>dude corrupted by evil/Old Gods lmao Will Blizzard ever

>>383162586
Blizzard has no original ideas anymore, neither do any of the other mmo developers. Dead genre.

>>383162972
>blizzard
>ever original idea
xd

>>383162586
what if it turns out to be autism?

>>383162972
all blizzard has ever done is take other peoples ideas and give them wider appeal

how long until thrall is corrupted by the old gods too?

What is going to happen once everyone has been corrupted?

>>383163634
you realize the titans were the bad guys all along

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Corrupted Jaina gives me a tingle in my dingle

>>383164035
BUT WHO ARE THE GOOD GUYS????????

What SHOULD have happened:
>Jaina's butthurt over no Horde dismantling, leaves the Kirin Tor
>The Karazhan nostalgia-pandering patch actually has relevance to the story since a disgusted Jaina decides she will take the powers of the Guardian of Tirisfal for herself as nobody else is to be trusted with them
>As you confront her at the end of the instance, she bypasses the Guardian ritual and siphons the power from the Forge of the Guardian
>Which is exactly what Sargeras wished for, since Jaina was carrying an imprint of Aegwynn's power in her, she was now eligible to become his avatar
>Sargeras manifests through the empowered Jaina, and spirits off to his Tomb where you must stop them

Doesn't matter at that point whether she lives or dies, because she has now actually become humbled from her insistence that she knew best, AKA a real deal character arc.

>>383163254
Yeah Blizzard is like an American Nintendo

>>383162972
>shitposter has no idea what he is talking about
Nothing new here.
She is corrupted in Hearthstone you retard, has nothing to do with the actual lore

make freeze mage great again

>>383164216
Except she's right you faggot, why introduce demon corruption into it
I have no idea why people think Jaina's corrupted she's just really fuckin pissed her city got nuke

>>383164186
Garithos

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So the next expansion has been leaked to be Kul Tiras, right? Does this mean we're going to see a Jaina story of her going "dad was right"?

>>383164780
next expansion is azshara / kul tiras

proximity of argus causes flooding of old world zones giving way for naga invasion

see: datamined maps of flooded ungoro

>>383164627
She deserved it, Theramore started the war.

>Orcs wipe out 80% of humanity
>Stick em in camps to hopefully rehabilitate them
>They escape, start another war
>They flee across the ocean
>Orcs slaughter night elves for shits and giggles even after supposedly making peace with them
>Orcs start supporting genocidal rebels in Alliance lands
>Orcs fully support to finish what they started and exterminate the Draenei
>Rape an angel in your basement for good measure
>Consistently stab the Alliance in the back when they're fighting a common foe
>Start another all-out war with the Alliance
>Hey maybe we should demilitarise these people as they clearly can't be trusted?
>WOW WHAT ARE YOU A NAZI CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE HORDE IS PEACEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR OUR CONTINUED SURVIVAL?

>>383165262
so basically

>lets reusde more assets cause making new one would require creativity and effort

>>383162586
Nope. In WoW they're going to continue this route until every major lore character has been corrupted and killed or put into a sentinel's position.

Because (You) are the true main character of the story!

We could talk about D3 and SC2's major failures of story but there's no point. Everything and anything after TFT is just head shaking awful.

>shit ActiBlizzard character narrative

What's next, /v/irgins?
"Water is wet"?

>>383162586
the old gods laughed, this thread amuses them
the old gods laaaauuuuuuughed
FOREVER (and ever and ever and never)

>>383165262
Waitttttttt. Wait. Lmao. So WoD was truly TBC redone, Legion/Wrath and now they're redoing Cata /again/.

Jesus tap dancing christ.

>>383166418
Changing/adding to the world is a cool thing though.

>>383165262
flooded un'goro had technical reasons behind it. It's not lore related

>>383166580
broof?

>>383166418
I mean, adding to the old world really needs to happen. It's weird how much of it is still in the Cata state.

>>383166580
>flooded un'goro had technical reasons behind it

we really need to flood this area, is gonna increase your fps

>>383166694
Just like Thousand Needles did!

>>383166694
wtf i love thousand needles graphics now?

>>383164216
>she will take the powers of the Guardian of Tirisfal for herself
So why go to Karazhan? The power of the Guardian is given by the Council of Six using the Forge in the Mage class hall

I mean, you're literally the Guardian for all of 10 seconds right at the very start of the Mage campaign. Karazhan has nothing to do with it. Medivh lost the power.

