Comments on: [WoW] Smart storytelling in Patch 5.1 (minor spoilers)

By: SamLL

SamLL — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:20:03 +0000

I can sort of infer / imagine that Anduin, who seems like a capable and good young man, had a lot of influence from the priests of the Light, and is in turn a good influence on his father – Varian seems interested in Anduin’s input whenever the two are together now.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:51:37 +0000

Yeah, Arthas knocked him out with Frostmourne before running off into the blizzard. Varimathras was the one that betrayed Sylvanas. There’s also Tichondrius from WC3, who hasn’t done anything of note since.

By: rimecat

rimecat — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:21:54 +0000

On the Alliance side it’s interesting to see some evolution to Varian, but it feels very sudden. He didn’t change over the course of the last two expansions, now he’s suddenly interested in something other than personally killing every Orc that he can find. I agree that the scripting is well done (for Blizzard) but it feels really out of place. It would have been more powerful to see Varian grow into this person rather than have an apparent overnight conversion.

Even with that, this is the best I’ve seen Blizzard do in introducing new content. The Klaxxi daily chain and integrated quests worked quite well, especially the cap piece. The Golden Lotus wasn’t as successful but they did have a good fight at the end. This seems to be following more the Klaxxi line, which is the better path in my opinion.

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:47:49 +0000

Yeah, the scarlet onslaught leader was Mal in disguise. There were two other dreadlords, one had been posing as the leader of the scarlet crusade (Balnazzar) and the other was Sylvanas’ ‘advisor’ who masterminded Wrathgate and got whacked by horde/alliance then.

But I think Arthas did kill Mal’Ganis in WC3, he just reformed with a new body.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:29:37 +0000

*spoilers*

The one who got killed in WC3 rather than Mal whose name I entirely forget. He shows at the end of the Scarlet Onslaught questline over in Northrend.

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:34:03 +0000

The dread lords seem to regenerate (it’s a demon thing, you can kill the current body but the spirit can later reform). Plus Mal keeps running away.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:10:15 +0000

Wait, I thought Arthas dealt with Mal’Ganis in WC3. Another just a setback?

By: Werit

Werit — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:10:16 +0000

This makes me want to get my Warrior leveled, grrr Left him capped before cataclysm.

By: Fidjit

Fidjit — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:40:32 +0000

More Alliance details, with spoilers:

The Alliance scenario is pretty cool. You team up with Varian and Tyrande to fight the Horde. You see some good writing for Varian, who is finally acting like a level-headed King of the Alliance. He’s still aggressive and attacking the Horde, but he’s much more precise, tactical and thoughtful. Varian and Aduin have a little chat about the war and Varian convinces Anduin the Horde need to be stopped.

You also see Tyrande kind of pledge a deeper loyalty to Varian. Blizzard seems to be trying to set Varian up as the “High King” of the Alliance, essentially the Alliance version of a single Warchief.

I don’t want to spoil too much about future Horde stuff either, but Jaina’s initial desire to stay peaceful with the Sunreavers may not go as planned…

By: spinks

spinks — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:35:37 +0000

Thanks for that, it all sounds quite cool

Horde questline so far, with spoilers. Garrosh attempts to assassinate Vol’jin (this happens in a scenario, which is part of the domination point questline) and the injured troll goes into hiding. Garrosh heads to the Eternal Vale and decides that the Mogu had things down straight as far as intimidating their enemies go. He gets the blood elves hunting for relics and they find stories about this bell thing.

Chen finds Vol’jin and gets you to come and help gather stuff to heal him with. Vol’jin gives you his hearthstone to take to Thrall, who enlists you to free the troll village on Echo Isles (troll starter area) from (warlocky) Kork’ron Overseers and tells you to go back and pretend to go along with Garrosh because he has to think about what to do next.

Lor’themar and the blood elves get on with the relic finding, with hints that he’s not happy with Garrosh either.