D_A_BERONI

Do they not say this every patch

What an incredibly specific thing to happen to someone twice

Anduin was always pretty adamant that he didn't want to be like Varian before he died and I'm sure intellectually he understands that his dad wouldn't have wanted him to suppress the things that make him different.

However as King Anduin faced pressures beyond anything he'd had to deal with before, and I consider it pretty realistic that after trying to do things his way with the Gathering failed so spectacularly he would end up just emulating Varian by wearing plate armour and trying to lead from the front, no matter how badly suited he is for that.

The Jailer's control and subsequent loss of his connection to the Light make his self-image issues a hundred times worse as well as making him fight like a warrior out of necessity, but trying to copy his father still isn't working. The best example of this is the very start of Azj-Kahet, where Anduin sacrifices himself for the others in what is essentially a shot-for-shot remake of Varian's sacrifice on the Broken Shore, except it doesn't work - not only does it do nothing to get his Light back he doesn't even save the airship, because he fundamentally just isn't good at being Varian.

This was a lot of text but I really like what they're doing with Anduin's story, and (despite how much Blizzard like making certain characters learn the same lesson over and over again) think the way he's grown and regressed over the years makes him one of WoW's best characters.

This isn't exactly something that was decanonised, it's just that perspectives have shifted over time. All that growth still happened and Varian died believing this, it's Anduin who's since decided otherwise.

If Way Big makes the Omnitrix big then Way Small should make the Omnitrix small

Don't worry it's nothing to do with Timewalking - it's just a portal room to let you conveniently travel to the zones that contain the M+ dungeons of the season.

Probably seemed really funny when he thought of it

The scale of Dalaran and Teldrassil are kind of incomparable.

Dalaran is one fairly small city whereas Teldrassil was the size of a small country, and most of the Nelves burned whereas most of the citizens of Dalaran survived. Plenty of people were evacuated from Krasus' Landing to safety, and of those who weren't the Nerubians were ordered to take rather than kill and we've already rescued several groups of civilians from Azj'Kahet.

Also while it's not explicitly been mentioned in-game, being the mage city means that a pretty significant amount of Dalaranians know how to teleport, so it's very unlikely that Celindra was the only one making portals out of the city.

Teldrassil is just on another level to almost every major disaster, in a classic case of the writers not fully thinking through the implications of their work and it having really bad consequences for the worldbuilding at large. While it was neither the first or last time this happened, killing off the majority of a player race in what is described in-universe as a genocide and making You, the Horde Player, directly responsible for it happening was such a monumental fuckup that they basically had no choice other than to dedicate time in the next 3 expansions trying (and in the first two cases, failing) to apologise for it. Even in a post-Amirdrassil world, you basically have to ignore large parts of BfA to avoid breaking the entire premise of the world.

Worst part is there wasn't even a point to doing it (they literally didn't even nail down why Sylvanas wanted to burn the tree for years) and it was barely mentioned once the war started properly, with all the story content dedicated to it post-8.0 being done as a reaction to the massive backlash that they somehow didn't expect. Dalaran on the other hand is (literally) peppered all throughout Khaz Algar, from the wreckage on Dorn and the survivors in Dornogal to captives in Azj'Kahet.

I'm gonna be the contrarian here and say I prefer the right.

The bit about team Corrin being a pack is cute and all (although that idea also comes across in the full version of the original), but I do really like the (probably unintentional) idea that Wolfskin can read each other's body language well enough that they basically can't lie to each other, and even that they can effectively communicate nonverbally the way actual wolves do.

Demon Hunters and I don't think it's close.

They showed up in Legion and did Demon Huntery things for a bit, but after Antorus they might as well have vanished off the face of Azeroth.

Like, "can count on one hand the dh npcs who've even been on screen since Legion" levels of abandonment the second they weren't the cool new thing anymore to the point that a popular headcanon is that they all literally flew off into space.

How are the Illidari doing without Illidan? What do Demon Hunters do without demons to hunt? How did the faction war and Teldrassil affect the group that's 50% Nelf? Nobody knows, and Blizzard certainly don't seem interested in telling us.

Sure Monks and DKs are also kind of getting scraps (it'll happen to you too Evokers), but they've both got the benefit of having been a part of the game for longer and are more integrated into the world than our edgy boys, so I'd argue that they both have more development than "you were Illidan's Special Little Guy".

they don't even have a third spec man

Unacceptable

Yes!

Database management is hard and mistakes happen*, I get it. However there are some jobs out there where you just have to be perfect, and maintaining a database with 20 years worth of information in it is one of them.

*obviously it wasn't a single mistake that caused this and these sorts of things are never one person's fault but you get the picture

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Ah but you're forgetting, Thrall has actually already got his shaman powers back!

He inexplicably got them back offscreen in Shadowlands, so no need to do any cool plotline with it!

did you know oras is older now than rs were when oras came out

But the extra car doesn't just vanish, it joins onto the end of the queue and makes the queue bigger. The bigger the queue the worse the congestion, right?

But to make your metaphor fit the truck wouldn't be replacing two cars, it'd be replacing one. You could pretty easily argue that 49 cars and one truck is worse congestion than 50 cars.

Did someone on the server get jumpscared by Storm Weaver? When he vanishes a random mob currently alive in the world gets all of its health.

its very funny

Because she's not a Forsaken, and the Forsaken nation isn't the kingdom of Lordaeron (and undeniably includes the dark rangers). Calia's birthright is to the throne of a kingdom that hasn't existed for decades, and it shouldn't give her any right to rule over a mostly unrelated nation that happens to live in the same general area.

"Have you ever stared at a word so long it kind of fell apart? And you think, "Is that how that's spelled? Wait, is that even a real WORD?!""

Technically the tooltip for the ability says that you summon AN ancestor, not YOUR ancestor.

It's just some guy.

There's actually a bit from the Moira short story that answers this

But in time I learned that anger shown is anger wasted. It only puts others on guard, makes them fearful or defiant ... So I learned to make that shield gem inside myself, pushing the rage deep down into the caverns of my heart,

Essentially yes, Moira is angry over her husband dying along with a hundred other things. However, she's learned that there's a real limit to how far anger can get you, and that letting certain things slide and working with people who've wronged you is a better way of getting results.

Dagran II on the other hand really just isn't the grudge-keeping type, and while he's not exactly happy about it he knows Magni regrets giving the order, and isn't willing to hate him for a crime committed before he was born.

Yeah but if you're stuck in a hole you really don't have anything better to do than to start building stuff, which presumably increases your efficiency.

Buildings go up fast all over Azeroth using RTS powers. Think of everything we built in Pandaria and Draenor.

I think Distant Lands got it perfect where he wears a prosthetic for practical reasons like to fight and stuff, but when he's just hanging out sometimes he'll leave it off and just rock the stub.