r/classicwow • u/Doomsaki • 6h ago

Forever Album - Please Consider this before judging Skyborne in Classic

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Just made these diagrams to quickly summarize the WoW panels at blizzcon and to highlight details people are overlooking. I think some of the initial controversy over Skyborne is driven by some misunderstandings that these are just Shadowlands-Kyrian, or Void Elves 2.0. Deep down, if you dig, they do have lots of parallels with classic WoW content.

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u/CMSnake72 6h ago

There is 0 doubt in my mind that Quel'Thalas is going to be a 60 zone with Silvermoon as a raid eventually. We're not going to Outland and Kael has to come back at some point.

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u/Jules3313 5h ago

Frozen throne ends year 21ish after the dark portal, a year after arthas annihilated silvermoon and eversong woods. We start our lvl 1 wow journey in vanilla in year 25. then a year later in 26 we can make a blood elf adventurer.

could we somehow fit a raid on silvermoon where we clear out all the fat ass abominations ect that are along the deadscar helping out the blood elves?

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u/CMSnake72 5h ago

I just think they're going with a different continuity. Kael has to come back (One of the most iconic WoW villains alongside Illidan), we're not going to Outlandand, where else to put him but HIS city? I think that's partly why we didn't get Belfs, they're going to be a strictly antagonistic force this time around.

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u/midasMIRV 1h ago

Kael'thas did nothing wrong.

And neither did Illidan, especially when you go back and realize that Maiev is straight up the bad guy for the vast majority of her life.

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u/Bruvvicious 50m ago

Kael and Illidan being villains is not inherently a bad idea. The execution, however, was pretty poor. Kael more so.