Credit, and Where It’s Due
The appearance of Strayth here comes from Jonah, one of the $15+ backers over on the Experience Boost Patreon. Keran’s opinion is not reflective of what everyone thinks about Strayth. She has specific feelings about Alvos and Caridon.
Her heart is broken by poor writing.
I don’t get why she is so upset. You would think that Strayth was part of Keran’s slash fiction *badum tish*.
Jesus Chris I only just got it. 10/10
But that dude looks rad as fuck! He looks like he could just punch the dragon king to death!
He’ll probably just yell and whirlwind a lot.
I hope he says something along the lines of “I’m gonna punch that dragon in the face!”
He will stand there, taking hits on occasion per the scripting, and yell ‘I am not broken!’
Or he’ll make like Khadgar and just fling ineffective purple orbs around.
Seriously… most powerful mage alive should have been able to SOLO Archimonde!
Damn straight
You sure? 😉
But… where are his PANTS??
Maybe Sir Caridon knows?
That is a good reason to have the NPCs advise during the course of the raid – make it more of a combined effort.
I actually never really like the NPCs in a raid. If they are characters like us, they should actually contribute during combat more and not just stand around shouting at the bosses. Active helping npcs might help some bosses feel more different. I think there was some of this in Cata but cata was a dark time I’ve sought to forget.
Galakras, in Mists of Pandaria, mostly had people complaining about how annoying the NPCs’ aim was. (And how often people forgot to taunt mobs off the NPCs…)
I liked the concept of the Galakras fight, even if the execution was infuriating during progression. And completely impossible to solo that fight in later expansions.
But back on topic, I’m with Keran here. I wanted to feed a certain Green Orc to a certain Red Orc during a certain raid finale fight. At least in Deathwing, the NPCs gave you useful buffs.
Other than, again, a certain nameless green orc. Gosh, I hate nameless green orcs.
At least it wasn’t the Alliance cut scene at the end of Mist:
Jaina: “We have an army sitting in the middle of Org, the Horde are completely decimated and will inevitable betray us again. Uh…Kill them?”
Varian: “Watch this…” *walks up to Vol’jin* “Bad Horde don’t do that again or we’ll put you into time out.”
Jaina: *Facepalms*
Sometime later on Alternate Draenor….
Alliance Commander: “Sure Horde you can be on this island with us…. you’re going to betrayed us again? IF ONLY WE COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!”
Reasons I stopped playing WoW: #15
Mists can basically be summed up in –
Alliance: “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
Horde: “lolololol”
I can’t tell you the amount of time i was in a raid where we ALMOST beat Hellscream and i think “if Thrall just got off his ass and hit him ONE time…”
But no, he sits on the staires all tuckered out and needing a nap.
She’s playing the wrong genre of game, I am afraid. Lore and writing are a critical weakness of the vast majority of MMORPGs.
Damn, Robin, I wasn’t expecting it for ages.
Top work, though
I swear, if Green Jesus kills-teals an end raid boss again, I will punch many tauren babies.