>>383162972
>neither do any of the other mmo developers.

EHHM....Final Fantasy XIV.
The game has better written and more original story than any MMO ever will have.

>>383166694
>>383166646
>Flooded Un'goro is more likely just an error - when you cut and paste sections of the world like this the water often 'misbehaves'. Un'goro is far below sea level, it probably got automatically filled with water when they pasted the area into the instance. There are plenty of examples of instanced map areas being with or without water. One of these is a flooded Shololzar Basin in the Isle of Conquest instance.

Source: some random fuck on mmo champion, but it sounds pretty plausible

>>383167015
that doesn't sound unlikely, water level is fixed for most areas and un'goro is below sea level to start with

>>383166526
>>383166679
Adding yes. If they're revamping the whole leveling Azeroth leveling again, I have to ask, for what purpose? Especially when boosts exist and are given for free with an expansion purchase.

>>383165262
>flooded ungoro
Even quests in vanilla said Un'Goro has a variable water level and floods on occasion

>>383163034
This. Their entire fucking existence is due to a botched Warhammer deal. It's just a shittier and more normie friendly Warhammer.

>>383167015
It's not a fucking minecraft server. WoW water is not a physical entity in the game world.

>>383166947
>Why go to Karazhan?
It's one of the most powerful ley-line conduits on Azeroth
>It's given by the forge
Yes, the Forge was in Violet Hold before it was teleported to the Class Hall, it wouldn't be unfeasible for Jaina to have taken it first, and Karazhan would have been the best place to hide it as a site of great magical power that was also entirely neutral.

>>383167178
I really doubt they're doing that this time around. Perhaps just zones that actually need a bit of revamping to them, like those tied too directly to the Cataclysm or Garrosh or whatever. Zones like Silverpine Forest or Un'Goro or Tanaris or whatever need very little change.

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>>383166984
>lol you're so strong that you've killed things that slaughter armies single-handedly, but I'm so much stronger than you you can't even damage me
>maybe if you get way stronger I'll grant you the honor of seeing a glimpse of my REAL power :^)
>*teleports behind you and slips away into the darkness*

>>383167247
we're talking filed to the brim thousand needles tier

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Alleria willingly corrupts herself with the Void from the dead Not-Muru to become more powerful

>>383167743
zenos was so stupid. I was expecting a battle hardened grunt of a man, and instead we get pretty boy/ sephioth 2.0 who has trust issues and had a crush on your character. Im pretty damn sure he would have raped him, too, if he had took down the character once.

>>383162586

>have to play HotS if you want to experience the characters in their preserved state

what the fuck happened

>>383164690
>next expac we revive Garithos
>new class dark knight
>we form the True Human Alliance
>genocide elves
>expose (((dwarves)))
>use gnomes as cannon fodder
>worgens are now mounts

about time

>>383167962
>One Windrunner remains pure and uncorrupted
>One Windrunner goes full darkness and gloom
>One Windrunner is a weird halfway point between the two
>But they all got that human fever

It's like pottery

>>383168137
>True Human Alliance

I mean, that sounds nice and all, but who would even form this? Most of the human kingdoms are either dead or fully in favor of the Alliance as is.

>le corruption XD

>>383163634
We corrupt

Corruption itself!

>>383168261
thats why we need to make lordaeron great again.

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>>383168261
Scarlet Crusade still around?

>>383162586
And then she goes and resurrect Arthas to try and save this shitty storyline.

>>383168261
Stormwind
Dalaran humans who remember being attacked by Forsaken for no reason
Theramore "Deserters"
Kul'Tiras
Stromgarde Remnants led by Trollbane, after seeing what the Horde did to his family and people
Gilnean Purebloods who didn't take the knot
Reformed Wastewander bandits and North/South Sea Freebooters

>>383168593
its fucked beyond repair, probably scarlet onslaught has still some of them.

>>383168970
Enough that you get to kill a bunch during the Priest campaign but they're still the ultra fanatical dipshits they were in WotLK

>>383168740
Stormgarde is full on Undead at this point and Trollbane is a death knight so don't expect them to do anything. Everyone from Gilneas took the knot or died. The only faction I can see doing anything is the old Alterac people leading the Syndicate if they aren't all dead at this point.

