World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Storytime

The drums of war are beating.

worst expansion

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This is a pretty short one by the way

Fun fact: these stories were produced in-house by Blizzard and were available for download as PDFs. I had to convert them to zip in order to be able to storytime them.

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Ehh... Legion is worse I think.

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Heavily disagree desu

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>anything ever worse than Cataclysm
You must be a pandababy.

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At least Cata gave us actual content, what the fuck did Warlords give us? Ugly ass Draenor? Those dumbass garrisons? Yeah, no.

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>fucking up old content better than completely new content
Holy shit, did't think anyone this stupid existed.

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>being this mad over someone disagreeing with you
It's really like I'm in /wowg/!

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Wod sucked man and mop was actually ok

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Alright, that's it for today (told you it was a short one), next up is our final comic book for this WoW marathon: Dark Horse's Legion miniseries!

nth for wod was light on content and dragged on too long and the story was retarded but the content we did get was great

Cata WAS bad, but not as BAD as Warlords was.

To be honest,

Legion = Wrath = Pandaria > BC > Vanilla > Cata > Warlords

Wrath>Pand>Vanilla>BC>WoD>Login screen>Cata.

I quit before Legion so I can’t comment.

I love how pretty much everything from WoD got ignored afterward.

>No mention of having a portal to whole alternate world sitting in their backyard.

>Not even asking all the alternate Draenei/orcs if they can help out against the Legion.

>The last character from it, alternate Guldan, gets one-shotted by Illidan the moment he's free.

i like legion as much as wrath and more than tbc

cata was disappointing on a lot of levels and vanilla is something that cant be critiqued properly because of context with other games at the time and what it tried to do

Also garrisons became immediately irrelevant. I don't think I've gone back to mine since Legion launched.

These were kinda neat, thanks OP.

I was super addicted to WoW back in the day. Quit 3 days before Wrath launched. Had to leave my Illidan farming guild and everything. Haven't touched it since.

It feels like trying to play now I'd probably hate it.

You probably would. But that's what private servers are for.

I've thought about it. Blizzard announcing Classic WoW has reminded me of stuff I haven't thought about since 2008.

2 more years

bump

WoD is more wasted potential

The orc clans/Iron Horde were the only good thing before patch 6.2; Could've been better if the Iron Horde conquer everything or some of cut content like Shattrath City and Grom as the final boss

Yrel = Still better than most of WoW ladies

>no offense Jaina/Slyvanas fags

Really enjoying the art in this, Alex Horley's got a real Simon Bisley vibe going on, diggin' it.

I don't understand why people dislike it. I love the Garrison, getting to revisit different versions of old zones, seeing all those old characters reborn kinda. I don't get the hate.

Cut content, wasted potential, the expansion was mostly a way of getting Gul'Dan back into the story after the chronically bad mismanagement of the big name warcraft characters(killed off, raid boss'd, irrelevant), garrisons felt like you were managing bot scripts playing the game for you(sending followers on missions became more effective gold farming than actually going out into the world, sending followers on missions while you sat back twidling your thumbs), weak storyline and a nonsensical ending.

It was a mess of a production that produced a frustratingly boring gaming experience, because we all saw what was supposed to be there ended up on the cutting room floor with fuck all to replace it. A god damn selfie camera was one of the highlights of a major content patch. It was wasted potential: the expansion!

oh no they deleted all the quests I've already done, what am i gonna do.

>>anything ever worse than Cataclysm
ICC for 12 months was prettyfuckinbad bro

Garrisons were fucking misery. The entire point was to make you feel bad for not logging in every day and trick you into playing more than you would otherwise. It's exactly the same emotional manipulation used to trap people in abusive relationships.

>WoD is more wasted potential
I want to say we only ended up getting 40% of what they had planned for it.

Was it as bad as HFC for 12 months?

That wasn't as bad as SoO for 12 months. HFC was probably my favourite end of expansion boredom raid.

Perhaps it left a bad taste in my mouth because I was in a garbage guild that couldn't beat Normal Kilrogg.

>Cata WAS bad, but not as BAD as Warlords was.

No, Cata was the worst expansion ever. At least with WoD you can completely ignore content related to it. But Cata shitted up all of azeroth.

