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The frustrating part is that Sylvanas was still salvageable at the end of legion. The betrayal of Varian is explainable, and the attempt at eternal life for herself and her people is an action that's at least understandable as well as keeping with her previous actions and desires. But no, we had to have Garrosh 2.5, and lost our war chief again. For the what, third?fourth time? I just couldn't care anymore after Legion, and part way into bfa. I loved WoW for years, but "In the end, death claims us all (including my love for the game)".
Danuser's writing in BFA was a direct spit in the face to the fans. He scorned the old fans to make way for something new, for new fans.. and delivered yet another spit in the face to the new fans. It's astonishing how he still works at Blizzard.
Sylvanas was always pure and utter evil, she was never salvagable. She had a slow and steady decline to become just like Arthas...and for that, she was good. Any idea of having a redemption arc was laughable. A tragic character that became a beast herself.
After Arthas, one and only Lich King, the Legion was truly the real enemy left, the scourge of a 1000 worlds. I guess we can consider the Void Lords, but they’re like 5 years overdue already. Probably in the shelf in case of emergency.
@@Athelarius wasn't the Lich King himself supposed to be a forerunner for the Burning Legion, to sweep the Scourge over the world and eliminate any resistance to their coming armies. As much is said in WC3
Never got over losing Varian. Possibly the best king of the alliance and I think Metzen did a great job voicing him. What a way to start off the Legion expansion however! “Your father’s actions were indeed heroic. They were his challenge to us, his people. To never let fear prevail. Even at the very gates of hell.” Always and forever.
@@SymbianBlack you spend years involved in something, putting your time and effort into a story, and as a result you become attached to whatever it is you're doing. It doesn't matter if its a game, a project, or your career. Whatever it is whatever reason you become emotionally involved in things. That's a normal part of humanity, people like you need therapy to learn there's more than one way to live your life without always being an emotionless robot.
@@SymbianBlack yeah cause feeling bad for something means your testosterone needs to be replaced. what even if your logic? or were just that desperate for attention?
Archimonde at the end of this expansion was just kind of random. There was no buildup to him, and his summoning takes only a few seconds. It was a large effort to summon him in Reign of Chaos. Gul Dan should have been the final boss
There didn't need to be any "buildup" This was legion. We literally already saw all the named bosses come back in the beginning. Some twice. Hell here, we face EVERY hyjal boss except for the lich. The point was archimonde was one of the generals. That's all you need. Not everything needs an 8 episode buildup.
@@VelvetSkyye Hyjal was 4 campaigns setting up the apocalypse and that was the apocalypse. Archimonde should not have died like this. He beat Cenarius and his dad. He destroyed dalaran like it was his plaything. He is the one of 2 most powerful eredar warlocks. Mannoroth was deathly afraid of him thats hoe powerful he is. It makes 0 sense that he is here.
Gul'dan truly gave us a lot of lore, and his final moment was very fitting. Seeing most of my faves here (Vol'jin, Genn, Khadgar, Archimonde, Varian...) was expected, but even Liam? I still haven't recovered from the heartbreak.
And no liam in the shadowlands. That expansion and future ones should be a nightmare vision of n'zoth and we actually lost and we wake up soon and finish him.
@@petersander5802 Exactly! We could have something non-cosmic with some of the loved characters, not always the main ones. But at some point during the expansio, all of us wanted N'zoth to save us :')
What better way to start the expansion than with a trap to lure in both factions, and ends with the loss of both king and warchief. It’s such a devestating blow that truly sets the scene for what the Legion will do with Azeroth. I just think we killed Guldan and Kil’jaeden a bit too soon. Legion could’ve gone for 3-4 years. And Liam’s death still hits hard ever since Cata. And they’ve never done much with Tess aside from the heritage quest.
If you didn’t know any better you’d think Archimond literally tripped and fell and then almost immediately died right after coming out the portal. The edit makes me chuckle
I mean BFA certainly had a lot of heartfelt moments but Legion felt like a true successor to Wrath and TBC in what I like to call “Warcraft 4”. But from start to finish Legion was a gem of an expansion. From the music, cinematics, raids, even pvp - all were fantastic, and met a lot of great people who returned after many years just to play Legion. A lot of great memories.
