Legion had some of the darkest quests in World of Warcraft. Blizzard needs to bring that back, thinks MeinMMO demon Cortyn.
Currently, most players are likely enjoying World of Warcraft in the “Legion Remix” mode. This mode is not only fun but also offers exclusive rewards that hardly anyone wants to miss. It also provides the opportunity to replay all the quests from Legion and realize: Wow, that was quite dark.
Sure, at first glance, World of Warcraft is a game with comic graphics and thus may seem somewhat “childish”. However, many of the quests in Legion show that behind the comic graphics often lie dark or cruel stories.
Death Knights are dark, very different from the shining heroes of WoW
A nice example here is the Death Knight campaign. Right at the beginning, it becomes relatively clear that you are not a “hero of Azeroth” but the supreme servant of the Lich King, who is also working to destroy the Legion. Unlike other classes, you are ruthless. A human doesn’t want to cooperate? Then you have the option to attack him immediately.
Graves are desecrated. Defiant informants are killed and then raised from the dead to extract information from them. Throughout the quest chain, you even storm the Paladin order hall to steal a corpse and resurrect it as a Death Knight – even if that fails.
The entire quest chain makes it clear: you are much closer to the Scourge than to the Horde or the Alliance. You are a creature of the undead, without much concern or scruples.
But even the quests outside the order campaign are quite dark. In Val’sharah, we find some Dryads who are literally melted alive by Moonkin – into fleshy slime blobs filled with bones.
In Suramar, we find an elf who pretends to be a good Samaritan and wants to smuggle displaced persons back into the city – only to realize that he sacrifices the refugees and outcasts to demons to gain more power himself.
Legion is full of these quests that have a noticeably dark touch.
The future of WoW should dare to be more like Legion again
However, it is also understandable that such quests have become increasingly rare in recent expansions. Most quests are not written for cruel Death Knights, stubborn Demon Hunters, or ruthless Warlocks, but for the neutral adventurer or hero who mainly wants to help.
But especially in comparison to Legion, you can see how sad that actually is. The classes are so different in their stories and should therefore be offered more content tailored to their own class. I want to do more holy, heroic things as a Paladin and also show the cruel side as a Death Knight. I want to hunt the remnants of the Burning Legion as a Demon Hunter and perhaps ally myself with these remnants as a Warlock to gain even more power.
The development team of World of Warcraft is currently extremely large and is working on several expansions simultaneously to ensure that the content flow never dries up. But at least I could live with less frequent updates if we could get another expansion with each class receiving its own extensive campaign in the foreseeable future.
Because the unparalleled cool feeling of executing the will of the Lich King as a cold-blooded Death Knight and being “different” from the shining heroes of Azeroth is something you unfortunately never get back after Legion. And that’s quite a shame, as much as I enjoy the story of the World Souls saga.
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