>>383168137
Wow, I can't think of anything more boring besides maybe a full Tauren expansion.

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>>383162586
Jaina is the end goal Arthas 2.0

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>>383169258
All the good humans left Gilneas to go and live with the Night Elves in their shitty tree. And wrong Trollbane.

>>383169083
>not wanting to be a total fanatic paladin
its like you hate fun.

>>383169478
t. butthurt elf

>>383169478
Not if Varian killed the Horde Leaders and it became Allaince vs Thunderbluff.

Even Wrathion knows it would have taken months to break when Orgimmar fell in a day.

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>>383169601
>elf
Nah, Elves are deviant cucks too. I play the race that got all your lame human kingdoms "MUH"ing in the first place

>how about we add some greyness and make the bad guy understandable
>haha nah, dude old gods lmao

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>>383169770
Too bad Nathanos got ruined

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>>383169979
DELET THIS

>>383169579
Jaina is going to become the new alliance leader, mark my worlds. Then they'll use her to say that humans are evil all along while giving more sympathy points to the horde cause thats most of their fanbase.

>>383170285
>He seriously thinks that with Metzen's self-inserting out of the way the Horde will ever get prioritized over the Alli "BAINE CAN'T VISIT HIGHMOUNTAIN BUT YOU CAN BE SHOEHORNED INTO BEING TYRANDE'S FOOTSLAVE" ance

>>383170285
jokes on you fag, even if the horde is favored by blizz alliance is still stronger.
its time for your DISMANTLE

>>383170856
>DISMANTLE
Do you remember when Rogues had Dismantle

I do

>>383171273
I remember when rogues didn't have dismantle yet.

>>383164627
>I have no idea why people think Jaina's corrupted she's just really fuckin pissed her city got nuke

Data mined shit from the PTR literally has a map of Kul Tiras with tentacles coming out of it.

>Her heart is a crater, and we have filled it

>>383173092
>Her heart is a crater, and we have filled it

As in Ungoro Crater. The place where you fight Ilgynoth.

>>383169979
>>383170047
they gave him a body worthy of Windrunner pussy

>>383167015
what? wow has water physics or just sets a level in wich it floods shit under it ?

>>383168593
Those guys are like HYDRA from Marvel Comics. Basically the power levels got so high they became irrelevant. Only fit for level 30 characters and that is where it ends.

Illidan is literally going to be door-kun.

>>383176824
maeiv and him need to fuck already

>>383167015

So is like to say that blizzard is shit that can't even work on his own old game.

>>383176882
We just get him back and he is leaving us again.

Like shit man, people wanted a redemption story for Illidan but he has little to no solid interaction with Maiev and absolutely none with Tyrande or Malfurion.... Pretty silly really.

>>383170468
>BAINE CAN'T VISIT HIGHMOUNTAIN BUT YOU CAN BE SHOEHORNED INTO BEING TYRANDE'S FOOTSLAVE

I mean, if I had to be somebody's footslave I'd rather it be her.
Most of the shoes she wears are very breathable, so they probably have the least offensive smell of all the Alliance leaders.

>>383163034
blizzard's shit was great when you're 13 and don't know any better. But looking back, all their shit from warcraft to starcraft has never amounted to anything better than shitty fanfic ripoffs of cliche high fantasy.

>>383165858R
>Rape an angel in your basement for good measure

i'm sorry, what?

>>383162586
Better buckle the fuck up if the rumors about next expansion are true. Expect that trope to rear its ugly head as much as fel green did in Legion.

>>383178134
He's probably referring to the Blood Elves keeping a captured Naaru in a basement in Silvermoon during TBC. Blood Elf paladins used it to absorb light power from it because they can't just wield it naturally like humans could.

>>383168593
blizzard will change the lore when they see fit, but at the moment, they are pretty much just rag tag groups as the scarlet onslaught was pretty much everything they had left.

>>383168593
>whitemane raised as a horseman
scarlet fags btfo

Varimathras taunts Alliance
Varimathras: So, your Alliance still endures. Longer than I expected, though she has already planted the seeds of its downfall. She is patient, that one.
Varimathras: When your thrones run red with betrayal... when your holy places burn and the shattered mask hangs above your hearth... only then you will know. And it will be too late.
Varimathras: It matters not. You are blind to the true darkness closing in around you.