I hate it that Varian died he was a great warrior and a great leader. I also hate it that Vol'jin is not remembered as well but he too was awesome and stood up to Garrosh when no one else would.
Wasn't so much standing up too him. He gave Garrosh death threats barely a day as warchief, it vol'jin fault why garrosh became paranoid in the first place. Thrall had to march over and slap him.
Thanks for the support! The best part is this is only the intro to what I believe is the best gem of an expansion, we call Legion. So many heartfelt moments, so much loss, and honestly quite a lot of closure to Warcraft 3 events after WoTLK. Cinematic, VA, and story, raids, pvp all were so excellent. Ah memories.
I forgot how fucking awesome legion was. God damn. I know there was some controversy when it was out. But it was mostly well received if I remember correctly. Like new content dropping every 3 months or so, first m+, first wonky borrowed power that was never balanced, but most of them were fun as hell. Long class quests, class order halls, cool as shit weapon x mogs. Oh and the story was pretty tight too.
They did my man Vol'jin dirty, dude. Varian fell like a fucking hero and Vol'jin got killed by a random mob. As a troll player i will hate that forever.
I’d say after Wrath it gets rocky. Cata was great but Dragon Soul felt a bit lackluster. MoP was a great faction conflict expansion but many people didn’t like the panda theme. WoD could’ve been the greatest expansion even with the weird plot line if only it didn’t get scrapped halfway through and rushed. Now Legion is the shining gem of an expansion and I guess is like the “true” ending in a way. I did enjoy BFA though.
A lot of people wouldn't understand the undeniable deep love that I had for WoW. 20 years of Metzen's legendary writing and work was pissed on by Steve Daunser...
When it comes to Varian's death, I can't help but mentally put a line from the movie in. When his father tells him to "Keep them safe." Goes right when he closes his eyes as Genn is calling his name.
Still hard to belive that Archimonde was gone. People says that he died in the nether, however in cinematic he dies on Draenor... i understand that is hard to face him again but his story remained foggy. It might be good to see him with Sargeras once again.
Blizzard rly needs to bring Varian back, if not as a living character then some form of ghost or spirit from the shadowlands. They had a huge opportunity to include him in Shadowlands but all he got was a vision in one of anduin's dreams. He was and always will be the best character this game has to offer.
@@bulkathos5207 She is and I don't care for the bs writing of the newest expansions. She was good a warchief, but was screwed by shitty writing by blizzard. Expansions after legion were just more excuses to bash Sylvanas character and make her a villain. The arathas thing with his spirit is bullshit, his soul gets to vanish without repercusions but sylvanas gets punished for all the actions she did under his control and those actions she did after which was written as done under jailer's control, it's pure bullshit.
For me this was WoW's endgame. Everything revolved around the Legion. The nect hig threat is the void but im not sure how intact Blizzards vision is now. Microsoft gonna fuck it up
I hated what they did to Archimonde, in WC3 he was a nearly unstoppable force until he was stopped by the sacrifice of the night elves, in legion he was demoted to being destroyed by a typical raid group.
@@mattj1829 IMO, Arthas was wasted, WotLK was a great expansion, but there was no real plan after, like it or not Arthas was Warcraft 3 and the Frozen Throne and a lot more popular than the main legion storyline, they could have created a new faction etc.
@@raptus9115 Yeha I agree, I kind of stopped paying attention to the story after WC3 frozen throne. I played a little bit of WoW and checked some lore videos but they just seemed to be making constant blunders. I'd love a new RTS that covers the time after 3 and amends some of the story so it's not always "good guys win". When you can play as the opposing factions a lot more nuance can be had
I love the difference between Varian’s death and Vol’jinn’s. Vol’jinn just kinda gets stabbed, and then Varian has an emotional sendoff where he sacrifices himself after handing off a last letter to his son. They overused the Horde changing warchiefs to the point that it just didn’t really mean anything.
A military leader of Burning Legion (Archimonde) and his lieutenant (Mannoroth)... both missing the biggest invasion their army ever made in Legion because they met their ends in Warlords of Draenor? Only Gul'dan, Kil'jaeden and Sargeras were left to have their fun in the next expansion.
