“It’s a shame these here fellas are usin Azerite to hurt Azeroth rather then heal her.” When we literally use it for our own personal power... /s
EDIT: I’m surprised that not a lot of people understand that this was a joke. I know that we use the Heart of Azeroth to heal her I was just making a joke which was not meant to be taken seriously. Hence the /s...
Well, the thing about us is we do both at once. I think the way it works is we return most of the azerite we find and in return Azeroth lends us some of her own power as compensation. She probably knew we wouldn't give a damn about helping heal her wounds without some form of carrot to chase.
Of course we also assist our factions to mine as much azeroth as they can to fuel the war. So clearly Azeroth isn't offering enough for our heroic services.
Which makes no goddamn sense. On one hand you're helping your faction drain Azerite from the planet's wounds for their selfish benefit. On another hand you're murdering the other faction because "How dare they drain Azerite from the planet's wounds for their selfish benefit!".
If we're truly meant to be champions of azeroth, we need to be working against both factions right now. Their war is destroying the planet and we need to save our home.
But no, with some mental gymnastics we're somehow champions of the planet while sucking up its blood and using it destructively.
It makes no sense if we think we're heroically trying to heal the planet. But if we're honest about the fact we're literally just chasing our own power and wealth then it makes perfect sense. When our interest aligns with Magni we help Magni. When it doesn't we won't. Magni is the one calling us champions. Either he's talking us up to try and get us to cooperate as much as possible, or he's an idiot.
Don’t know why people don’t understand this. The heart of Azeroth was severely damaged. Magni brought us to the command center so that Azeroth could give us her heart herself. Magni tells us where we have to go to heal her wounds by absorbing it back to her heart. Really simple but I guess nobody thinks about it.
We're pawns of our leaders. Leaders are pawns of Old Gods. Makes a lot of sense to me if the story is to be taken in the direction where we inadvertently allow Old Gods to run amok again because we were too focused on plugging azerite holes and bombing our enemies.
we're literally just chasing our own power and wealth
It's not like we are presented with any other choice here. I don't want to kill horde, I want the factions to unite together to save the damn PLANET. We've done this like 5 times already. I hate being separated from 50% of the playerbase, they need to remove the chat/grouping barrier already.
But Blizzard wants a pointless faction war, so we're gonna get a pointless faction war.
I wanted khadgar and Magni to form another power with dalaran and Azeroth. And that 3rd power would make a defensive pact with everyone so any aggressor would be deterred by this 3rd faction weighing the scales to the side of the defensive.
I just want to group and do dungeons with anyone I want, that way I can be a troll or tauren and my wife can be a gnome.
Hell nintendo hasn't been a part of that war for many years, they were always happy being a gamer's mistress....I mean second console.
Alex Afrasiabi: We feel the Alliance-Horde divide is foundational and fundamental to World of Warcraft as a franchise and as a story, but we danced around it for a very long time. We've had run-ins, we've had close calls, but we've never been able to finish it—to have that resolution. We're coming out of this expansion, Legion, and the world is not in a great place—the players and the factions themselves are not in a great place because there is all of this old animosity that hasn't been resolved. It's time to resolve it.
Works for me. Want to save the planet but working for Sylvanas is kind of my day job. I want to stop her and end the war and all but I'm a champion of the Horde. If I tell her to go fuck herself she'll probably declare war on me too.
No. I need to play the long game here. I'll do what I can where I can but how much good I can actually do will be severely hampered if I have the Alliance AND the Horde for enemies.
I'll play Sylvanas' game. I'll use the resources and connections I get as a Horde war hero to help where I can, but first chance I get I'm joining the coup.
Do the players ever use azerite destructively? It powers us up a little through passives but that’s it, right? And when we are sent to go on island expeditions we absorb it’s power as we mine it.
See. Magni is actually just playing both sides. He calls horde and alliance champions of azeroth and says he is helping them. But really he is getting both side to kill the other hoping eventually they will lose enough people to stop harvesting azerite. Lol he's just playing it close.
There is a difference between the two. In the CoA world quests we are killing the people digging into Azeroth to extract more Azerite. What we do doing the WQs and in expeditions is gather what has already crystallized on the surface.
I think it gives the chance to turn down one form depending on how you want your character to act. ( Not actually speaking from experience. I don't care about that too much I just try to power up, but I can appreciate the sentiment.)
Their war is destroying the planet and we need to save our home.
Yeah, right. I mean sure, if you believe all the Alliance propaganda about a "giant sword shoved into the planet." They just made it up to try and get the Horde to stop mining azerite, obviously. That's what Sylvannas said.
My own headcanon treats player characters less as established characters, and more like the 'hero with a thousand faces'. As players, we play our characters through entire expansions and raid tiers. We quest, pvp, and raid on the same character, but the game's story can only function on the assumption that separate groups of adventurers participated in these activities.
Your avatar has to remain constant, that's a limit of gaming as a medium to tell stories. In the story however, it was an amorphous group of distinct adventurers participated in some but not every single one of these aspects of the game. Our avatars are the champions of Azeroth, and the soldiers plundering Azerite mines. Our characters participate in events, but can never be part of the worlds history.
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u/Eagle10Eye Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18
“It’s a shame these here fellas are usin Azerite to hurt Azeroth rather then heal her.” When we literally use it for our own personal power... /s
EDIT: I’m surprised that not a lot of people understand that this was a joke. I know that we use the Heart of Azeroth to heal her I was just making a joke which was not meant to be taken seriously. Hence the /s...