#bfa thoughts

[favoritedragonprince]

Like, I really really REally R E A L L Y want to get excited because dragon boy is getting some attention in BfA but

I can’t stop myself for remembering how he was also getting attention the past expansions and then that time came, you remember? there was a FUCKING WHOLE QUEST with him and it was like OHHHHHHH HE BACC!!11!!!

And then, just out of nowhere Blizzard not only erased that idea thEY CREATED ANOTHER BLACK DRAGON OUT OF NOWHERE. (don’t get me wrong I like Ebonhorn) JUST TO PUT THAT SAME QUEST WITH THE NEW BLACK DRAGON AND...argh

So I’m not excited. Until there’s official content, I’m not falling for this again, nope, nope, no no no.

Nope.

[crusaders-of-aggramar]

Come across a lot of people saying prot warrior is the worst tank in bfa. Can't outright say they're wrong, cus I haven't leveled any of my alts to 120 yet, but I will be damned if I let that get to me if its true. I started raiding as a prot warrior during Nighthold. Home of the "all I do is throw magic damage at you hahaha no auto attacks" Star Auger fight. It was brutal, but I powered through. Thats what warrior means. It means fighting on, ignoring the pain and the struggle. Ignoring the people complaining. And eventually my perseverance paid off. In Tomb and Antorus, I was so on top of everything(at least as far as every other tank I pugged with) as to make things laughable. I'd take a large meteor from KJ even with fel,claws stacks. I'd opt to just take both hits from Aggramar on Heroic, and hit Nelths on the second and laugh as my health dropped to 90%. I'd take double hits on Kin'Goroth so my co tank could grab extra orbs. And thats not even mentioning the damage output. It was insane. I'd be competative with average quality dps players, and depending on how well my burst lined up, in the top 5 at times.

Bfa...feels different. Even in Nighthold it felt like I was carrying the damage well. It hurt, but I could work with it, and healers didnt have trouble keeping me up. We'd run Mythic 10s and I'd have to force,myself to control pulls for mechanic reasons, when I was sitting there overcapping rage because I cant apend it fast enough without overcapping IP. Now...it feels like I'm trying to push a boulder up a hill, but theres no traction so I'm really just trying to slow the boulder down for as long as I can.

But damn, when I finally do get my boots into the ground and push this thing to the top, I will be all the better, and know my class all the more because of the struggle. And I will get there. The player makes the class. And I will make this work, if I have to jam my shield up the raid boss's *censored* so far that it *censored* and -geez, I've never even seen that word used like that, but its still censored- so quickly they go crying home to their mommy.

[aksannyi-wow]

Let me tell you, I was so unprepared for the rush of feels at Undercity being destroyed. Undercity was my home for so many years.

And the worst part of it is that I’ve always been a Sylvanas loyalist but... this is her fault, and I’m pissed at her for leading us to this point. I’m not sure I’m ready for her death yet, but she needs to fix it and make this shit right.

I’m such a conflicted Hordie at this point. :/

[nightmigrations]

ok so I finished the latest fifth Doctor trilogy; thus, spoiler cut

Well then. Hanna Bartholomew is probably the most pointless companion in Big Finish.

Not boring or uninteresting, mind-- she kind of grew on me, I think she would've been an interesting addition to Team Five & Nyssa, but-- she really doesn't get time to gel as a character, I think. Oh yes, she has a very distinct voice, but we know so little about her, she doesn't develop, we don't see how her presence affects the Doctor and Nyssa (or her departure, for that matter, despite the fact that she's supposedly had several adventures with them in the gap between Tomb Ship and Masquerade). She's just kind of... there, and then she isn't.

It just makes me wonder: why? Why was she written into the stories in the first place? Unless she comes back somehow, which I don't think is that unlikely, she's really a mayfly companion of sorts. We've had those before, but in the case of for example Gemma and Samson, or Oliver Harper, they have been extremely important to the plots and/or the other characters. There has been a point to their presence-- if anything, when you have companions with such a "limited lifespan" it's been important for the writers to make their part in the narrative all the more poignant. There doesn't seem to have been any deeper thought as to why Hanna was included at all.

Maybe I wouldn't be so hung up on this if it wasn't for the fact that her "departure" is really horrifying, and feels like it should've had an emotional impact, but it just made me feel kind of... meh. Actually the entire audio made me feel that way-- like something with an interesting concept, and not technically badly written, but lacking heart. I don't even feel like she was written out the way she was for shock value.

Overall this trilogy was extremely underwhelming to me, with Moonflesh being ok but not memorable and with a super racist trope, Tomb Ship a very safe and standard "avoid traps to get to final level" video game-esque plot, but well-written and with interesting enough additions cast-wise to make it enjoyable (I liked it best of the three) and Masquerade technically well-written but with nothing to engage me (made all the worse because I felt like I should be engaged), plus kind of offensive villains. Again.

TL;DR the latest fifth Doctor trilogy is kind of rubbish imo.