In its entirety, Legion is probably the best expansion, next to Wrath. So many great moments and storylines for the different races & classes. As an Undead player since 2007, it was fulfilling to see Sylvanas finally get her turn to be the leader of the Horde. Back when we still believed in her. Her speech at Vol'jin's funeral still hits very hard for Horde players, and that moment is only beaten by the opening cinematic for BFA. I dunno how much time passed or what transpired between the writing for the beginning of Legion and the writing & execution of the end of Legion, going into BFA; but they really, *really* pissed away all her potential as a character, and turned lots of players off of WoW from then on. Such a shame. I still really enjoyed BFA, and it's better than people want to admit it is. The weakest expansion is still prolly Cataclysm, but even that I enjoyed. All that aside, Legion remains my favorite expansion to date. I doubt they'll ever match it again.
Legion was one of my favorite expansions. Haven't played wow since BFA first launched but like to keep up on it still and the cinematics are always awesome.👍👍
A dream of mine to see Warcraft expand into a media series. A true trilogy on the big screen would be phenomenal using Warcraft’s strongest stories and characters. I guess a Netflix series would also work. But a lot of the cgi would need a hefty budget.
@@Athelarius even if its not live action... even as animated cgi movie would be nice to watch... they have the lore, the script, the voice actors, the world... everything is ready
They really could have just had Varian die and the fact that the alliance's leader stayed and fought while the hordes retreated to survive could have been used to drive a wedge between the alliance and the horde instead of just the fact that they retreated.
@@Nathan-oe8ut I think I suggested this because that way Vol'jin wouldn't have to die but the scene would otherwise playout the same. Because having Vol'jin die immediately after he became war chief was lame. The scene itself alraedy drives a wedge between them since they retreat during the battle when Vol'jin is mortally wounded.
just love guldan such a simple villain, a powerhungry warlock that causes mayhem and chaos only to further himself instead of shit like th ejailer who was just confusing and so much bs
The idea that the legion is somehow the same across alternate timelines is still one of the all time dumbest lore additions. Was Sargeras influencing millions of versions of Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde at the same time somehow and then they transcended time as well? But Velen didn't? You literally can't even begin to make sense of that
Rather the horde than varian ... but we ended up with the latter dying Thats the most unexpected behavior from sylvannas ever, was not she a character that simply dont care ...
No she always cared, she try to return too the alliance but they refused too listen and aim to kill them all which shoved her an her people too the horde.she aided in the removal of garrosh, she aim to avenge vol'jin, then new shitty writers came in and said nah all undead must be evil when she wasn't
not gonna lie, even if WoD wasnt the greatest expansion, the Hellfire Citadel ending with Archimonde being resummoned and with a polished model got me screaming in a girly voice
God dammit.... Legion could be a movie. The cutscenes in that expansion were AMAZING and Legion could of been the end of WoW and i think everyone would be happy for it.
Legion is supposed to be endgame. Everything else other than sylvana(even tho her motivation went to shi) is just directly pulled out of nowhere with no previos set up. "Lets add afterlife." "We need more ? Lets add adterlife but oposite" "We need more? Lets add some goobers who sat underground and did nothing during ALL of the previos events" " and if we need more, lets retcon some shi" Im pretty sure old gods retcon is coming soon.
I used to like Warcraft universe and i think i still have a small spark in my heart for the francise.But capitalism consumes too much and ripped apart the lore.This is a good example of that decay, Look in WC3, we spent tough times and entire campaign just to summon the Archimonde and it was end of the world.Here it is like a regular thing and he is gone again.Sorry but i do care about lore and it must be consistent.
I find this makes no sense now because the burning Legion has now been confirmed not to be a single demon force across all univereses but in many time lines. So archimonde sending Gul dan in to our timeliness and kiljaeden helping him open the portal in the tomb makes zero sense
Say what you want, Sylvanus ran to save her own ass. She could care less about the Horde. She doomed the world to the Legion and laughed after they made her Warchief.
WoD and Legion had a phenomenal soundtrack from start to finish. Just wish WoD matched the level of detail and effort the art and music team out into it.
