right
so my favourite storyline in the whole universe is the emerald dream, emerald nightmare, tyrande, malfurion, cenarius and ysera
that whole lot
one of the things that annoyed me most was that they sorted the emerald nightmare plot in cataclysm
just before the final raid
not in the game, but in a book
and essentially everything was sorted, malfurion came back, ysera came back, and cenarius came back
everything was happy etc etc
and they then proceeded to continue to ignore all of those characters ingame
anyway
in legion, one of the zones is the ancestral home of the druids
and the place shaped to be like the emerald dream on azeroth
where cenarius trained malfurion
anyway, I got spoiled in a totally random thread by an arsehole - ysera dies in legion
so I was like "what, no! I liked ysera, they didn't do enough with her character, that's a travesty"
then I read the plot.
then had a 30 minute rant to matthew
so essentially
xavius comes back and the whole emerald nightmare starts again
xavius was who cenarius and malfurion defeated in the book
so that was kindly ignored
so the nightmare is back, and corrupting shit again
it's one of the two launch raids in legion
bear in mind I've been wanting an emerald dream xpac since BC, so while I'm disappointed it's only a zone and a raid, that's still good enough
well, so I thought
the overarching plot of legion is that you're collecting the pillars of creation to seal the tomb yadda yadda yadda
one of them is the tears of elune
malfurion says "oh, they're easy to get, I'll go ask cenarius for them"
tootles off and asks cenarius, who has been corrupted and is lying unconcious
he's not fully gone yet, so malfurion is like "shit, I can still save him with the tears"
goes and gets the tears, then xavius steals them and is like "lolnope" and fully corrupts cenarius
then ysera comes to help, and he corrupts her too
so tyrande joins in and is like "ok here we go, les dance"
xavius then kidnaps malfurion and sends ysera to attack some well or another
and essentially goes "do you save your love or the dream"
so she goes to save the dream
kills ysera who was attacking
and xavius kills malfurion
and cenarius and xavius are the two last bosses in the emerald nightmare raid
so in other words
FUCK EVERYTHING HOLY SHIT HOW CAN THEY WRITE SOMETHING THIS FUCKING BAD
they literally were just like "fuck it" and killed off EVERY CHARACTER I LOVE WITHOUT ADVANCING THE PLOT AT ALL
FOR NO REASON
like
if illidan had saved malfurion
holy shit, what a plot
it would add so much depth to illidan, you would still have malfurion and tyrande and they would be leading the assault against the dream together
great story, shame about cenarius and ysera, but it's not all bad
but just flat killing the three of them
in a shit single zone story(edited)
with no nuance or anything
after neglecting all of those fucking characters since warcraft fucking 3
it's the biggest kick in the balls I've ever had
like I was mad when they devalued all the dragons at the end of cata
but holy shit this is on another level
here's a load of really well developed key lore characters that haven't done anything for 10 fucking years, let's write an awesome story about them
no wait, let's game of thrones the shit out of them and kill them all
that sounds like a great idea chris metzen! let's do that!
fuck him
fuck him so, so hard
it's not the deaths I'm mad about, it's the fucking insignificance of the whole fucking affair
after they shat on all of that lore for 10 fucking years
everything they've done in the past
that has been bad or disappointing
has been short term disappointing, but not ultimately affecting things long term
but this
this just flat out ends one of the best storylines in the entire wow universe
by literally fucking killing everyone involved
even the bad guy
there are so, so many things they could have done
to make that story fantastic
add nuance and depth to already well fleshed out characters
but this is irreversable
the nightmare is gone, xavius is gone, cenarius is gone, malfurion is gone, ysera is gone
the only fucker left is tyrande
xavius btw was a highborne night elf who was corrupted by sargeras and turned into the first satyr
he's extremely powerful, along the lines of kil'jaden and archimonde
awesome raid boss
the emerald nightmare in general is an awesome idea for a raid
but fuck the story they decided to fucking write
ive never been this mad about the direction they've taken a wow storyline
like i've been mad
but this is something else
all they had to do was have illidan save malfurion
awesome redemption arc, adds a twist, keeps two of the more powerful and interesting characters in lore alive
boom
great storytelling
nope, everyone dies like a redshirt