u/Slowpokebread

I really think Kael was wasted not just because of his own character, but he got connection with many major figures, it could create a lot of interesting stories among the Horde/Alliance and Nightelves/blood elves.

As much as I hate how he was done in BC, I think the best way wasn't to totally toss away that plot. It could be used for good development with some changes. Like he was under some mind control in BC but he still tried to play double agent and caused some harm to the legion. When he was revived back, he still deeply regret for his doing and tried to make it up secretly. So he spent time and effort to help his people secretly(much like a Happy Prince plot). It could also give other blood elf characters good plot about realize the truth-feel sorry for their prince-change their view. At the same time characters like Sylvanas and Tyrande could also get things to do.

It's a very crucial book because it defined Jaina's major character change. It's one of the few WOW stories that really let me feel sad. However, such moment is what defines the character. It brought more to Jaina's development and make her more sympathetic. Same with Sylvanas as the ranger general. Tyrande kinda lack of such moment or was not well written.

We can see how crazy Jaina went after the incident, saying she would even kill all the orphan because they will grow to be murderers, killing all the pirates on the islands without a blink. When she was casting the tidal wave, she even prepared to kill Thrall if he would not back off.

That's way beyond Arthas' situation in Strathlome, similar to what he had become in Northrend later. But she didn't fell largely because Arthas being the example. And there was no Lich King.

And I could not blame her much because what she experienced the total destruction of her home, she went to other places to seek help but nobody could do much. It's fully understandable that she went nuts and what she did afterwards.

The book did well on her but a bit bland on many supporting character. Kalec felt a bit weak as her friend.

I mean, Illidan is one of the best asset he could get. Failed to defeat the Lich King isn't a big problem. Illidan is so powerful, he could even become the legion's 2nd in command. All Kil'jaeden tried to do was using fear instead of reward.

He pushed Illidan to become his enemy so the legion had to spend a lot of effort to reclaim Outland or even fight the Illdari forces. Why not forgive and sway him so the Legion could control Outland with much less effort. Even if Illidan wasn't entirely loyal, he could try to sway others to summon him.

That's the problem with Kil'jaeden, he always sway those power hungry ones but without give them enough reward, he only viewed them as expendables instead of powerful individuals to become his generals, thus caused them to backfire against him one by one.

Utena is always brave and have strong sense of morality. She also experienced at least 2 villains' seduction before. She was also clear about Akio Ohtori has a fiancée Kanae Ohtori. Kanae is a good person overall despite some flaws.

WHY would she not find Akio Ohtori is evil? He openly seduced her when he was about to marry soon. Nor did she find guilty about it. This is really out of her character.

I really think Kanae Ohtori was so tragic, not only she was betrayed by Akio, Utena was also involved and didn't even apologize to her. Even her mother is likely using her as a cover to get close to Akio. Her character was also tossed away by Ikuhara in later story when she should play a role. It's clear to see Ikuhara treated her like garbage.

Both can make great runs and attack, can send some good balls. But neither could do well to control tempo.

In 23-24 Fede was mostly doing defending job for RB, and Jude was playing a false 9 in UCL. During Fede's best run last season, Jude was absent.

As a attacker Jude is much better, but Fede can cover better for the right side and play RB.

So one of them have to make sacrifice if we want to put both of them together.

I found Hilda(normal form) got enough interaction with at least 4 god warriors, even Freya interacted with 3 of them.

Shiryu seems to be the one she had talked the most beside Seiya, because Shiryu is easy to make friend with? Aiolia brothers are probably the closest Gold Saints with her. And Canon because she saved him before?

Yeah he was added when Camus wasn't even invented, and in the beginning Milo was to be Hyoga's mentor in the manga.

I guess some people like him because he is kind to Hyoga and willing to oppose Saga. He also showed that he cared about civilians, even lost his life to destroy the ice pyramid they were forced to build. If he didn't use the last bit of his strength to redeem himself(even though it's not his fault.=), he might have survived. Even when he was controlled, it's easy to see he was resisting it, which gave Hyoga chance to defeat him.

Camus only care about let Hygoa to surpass himself, even willing to cut off his emotion. The anime also made him worse because he didn't seem to care about Crystal Saint's death. Yeah he is a good mentor but as a person, Crystal Saint is more likeable in some ways.

Make important character in Prophecies and Factions Heroes. Like Cynn and Danika.

Make Divine Favor more useful, like if enhancement is removed ppl will be healed/reduce damage, or recover energy.

Ok overall they are more difficult than WOC.

Defend Droknar's Forge: Got the wrong build but didn't want to start over, not enough protection and can't nuke healer quick enough. Had to kill Frost Titan and wipe+use honeycombs nearly every group, used Tengu to kill the 2 Frost Titan in the last 2 groups. Very time consuming and painful, but no hard requirement, done it.

Defend Denravi: Easy, just pull groups and kill the boss.

Defend North Kryta Province: Took me 2 days even with 8, wasted time trying weird builds for protection. I even vanquished the whole area(200+Titans!) to see will the spawn be the same, nothing changed, all the waves only spawn when the event start. Turned out it's my DPS not enough, using typical mesmers+MM+ST+BIP and went through after a few tries.