Are all these videos/cinematics in game? I feel i havent seen half of them or don't remember them😶 But i stopped playing half way through WoF, and started again in Legion, and stopped all together after Legion.. Is there a good eay i can see all the lore vids in the right order?
iv missed the last 3 expantions and this shit had me a mess Vol'Jin is my dude watching him die fked me up even varian dying fked me up he went threw some sht in his day as much as thrall
As a Horde Player I am sad that sylvanas has not died at the end of BfA and as a Alliance Player aswell I am sad that we didnt get Lordaeron back. Their Fan Fiction was so Bad written and made so less sense
As a Horde player didn't see any justice towards genn greymane for starting a war by assassination or Tyranda for killing unarm prisoners through blood sacrifice.
The dialogue is so badly written, but I can't really pay attention to it, because I constantly think that someone, without irony, thought that making Sylvanas, the elf, the head of the horde was a good idea for the plot. Someone allocated money for this. When you think you're incompetent, remember that somewhere there is this dude who approved this garbage.
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Anduin is the best living human character.
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I just love how Gul'dan does all this powerful demon summoning rituals that no other Warlock can, yet he still uses that level 1 wooden staff.
he just appreciates the rustic things in life
Kinda how Khadgar uses a level 2 wooden staff with a wooden bird. The power is hidden within!
the staves are for show... why do you think when you cast, you never use your weapon...
It's only a transmog folks..
We also stole his potential upgrade: the Sceptre of Sargeras
The frustrating part is that Sylvanas was still salvageable at the end of legion. The betrayal of Varian is explainable, and the attempt at eternal life for herself and her people is an action that's at least understandable as well as keeping with her previous actions and desires. But no, we had to have Garrosh 2.5, and lost our war chief again. For the what, third?fourth time? I just couldn't care anymore after Legion, and part way into bfa. I loved WoW for years, but "In the end, death claims us all (including my love for the game)".
Danuser's writing in BFA was a direct spit in the face to the fans. He scorned the old fans to make way for something new, for new fans.. and delivered yet another spit in the face to the new fans.
It's astonishing how he still works at Blizzard.
based. Voljin was stabbed by trash man. Lorewise he is actually VERY strong, nearly noone came close to his powers.
The 'betrayal of Varian' wasn't a betrayal though, it's just how it's shown to the alliance just like the Wrathgate incident.
Sylvanas was always pure and utter evil, she was never salvagable. She had a slow and steady decline to become just like Arthas...and for that, she was good. Any idea of having a redemption arc was laughable. A tragic character that became a beast herself.
@@DonCurrywurst copium, trying to make the trash story you have now palatable lol.
I miss the Burning Legion. Best villains imo.
After Arthas, one and only Lich King, the Legion was truly the real enemy left, the scourge of a 1000 worlds. I guess we can consider the Void Lords, but they’re like 5 years overdue already. Probably in the shelf in case of emergency.
@@Athelarius wasn't the Lich King himself supposed to be a forerunner for the Burning Legion, to sweep the Scourge over the world and eliminate any resistance to their coming armies. As much is said in WC3
@@erinamos7498 yes in warcraft 3 Kiljaeden said The Lich King was his creation. Everything was great!
As a Horde player I almost teared up when Varian died. He was such a great warrior.
Yes, that was a terrible loss. I agree, I felt so bad when that happened.
It’s cgi man just cgi. You need testosterone replacement therapy
Never got over losing Varian. Possibly the best king of the alliance and I think Metzen did a great job voicing him. What a way to start off the Legion expansion however! “Your father’s actions were indeed heroic. They were his challenge to us, his people. To never let fear prevail. Even at the very gates of hell.” Always and forever.
@@SymbianBlack you spend years involved in something, putting your time and effort into a story, and as a result you become attached to whatever it is you're doing. It doesn't matter if its a game, a project, or your career. Whatever it is whatever reason you become emotionally involved in things. That's a normal part of humanity, people like you need therapy to learn there's more than one way to live your life without always being an emotionless robot.
@@SymbianBlack yeah cause feeling bad for something means your testosterone needs to be replaced. what even if your logic? or were just that desperate for attention?
always killing it in the edit with the archimonde cut so it makes it look like he tripped and hurt his tummy and died @0:20
“Tremble mortals and despair. Doom has come to…”
*trips*
“GUL’DAAAN!!!
Archimonde at the end of this expansion was just kind of random. There was no buildup to him, and his summoning takes only a few seconds. It was a large effort to summon him in Reign of Chaos. Gul Dan should have been the final boss
Agreed, the shock and awe would be more if he wasn't just a raid boss
There didn't need to be any "buildup"
This was legion. We literally already saw all the named bosses come back in the beginning. Some twice.
