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The Battle for Darkshore is the Next Warfront in Battle for Azeroth
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2018/09/18 at 3:15 PM
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The Battle for Darkshore will be the second Warfront in Battle for Azeroth, revisiting the conflict between the Night Elves and the Forsaken. This event should make the Warfronts cycle feel busier, as well as revisit the Burning of Teldrassil narrative from the pre-patch many players feared was sidelined.
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Warfronts Cycle and Content
At the
Battle for Azeroth AMA
, Ion addressed concerns that the timing of Warfronts felt too sparse, hinting at more to come:
We also do intend to add additional Warfronts over time, so that these cycles will be interwoven in a way that hopefully makes it feel like there's more to do, more often.
With the addition of the Darkshore Warfront, hopefully this will make the Warfronts schedule more interesting, with new World Bosses, outdoor content, rares, and battles to complete around the world more frequently.
We wonder if Darkshore will be getting a visual revamp, in addition to the new max-level rares, since the terrain is a bit difficult to navigate and it would be a good opportunity to show how the zone started to heal since the impact of Cataclysm. Will the sky burn forever? Will Auberdine always be a ruin? Will the destroyed Darkshore roads from a decade ago always be broken?
Progressing the Story
One disappointment of the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch was the unfolding of the Burning of Teldrassil narrative. Much of the story took place out-of-game, confusing players who wondered why Tyrande was absent or why the Night Elves had a poor defense. Major story moments, such as Tyrande gaining the upper hand to kill Saurfang if she so desired, were not clearly depicted in-game. The pre-patch cinematics, while epic, also focused on the Horde's POV to show why Sylvanas burned the tree and Saurfang grew conflicted with the Horde. The Alliance POV was missing.
You can compare the narrative told in-game vs the one told in the supplementary novellas "Elegy" and "A Good War" with our summaries of the
Burning of Teldrassil
event and our
summary and analysis of the novellas
.
With the new Warfront in Darkshore and the
Tides of Vengeance reveal
stating that Tyrande would be the focus of an upcoming narrative, we hope to learn more on how the Night Elves are reacting to their loss and rebuilding their culture. There were many fears that the pre-patch story had been forgotten about, as Battle for Azeroth launch dove straight in to the Kul Tiras narrative, but the Warfront should offer opportunities for the story to return and address the unpleasant truths of the pre-patch.
New Warfronts Armor?
During the
Tides of Vengeance reveal
, Ion shared a slide about Warfronts with a picture of a Forsaken.
This Forsaken character was wearing two armor variants, one more elaborate than the other. Based on the
Arathi Warfront Transmog Visuals
, in which each tier of armor has more details, we think this could be an early look at the Horde Warfront armor from Darkshore.
What could the Alliance Warfront armor be? Well, it's convenient the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch added new NPCs wearing the iconic armor from the original
Warcraft
cinematic. Perhaps a variant of this could be used for the Alliance armor?
We can't totally picture a Gnome in this armor, so perhaps this skimpy version would eventually be used for Night Elf heritage armor. However, we know Blizzard has recently given thought to elven armor with these NPCs, and could see some similar armor details in the Warfronts armor.
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Comment by
mageranger13
on 2018-09-19T10:03:47-05:00
I hope they Use Forsaken/Night elf buildings in the Warfront am sick from the Orc/Human buildings every goddamn where.
Not likely, when looking at Arathi, most of those assets are reused garrison assets. Given that they want to push warfronts at a steady pace, I would say it will be human/orc architecture.
Comment by
SilverDragon234
on 2018-09-19T13:11:14-05:00
You don't understand that things completely change after Sylvans burned innocent children for NO reason.
The War itself was in line with orcish views and reasoning. The outcome is not. And that is even shown ingame, in a horde only cinnematic and in the novel.
You do realize every night elf living in Darnassus, Dolanaar, and Aldrassil escaped to Stormwind with Jaina's assistance, do you? If you continue to make excuses, I'll have to fight you.
Comment by
1809537
on 2018-09-19T16:23:59-05:00
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Comment by
Rankkor
on 2018-09-19T18:32:47-05:00
However, Forsaken structures make no sense, where should they come from?
