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If I were Blizzard, I would fire the acting director for this piece of "work". Never in my life have I heard such bland, bored, emotionless voice acting. Malfurion upon realizing Fandral's betrayal? He sounds sleepy. Not even angry at what Fandral is doing and has done not only to the hopes of Azeroth, but of fellow druids. Almost glad he decided to go to Moonglade himself rather than dispatch a messenger and try to pursue Fandral, which would've made sense and made him seem proactive. Aggra? Bored. Can't even scrape up some anger that the love of her life's spirit has been literally torn into different pieces. And she's supposed to be the "fiery" and snarky one in comparison to Thrall's calm and patience, according to this quest line. She's so soft spoken and lacking inflection in her words (NOT how an orc woman should sound) that I don't even know what she's supposed to be feeling from her dialogue. Is there ANY woman besides Therazane that doesn't have the Marylin Monroe "baby voice" going on?None of the Aspects, Tyrande (who has been co-ruling Darnassus with Fandral and butting heads with him for years doesn't even pipe up once) or any of the other major world leaders even have a word to say when one of their own turns traitor. Fandral at least tries to sound like a Smug Snake and hams it up. He comes across painfully arrogant and smarmy like he should. The dialogue in the quest is full of narm and enough cheese to keep a rat colony fed for years. But thats fantasy for you. However, good voice acting would've at least tried to sell us the emotions and tension of this quest line, and it didn't. There wasn't even a pitch being made. Blizz, your heroes are allowed to have emotions, too. Make them ham it up like the villains in the troll dungeons and you'd have a much more enjoyable experience. That aside, echoing the disappointment about just how lackluster the quest chain is. For what is supposed to be an in-depth exploration about the feelings and emotions of one of, if not the most important character in Warcraft to date, they sure as hell skimped on the effort. Not only that, forcing your heroes and major good guys hold the idiot ball like they did really diminishes them AND makes them look incompetent. C'mon, you could've come up with a more convincing scenario than Fandral and a handful of druids suppressing The Council of the Ring for Azeroth while they tore Thrall's spirit apart. It also would've been a nice touch to have some of the good guys show up and maybe plead the cause to the elements for releasing Thrall's spirit. You know, show a bit of solidarity among the forces of good and make them seem a little bit concerned that the one hope of Azeroth's survival being compromised. Maybe have them show up and help you fight some super big baddies that the Twilight's Hammer throws at you (which would make the villains seem like they care about keeping Thrall disembodied, rather than just leaving him unguarded except by a bunch of elementals). There's a lot of ways that more story could've been integrated into this quest line to balance out the romance and made it not only more epic, but more engaging and a good way of characterizing both the good guys and bad guys, which is the main point of quest chains like these.
Keep in mind that the people that Jaina dates.... end up dying...
It was epic.....but VERY short.....TOO SHOOORT!
This questline is impossible to complete on my server,a single guy flags PvP and suddenly everyone is fighting,cast avenger's shield and get banged out by over 9000 horde.
Wind, Water, Earth, Fire......Heart.Captain Planet anyone?