Hell here, we face EVERY hyjal boss except for the lich.
The point was archimonde was one of the generals. That's all you need.
Not everything needs an 8 episode buildup.
@@Solus5048he was literally just a boss in warcraft. He was also a random, pointless encounter in tbc that served no point in the story. Cry more tbh
WoW has been garbage for over a decade. Poor writing for 15 years. Expansions the same.
@@VelvetSkyye Hyjal was 4 campaigns setting up the apocalypse and that was the apocalypse. Archimonde should not have died like this. He beat Cenarius and his dad. He destroyed dalaran like it was his plaything. He is the one of 2 most powerful eredar warlocks. Mannoroth was deathly afraid of him thats hoe powerful he is. It makes 0 sense that he is here.
That expansion was so powerful. Imagine starting an expansion by a huge assault, horde and alliance together, AND YOU LOSE, just great
Eat way to start an expansion and Legion was a masterpiece. Wish it could’ve lasted an extra year.
Gul'dan truly gave us a lot of lore, and his final moment was very fitting. Seeing most of my faves here (Vol'jin, Genn, Khadgar, Archimonde, Varian...) was expected, but even Liam? I still haven't recovered from the heartbreak.
And no liam in the shadowlands. That expansion and future ones should be a nightmare vision of n'zoth and we actually lost and we wake up soon and finish him.
@@petersander5802 Exactly! We could have something non-cosmic with some of the loved characters, not always the main ones. But at some point during the expansio, all of us wanted N'zoth to save us :')
What better way to start the expansion than with a trap to lure in both factions, and ends with the loss of both king and warchief. It’s such a devestating blow that truly sets the scene for what the Legion will do with Azeroth. I just think we killed Guldan and Kil’jaeden a bit too soon. Legion could’ve gone for 3-4 years. And Liam’s death still hits hard ever since Cata. And they’ve never done much with Tess aside from the heritage quest.
If you didn’t know any better you’d think Archimond literally tripped and fell and then almost immediately died right after coming out the portal. The edit makes me chuckle
He stubbed his toe. There is no recovery from that.
I cry all the time when I see that all the good and heartfelt story ended with legion..
Adjust your self my son. No need to cry to a cartoon 😆 😅 🤣
It's definitely a story line I enjoyed as well 👍
@@thebrainwash It's more than cartoon. It's our life. 😁
some of us play for the lore and world provided not for just high numbers and flashy loot so much more behind a mmo .
I mean BFA certainly had a lot of heartfelt moments but Legion felt like a true successor to Wrath and TBC in what I like to call “Warcraft 4”. But from start to finish Legion was a gem of an expansion. From the music, cinematics, raids, even pvp - all were fantastic, and met a lot of great people who returned after many years just to play Legion. A lot of great memories.
I hate it that Varian died he was a great warrior and a great leader. I also hate it that Vol'jin is not remembered as well but he too was awesome and stood up to Garrosh when no one else would.
Wasn't so much standing up too him. He gave Garrosh death threats barely a day as warchief, it vol'jin fault why garrosh became paranoid in the first place. Thrall had to march over and slap him.
I cried every second of this video .
Thanks again Athelarius for your amazing job
all yours videos feel like a movie
Thanks for the support! The best part is this is only the intro to what I believe is the best gem of an expansion, we call Legion. So many heartfelt moments, so much loss, and honestly quite a lot of closure to Warcraft 3 events after WoTLK. Cinematic, VA, and story, raids, pvp all were so excellent. Ah memories.
I forgot how fucking awesome legion was. God damn. I know there was some controversy when it was out. But it was mostly well received if I remember correctly. Like new content dropping every 3 months or so, first m+, first wonky borrowed power that was never balanced, but most of them were fun as hell. Long class quests, class order halls, cool as shit weapon x mogs. Oh and the story was pretty tight too.
They did my man Vol'jin dirty, dude. Varian fell like a fucking hero and Vol'jin got killed by a random mob. As a troll player i will hate that forever.
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I actually really love the story and lore, when i can keep up with it.
