I said it before and will say it again. Sylvanas is dumb.
Alliance and Horde are not in the state of war at the moment... and she thinks that she will prevent the war by starting it? I mean, how on Earth does a direct attack against Alliance not start a war?
Then she thinks that killing one of their leaders will make Elves weep in the corner for the end of time? How come she doesn't know that it will actually make them hate the Horde and want to fight it even more? And if not them, the rest of the Alliance will for certain, because we all know that certain people in the Alliance are waiting for an excuse like this. For every one Elf that can potentially be sulking in sorrow over Malfurion's death, there are 10 Humans, Dwarves, Draenei and others who will crave for blood.
"By occupying Darnassus, we will control the flow of Azerite and ensure it cannot be used against us. The Alliance will dare not attack its own city for fear of harming civilians. With a single stroke, we will guarantee generations of peace."
How does a single thought in this make sense? This is Sylvanas suggesting that the Horde army will literally occupy Darnassus while keeping the Alliance civilians still inside... for generations. Yeah, it does mean that. Because if the plan depends on the Alliance not attacking for fear of harming their own civilians, it means that the entire time of the Horde occupation, the civilians must be present. And the Horde army must also be present to keep them inside and keep the potential attackers out. Does Horde really have so much personal that they can keep this up indefinitely?
And all of this is before there is any burning. The burning actually saved her hide, because the original plan was so ridiculous nobody could take it seriously.
My only problem with the whole scenario is Saurfang committing a dis-honorable act. That is totally out of character for him.
That's why he spares Malfurion. He even says after to Tyrande that he committed a dishonorable act.
I'm willing to stand with the worgen during the timed mission to check if he yells "THIS IS NOT FINE" near the end of the time limit.... or if he melts.
I think it might have been better if they didn't time gate the steps to this quest line so much. I've played through it fully on both A\/H sides and there's frankly not that much to it. Gating the steps by week I think will make it seem like even less content. The only thing we're missing is the burning-of-the-tree cinematic. After the Legion pre-patch two years ago with the invasions, I was really expecting a lot more than this. It's fine, but it's just not as amazing as the Legion pre-patch.
because then they wouldn't have reason for another expansion LoL.
I thinks she is coming to an end once more.
I still think this expansion makes no sense thematically following Legion. After the peoples of Azeroth band together in an unprecedented display of unity to turn away one of the biggest existential threats the world has ever known do we build upon it for further peace and cooperation? Especially in light of the grievous wound inflected upon the very world we stand on? No, we go back to squabbling. Oh please Lady Sylvanas I\u2019m begging you to save us from Anduin \u201cPlease sign my petition for peace\u201d Wrynn!
I agree, now would have been the time to bring back C'Thun as a precursor and launch event since the sword of Sargeras once again has weakened his prison in Silithus, then have the expansion span out to cover the old gods, Im not sure I can build a story past that, but transitionally it makes a HELL of a lot more sense than this mess.
btw "this is fine" LOL.
Another explaination is something mageranger13 brought up. Though C'thun is not truly dead, his corpse will have little influence I think. It's much more likely that N'zoth is behind these events, as he is the one Old God still alive on Azeroth. It's possible that Sylvanas truly didn't want to start a new war and N'zoth influenced someone to burn Teldrassil and frame Sylvanas for it. Would it really be so unlikely that N'zoth whispered to Genn to burn Teldrassil, to blame on Sylvanas, so that he could finally exact his revenge? Sounds like something N'zoth would do if you ask me.
This title is a spoiler itself, I hate how it had to be everywhere, you CAN NOT avoid spoilers for new expansions if you go online, it pisses me off.