The oathstone plotline was clearly dropped but considering we know the titans are coming back and may not exactly be happy with the pet dragon project, will they uses these stones to bind the dragons back into their “order”?
I would be more concerned with Odyn doing stupid and not not all them might be against it. I can see Eonar ultimately siding with us in the end
Personally I hope so. The current direction they’re taking the Titan storyline is really dumb and I hope they find a way to roll it back.
wth happened with the oathstones
There was a bit of story there that got cut, for sure. There were oathstones Tyr empowered by accepting each aspect’s oath to the titans.
…then he made a gauntlet called Oathbinder that controls Draconic beings. As if he wanted a contingency to forcefully command the flights if they went rogue.
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Same thing that happened to the Pillars and the Sigils.
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Considering how 4 of the 5 turned evil at one point, he probably should’ve left it with someone who would actually have used it for it’s intended purpose, instead of being found and used by Neltharion for his super soldier project.
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I no could see them as being a big plot point.
What I’m more concerned about is the titans pulling the switch on the Reorigination engine if we are too lippy
Then they become raid fodder.
Its so jarring that the oath stones were dropped. They’re the whole point of the main story campaign.
Something screwy went on behind the scenes for Dragon Flight. It’s like the whole thing switched mid-stride to this Night Elf / Teldrassil Conclusion story.
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Hell the Tyr memory disc plotline also got shafted at some point. Given the reason why we went to get them from Ulduman was to use them to restore the Aspects powers. Hence why Deios stole them.
And yet once we did get it back, the Aspects had already gained their powers back. Since the revive Tyr finale happens after the raid, but before chapter 7 of the Emerald Dream story. So ultimately, what was the point of
- Getting them
- Reviving Tyr via the disc and the Silver Scale
And why did Deios steal it if it ended up leading to nowhere? And why give it to an AU Elisande?
It’s hard to know what got dropped, when the entire expansion is throwaway filler that doesn’t have anything to do with anything relevant to anything. If it’s not related to the cosmic war, I really couldn’t care less. There are no stakes. The Incarnates are pointless enemies, and they don’t further any plot points that have been teed up over the last decade.
I disagree, the expansion story was awesome imo. So much better than Shadowlands its insane.
It doesn’t feel like filler to me any more than vanilla, and everyone loves vanilla. The main bad guys in vanilla were random scourge and dragons in blackrock mountain. Way more went on in DF than that.
Love the incarnates love dragons, love the lore of them returning to an ancient home. Interesting continent and world lore.
Only thing is I wish we had some faction conflict on the side like Legion had Sylvanas vs Greymane, instead of that Malicia character telling us to do random ffa stuff.
tldr top 3 expansion alongside vanilla WoW and Legion
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Personally, I’m more of a fan of strawberry. But vanilla isn’t bad either!!
I mean, Fyrakk was literally going to burn the world, so…
I’m not a big dragon fan. If it’s not Ysera (who has made me cry far too much for a big, dumb, stupid dragon) or maybe the Black Flight, I have a hard time investing.
And yet, Dragonflight has been overall pretty fun. Maybe the main storyline didn’t grab me, but all the side stuff has been pretty dang good.
Are there dropped plotlines? Absolutely. But literally every expansion has had those, and some a lot more than Dragonflight.
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The Blacks were the only ones that went that way in the alignment pool.
The Blues were traumatized by their decimation at Deathwing’s hands and later on were following the orders of Malygos who kind of went off the rails.
The Greens held true to their charge and did not follow Ysera’s descent into corruption.
The Reds were held hostage by the Dragonmaw’s enslavement of Alexstrasa and the threat to their eggs.
The Bronzes also held true to thier station, the Infinites… well that’s a timey wimey wibbly wobbly sort of thing at the moment.
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tbf Dragonflight is intended to be a soft reboot of WoW. Much like how Vanilla was w.r.t the RTS games.
Hence why DF has a timeskip (3 years following the end of Shadowlands). While other expansions do not really have one.
‘looks at WoD with its cut raid, cut world boss, cut zone’
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so any conspiracy theories?
I find it hard to believe Amirdrassil was the original plan for the last story raid. Maybe the oathstones were to do with Iridikron or Galakrond but blizz pivoted to Fyrakk as the final boss.
Good move if so, we had enough bad dragons flying around and Amirdrassil has great encounters. Also good to see Iridikron bow out and not be throwaway like Azshara and N’Zoth.
My theory for the changes, Metzen came in and they hurriedly changed stuff so we can have the World Soul Trilogy.
so you think maybe they changed the expansion that was to follow DF?
maybe it was emerald dream
I never said the Flights turned evil, I said the Aspects did. Maybe if that dragon controlling whatever it was, was still around we could’ve forced Malygos to cut the bull and depending on how it worked, stopped Ysera and Nosdormu in the Infinite’s timeline from falling.