I’d say after Wrath it gets rocky. Cata was great but Dragon Soul felt a bit lackluster. MoP was a great faction conflict expansion but many people didn’t like the panda theme. WoD could’ve been the greatest expansion even with the weird plot line if only it didn’t get scrapped halfway through and rushed. Now Legion is the shining gem of an expansion and I guess is like the “true” ending in a way. I did enjoy BFA though.
yeah, i did too since warcraft 3.. but the lore in most parts fell apart and is useless trash sadly, to this day.
A lot of people wouldn't understand the undeniable deep love that I had for WoW. 20 years of Metzen's legendary writing and work was pissed on by Steve Daunser...
the OG's know my friend. we will never forget, but also won't ever forgive
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Varians death made me outright mad, don't get an emotional reaction like that out of many games these days
When it comes to Varian's death, I can't help but mentally put a line from the movie in. When his father tells him to "Keep them safe." Goes right when he closes his eyes as Genn is calling his name.
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Still hard to belive that Archimonde was gone. People says that he died in the nether, however in cinematic he dies on Draenor... i understand that is hard to face him again but his story remained foggy. It might be good to see him with Sargeras once again.
Archie really just went through a portal and was wiped out by gravity, wow lore is really lazy.
Can we agree that varian wrynn went out like a badass?
It makes Vol'jin''s death look even more pathetic by comparison.
Blizzard rly needs to bring Varian back, if not as a living character then some form of ghost or spirit from the shadowlands. They had a huge opportunity to include him in Shadowlands but all he got was a vision in one of anduin's dreams. He was and always will be the best character this game has to offer.
He was included in a cutscene.
I loved Cairn BloodHoof
Sylvanas had so much promise, then they pissed it away.
I feel like blizzard is going to do the same thing they did with Illidan. Either that or piss poor writing.
sylvanas is the perfect waifu
@@bulkathos5207 She is and I don't care for the bs writing of the newest expansions. She was good a warchief, but was screwed by shitty writing by blizzard. Expansions after legion were just more excuses to bash Sylvanas character and make her a villain. The arathas thing with his spirit is bullshit, his soul gets to vanish without repercusions but sylvanas gets punished for all the actions she did under his control and those actions she did after which was written as done under jailer's control, it's pure bullshit.
For me this was WoW's endgame. Everything revolved around the Legion. The nect hig threat is the void but im not sure how intact Blizzards vision is now. Microsoft gonna fuck it up
I hated what they did to Archimonde, in WC3 he was a nearly unstoppable force until he was stopped by the sacrifice of the night elves, in legion he was demoted to being destroyed by a typical raid group.
A raid group full of the most powerful warriors.
Isn't that the same with every big bad? Arthas, Illidan etc they all just get smacked by a group of random warriors
@@mattj1829 IMO, Arthas was wasted, WotLK was a great expansion, but there was no real plan after, like it or not Arthas was Warcraft 3 and the Frozen Throne and a lot more popular than the main legion storyline, they could have created a new faction etc.
@@raptus9115 Yeha I agree, I kind of stopped paying attention to the story after WC3 frozen throne. I played a little bit of WoW and checked some lore videos but they just seemed to be making constant blunders. I'd love a new RTS that covers the time after 3 and amends some of the story so it's not always "good guys win". When you can play as the opposing factions a lot more nuance can be had
A typical raid group? You mean the champions of the horde and the alliance. That typical raid group?
My favorite part is when Archi punishes him as soon as he enters for tripping over a step.
Varians "For the Alliance" reminds me of Zeratuls " My life for Auir".
I love the difference between Varian’s death and Vol’jinn’s. Vol’jinn just kinda gets stabbed, and then Varian has an emotional sendoff where he sacrifices himself after handing off a last letter to his son.
They overused the Horde changing warchiefs to the point that it just didn’t really mean anything.
A military leader of Burning Legion (Archimonde) and his lieutenant (Mannoroth)... both missing the biggest invasion their army ever made in Legion because they met their ends in Warlords of Draenor? Only Gul'dan, Kil'jaeden and Sargeras were left to have their fun in the next expansion.
The demon hunter cutscene is the only attempt at a detailed cutscene that includes your character
It seems Lok'tar Oghar it applies only when the Horde is winning 🤡
Archimonde shows up, and instantly dies... I LOVE IT!
