I agree with your assessment, but I think there’s plot reason for this. Who is the first dwarf? He’s a Hunter I’m pretty sure. This is before Vanilla starts, so being generous maybe he’s already level 60, but he’s at most a veteran of the last war. More probably not and so has not faced what’s to come.
The Wild Hammer is Level 60 (really Level 130ish in comparison to Vanilla) and is enough of a Champion of the Alliance that Wrathion specifically called on her to come to the Dragon Isles. Meaning she likely faced down N’Zoth. That, to me, explains why one seems to feel more danger than the other.
They sadly haven’t. Except Alextraza in dragon form.
except wow was never meant to be gritty, generally speaking. its always had a whimiscal theme with the occasional grostesque or edgy theme weaved in. evidence of that are that the body shapes were caricitures, the hairstyles were exaggerated and over the top, often flat out silly, every expac had a poop quest, a drunk dwarf, a peace pipe tauren, a gnome brainiac, a goblin explosives expert, a pissed off worgen and orc, a hippie night elf, a troll drug lord and a human hercules.
Fair enough, but things are not binary…there is a range. This modern stuff is skewing away from heavy and gritty. Some may like that, and for the sake of this game we all love, I hope MOST do.
well i think its responding to the differences in cultures also. for awhile there a wotlk type would never make it passed the censors in countries where skeletons had to be turned into loaves of bread
