leave an Aspect dead and replaced, when we already have a dead and replaced Aspect.
Iâm guessing it has to do with how popular she is. It doesnât make sense for it to be about her gender since her successor would be, ya know, a woman.
Stating in your title âWhy is it okay to replace Malygos and not Yseraâ is just dumb. Was a different time with different lore expectations. Just comes off as ragebait
The Merithra talking points are the exact ones Iâve made and are more constructive then âyeah but why does this flight?â
The difference is that whether we like it or not, Shadowlands setup the lore for this to occur. Revival is part of it. Revival of important defenders of nature is a core aspect of Ardenweld.
Death doesnât matter in this setting, and pretending it does is silly. Characters get revived all the time. Thereâs literally portals to the afterlife in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, you have random mortal civilians like little old lady Olâ Emma just walking around Oribos. So to ask to respect Yseraâs death feels like a flimsy request when nobodyâs death in this game is respected. The consequences of death in WoW are as nonexistent as they are in DBZ.
And for what itâs worth Malygosâs death was just as stupid as Yseraâs, and just like hers, never should have happened in the first place.
Thanks for the opinion. Itâs just a title. Maybe read what Iâm saying instead of nitpicking a title? Just a thought. But you do you.
And it was explicitly stated that due to the fact that the Winter Queen sacrificed part of herself for Ysera, that Ysera is bound there permanently. So much for that, eh?
Anyway, youâre entitled to feel how you feel, but I donât see how this argument is constructive to the topic at all, when itâs just âI donât like that you tried to compare two Aspects.â
Yes, so much for that as they write their lore and weâve yet to fully experience the story and requirements to perform this revival.
Again, itâs fine to dislike it, I donât like it, but things arenât the same with the Shadowlands after we got involved anyways. Bastion changed up their entire process due to what occurred so whoâs to say the same didnât occur for the Winter Queen? Not to mention the minor amends her and Elune had so who knows if she was just keeping her âpetâ for keepsake
Revival is Ardenwelds entire thing and Malfurion is probably the single most important aspect of nature outside of Ysera soâŚ