>CHANGE BAD

Yes bad changes are.

They weren't really bad changes desu

I always wondered who the fuck their changes were aimed at but I guess it makes sense it's people who like MCU dog shit.

>seething
>projecting too
kek

Yeah I'm real glad they replaced all the world building with zone after zone after zone of tedious pop culture references.

>Blizzard
>no pop culture references
Pick one.

There was also a continually-refilling box of garrison resources sitting outside your main hall, so you didn't even need to step outside of your base to do daily garrison chores. At least with class halls you'd need to eventually get outside and do things, even if they were world quests that started to get repetitive after a while.

>They weren't really bad changes desu

>Barrens split in two
>Theramore destroyed
>a whole district of Stormwind gone
>Thousand needles practically impossible to traverse on foot
>Worgen
>Thrall tossing away his responsibilities for 'muh shamanism' (which got completely undermined in Legion)
>all portals to other cities permanently broken
>Dumbshit craters and chasms everywhere
>Orgrimmar completely ruined
>Astranaar and Auberdine left derelict or burning
>Ashenvale further deforested


Being able to fly in Azeroth (which was the only good thing to come out of Cata) was not worth this horseshit.

I can see your point with the others, but what's wrong with the Worgen? Werewolves are cool.

>Heavily disagree desu
Heavily wrong you are. At least you could play your alts in legion. Legendaries are utter garbage.

>mfw I just got a lego on one of my alts ten minutes ago

References are one thing, but there's a big fucking problem when you turn entire zones into extended tv show and movie parodies.

>but what's wrong with the Worgen?

People keep insisting on putting them in porn. If not for that they'd be fine.

I remember Harrison Jones in Uldum, but don't recall others in the other zones.

Redridge and Westfall really stand out for being Rambo (which makes a return in the Badlands for some reason) and fucking CSI Miami of all things.

There's also The Ttaff of Ra scene in Uldaman and the Deadmines being one big Goonies reference.

>40% of what they had planned for it.

mmo-champion.com/threads/1874264-A-collection-of-all-known-cut-delayed-content-in-Warlords-of-Draenor

The short hair Night Elf, long hair orc and short gnome bob are CUTE

>nur'zhul was an early level dungeon boss
>ogrim dies at the end of a quest line
>chog'all shows up the kill margok only to die in the process
>everyone forgives Grom despite being fully cognitive of his actions.
>this whole expansion was just a contrived way of bringing back gul'dan

fuck wod

Just when I stopped being angry.

We got half an expansion. I hate Cata for being so fucking sloppy, but WoD is actually incomplete.

I rather liked it, but that’s probably because I play irregularly except for maybe one raid char, and I quit when I like.

Heck, I like Legion but I felt burned out before Argus hit so I quit. Back for Battle I guess.

At least they were able to learn from pretty well all their mistakes going into Legion.

I think they should've just used a new planet that used the dark portal for convenience, better than
>draenor, the way it used to be
>by the way zangarmarsh and the dragonmaw flat out don't exist

>As a matter of fact, yes, hippos did go extinct between then and now.

The real stinker is the second volume of WoW Chronicle goes through Dreanor history and there are a lot of cool concepts one can just glean from WoD.

>The short hair Night Elf, long hair orc and short gnome bob are CUTE

They're in the game files. If you have WMV and some 3d software, you can export all that shit.

Sure, but there's no good reason they're not properly available.

If you can completly ignore the content in the expansion, the expansion is useless. Theerefore, that's why I believe it was the worst expansion ever.

The only two cool things it had were;
1. New Models
2. Cutscenes during the Leveling

I believe the World Revamped in Cata was needed because the Game was already 6 years old, and we had quested all over Azeroth but there were no consequences on it.

It really undermines the experience of being a living, breathing thing when you help an NPC to defend his town and then end a specific menace... just to see the menace there again after a few seconds.

The random stats, the random quest rewards, the broken storylines (and the lack of storylines at all, sometimes...)

To be honest, I loved most of the changes that happened in Cata. My main trouble with it was the content drought that lasted pretty much the whole expansion.