In its entirety, Legion is probably the best expansion, next to Wrath. So many great moments and storylines for the different races & classes. As an Undead player since 2007, it was fulfilling to see Sylvanas finally get her turn to be the leader of the Horde. Back when we still believed in her. Her speech at Vol'jin's funeral still hits very hard for Horde players, and that moment is only beaten by the opening cinematic for BFA. I dunno how much time passed or what transpired between the writing for the beginning of Legion and the writing & execution of the end of Legion, going into BFA; but they really, *really* pissed away all her potential as a character, and turned lots of players off of WoW from then on. Such a shame. I still really enjoyed BFA, and it's better than people want to admit it is. The weakest expansion is still prolly Cataclysm, but even that I enjoyed.
All that aside, Legion remains my favorite expansion to date. I doubt they'll ever match it again.
Totally agree
Legion was one of my favorite expansions. Haven't played wow since BFA first launched but like to keep up on it still and the cinematics are always awesome.👍👍
what we need is a netflix series
A dream of mine to see Warcraft expand into a media series. A true trilogy on the big screen would be phenomenal using Warcraft’s strongest stories and characters. I guess a Netflix series would also work. But a lot of the cgi would need a hefty budget.
@@Athelarius even if its not live action... even as animated cgi movie would be nice to watch... they have the lore, the script, the voice actors, the world... everything is ready
You know they would fuck it up, they always do.
No thanks
@@giagarex yes we do
They really could have just had Varian die and the fact that the alliance's leader stayed and fought while the hordes retreated to survive could have been used to drive a wedge between the alliance and the horde instead of just the fact that they retreated.
Oh yeah great another alliance/horde conflict? That's totally refreshing, dude
@@Nathan-oe8ut I think I suggested this because that way Vol'jin wouldn't have to die but the scene would otherwise playout the same. Because having Vol'jin die immediately after he became war chief was lame. The scene itself alraedy drives a wedge between them since they retreat during the battle when Vol'jin is mortally wounded.
just love guldan such a simple villain, a powerhungry warlock that causes mayhem and chaos only to further himself instead of shit like th ejailer who was just confusing and so much bs
The idea that the legion is somehow the same across alternate timelines is still one of the all time dumbest lore additions. Was Sargeras influencing millions of versions of Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde at the same time somehow and then they transcended time as well? But Velen didn't? You literally can't even begin to make sense of that
Rather the horde than varian ... but we ended up with the latter dying
Thats the most unexpected behavior from sylvannas ever, was not she a character that simply dont care ...
No she always cared, she try to return too the alliance but they refused too listen and aim to kill them all which shoved her an her people too the horde.she aided in the removal of garrosh, she aim to avenge vol'jin, then new shitty writers came in and said nah all undead must be evil when she wasn't
Archimonde is such a joke in this new "Lore"....
not gonna lie, even if WoD wasnt the greatest expansion, the Hellfire Citadel ending with Archimonde being resummoned and with a polished model got me screaming in a girly voice
Wokeness has killed WoW. We will never have such good expansions ever again.
God dammit.... Legion could be a movie. The cutscenes in that expansion were AMAZING and Legion could of been the end of WoW and i think everyone would be happy for it.
Legion is supposed to be endgame. Everything else other than sylvana(even tho her motivation went to shi) is just directly pulled out of nowhere with no previos set up.
"Lets add afterlife."
"We need more ? Lets add adterlife but oposite"
"We need more? Lets add some goobers who sat underground and did nothing during ALL of the previos events"
" and if we need more, lets retcon some shi"
Im pretty sure old gods retcon is coming soon.
I used to like Warcraft universe and i think i still have a small spark in my heart for the francise.But capitalism consumes too much and ripped apart the lore.This is a good example of that decay, Look in WC3, we spent tough times and entire campaign just to summon the Archimonde and it was end of the world.Here it is like a regular thing and he is gone again.Sorry but i do care about lore and it must be consistent.
Genn commits a war crime and created bfa.
Back when there was a baller story.
I find this makes no sense now because the burning Legion has now been confirmed not to be a single demon force across all univereses but in many time lines. So archimonde sending Gul dan in to our timeliness and kiljaeden helping him open the portal in the tomb makes zero sense
Guldan is the true hero of the horde. If it wasn’t for him the horde would have BEEN slaughtered
It's almost like comic books, characters are killed off then brought back.
these gamecube graphics in the 2020's is something else. do better blizzard
20:03 smiling Varian isn’t real, smiling Varian can’t hurt me 0-0
Khadgar is BIS for dad jokes
oh great archimonde again wowhow
Is it just me or does khadgar sound like illidan in the first one
Dadghar will only ever sound like Dadghar. Knowledge is power!
