LMAO toxic devs because they write a story. You are a joke my guy. Straight up laughingstock.
Killing Characters is not a viable solution for good story writing. Stop thinking Martin knows what he is doing.
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Yeah walking dead and game of thrones was so bad people hated those shows. Oh wait …
Let’s all bow down to the lvl 10 alt posting fanatic erivien. He knows more we should all wish to be as smart as he is
So… I’d like to get you to reconsider… based on how often a repeated trope has been used in WoW. From Vaelestrasz in blackwing lair to Akama in black temple, to M’uru in sunwell, to malygos in wrath, to all 4 keepers in ulduar, to norushen and nazgrim and fallen protectors in siege of org, to basically all but two of the bosses in emerald nightmare of legion, to maiden in tomb of sargeras, to aggramar in antorus, to taloc and mother in uldir, to wrathion in the nyalotha raid and ra-den in nyalotha, to anduin in zereth mortis, to gnarlroot in amirdrassil… basically more times than I can remember… there have been characters that shouldn’t be raid bosses turned into raid bosses because of insert reason that their minds are not fully their own; or something is messing with them. And in some cases we punch them in the face until they come to their senses and say “oops, hey stop, I’m better now, sorry guys” or in other cases we sadly have to kill them when it wasn’t them doing things willingly in the first place. But they were still raid bosses.
So there is every reason that Alleria could become a raid boss, and they already established a possible method for her to not be in control of herself way back in Legion. Namely the outdoor quest chain where we help her fight and then absorb a Void Revenant little demigod type void being which did all the work for her encounter with L’ura in the dungeon later on. Take a look at that end dungeon cinematic again and Alleria’s facial expression where it seems very likely the ‘work’ of absorbing L’ura was being done by that void revenant inside her, and not something she was expecting. Moreover, in that outdoor quest campaign outside the dungeon and before the dungeon… when she absorbed that void revenant, her mentor Locus-Walker specifically said out loud “as long as your mind remains your own, you will control this power” . Welp… the only thing that needs to change for the void revenant inside Alleria to take control is for Alleria to slip with her concentration or control of her own mind. Also, there was a stay a while and listen clip where Alleria and Turalyon walk through stormwind and look at the statues of themselves. During that scene, Alleria says that she personally considers herself to have metaphorically “died” twice already…and that if her son Arator was ever killed…she might consider the trauma of that event to be a third “death” for her. So… fast forward to War Within. We have a strange sect of Light cultists doing stuff near Hallowfall…which could be reason enough to bring Arator down to investigate. And if Arator gets killed…that could be enough trauma for Alleria to despair, and her mental control to falter…and tada, the Void Revenant inside her could take full control maybe melded with L’ura and they could do something magical and void-er-ific to Hallowfall… flipping it fully and permanently into Void form or something, and that could be the end of War Within. Thus leading the way for Midnight, which would start with that void victory. And Alleria herself wouldn’t even have to die when we defeat her as a raid boss, we could just pummel her in the face until she comes to her senses; just like Anduin. The damage would already be done, though, and Alleria could then perhaps appear in Midnight trying to do something with the Sunwell that could help defend us from the void in Midnight. That would explain why we go back to Quel’thalas in Midnight. Who knows… but there are tons of story threads for all of the above already sitting there ready to use.
Alleria’S mere presence almost corrupted the Void for the Sunwell at large. So allowing her to be back near it is a very bad idea.
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Guessing she dies in Midnight to make way for Sargeras killing the rest of the pantheon and maybe Illidan.
I did like in the interview that Metzen is aware some characters are suffocating the setting. Hopefully that will mean the writers will have to have their favorite toys take a back seat.
So hopefully anduin won’t be stuffed into the story in midnight or the rest of the expac.
IT is good they really want to build up Xalatath though, Jailer got done dirty cause they focused too much on Anduin and Sylvanas rather than the actual villain of the expac and giving him the proper development. Hopefully however they don’t try redeem her and actually just give us a good villain and make her menacing so we want to take her down.
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Blizzard were messing around when writing the “story” of Vanilla and TBC. Invalid.
Also, random characters that nobody cared about.
Not a marketed main character. Invalid.
Not a marketed main character, invalid.
All who? characters aside from Wrathion who we never fought in BfA (we fought a faceless one disguised as him, can’t believe some people still don’t know this) and Anduin who was never even evil in the first place.
Come back when you have a relevant example to bring up.
I’m 100% glad.
Genuinely smart move by Blizzard. 
Honestly I’m sick of throw-away villains that are introduced then quickly killed off.
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Who actually expected her to?
Enough people apparently. So much so that Metzen felt the need to clarify that she’s surviving the majority of the saga
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I recall there was a huge thread that got locked, closed and removed a few weeks back due to how out of control the convo eventually got.
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tbf its not an unfair assumption given 2 expacs has been the absolute max a villain has survived
But we’ve never had a three expansion saga before, and captain dragonman survived?? And so did captain Nathrezim??
Like past behavior is the best predictor of current and future behavior, I agree, but they just displayed a willingness to keep villains around.
…their coffer of antagonists is pretty barebones right now. They need to rebuild it after burning up some 95% of their stock by the end of BFA. Not having a backlog is how we ended up with the cardboard cutout that was Zovaal. Nobody wants another Zovaal.
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Zovaal was great. Xalatath is just antoher sexy elf girl. We had plenty of those already. I take nippleman over her any day.
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Zooval sucks. We at least have a history with Xala’tath
I respectfully disagree.
My issue with Zooval is he could have actually been a really cool and interesting villian. If only blizzard took the time to build him up and while hinting at someone pulling the strings from the shadows prior to SL coming out
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