We had the first few raids and dungeons, then we had 2 remastered dungeons that added nothing new, then we had a pretty cool but short raid (and no dungeons), and then we had 3 dungeons and a raid... for a year. And that raid was frustrating as fuck. It wasn't necessarially hard, but it was boring and uninspiring as fuck.

I think opinions of Cata as a whole would have been better if the final Deathwing encounter wasn't such a wet fart.
The whole expansion was built up to that fight and it didn't deliver.
I doubt WotLK would be remembered as fondly if the final Arthas encounter was in the same tier.

With all of the cuts made WoD's dungeon and raid count is straight up embarrassing sandwiched in between Mists's and Legion's.

Mists of Pandaria
>6 original dungeons and 3 revamps
>first raid tier spread across two full raids and a short finale raid
>Throne of Thunder and it's questing zone
>Siege of Orgrimmar

Legion
>11 new dungeons and 2 revamps
>First full raid, whatever
>Short filler raid
>Second full raid with relatively short but rewarding lead-in quest line.
>Third full raid with new questing zone
>Soon to be Fourth full raid with three smaller zones

>dedicate an entire expansion to bring back gul'dan
>just to kill him off by edgelord an expansion later

Sargeras should just fucking kill us already.

>don't care for Illidan
>specifically ask for Sargeras to finish you off
Oh user...

Bet you absolute hate Dreanei then

The comics and the Lords of War animated series for WoD were better than the actual game

I'm not sure what you're saying, user.
But all those raids and dungeons were pretty great and fun (ok, Heart of Fear sucked, but everything else was pretty cool)

Throne if Thunder is amazing, pretty much as good as Ulduar was.

Not really, the content drought was really a real thing.
You just had the same content from day one Until Firelands, and then that same content until Dragon Soul.

There was no LFR back in those days, so if you didn't had a guild you had to PUG this new raid or do the same Raids you had already cleared during the last 8 months, because 4.1 was just a bunch of troll dungeons. And when LFR was implemented in Dragon Soul, it was pretty bonkers and unbalanced, making everything even more sucky.

And of Course, Firelands being the only truly good raid that whole expansion.

Maybe because I just did it last month so have the benefit of the patches or whatever, but I really enjoyed the garrison and most of the quest lines. Hanging out with the Frostwolves was fun and seeing the alternate Arakorra and such.

Maybe I expect less.

You have the benefit of only having done it for a month.

Maybe it pays being an expansion behind.

Anyway, I found this comic pretty fun, though the story of "orcs being mad chief isn't murdering enough people" seems a reoccuring theme.

>If you can completly ignore the content in the expansion, the expansion is useless. Theerefore, that's why I believe it was the worst expansion ever.

If that's the case, then every other expansion, sans Cata, is just as bad as WoD and effectively makes Cata the best expansion ever.

Which is just straight up incorrect because the stench of Cata will be there till the servers go offline.

Why is Cataclysm such a fucking mess?

Even though I quit just before Lich king was released I really hated learning about Cata, because it meant if I ever came back I could never experience a whole shit ton of stuff I had loved.

I'm the kind of person who got my epic warlock mount and infernal in BC despite almost no one actually doing those quests anymore.

Most of that stuff was just a big pain in the ass and I'm glad they did away with it. However, I would have preferred that the quests had been preserved in some manner. Just slashing and burning the old class quests meant losing some nice atmosphere and certain quest rewards. Not such a big deal, but some of the equipment you'd get from those quests were unique. These days, with transmog, it means things like new belf paladins never getting to collect the Blood Tempered Ranseur appearance.

I loved that pain in the ass stuff because it was kind of fun to be one of the few who got it and I got a sense of accomplishment for actually doing it. Pulling out an infernal in BC was just fun. It wasn't that effective but was worth it just to fuck around.

transmog sounded like a real cool thing. Wish it was there when I played.

But that's just how addicted I was. I mean, I went and grinded all the main Horde rep to get the Champion of the Horde title (and the various mounts). Of course it was also fun to run around with a giant-ass name: "Bobtherogue Champion of the Horde"

Ain't gonna lie, that's exactly why my death knight uses "Champion of the Frozen Wastes."