Hmmm they were built? You do realize in-story several months have passed since the burning of teldrassil right? Hell, for us the entirety of the War of Thorns took place over a couple of hours at most, but as the novellas showed, that entire fight took place over a month and a half, and logic follows that between 8.0 and 8.1 several months pass on azeroth. More than enough time for the forsaken to build new bases on Darkshore if the place was evacuated by the night elves.
Do recall they were on full retreat after the war of thorns.
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1809537
on 2018-09-20T06:08:20-05:00
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Comment by
Dharay
on 2018-09-20T23:38:36-05:00
Belfs, see "a good war" and horde side of war of throns the belf rouge in astramar. They hate the Nelfs for exiling them, not helping after WC3, invading thier zone (see belfs starting zone+ ghostlands)
That blood elf rogue who is acting like a Forsaken rather than a blood elf? The blood elves who have shown consideration and once even planned to rejoin the Alliance? They do not "hate" the night elves for exiling them. That was the Highborne, a caste they have evolved from and no longer are. They seem to be a lot more pleased in Quel'thalas where they can do magic as they please.
Comment by
Dharay
on 2018-09-20T23:45:30-05:00
You don't understand that things completely change after Sylvans burned innocent children for NO reason.
The War itself was in line with orcish views and reasoning. The outcome is not. And that is even shown ingame, in a horde only cinnematic and in the novel.
You do realize every night elf living in Darnassus, Dolanaar, and Aldrassil escaped to Stormwind with Jaina's assistance, do you? If you continue to make excuses, I'll have to fight you.
There are several corpses lying around. One of the last things you did on the Alliance side was a hopeless quest to evacuate and save 900 something citizens of Darnassus. Which you of course fail. Loads of night elves died.
Comment by
Rankkor
on 2018-09-21T00:46:55-05:00
And that place was also not evacuated after Teldrassil, in fact the Mission tables state they have driven out the Horde in Ashenvale and Darkshore and are preparing a siege on Orgrimmar.
I'll have to take your word on that, as my alliance alt is still too low to do missions at the table right now. By any chance do you remember the names of those missions? can you link them? I don't mean to offend, but you keep saying outlandish things without a shred of proof (like malfurion appointing Tyrande as his successor leading the cenarion circle if he dies, despite the fact that the actual leader of the circle is Cenarius) so the validity of your word is slightly questionable at best.
I find it somewhat hard to believe, because the main reason the alliance wasn't able to repel the horde attack on Ashenvale and Darkshore was because the fleet of both the alliance and horde were severely crippled by the legion, thus they weren't able to be everywhere at once, attacking in one spot would leave the other vulnerable. This is why the alliance couldn't scramble their fleet to protect darnassus, and also why the horde couldn't scramble theirs to protect the undercity. Both sides focused the bulk of their navies protecting stormwind/orgrimmar because the loss of the capital would be catastrophic to the war effort.
The very reason we even go to Zandalar/Kul Tiras is to secure a new fleet, that would enable each side to finally go on the offensive. So I find it questionable at best that the alliance would somehow be able to mobilize in large enough forces to actually kick the horde out of ashenvale, without leaving themselves defenseless in the eastern kingdoms, and be able to do this before securing the aid of the Kul tiran fleet.
It makes sense that they'd mobilize to take Darkshore AFTER 8.0 since by then, the Kul Tiran fleet is secured already, and logically, their first priority would be to retake darkshore, and push the horde out of the night elven forests. But that'd be after 8.0, not before, or during it.
Edit: and after doing a little digging, I found the missions you were talking about. Guess what? The horde has them too.
Posting Reinforcements
Recapture Silverwind Refuge
Darkshore Drilling
Ashenvale Pass
Along with many others that prove the horde are still very much present in Ashenvale and Darkshore.
So that whole "The alliance has driven the horde out of Darkshore and Ashenvale and are preparing a siege of orgrimmar" bit? Pure fanfiction on your end. Again. The horde still has a presence in ashenvale and darkshore.
Just giant leaps with zero tangible solid evidence to back it up.
Comment by
HebusOfTroy
on 2018-09-29T13:10:48-05:00
That definitely isn't the Alliance armor.They just announced heritage armor, so I'd assume that will be the Night Elf Heritage armor. They said we are starting with Dwarf and Blood Elf, so that most likely means all races will get heritage armor.
However, the armor will probably be Night Elf themed for Alliance.
I agree. however, for mogging purposes, specially a
gnome
human/draenei , i would like it to be a warfront armor :P
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