#im fine with dudes joining the sentinels

[anoia]

"Years ago, when Tyrande allowed the highborne to join, I vehemently protested (by killing like four people). You however have changed my mind in half an hour, and helped me realize that mages are people. Therefore, men can join the sentinels now."

[renaultmograine]

i do think the war campaign is some of my favorite warcraft stuff because it's just schlock.

shandris has a vampire slaying story arc because they allied the san'layn with the horde

they allied the san'layn with the horde and straight up don't tell the horde players this at any point

the quest where shandris and the alliance champion are attacking the ships to go kill san'layn and the champion gets caught by nathanos (who gets bonked by falstad after he monologues instead of killing you bc he's just so excited to have gotten you) is the same quest where the horde player is scuba diving and finds derek's body.

the fucking. dalaran engineering trainer is the dude manning your scuba gear. why is he here? who da fuck knows. welcome to the war buddy.

keeshan and kelsey bonding over their knife collection.

yeah kelsey steelspark is here. that gnome from tanaris. no i never did those quests either. but she's easily the best gnome in lore.

sylvanas straight up leaving the horde champion, valtrios, and rexxar on the fucking docks instead of letting them get on the boat.

rexxar is here because he decided that even though he did kill jaina's dad, she was kind of rude at some point so she had to die. horrible character writing but absolutely hilarious to me that someone thought that was a good decision to make when they were friends.

keeshan gets lovetapped in a fight and shandris thinks hes dead and starts loudly mourning his loss and keeshan is just awkwardly on the ground still alive.

john j. "terminal survivor's guilt" keeshan is like "i wish your sentinel sister's survived instead of me" and shandris takes this as an opportunity to say how the value of an elven and a human life aren't different

nathanos orders you to go steal camp decorations from a nearby kul tiran town because the cabin they stole isn't spooky enough for his liking.

you and nathanos go grave robbing together later

that one point in the horde campaign where you can work against sylvanas and the first junction of this is one of her rangers going "alright ill be right back dont talk to any traitors" and before she leaves zekhan jumps out of a bush and goes EY MON WANT TO BETRAY SYLVANAS?

that part is like after you and that ranger disguised yourself as a human mom and a girl and i cant even remember why. all i remember is the most hilarious 'racism' writing ive ever seen.

the zandalari vault heist. need i say more.

the fact that a large crux of the war campaign is just the horde and alliance stealing this wand back and forth.

umbric has this whole character arc about needing to prove that the void elves deserve to be in the alliance and at the end of it when he's like "i failed the alliance" wyrmbane, exemplar paladin, is like "what are you talking about you did fine your value doesn't ride on this assignment." average metaphor for anxiety.

wyrmbane, that guy who is in that one 40 man wrath bg everyone hates. yeah he's here.

god. the stay awhile and listens. nathanos and garona bickering. wyrmbane and shaw bickering. that little thing was my favorite inclusion into wow yet.

falstad fucking bonked nathanos with his stormhammer right in front of you it was so goddamn funny i have to bring it up again.

the fact that the horde just. finds some terminally ill tidesage to sit around and talk with before raising to join the horde.

the fact that lilian calls the valkyr to raise him and nathanos just trusts her judgement that it was important despite their differences

the fact that this dude is just used to spite baine later. i dont even remember his name. i feel bad. thomas?

it's thomas zelling i was right im the greatest at lore.

lilian looks after thomas' family because she made a promise to him!!! even after he's dead again!!! what a good fucking character moment.

that part where baine literally just steals derek with you and thomas. that part where if you're a loyalist you take a detour to tell nathanos this and he's like "lol thats hilarious, okay have fun. make it convincing kill a lot of horde people." and you get the buff [license to kill]

the alliance version of the stealing baine quest. jaina and shaw and you just annihilate a picnic.

that part where the dark iron shamans make you a giant lava elemental and you just obliterate 200 goblins.

im looking at the wow wiki page to jog my memory umbric was supposed to assassinate gallywix i completely forgot and am laughing my ass off. umbric bitched about his stupid golf course i completely forgot.

gallywix calls nathanos "the banshee prince"

shandris has an invisibility potion she gives you and when you ask here where she got it she goes "we're in the middle of horde territory during a war and youre asking me where i got an invisibility potion?" and if you say yes she goes "ill tell you after the war"

the war campaigns were so good you guys.

i know i'm in the minority abt this but bfa was actually fun outside of the gameplay aspects everyone derides it for. the regions were new and exciting while being about people that have existed in lore for forever, it actually felt like a horde and alliance conflict rather than running around doing other shit and also bonking a few opposite faction members on the side, the war campaign story was hilarious and brought back so many minor npcs we've already seen before and fleshed them out more. 8.3 is out of place in all of it but the concept of a raid that moves locations depending on where the corruption of the raid boss is strongest is so neat. how bfa saw fit to have us return to old areas with both the war fronts and 8.3 dailies, so it actually felt like time is progressing in the world?

there were a lot of good shit in that expansion but everyone just remembers the azerite grind and the tree burning.