Who cares? Where are new zones? Raids? Dungeons? Or even mounts? Add some random NPC and call it a day lol. This is not Classic Plus!
cosmic war stuff is boring because its a repeat of: yea we are evil but you are just mortals and there are bigger evils out there so join us and let us take over the universe because thats better then fighting the other evils I guess.. also remember during bfa all the theories about Sylvanas wanting everyone to turn to undeath so we can prepare to fight the void? the undead are somewhat more resilient to cosmic forces manipulation but nothing on that during shadowlands.. it was somewhat hinted when the jailer said "a cosmos divided will not survive". but again boring + they waited all that time just to throw a line at the end and leave us guessing that it was for cosmic war and we needed to be undeadand what about the devourers? do they exist outside the cosmic forces? from what realm they come from? why they only attack the shadowlands and why they are everywhere there? the lore could have been them being the big bad and us helping the jailer like in speculations
but oops hes dead
Classic will be used as a testing ground for retail while perserving the gameplay style for those who like the grindy nature of how WoW used to be. I still am of the opinion that most of the new guard has no clue or love for RPG. Death Knight with a free will is just a necromancer. If you are willingly use the forces of death you are not a Death Knight. You are a necromancer, your motivations are similar that of a Warlock - power. We have an entire article that broadly explains what a Death Knight is and one with free will is not a Death Knight. What made Death Knights appealing to so many is history of having their souls ripped off their corpse and revived by the Lich King into his service. The starting zone for old races of WoW is largely what made DK cool among the players leaning towards the RPG aspect of the game. The OPness for the gameplay oriented players but the fantasy made the class ever popular. What they did with DK in SL is just de-coolness of the class. Maybe, I am old. I do not know, but I swear these things get less and less imaginative, less and less fictitious. More and more cynic and pragmatic (see Mag'har Orc Warlock, Mag'har Orc DK, Night Elf Warlock, Draenei Warlock etc).L.E: As for the cosmic forces. They can be interpreted in multiple ways. You can see Light as a guiding path, the true path. Void, the fear of the unknown, the path of many posibilities. You can see them, together, as a creative force because when you clash the unknown and a force that pretends it knows the path you create Life. However, Life coming out of this conflict is in Disorder. A force to create Order in enthropy is necessary, and to prevent Death from claiming/devouring Life. However, in order to perserve Life Death must have its due.Anyway, I find the idea that all forces seek to oppress us and manipulate us very primitive, vexing and ultimately boring as %^&*.
This is silly. Thassarian and Koltira did the same thing by showing they could be dominated by the Lich King and still be honorable as death knights.. now we have this random dude.
He chooses following lich king. "There always has to be a lich king."
Just stop with the overused cosmic titans retail trash.Actual threat of Azeroth are the Qiraji and Scourge.
We're getting DKs soon boys!
We also kill his ass at the end of the quest chain.
This is so cringe
If Blizzard squanders this opportunity to have WoW refocus on local, relatable conflicts among factions and characters we know and care about to instead make it about ridiculous power-creeping, over-the-top, retconning, with lasers and spaceships again like retail, they will have lost any faith they regained with season of discovery. A world-ending threat everyone needs to band together to fight every 2 years lorewise is stupid and boring and makes it completely ridiculous that anyone continues fighting each other. The continued conflict makes more sense when it's a constant push back and forth for resources and territory on Azeroth. Stop with the cosmic bs. PLEASE.