The War Within Introduction Questline (Story Spoilers)

The War Within Posted 1 day ago by Neryssa

WARNING: The War Within Story Spoilers in this post! cinematic that was teased a few days ago on the official Warcraft social media accounts, of the showdown between Khadgar and Xal'atath

Comment by bluebird91I hope they only did it so they can rebuild Dalaran bigger and better for player housing, otherwise this is just another pointlessly destroyed unique player hub that just takes away from the franchise. Other games can add stakes and hype to their next expansion by adding to the world, not by destroying its fantastical locales; meanwhile Warcraft went from having a giant magical tree Teldrassil with an entire zone and a capital city in its branches to a tiny settlement around a tree, went from a highly defensible sprawling underground city with multiple districts to some tents in the overland ruins of Lordaeron, and went from having a floating citadel of magic to not having a floating citadel.

Crashing a floating city out of nowhere at the start of the expac has no bearing on us wanting to go to Kaz Algar to stop Xalatath from corrupting the world soul (which we already wanted to do before Dalaran). And now, failing to find Xalatath in time and Khadgar dying isn't even Alleria's motivation to void out, since she just arrived in the city as her new model before Xalatath is revealed, and there is very little stakes to raise when the planet itself is sending telepathig distress signals directly into people's heads. So the devs who talked about having random player cities be destroyed for the stakes are either incompetent or lying about doing it for that reason.Comment by MadSoritmihcraLmI hope they only did it so they can rebuild Dalaran bigger and better for player housing,Comment by dwolf010I hope they only did it so they can rebuild Dalaran bigger and better for player housing, otherwise this is just another pointlessly destroyed unique player hub that just takes away from the franchise. Other games can add stakes and hype to their next expansion by adding to the world, not by destroying its fantastical locales; meanwhile Warcraft went from having a giant magical tree Teldrassil with an entire zone and a capital city in its branches to a tiny settlement around a tree, went from a highly defensible sprawling underground city with multiple districts to some tents in the overland ruins of Lordaeron, and went from having a floating citadel of magic to not having a floating citadel.

Crashing a floating city out of nowhere at the start of the expac has no bearing on us wanting to go to Kaz Algar to stop Xalatath from corrupting the world soul (which we already wanted to do before Dalaran). And now, failing to find Xalatath in time and Khadgar dying isn't even Alleria's motivation to void out, since she just arrived in the city as her new model before Xalatath is revealed, and there is very little stakes to raise when the planet itself is sending telepathig distress signals directly into people's heads. So the devs who talked about having random player cities be destroyed for the stakes are either incompetent or lying about doing it for that reason.Comment by bluebird91I hope they only did it so they can rebuild Dalaran bigger and better for player housing, otherwise this is just another pointlessly destroyed unique player hub that just takes away from the franchise. Other games can add stakes and hype to their next expansion by adding to the world, not by destroying its fantastical locales; meanwhile Warcraft went from having a giant magical tree Teldrassil with an entire zone and a capital city in its branches to a tiny settlement around a tree, went from a highly defensible sprawling underground city with multiple districts to some tents in the overland ruins of Lordaeron, and went from having a floating citadel of magic to not having a floating citadel.

Crashing a floating city out of nowhere at the start of the expac has no bearing on us wanting to go to Kaz Algar to stop Xalatath from corrupting the world soul (which we already wanted to do before Dalaran). And now, failing to find Xalatath in time and Khadgar dying isn't even Alleria's motivation to void out, since she just arrived in the city as her new model before Xalatath is revealed, and there is very little stakes to raise when the planet itself is sending telepathig distress signals directly into people's heads. So the devs who talked about having random player cities be destroyed for the stakes are either incompetent or lying about doing it for that reason.Comment by DemiletoSo, can anyone explain to me why Blizzard withheld the second cinematic that's supposed to play during the intro questline only to spoil its twist right after through an Alleria dialogue to the player character?Comment by IncandioI hope they only did it so they can rebuild Dalaran bigger and better for player housing, otherwise this is just another pointlessly destroyed unique player hub that just takes away from the franchise. Other games can add stakes and hype to their next expansion by adding to the world, not by destroying its fantastical locales; meanwhile Warcraft went from having a giant magical tree Teldrassil with an entire zone and a capital city in its branches to a tiny settlement around a tree, went from a highly defensible sprawling underground city with multiple districts to some tents in the overland ruins of Lordaeron, and went from having a floating citadel of magic to not having a floating citadel.

Crashing a floating city out of nowhere at the start of the expac has no bearing on us wanting to go to Kaz Algar to stop Xalatath from corrupting the world soul (which we already wanted to do before Dalaran). And now, failing to find Xalatath in time and Khadgar dying isn't even Alleria's motivation to void out, since she just arrived in the city as her new model before Xalatath is revealed, and there is very little stakes to raise when the planet itself is sending telepathig distress signals directly into people's heads. So the devs who talked about having random player cities be destroyed for the stakes are either incompetent or lying about doing it for that reason.Comment by ErevienCopium in full swing still I see.Comment by vacuaThat scaly dragon looks so ridiculously out of place in that video, its unreal. Still cant get over it how stupid and not WoW like that design of them is.Comment by UtharionThat scaly dragon looks so ridiculously out of place in that video, its unreal. Still cant get over it how stupid and not WoW like that design of them is.Comment by Rainy89That scaly dragon looks so ridiculously out of place in that video, its unreal. Still cant get over it how stupid and not WoW like that design of them is.Comment by OrissanWasn’t Li-An a spy that we killed?Comment by SpilledstarsWhen we fix all these fracked up Leylines, heal a few injured lands, can we PLEASE have portals to multiple zones be in more places than one lousy capitol?

Asking for a pandaren friend.

Asking for Crystalsong.

Asking for re-integration of the old xpac content in new ways instead of just kicking the old stuff off a cliff every other September-maybe-Xmas.