A brand-new book has shown up in online bookstore databases under the title:
World of Warcraft Illustrated – add a dot to .com in the URL
warcraft.blizzplanetDOTcom/blog/comments/world-of-warcraft-illustrated-by-christie-golden
The book is based on two stories set in the Second War. One of the two stories features a young Warchief Thrall.
I wonder if there is going to be a book that will somewhat fix the mess that BfA is by answering atleast some of the plot holes
We don’t want to encourage them fixing plot holes with books, that’s part of some of the bigger issues with writing in WoW since Cataclysm. They should put the story in game in its entirety, not making puzzles we need to buy all the pieces for.
No.
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I miss when the books told small scale side stories. Not events that bridge expansions together, such as Tides of War and Warcrimes.
(I am aware that we got Tides of War in game, but those two scenarios are crap)
Well they think that they concluded everything that happened in BfA which is obviously not true from the story they gave us, so the only way to fix it (to an extent) is with a book
I like it when books expand on the setting and show some nuances that either can’t be shown in-game or would be such a big hassle to show in-game that they would be cancelled otherwise. But the big plot points -need- to be shown (or even told, at this rate) in the game as well.
Books are great additions to the game, but they shoudln’t be necessary just to hear about giant plot points.
which books told small scale stories? all of them are important
I hate to call them small scale stories, but the Illidan and Vol’jin novels are good examples. They weren’t expansion connecting novels and even if you didn’t read them you still had enough knowledge based on in game sources to cover what was in them.
Illidan is a main character and that book set up the main plot for legion, and voljin also set up the future warchief
Except none of the information from the book is acted upon until it’s revealed in game. It’s why the Illidari had to go get Akama/the Shade of Akama as part of their class campaign.
And if you didn’t read the book he was still set up as warchief in game. He had an adventure that helped him deal with some character stuff, but none of it was required reading to understand why Vol’jin was chosen.
if you didn’t read them you still had enough knowledge based on in game sources to cover what was in them
Unlike a book like Warcrimes where if you didn’t read the book you had absolutely no idea how we went from Mists to WoD.
I dunno the keystone is really really important to legions story
Not going to lie I think it’s very weird that were getting a book set between Lord of the Clans and Warcraft 3. When I heard rumors of Christie Golden writing a new book my first thought is that it would be the tie in novel for the next expansion and connect Battle for Azeroth with Shadowlands.
Things like Lord of the clans, or Day of the Dragon.
Important events yes, but not really needed to understand the main premise of the next installment in the game series.
It is a reason why things like the comics / books etc are supplementary material. You shouldn’t need to get them to understand the basic meta narrative.
Still mad about the change to Lothar.
warcraft.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/world-of-warcraft-illustrated-by-christie-golden
I think it’s odd that she’s currently writing this book and the Eastern Kingdom book.
By de Loa dis nightmare neve ends!
Yeah that’s been my frustration with their books moving forward. Now I wouldn’t say everyone needed to read Before The Storm cover to cover to understand all or even most of BFA.
But you’ve at least have to read the cliffsnotes to know why Calia Menethil is undead. In itself not the biggest deal since her roll thus far hasn’t been particularly important to the story. Still it’s odd there’s a character in game who you will never learn the deal of from in game events alone.
Wow. I missed MoP and WoD so I had no idea. That is - alarmingly terrible story telling.
Wake me when they come out with World of Warcraft Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition.