Savur from Gurubashi asks, like an Azerothian Jerry Seinfeld: what's the deal with Mount Hyjal? Escape from Durnholde and the Black Morass, the first two Caverns of Time instances, have to do with players attempting to stop the Infinite Dragonflight from completely messing up the Warcraft continuity. In both of those instances, you work both for the events of history, and against the Infinite Dragonflight, in order to make sure that what really happened in Azeroth actually happens.But in Mount Hyjal, the Infinite Dragonflight is nowhere to be seen. There's no reason for the players to be there, as even without them, Archimonde was defeated by all the exploding wisps. Now, the Bronze dragonflight does apparently claim that they suspect the Infinites are there, but from all player reports (disclaimer: I haven't played the instance myself), the Inifinite Dragonflight is MIA, so there's no reason for the players to stick around and fight.
Drysc wimps out, and basically says that players are there because it's cool to see past events of Warcraft history (and that Archimonde apparently drops the Professor Plums). But that's weak-- if the Bronze Dragonflight really cared about protecting the continuum, they wouldn't just let a few punk heroes go sightseeing throughout time. Sure, there doesn't need to be a "lorelol" reason to fight the people (and Orcs, and Scourge, and the demons) that we fight, but there should be.
So we'll wait patiently and see what happens in the next CoT instance. Are you content with just seeing the sights of Old Azeroth, or would you prefer there be a reason that you're going there in the first place?
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8-14-2007 @ 7:44PM
Tumples said...
WTB The scourging of Stratholme with Arthas please, try to write a lore reason for doing that :D
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8-14-2007 @ 7:58PM
Adam said...
You know, all they had to do was throw in a Infinite dragonflight boss, and a few infinite dragonflight trash mobs to have a good excuse for being there.
It just seems now that they were simply lazy.
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8-14-2007 @ 8:01PM
Drew said...
what about an event in the FUTURE.
I mean it'll give them a chance to both make up lore as they go and create two version the one you save from the Infinite Dragonglight and the actual one that takes place later on (With extra difficulty added)
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8-14-2007 @ 8:12PM
hjungle said...
I'm not knocking the game as I'm still having a blast playing it but it should be pretty obvious by now how unimportant structured lore is in WoW. It's basically used as a cheap device to create content. Kind of like a video game (which it is, of course).
I'm still hoping one day they'll put some serious attention on developing a story. For not it's bosses and quests...
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8-14-2007 @ 8:16PM
Barnabas said...
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=30902 need i say more?
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8-14-2007 @ 8:53PM
Tridus said...
Hyjal is totally a LoreLOL instance. It shows that the Bronze Dragonflight is hoplessly inept. Nobody is screwing with the timeline, why do they want to send 25 yahoos back in time to muck around with what they call one of the most sensitive moments in history?
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8-14-2007 @ 9:07PM
alanm26 said...
I saw the article title and immediately thought this was going to be about why we shoudn't raid now because the gear will become obsolete in the next expansion.
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8-14-2007 @ 9:07PM
Incendo said...
Well the better question is: Does it matter that it's there when 97% of the players still won't have been there when the next expansion comes out?
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8-14-2007 @ 9:27PM
Gurei said...
A more important thing is what hapend...or will hapen to the zone ofHyjal?
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8-14-2007 @ 10:08PM
dreadlorde said...
It has a ton of cool ore, so yes, it matters.
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8-15-2007 @ 1:12AM
tim said...
The only consistent explanation I have for this is that the Scale of the Sands *are* the Infinite Dragonflight, and are sending you to Hyjal to mess things up by killing Archimonde before the World Tree can be destroyed.
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8-15-2007 @ 3:12AM
crazyterran said...
@1, Lore Reason: The Infinite Dragonflight is trying too stop Arthas from succeeding in Scouring Stratholme. If Stratholme isn't Scoured; and Arthas never has the confrontation with Mal'ganis, he never goes too Northrend---Thus never gaining Frostmourne, and never becomes the Lich King.
The Burning Legion never loses control of it's pet; and the Scourge(Thusly the Burning Legion) has Stratholme's populace as a added weapon too wipe out Lordaeron, and Scour the Northern part of Lordaeron of Humans/Elves.
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8-15-2007 @ 8:44AM
Levi said...
I don't know, going into Mount Hyjal gave the nerdier guildies of mine loregasms.
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8-15-2007 @ 9:29AM
Starfury said...
I do think it's a failure on blizzard's part that there is no noticeable reason for us to be going to Hyjal. As someone mentioned earlier, like it would have just been SO hard for them to have an infinite dragonflight boss or something to explain the need to go there, instead of having nothing at all.
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8-15-2007 @ 10:13AM
Valethas said...
I believe they should have had the War of the Ancients in there or should at least add it you know. Would be interesting to say the least.
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8-15-2007 @ 11:07AM
Dan said...
> It has a ton of cool ore, so yes, it matters.
khorium?
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8-15-2007 @ 12:54PM
crazyterran said...
@16 - Since the trash doesn't drop epic gems like BT, they have put in "Ancient Gem Veins" that have the same epic gems, and spawn after ever 2 bosses (every base switch, essentially) http://www.wowhead.com/?items=3&filter=qu=4;minle=100;cr=16;crs=3959;crv=0 (List of the Gems that can be Mined..)
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8-15-2007 @ 1:19PM
Zghuk said...
There is a cave at Mt Hyjal which looks like the entrance of Onyxia's Lair.
You cant see this in the normal instance. But if you climbed the real Mt Hyjal before WoW 2.0 you could see this. The atlas map shows the cave, too.
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8-15-2007 @ 6:43PM
Queuetip said...
Maybe it has nothing to do with the Dragonflight at all. Maybe its the 25 people going back in time to kill Archimonde that matters. Without them, he will succeed. However, that event will never occur, because Archimonde failing was back in history. It was fate for 25 people to travel back in time. In conclusion: The Infinite Dragonflight are just a bunch of chumps, because no matter what they do, history is history, and it already happened. Their interference is part of the flow of time, and actually caused events to end up as they did. Suckaz
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8-20-2007 @ 7:34AM
danny said...
ok the infinite dragonflight have stopped the whisps from coming at the right moment for killing archimonde so u have to kill him so he wont succeed
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