Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Verathel]

WOW has lore but it has been retconned many times and it is almost separate from the gameplay for almost nothing of it is required to do what most people want(end game content). Some of it is descent but WOW is not famous for its lore for a lot of it got hilariously butchered. Shadowlands is a great example of how damn awful it is.

[gumas]

World of Warcraft doesn't have a main story quest, at least when I played it. You had to do a bunch of quests in each area to find out about the lore. Expansions had some kind of major quests and plot points though.

Ok yeah i just got quick lesson from my friend (who has played wow since vanilla so he kinda expert on it)

He told me that story in wow is seperated into 3 type, minor quest (this is your generic quest), major quest (has continuation and story in it) and campaign quest (the highlight of story quest featuring major character and worldwide threat and so on)

He said that every region you travelled into has their own major quest and so you go to central shroud (using ff14 name) it has it own major quest, you go to east shroud, another major quest and so on

The campaign quest is much grand and feel more cinematic aka ff14 msq but sometime it just stop abruptly because you havent done major quest in this xxx region since its connected to the campaign story later

My friend also said that one weakness in wow story telling is that you are not the center of it, basically the whole wow story is… dawntrail story structure lmao with one exception is you are not fixed to wuk lamat and thankfully most of them are likeable character

Iam still skeptical about this but i think i give it ago with 1 month game time for now

[lolnotacat]

My friend also said that one weakness in wow story telling is that you are not the center of it, basically the whole wow story is… dawntrail story structure lmao with one exception is you are not fixed to wuk lamat and thankfully most of them are likeable character

I haven't played WoW since WotLK but I really didn't mind the storytelling of WoW. I don't have to be the main character of the story. I just have to be the main character of my story. Seeing Apothecary Putress attack the combined force going after ICC, or helping Sylvanas try to take down Arthas, or being with Saurfang as he recovered his son's body were all great moments where I wasn't the main character and still remember 16 years later.

[WeakestZenosEnjoyer]

For an expansion that was supposed to be crafted and vetted for cultural sensitivity it's an almost hilariously continuous roll of white saviour + stupid natives + Shah of Iran / CIA operations. In the past of FF14 it would have been something weighty like religion or government or a system of oppression etc etc but food is "Disney-safe".

It was supposed to be a vacation expansion and in a sense they actually did deliver that,

it was Wuk Lamat's trip to Disney World and we were also present.

[gumas]

It was supposed to be a vacation expansion and in a sense they actually did deliver that,

it was Wuk Lamat's trip to Disney World and we were also present.

it is our holiday trip

the thing is, our most annoying "friend" came along and we being good guys cant said no

[arstoka]

it is our holiday trip

the thing is, our most annoying "friend" came along and we being good guys cant said no

Summer vacation where your friend asks you to come with them and another friend's home country. You've never been but you've heard about the cool landmarks that you could potentially visit. Friend seems okay when meeting them and you agree to go. After you arrive, your friend's "friend" steals your passport and says you're going to hang out with them all summer and visit all the places they want to go and if you try to leave you'll get in trouble with the authorities because they stole your passport.

I jest, but it's what it feels like lmao.

[Alchemii]

Ok yeah i just got quick lesson from my friend (who has played wow since vanilla so he kinda expert on it)

He told me that story in wow is seperated into 3 type, minor quest (this is your generic quest), major quest (has continuation and story in it) and campaign quest (the highlight of story quest featuring major character and worldwide threat and so on)

He said that every region you travelled into has their own major quest and so you go to central shroud (using ff14 name) it has it own major quest, you go to east shroud, another major quest and so on

The campaign quest is much grand and feel more cinematic aka ff14 msq but sometime it just stop abruptly because you havent done major quest in this xxx region since its connected to the campaign story later

My friend also said that one weakness in wow story telling is that you are not the center of it, basically the whole wow story is… dawntrail story structure lmao with one exception is you are not fixed to wuk lamat and thankfully most of them are likeable character

Iam still skeptical about this but i think i give it ago with 1 month game time for now

WoW does have a main story, just not in the early version of it, and also your typically not as involved in the story. It's more like all this stuff is happening around you, so the lead characters can actually fix the problem. Some times, you'll be the one to fix the problem, but usually your just the hired help.

Edit: It should be noted, a lot of WoW's story also happens outside the game in books. If your interested in WoW's story I'd recommend just looking up youtube videos on it. There's a Youtuber channel called Platinum WoW that does a good job of recounting the story, and there's also Pyromancer before he moved over to FFXIV he was considered a WoW Historian.

[seraf]

I found the story boring up until the Lv.93 quest range once a few plot twists began to happen. I've gotten hooked on the story ever since the fight with Valigarmanda and I'm hoping the game continues improving as it goes on. The first 27 Quests were really boring though and I barely forced my way through them. I leveled 2 jobs to 100 before doing the MSQ because I didn't feel like progressing up until now. I understand why the beginning was slow this is a whole new story arc and I needed to remind myself this is how ARR started out as well.

[Regis_Paran]

They DID hire a cultural sensitivity consulting group

I can only hope none of them were the type screaming "cultural appropriation" when women used baby sling carriers not from "their own cultural" heritage.
And honestly, any time I see "(...) sensitivity consultant", I'm expecting the worst possible ideas regarding the topic.

[ReynTime]

Cultural sensitivity consultation for a story that takes place in a completely made-up world with catgirls and talking lizards is one of the most stupid things ever invented.