well… they wanted to… what’s that word… ‘gentrify’ it. put up some new houses around brill, y’know… not sure i used the word gentrify correctly…
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There will be a Starbucks and Amazon there soon.
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Oh, I get that. I mean, you’re talking to the girl who was told “you can’t be a dragon, that’s strictly off limits, because it can’t be done without god moding!”
Aevah the Blue was born in Wrath with an entire storyline about how an enchanted collar keeps her in mortal form as punishment for siding with Malygos. 
But going into the Maw automatically makes you a special snowflake, due to the special snowflake attunement to the First Ones gateway.
Though that’s easy to get around by saying you were taken there and hired a Maw Walker or something.
Problem is… guild leadership has enough to deal with in RP guilds. So keeping the god moding to a minimum needs a good balance. It’s not always easy to find.
I honestly hate that they made our characters the special snowflake in Legion. It makes it really difficult to watch that scene with Sargeras’ sword and realize that the lore canonically states that we’re not the ones who wielded those weapons.
Canonically, our character didn’t wield those weapons. A special snowflake NPC did. That’s what they showed when we cleansed the sword in Silithus.
No one misses the undercity maze. It makes Iron Forge look like Oribos.
I do miss Teldrassil
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alrighty, so… i think it’s safe to assume i used that word correctly!
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I’d have to find it, but one of the story leads (I think it was Danuser) said it was our connection to Azeroth, having chosen to fight for Azeroth, is what makes us special as far as the waystone goes. Why the others can’t? Jaina, Thrall, Baine, Anduin? I don’t know. However they were also captured before we went to the Maw, so something could have been done to them. No clue.
Point is, the Maw Walkers are no longer ‘special snowflakes’. It’s intended for many heroes to be Maw Walkers, working to re-establish the covenants and fight the Jailer’s forces in the Maw. It’s not just one singular character.
I think I would have been slightly more understanding towards that guild if the majority of their leadership were not godmodding lore-breaking characters. lol
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Oh and yeah… they had a nix on dragon RPers too. LOL
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Nah it’s fine, worlds change, kingdoms fall, its probably one of the better decisions they’ve made, as long as they follow through with rebuilding the homes of the respective people on both sides.
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For me, it just felt rather flippant in respect to how they were lost and the fact they are just gone now. It would have been different had they been taken over and were in use.
Say after the horde loses UC, the alliance actually rebuilt Lordaeron. Likewise, with Darnassus, it could have spawned a whole new race of undead rangers. That’s what bothers me. Now we have two extremely historical places in WoW that are just… dead. Darnassus could have been a whole new zone, same with Tirisfal Glades. Darnassus could have been burning ashes done up like firelands. Tirisfal Glades should have been on the mend with the undead gone.
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Heart of Azeroth. Which still makes us special snowflakes. This is why I had such a difficult time with RP for so long: I’m a murderhobo. I’m talented in my field of study. I’ve got some strong connections to magic. But going with the “you are unique— just like everyone else” mindset in this game was annoying.
Right, but again… being able to do all of these things makes us all these uber special snowflakes and walks that fine line in RP where it’s easy to step over and god mode how uber special your character is.
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I think they basically destroyed every capital aside from Stormwind and Orgrimmar, and maybe Ironforge by ignoring them after Vanilla.
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You’re not wrong. They made the world smaller after a while and just stopped caring about the cities. The loss of players made them feel like they had to funnel everyone into one city. And I never liked that. They made holiday events awkward now with having to use Bronze dragons and go to cities no one really goes to— when we should be utilizing the entire world, number of players be damned!
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Destroying UC was pretty heartbreaking to me. That and Thunderbluff was my favorite capital cities. When they started hinting at TB destruction I thought I was going to lose it. Glad they changed their mind.
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I agree though.
Maybe not like ended, but the world is feeling smaller. I don’t like the idea of Blizz nuking cities and putting everyone in SW/ORG.
For me, that’s bad design.
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I know this might sound awful. But, I honestly was more angry at Sylvanas for blighting Undercity than I was for burning down Teldrassil. Undercity was always my favorite Horde city. (And, I hope everyone remembers this is a fictional Universe and doesn’t get mad at me. I would not want the Night Elves to go extinct in real life.)
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We all have favorites and our own reasons for the places we love or what doesn’t much affect us in how we play. I’d hope no one would get mad about it either. 
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I feel the same. I have more of an attachment to the Forsaken and Undercity (Horde) than I do the Night Elves.
Plus, during that cinematic she killed members from every Horde race which made it 10x worse. At least the nelves were killed by the enemy… the Horde was killed by their warchief that day.
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This is something that kind of annoys me, tbh. I mean, I’m willing to overlook quite a lot when it comes to things like story, retconning, etc. But, the fact that I actively have to visit an NPC to change UC back is ridiculous. Unless I’ve missed it, there’s not an ingame story reason why either.
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I think WoW ended when Sargeras stuck a giant sword into the planet and we didn’t all die.
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Worst part of BFA’s story will always be how they decided to make the player character in charge of an artifact that is needed to save Azeroth and is apparently extremely powerful…but then they have us use that artifact to further the war effort. Pick a lane, either have us deal with the war effort, or have us heal the world while dealing with the struggles of idiot’s that keep trying to kill it while you try to heal it.
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