The War Within's Story Explained In 20 Minutes 

Isle of Porn.

time you did a vid about the state of random bgs that is spreading to solo bgs? premades ruin pvp

Wait I didn't even think of this 👀

Sort of wonder if "the war within"...might also allude to Azeroth (or Xal'atath) doing to Alleria (where it disrupts the means she normally uses to avoid void corruption)?

@@artstrutzenberg7197 Calling it the war within certainly makes it sound like there will be inward conflict for the characters.

@@hmmmooops na. the war within is about the war within azeroth. nothing to add there. But i kinda get your perspective. anduin has a war within since SL.

It was his purpose to show you the worst possible outcome

I kinda aggree but shadowlands meta narrative was mid at best and df one was decente but had a lot of holes.

Exactly... it's like they write a cool wiki article and then make the story around that

I think the problem is that because the meta narrative worked so well in WOTLK where Arthas showed up and left a lot. They’ve tried to replicate that ever since.

This is pretty much it. I played through the 10.2 story arc recently, and while I generally thought the overall story itself was pretty good for WoW (it wasn't an Argus by any stretch of the imagination, but it wasn't bad), the actual details of playing through it were murky, annoying, and laughable. For instance, Fyrakk is suffering the Jailer syndrome hardcore as it's never explained WHY he turns into just another boring Saturday morning cartoon villain. Even during one cut scene, Alexstrasza says, "You used to believe in something, and now you just fight for power!" And Fyrakk just laughs and says, "Yes." That's probably the single stupidest exchange in the whole expansion, because, once again, it was a perfect opportunity to explain at least a LITTLE of the villain's motivations... but nope. Don't think about it. Plus, the overall questing in 10.2 was just... boring and monotonous. A procession of "fill bar", "kill X", and "find Y" quests with no variety at all. So, good overall story. Absolutely awful story progression and exposition that felt like something out of a pay to win Korean MMO.

@@davidharman3665Really? Because I remember myself and many others specifically disliking that part of WotLK because it made Arthas seem like a villain from a Saturday morning cartoon.

The writers view real history as problematic. They will continue to create empty hugbox stories with no stakes or teeth. Soft modern or "soy" as some put it.

​@@id2k.well said

@redman836 I will say that everything presented here seems much more engaging than the DF announcement.

I dont think so, not for us people who left Blizzard at mid. Shitlan..... I mean Shadowlands :s As I saw the Cinematic at Blizzcon I was happy to have a more "grounded" feeling but at the half where Azeroth cryd out and "speaks" i immediately saw Hydaelyn in my inner eye and Anduin as "Ardbert" from FF14 :s For ME, WoW has left the road i enjoyed traveling on, WoW is not anymore the Game i fell in love back in 2011. They work towards a new story that the people will enjoy that are still there and also for the new Generation. Nothing wrong with it but its not mine anymore :s My sub. runs out after Jan. 2024 and I dont see myself playing anymore after that

@@sagichdochned lol ff14 andy.

Hey man, if you plan to play TWW remember that the pre order gives you dragonflight, so if you know you'll be playing it feel free to come back to azeroth early! 10.2 has multiple quests that line up TWW. It's also a pretty cool expansion lol

Bro got scared by a fucking expansion set, crazy...

@@preds43 they LITERALLY meant scared right? Like cowering in a corner, huh? Crazy.

Don't ever pre-order a game. Don't make the problem worse. Edit: A bit blatant, aren't you guys?

@@preds43 Are you that stupid or just disingenuous? They meant scared off as in they were put off by all the poor design choices in Shadowlands.

Nah, they could always expand the story as much as they want. In an interview they even said they want another 15 yrs of WoW.

Well said.

WoW 2.0 maybe, but I don't think they will ever truelly end World of Warcraft. As long as some thousand or so people subscribe, the game will keep going. But I could see them majorly recreating the game after World Soul. at least I hope. The game needs an overhaul at the core. New engine, new combat system, etc.

Im just trying to embrace it for what it is. Like your child getting too big and having to let them be on their own finally after all these years of them needing you.

