I hadn't even thought to test the Nethersent draenei quest on my Mage, turns out it has unique dialogue for those with Arcane Linguist!
I don't think I've ever seen a single quest with so much love for taking player background into account, I wish all quests had this.
I sure wish that were true, brother
Thank you for confirming that Astalor is gay as hell, Liadrin 😌
He's EASILY the best part of the expansion to me, thank you so much for all his amazing lines
Astalor is #DarkWoke
Me when I'm definitely not a human paladin posing as a blood elf:
Turalyon's statue in Overwatch got replaced with a Nier biped I'm crying 😭
Obsessed with Blizzard showing off the warrior tier set on the widest character possible
We know this isn't the case because nobody in the zone is aware of the Lightbloom prior to our arrival at Shaladrassil's roots during the leveling story.
If the yellow skybox throughout the zone was intended to be a new phenomenon, they would have commented on it.
Looking back at the TWW launch cinematic too, Orweyna's segment is very clearly in Harandar, but the lighting looks nothing like how it does in Midnight.
I do wonder if they intended it to be like this at some point in development, and I wonder why it changed so much.
It's also weird because when you go to the Lightbloom beneath Shaladrassil, it uses the skybox and the haze from Eversong with that sickly yellow to show how dominant the Light is.
But then the rest of the zone is basically the same exact yellow lighting, so it's a bit moot lol
I've never been someone who uses Inky Black Potions often, since I always prefer the lighting of a given zone as intended.
...but I think Harandar might be my big exception. Between the lighting of the Cradle and the bioluminescent plants, it feels like it's SUPPOSED to be dark.
I wrote a little short story a while back about my Man'ari character Tsao-Lon, and the first steps he took towards becoming a shaman.
It's only *slightly* proof-read since I wrote it in a travel-induced fervor, but I had fun and figured I would share it.
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Omg he’s even a shadow priest as a middle ground between my disc priest and your warlock
He works so well as a fish out of water, not just because of his unique nature as a dreadlord but how, in contrast to the four faith-based stories we just leveled through, he is the ONLY one with that kind of determined belief in the entire zone (aside from Arator, who he clearly doubts)
I've decided my Blood Knight is an incredibly reluctant ally to Astalor, as the only other person in Silvermoon who isn't lame.
They're like the only two gay people in the workplace who can't stand each other, but have to work together because everyone else is so much worse.
I know it was already pretty obvious that Harandar was originally intended for TWW and not Midnight, but some of the world quest dialogue makes it *really* obvious lol
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that the 'Alnscorned' manifestation in Orweyna's short story uses a Sha model.
Everyone has their favorite main story character or racial leader in WoW, but what I want to know is: what are people's Warcraft Glup Shittos?
Give me your obscure, "only mattered 10 years ago" one-off characters that you love in WoW.
the way you nailed the tone here so perfectly, you absolutely have experience with these kinds of men 😭
would you say it's... exquisite....
Me and my chud son who I love
I took care of her with my handy elven SHOTGUN not long after though
The faction tagging in the Horde area of Silvermoon is a bit finnicky, so my draenei friend and I found afk spots in the part of the city with good music
The quote for getting a perfect score lmao
Sadly though, we still brutalize and murder civilians (while letting the fel-wielding nobles off scot free) so I can't really call it massively improved from beta lol
They also added a cute little minigame where you don a disguise and have to play the role of a temp worker for angry lounge guests lol
The Murder Row dungeon quests got some very small changes, having Belath talk more about the *dangers* of fel magic instead of calling them foolish for fearing the Void.
Doesn't change the overall issues with the dungeon, but they're nice little framing changes.
The dungeon also now ends with the gloom over Windrunner Village totally cleared, so I guess it was just the haunting causing all of that very cool atmosphere lol
Sadly the rest of the dungeon is exactly the same as from testing though. We kill the Forsaken entirely unprompted, and are more understanding of a dragonhawk than these actual living people lol
Lirath's voice acting also just has such an uncomfortable disdain in Sylvanas' wing.
