My Honest Thoughts on Eternity's End Shadowlands Patch 9.2

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New developer insight launched for World of Warcraft Shadowlands Patch 9.2 and I have some thoughts on Eternity's End

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[Envojus]

I love how we went to Korthia, the city of secrets, didn't find any secrets or answers, so now we are going to city of secrets 2.0

[zerosiii]

The ending of this patch is going to be just like the ending of game of thrones... we will defeat the big bad guy, but we won't get any answers at all as to what the Jailor's motivation and plan was, why Sylvanas joined him, why Tel'drassil they'll just leave all of these things up for 'speculation', which is honestly disgusting at this point

[Berries]

Love you Acco. I am looking forward to your next lore speculation videos!

[cleews_]

Perhaps I'll repeat what Yoshi-P said in one of the media tour interviews:

"Do these developers actually even play their own games?"

[SoftClip_Q]

One of the reasons I love you. Your stoked about the runes but your worried about forcing it upon people in a way that interferes with their gameplay. Always thinking about other players with different playstyles and reasons for playing the game. I love it.

[Overdoseplus]

9.2 so far was like watching people trying to get you to buy into their pyramid scheme. Nothing but air and promises.

[awworrell]

It's really sad to see how far WoW has fallen. I think I was more excited listening to that 11 minute video then playing through the entirety of shadowlands. The video was incredibly and the story they are trying to tell sounds amazing. I just wish that story was in the game and expanded on. It sounds like they came up with the clift notes version and that's all they could do.

[jordanlutz]

I'm cheering for it all the be a Nzoth dream at this point. We've been dead since Nzoth. Jailer completes his goal. Resets Reality and we go back to azeroth in a classic era world. New villains. New heros. Same faces different roles. And we spend the next few expansions making our way back to the Jailer for a final showdown.

[Skyblade]

I’m shocked to actually agree with you. You’ve been so generally positive about the direction of things, including the overall lore, that I never expected you to disparage Danuser in any way. I agree, that as long as Ion and Danuser are in charge, WoW will not improve.

[Gorgok]

Imagine if the new zone was a low gravity zone, with warp portal around the zone to travel faster. Flying object hitting your character as your trying to maneuver around with the low gravity, thus making you slightly go off route. Random power up around the zone, going from resetting your cd, healing power, dmg boost. This zone should be wild if it was the creator world where they made so much of the zone and creature.

Tier set: the artwork of it looks cool, the actual in game model with the bland color theme, not so much...

Legendary: too limited as what 2 legendary you can have, some spec the covenant one is insane for them (Kyrian Paladin, Feral druid NightFae, etc..) and some classes the covenant legendary suck (all spec of DK for example).

[docrob]

Why is the Jailer bad? The entire time I thought he was gonna be the good guy exactly because the afterlives were so horrible and the system of using souls for energy is terrifying. Their concept of the machine of death is worse than undeath.

[Cristian-suns]

"I will create a new reality where all shall serve me " I think it is pretty much clear why he is the villain. True until this point it wasn't clear, but after i say it is :))

[dantepeterson]

Absolutely love that you preface it with how it was delivered and the surface level we get, very true. And very good comparison to Yoshi P.

[CyclopsToppingWolverine]

I just had an idea and I really need to type it out, it may diverge from the actual topic but I'm mentally stuck on thinking what the water in the zone could be even just visually. (assuming it's not already this in-game, we'll see, highly doubt):

Time is a recurring theme we keep seeing with the old ones. And more recently we're seeing a lot of time related things *or seemingly time related anyway. Flash-back to the Dragonblight quest-line where at the Hourglass of Eternity, there's a part where you get to see versions of yourself in the future, a reflection if you will.

Now what if visually the water could reflect versions of yourself through time. I don't know how tasking that would be on the engine side of things, but as a visual flavor to "how different the water is" in Zereth Mortis, I would adore that. Could be an interesting way to get some quest dialogue/stay-awhiles out of some characters who haven't been used much, a moment to reflect. Maybe get a scene of Tyrande reflecting on where she started with Elune, let her reflect and better explain her newfound renewal philosophy.

This all banks on time magic-y schenanigans even being relevant within Zereth Mortis though. I don't know how copium-fueled this brainstorm reads off, I apologize. Needed to get it out into the world somewhere.

[Smauglation]

the Blizz video felt a lot like this;
"wow we are excited! are you excited? you should be excited! have you seen the water? exciting right!? pay us money for a bigger oribos with fauna in it! its fantastic! arent you come on get hyped this is so cool!"
like, its not that special, we hardly know anything about the world or Zovaals ideas and plans or what really happened.
what his motives are besides breaking the cycle.
what did he do? what broke the machine of death?
but no, we get water you can walk on without Levitate or Path Of Frost...

[jvdach]

Ff14 patch trailer 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 combined are shorter than the WoW 9.2 patch video but contain so much and are hype train conductors.

[jnm]

Really liked this format, just having a chat outside <3

[echoesofmalachor]

If there was ever any chance of bliz grabbing my attention or interest again it went right out the window with afterlife factory.

[orybe]

Comment for the tweeting bird and the doggo in the back first.

Also agree with what you said Acco. Wow has such a great potential story and they managed to fuck it up to the point where it doesn’t make sense if you just play the game (which ya know, should be how you get the story in an mmo)

[djausk]

I'd pay good money to see Accolonn have a 5h long talk with Metzen.