Every ending is a new beginning. We are uncovering old mysteries such as Azeroth and Elune, but we have new heroes such as Arator (Alleria's and Tyrion's son), the Arathi humans, and a renewed set of dragon aspects. We have new enemies, such as Xal'atath, the nerubians, and all the cosmic forces (including the light) can be seen as enemies trying to control us. And the prospect of going back to Northrend, seeing Arathi humans, etc, can mean we could retcon the entire Shadowlands and see a return or Arthas or the Arator dynasty.

you'll wear your necklace and you'll like it because devs said so!

I hope we do, but reimagined as a UI element for legacy mode content or some kind of outdoor-only borrowed power rather than a piece of gear with instanced power

My expectation is that this Coreway that the Earthen are guarding will lead to a patch zone at the center of Azeroth, perhaps one where we actually see the world soul as the skybox.

I am actually stoked that we get the Nerubians. It looks like with Metzen back in charge, he's undoing a lot of crappy writing from the last few expansions, given that the last Nerubian brood lord was supposedly killed on a freakin' *island expedition* in BfA. The Nerubians were one of my greatest hopes for a future expansion, and BfA killed that dead. So, good on Metzen for waving away that terrible piece of lore.

Didn't they sort of do that with the end of Shadowlands?

@NostraDavid2 I think so? I'm mostly being a meme

yeah they alrdy did that. Jailer had a similar arc to Thanos in the MCU. A godlike entity with good intentions but very wrong and evil execution.

Yeah, he was actually mustache-twirling evil because the universe in his image is better than the coming evil, which is apparently somehow even worse than the Void Lords. Perhaps he was speaking about them and their penchant for evil and insanity but it felt like he was talking about yet another BIG BAD that is on the horizon. This is why I said that the Burning Crusade and Sargeras should never be defeated because you then have to keep creating new Big Bads who are somehow worse and more evil than the last one, and it gets a bit ridiculous.

@@rondyreeves4772 Well, we always knew that Legion and Sargeras werent the biggest of evils anyway. The Void Lords have always been the endgame when it comes to the big bads. And i ve predicted for years now that Sargeras will return to aid us against the Void in the ultimate War. He will use Illidan's body as a vessel. That was Sargeras' goal from the start. To stop the Void from conquering titan-soul worlds and eventually defeat them. Illidan staying behind to "guard" Sargeras was so forced. Blizzard wanted to remove Illidan from the lore because hes too powerful and would cause problems in BFA if he chose sides, and they also needed an easy way to bring Sargeras into Azeroth when the time was right.

I think he looks like Stephen Amell somewhat

@gabrielballiet9282 yeah i can see that as well

@@gabrielballiet9282you got it!

No he just started do nightshifts

THE FACTORY MUST GROW

I identifie as a Machine Speaker rock person... .. .

That is the most-likely explanation for Xal, honestly. It was originally believed that she was like a claw or some part of an Old God but that was speculation and kinda silly. This is also speculation but less silly. She knows that she will go completely Frosted Flakes and fruit loops eventually, so it probably is her.

Dragonflight is literally setting up for this saga at the end, that was the entire point of the ending... we also have more patches coming with more story.

Don’t know what you mean… so far DF is one of the best addons I’ve played so far. Fun and beautiful

Too much effort for the art team. lol

Yeah I wonder what Illidan and Sargeras’ roles will be in the future.

Nope, confirmed not by the devs

Same

i thought the same thing. sure looks like it.

jep same here

What tree?

It played its part already I think. Which was establishing that Azeroth's power is not Titan magic. Something else, something different. Azeroth used the Tree to give the aspects their powers - which means they are either as strong as they were when they had their Aspectral powers, or Stronger. I don't think the Tree will play more of a part than that. It was used as a stepping stone to establish Azeroth is not a Titan.

@@ShadowKallig that would be very disappointing. this tree combines the magic of life, death and arcane and we not gonna use this power to our advantege? As you mentioned this tree has some connection to Azeroth so they couldn't make this tree at least a place to better communicate with the world soul, instead they just gonna forget this plot? ☹

are they going to add flying to silvermoon and other no fly zones?

You mean.. Naruu are the master race.

As a Paladin player: the Naaru are false gods - the Light is the Light, and it doesn't need no windchimes from space to speak in its place. The Light needs no speaker.

@@NostraDavid2 to bad, cause blizzard already decided for you

And the orc's almost erased the draenei. Orc master race confirmed?

@@shanaeverowe9626 orcs and draenei are friends now, so it evens out

Idd ...as i always wanted ogres😅

don't even bother. DF's story plain sucks.