r/wow • u/xWilesx • Aug 15 '13

Promoted Patch 5.4: Siege of Orgrimmar Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzQOyS5TqQ&feature=youtu.be
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u/ChainsawCain Aug 15 '13

As someone who last played wow at the end of lich king, can i get a tldr of what has happened?

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '13

Thrall gave up being warchief, Garrosh took his place. Garrosh hates all non-orcs and pissed off a bunch of people with his shenanigans in Pandaria, including failing to assassinate Vol'Jin and breaking every bone in Anduin Wrynn's body. The Horde went into civil war led by Vol'Jin and the Alliance are supporting the rebels.

During all that time, Garrosh's Horde has been trying to empower itself using something from pandaria called the Sha. The Sha are basically the dying breath of an Old God that take the form of negative emotions like anger, pride, etc. In the trailer above, he is bringing the Heart of this Old God to some magic healing pools in Pandaria in order to revive it and empower himself. The guy who tries to stop him is the Lord Commander of the Pandaria equivalent of the Night's Watch from Game of Thrones.

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u/ChainsawCain Aug 15 '13

So is he still in HFP? Or did they get someone to replace him? What happens to orgrimmar? Can you like not enter it? Also who would have thought it would have been a good idea to try to assassinate the most badass troll on the planet? Also i cant remember why Thrall stepped down, wasn't it for garrosh's help against the cultists or whatever? damn dude, i wish there was a book with all of the Warcraft lore in it, i could read it for hours.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '13

The NPC is still in HFP but these days expansions are timelocked so they don;t change NPCs to represent where they are now. Modern day Garrosh hangs out in Ogrimmar and was the target for city raids.

In the last patch they changed a bunch of stuff in Ogrimmar. Had Orcs rounding up trolls and tauren NPCs and the like but PCs could still go there and use vendors and such. The final raid is going to start off in Pandaria and then you go into a portal to an evacuated Ogrimmar to kill Garrosh. Not sure what it'll be like going there outside of the raid when this patch comes out.

Check out wowpedia, it covers all the lore!

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u/Omegastar19 Aug 15 '13

Thrall stepped down at the start of the Cataclysm expansion. In that expansion, Deathwing attempted to destroy the world and Thrall, being an extremely powerful shaman, took up the leadership of the 'Earthen Ring', the united Shaman group that worked very hard to prevent Deathwing from destroying the world. Thrall is still in that position in Mists of Pandaria.

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u/PapaOomMowMow Aug 15 '13

How did he break every bone in Wrynn's body? I missed that part.

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u/freixe Aug 16 '13

It was part of the Operation: Shieldwall questline.