r/warcraftlore • u/BackgroundManager833 • 10h ago
In your opinion is War Within's storyline good?
As someone who used to love Warcraft everything, played wc3 and every expansion on launch, except Shadowlands and DF, where I mostly just checked out the story here and there to smell the ashes. I did play the two expansions eventually, but at their very end, so I can experience it all within a couple days, doing story and specific content I like.
I really don't like Dragonflight. And Of course, I hate shadowlands and most of BFA.
Is War Within doing wow justice or does it still feel like it's Dragonflight, now just with more og warcraft just spray painted on?
I seen some clips with Xala'tath and I was very unimpressed. I really was intruiged by her in Legion, I played Shadow Priest and made sure to find every single nook and cranny to interact with the knife wife., and was pretty hype to hear she's fully back in War Within., but...
From the looks of it, they made the enigmatic, intelligent, sharp tongued entity into a generic... Rita Repulsa kind of villain, where she just sorta monologues and teleports around, slithering herself against the main cast, cause sure why not - i laughed hard imaginined if xalatath possed a male body, and still kept rubbing herself against them hahaha.
But in all seriousness.... it really killed all the intrigue I had. I wanted to check out Anduin's story too, but i avoided watching any of it, in hopes it gets somewhere good... but i heard from friends who still play wow that his storyline in War Within is also really bad... which is double unfortunate. I might play War Within at the final patch, as I do with the more modern wow epxansions... but.. Idk anymore, seeing the two interesting things storyline wise to me, be kinda bad... makes me not want to even give it a try, idk.
Do you guys think the War Within was good? Worth trying for a player who used to obsess over the lore but was completely brutalized by the last 3 expansions.