Comments on: Veteran of the Wrathgate

By: yunk

yunk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:41:34 +0000

you could refuse, for RP reasons I never did the apothecary quests. I was an undercover operative on my Forsaken. but other characers did.

I was hoping for a few seconds a radical change was going to happen. Sylvanus betrays the Horde? Yes! Civil war here we come! I should not have gotten my hopes up.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:47:37 +0000

Stupidity is the only option. It's also not really an "oops" if you go for it and support the Forsaken. "Did you think we had forgotten? Did you think we had forgiven?"

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:32 +0000

Which underlines that you can’t question them on those slightly suspicious quests from day one. You just go through the motions like everyone else. It’s not really an “oops” if you don’t have a way to change the outcome.

Whee.

By: Hess

Hess — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:51:41 +0000

“That’s probably why I’m getting such a blast out of Fallen Earth, where most of the NPCs treat my character like dirt even after I’ve helped them, and where every favor I do makes me three enemies for every friend.”

I was going to say the same thing.

There’s no way to become a hero either. People might become nefarious within the community but there’s no dragon slaying or deity smiting to be had.

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:09:31 +0000

The moment the Battle for the Undercity becomes epic is when you’ve played it through from both Horde and Alliance viewpoints, and you’ve seen the whole story.

The questline leading to it for Horde characters is full of portent, leading up to it for 2 zones worth of content, as Jezebeau mentioned. I found that, playing Alliance, the Wrathgate just kinda .. happened.

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:05:03 +0000

consider this:
Phasing in world of warcraft means that other players are not able to see other players.

As a consequence – any phasing quest must be completable even if you are the only participant.

Yes it probably looks like a trail ride but there’s probably no way to make your contribution worthwhile.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:13:31 +0000

I think this is a great example of letting players tell the story versus making the player an extra in the pseudo-interactive and actually rather cinematic storyline on rails.

IMO Star Wars: The Old Republic is in grave danger of taking this path.

By: Jezebeau

Jezebeau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:43:04 +0000

That quest-line has even more impact for horde characters, who’d been aiding the Royal Apothecary Society in slightly suspicious experiments over the entire leveling game from the very beginning. It was a big oops for most of us.

By: Hirvox

Hirvox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:11:37 +0000

It’s even less epic when the quest bugs and you don’t have the buffs. Everything except the normal Forsaken patrols curbstomp you, so I had to stay well away from the event and sneak in after Thrall and Sylvanas had cleared everything.

By: pjharvey

pjharvey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:45:13 +0000

The first time a character of mine became a veteran of the Wrathgate I was bored by being nothing more than an audience to the action. The second time, I actually nodded off.

It isn’t ‘epic’ to kill a thousand ants with boiling water, and taking twenty minutes to do it doesn’t change that. It’s a disappointing conclusion to the quest change and achievement.