He should've used blade storm.
Say what you want, Sylvanus ran to save her own ass. She could care less about the Horde. She doomed the world to the Legion and laughed after they made her Warchief.
The music of the soundtrack is so amazing!
WoD and Legion had a phenomenal soundtrack from start to finish. Just wish WoD matched the level of detail and effort the art and music team out into it.
@@Athelarius definitely agree!
This videos are amazing keep it up!
Are all these videos/cinematics in game? I feel i havent seen half of them or don't remember them😶 But i stopped playing half way through WoF, and started again in Legion, and stopped all together after Legion.. Is there a good eay i can see all the lore vids in the right order?
This is the Sylvannas I miss :(
18:15 is just heartbreaking.
May the people responsible for wows decline for the sake of money burn in hellfire for eternity. Rip teldrassil
I would watch a Netflix series of the entire world of Warcraft time line . Every new season would be an expansion.
Legion was si fcking good omg I'm so nostalgic
its funny how velen just about human size but archimonde and kiljaeden huge af
iv missed the last 3 expantions and this shit had me a mess Vol'Jin is my dude watching him die fked me up even varian dying fked me up he went threw some sht in his day as much as thrall
Anduin is my favourite character, for the Alliance!
9:09 Our entire combined armies couldn't defeat the Legion... Better send in one person to take them down.
Love your video
Voldgeen because of him it has happened. He should said "Do not leave the alliance" or "Help the alliance".
They would have died. The horde was being overrun.
It's Vol'jin.
lol it looked like Archimonde tripped and fell
Tremble mortals and despair, doom as come to this…
Trips.
GUL’DAaaaNnn!!
@@Athelarius bahahaha!!! xD
genn shouldve sacrificed himself for varian
As a Horde Player I am sad that sylvanas has not died at the end of BfA and as a Alliance Player aswell I am sad that we didnt get Lordaeron back. Their Fan Fiction was so Bad written and made so less sense
As a Horde player didn't see any justice towards genn greymane for starting a war by assassination or Tyranda for killing unarm prisoners through blood sacrifice.
Looked like he exit the portal, triped and died.
I miss Yrel.
what were those angel like things that picked up downed horde soldiers?
Valkyr summoned by Sylvanas.
Legion was the best patch ever..
An absolute gem of an expansion. Cinematics, VA, epic moments, pvp, raids everything was fantastic from start to finish. Exists only in memories now.
yes it was so good, they spent the next 4+ years serving us a reheated and watered down version of it.
*FOR THE ALLANCE!*
Varian gigachad
I need Illidan return World of Warcraft 2022
Honestly let Illidan rest so they don’t turn him into a puffy cloud like Arthas I think.
@@Athelarius do you like Arthas or Illidan
In the end it was allll the Jailer
So far o.0
It was always the Jailers plan. He did it all!!
@@Athelarius Not "all", Athelarius!
Gul'dan
Master summoner of demons and fel reavers.
The dialogue is so badly written, but I can't really pay attention to it, because I constantly think that someone, without irony, thought that making Sylvanas, the elf, the head of the horde was a good idea for the plot. Someone allocated money for this. When you think you're incompetent, remember that somewhere there is this dude who approved this garbage.
yesh
Guldango
The Horde will always remember Logosh
gooooooood
Vol'Jin had the shortest run, didn't he
He was supposed to have a presence in WoD but not much aside from the garrison cinematics.
@@Athelarius Sad. He was a cool character
Ngl, boss-npc Varian getting owned by the trash mobs we clear nonstop is kinda cringe.
Archimond shows up, and instantly dies.... HA
Tripped by gul’dan what a way to go.
WC3 Archimonde >>>>>>> this joke.
I remember when blizzard cut scenes were epic. these are terrible
Hahhahahaha , NICE EDIT lol
no, it's FACT
This lore is so stupid. lol
Wait till you see shadowlands.
I love watching the king get disenchanted lol
Varian a true king we all deserve.
Voice od ilidan