World of Warcraft - Midnight

Seninar-terokkar · November 5, 2023, 2:01am

Solarion:

Try reading some of my posts on the topic before throwing shade, my dude.

Solarion:

I’m more worried that they’re going to finally develop the Void Elves in Midnight.

Anything happening in Quel’Thalas needs to be 99.99% Blood Elf centered. Quel’Thalas is vital to the identity of the Blood Elves.

This elven unification talk feels… like a bad omen. Just sweep the Blood Elves under the rug in their own home zone, probably nuke their city and suddenly there are less of them than Void Elves somehow, and then all the elves just move there. Amirdrassil manifests over Deatholme.

It’ll just be bad all around.

Solarion:

Gee, it’s almost like kicking the void experts out might’ve been a bad decision in retrospect or something.

That’s another reason I’m really not looking forward to Midnight. The Blood Elves were absolutely right to kick out Umbric and his cultists. This is just going to wind up as, “Wow, the Blood Elves were wrong. Again. And kicked out the people who were right all along. AGAIN.”

Solarion:

You know what?

I really hope the Scryers get serious screentime for this. I want Voren’thal to show up. I want him and Rommath to be on the same wavelength. Like, they don’t even talk to one another. They just glimpse the battlefield from opposite ends and immediately know what the other is planning and how to support them, or ways to improve it, and any intervention made by the other in this way is instantly understood and reciprocated.

This expansion needs to be Rommath’s time to shine as Grand Magister, and having at least one other Blood Elf who is highly effective at working with him feels like a necessity towards that.

I loved the resounding silence at Earthen Allied race

My thoughts are simple.

War Within would’ve been a great time to give the Dwarves some Earthen customizations, the Trolls some Proto-Troll customizations, and introduce the Sethrak as an Allied Race (neutral even makes sense for them to a degree).

Midnight would be a great time to add Ethereals as an Allied Race, but if they added Earthen to TWW, then it’ll probably be High Elves for Midnight. Speaking as someone who has wanted High Elves as a playable race… it’d be a bad idea. Midnight taking place in Quel’Thalas means it should 99.99% be devoted exclusively to the Blood Elf narrative, which has survived off of breadcrumbs since BC. I’ll also reiterate what I’ve said before, but one of the key defining narratives for High Elves in the setting, was putting Quel’Thalas below something else on their list of priorities. Old Alliances, family, mana veganism, whatever, for the High Elves, Quel’Thalas was not #1. Giving them any kind of presence in Midnight in Quel’Thalas is going to feel like a step backwards in their narrative.

Looking over these comments, I was in the wrong. I’m sorry man. I get very riled up when it comes to this topic. I’m very used to High Elves calling for the extinction of my favorite race’s identity. That doesn’t exuse me assuming though. I won’t let that happen again. Thank you for giving me a reality check.