Varimathras taunts Horde
Varimathras: So, she found me at last. Sent her underlings to finish the job.
Varimathras: Tell me, when she seized your throne of hides and bones, was your allegiance forced? No... I'd wager you surrendered it willingly... or were convinced you did.
Varimathras: It matters not. You are blind to the darkness in your midst.

>>383178573
>She wears full plate
I hate Blizzard for this.

>>383179815
same

was hoping shed be in a slut mog

>>383174786
>Her heart is a crater
The heart of the Azeroth titan baby you mongoloid, and the crater is Un'goro.

>>383173092
It's much more likely that's Sylvanas if anyone

>>383179957
Aw shit, meant to reply to >>383173092

>>383179285
Jaina is evil?

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Why is it always "Once-pure character corrupted by evil" and literally never "Once-evil character purified by heroes"? It's as if an evil character is legitimately unable to be made into a good one without them being erased from existence.

>>383180192
Do you even know who Varimathras is?

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>>383180215
:^)

>>383180403
I always thought that thing was fake until a group of Paladins used him to destroy me and a few other Horde.
>15 sec AoE stun

>>383165262
>datamined maps of flooded ungoro
wait what? Are they're going cataclysm 2.0?

>>383180215
>Once-evil character purified by heroes
boy you're in for a treat when you do the sargeras redemption questline next patch

>>383180215
Grom? Both versions work. Also everyone who got fucked by Xavius, I guess.

You could argue Illidan is that (but not really), as well as Sylvanas (but not really).

>not having corruption fetish
wtf is wrong with yall

>>383162586
Aribeth ripoff

>>383179957
>the crater is Un'goro
The crater is the Maelstrom you fudge packing simpleton

The Well of Eternity was a wound where an Old God was ripped right from the surface of Azeroth, Un'Goro is a hole in the ground the Titans made to experiment on life

>>383178367

They could, they've had Priests. They just didn't have the discipline to become Paladins, because they're fucking elves.

>>383180215
>Once-evil character purified by heroes

GALLYWIX

>>383181049
>>383178367
The issue was that they thought the Light had abandoned them. The Light works almost entirely on faith. If you don't believe you can use it, you can't.

Like when Tirion was "stripped" of his Paladin powers and lived in a shack until he realized it was horseshit and they didn't take anything at all

>>383168013
He wasn't Sephiroth at all. He wanted to have a good fight, and that was it.

>>383181049
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNv9nR7QVPk
NEVER TRUST AN ELF

>>383179957
>taking it that literally

Theramore is referred to as a crater, the Old Gods have seen Jaina's suffering and turned her crazy.

Hence the Old God tentacles out of Kul Tiras

>>383165858
>>Stick em in camps to hopefully rehabilitate them
>rehabilitate them
yea sure enslaving them and make them fight as gladiators surely is a good way of make them good boys

>>383181049
Priests come from all kinds of places though, not necessarily the Light. Trolls have hex priests, undead have a weird thing with shadow, night elves believe in Elune

>>383181193
i fucking hate how he just randomly got to be "good" even though he never ever had a redemption thing

they even had a replacement set up for him, but noope

>>383168132
Semi-preserved state. The voice actors are all terrible compared to the originals
Illidan, Anub'arak, and Kael Thas in particular just make me sad

>>383162586
Isn't that the fucking point of the Old Gods? Like, their entire fucking reason for existing.

I'm surprised there are people as fucking retarded as you.

>>383181591
Elune created the Naaru so she's a Light spewing entity now

I wish Jaina just went full mad and became a raid boss or something, not OLD GOD CORRUPTION raid boss.

I haven't played since the first month of Legion. Is it worth going back?

>>383183907
no

>>383181884
excellent bait, have a (you)

>>383164150
>evil jaina captures wrynn and takes over stormwind somehow.
>new raid tier assault on stormwind keep to kill Jaina finally

It happened to orgrimmar why not stormwind now

>>383185831

Because it's cliche garbage in the Warcraft lore that needs to fucking stop.

>>383163634
Our corrupted selves from a different timeline open a portal to our world and start invading.

>>383181884
You're completely right. Does it make it a good writing tho? Hmmm reaally makes you think

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>>383180403
JUST