The Last Day Dawns: Ran through from ToA, it took 2 hour+ but SMASHED the groups, only the 3rd or 4th group brought the king's guards to low HP. This quest's NM once gave me PTSD 20 years ago. When we didn't even have heroes and could only group with ppl. So I want to smash it through with my best squad.

The Titan Source: also start from ToA, the boss group is tougher than I thought due to 3X Titan smash and energy cost, I even wiped after they are killed because the Risen Ash Hulk stole all the minions. Went back to smash down.

Now both WOC and TITAN HM are done

Shiro didn't start as a villain, he was loyal at first. The demon fortune teller tricked him. Also it was never explained WHY Emperor Angsiyan weirdly let him go inside, if he made no change Shiro would not suspect him and kill at all.

Also shouldn't Shiro KNEW he was tricked by Abaddon? But we didn't get any of his own thoughts at all, other than seeing him team up with the Lich to serve as Abaddon's generals.

Even with 8 I can't go past it, couldn't even sustain 2-3 waves and fail in the first one a lot, suggestion on tactics and build? Tried mesmer and fire ele, the fire power seems to be ok, but I got overwhelmed, how does the wave spawn work?

I want to try spell immune team tomorrow, something like shadow form+spell breaker

The Impossible One: Cleansing Haiju Lagoon

Can't think of a logical way to do it, even Bip skip took me hours to get it done. So I skipped Trading Blows and Ever Closer to the Edge ordinary way, too. I REALLY think this quest makes no sense.

The most painful ones:

Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate: Not just because it's tough, but the mob near the 2nd NPC is oversized, wiped many many times there and had to start over. I had to look at the video to know how to pull them without letting them attack the NPC.

Raid on Kaineng Center: Some mobs has insane AOE and they came from both ends, had to bring both MM and ST after many wipes. Still in the last wave I forgot to bring shelter so I got killed by the boss while putting hex on him, glad the team made it.

Raid on Shing Jea Monastery: took several tries, spamming bombs but the last wave didn't go too well, everyone except Mhenlo are dead when there are 4-5 mobs left. Glad the team rez just in time, when Mhenlo started to take damage.

Finding Jinnai: Also tough but didn't take me too long to figure out the tactic, camp at their main spawn point to kill most of them wave by wave, then take care of the rest.

What Waits in Shadow: So many jade brother groups and patrols, I forgot you can rez after wipe, had to pull VERY VERY carefully, almost wiped like once, had to run back and rez. Deadly Cargo is similar and you can't wipe..

Reiko also took me like 5-6 tries.

But it's quite fun to keep figuring all the different build to beat the quest, that's where the fun is!

Right now I finished 18 and is on A Favor Returned. Stopped due to the crash issue.

Any advices on the next ones? Some are very tough like Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate mostly due to the 2nd NPC keep dying until I realized how to aggro the mob without let her get attacked, had to BIP through the Cleansing Haiju Lagoon since I found it's impossible to do. Right now I am mostly running on Mesmer dps+ 3monks(1 is smiting), a paragon for extra protection, 2monks and 1 ST/Minion master

I found all his group are casters, so can Spellbreaker work against him? Let one have it and standing front, Just asking.

Right now unless you want to gamble for the Mallyx mini, there is zero reason to waste gem on it. Make the drop better and raise the rate of good stuff.

The 2-1 Barca one was great, we totally choke Barca out and created many chances. Vini, Mbappe and Jude all played very well, Guler is also fine other than that mistake. I don't think they don't fit each other, as long as they are willing to work together, most of the teams can't defend against them.

The 3-0 City doesn't have Jude nor Mbappe, even Vini wasn't the superstar man while he played well as the winger. Valverde was given a lot of freedom to attack and he did so well. Diaz as the false 9 to connect and Guler is creative on the left.

Maybe we should discard the "build around this guy or that guy". I think our 3 stars all have their flaws and could not be the absolute star of the team, but if they work together we could be great. Even our 3peat era isn't just "give CR7 the ball to attack", we got a lot of firepower even from the subs.

Also I think Jude probably didn't have conflict with Guler, but Fede. 23-24 Fede was mostly covering for RB while we got Kroos to connect the field. But now it's different, especially when Fede was put as CDM it just becomes a mess.

I can solo other 3 without much problem, other than Foundry, how do you do it? I saw a few videos and none of them were fighting the Fury.

They look like warriors, I mean if he was keep killing innocent ppl, wouldn't Hilda imprison him long ago? Or was he using it against others under evil Hilda's order?

Look back at our 3 peat.

Marcelo, Varane, Casemiro and even Ramos started as youngsters, many subs like Nacho and Aseniso are also like that.

Vini, Rodrygo, Fede, Camavinga and Lunin also helped in our 22-24 UCL. It's a pity that we sold some good ones like Hakimi and Llorente.

Right now we actually got many good youngsters like Guler, Endrick, Gonzalo and Huijsen, but most of them didn't develop wel due to the unstable environment. We need to give them patience and time and they will help us in the future.

We got very good players to keep score and give individual brilliance.

But none of them, not Jude, not Mbappe, not Vini, none of them are good to organize play. We rely on Kroos and Modric for too long, our other midfielders are mostly good at helping them cover, but none of them can organize play. Even our problem with lowblock got to do with it, you can't make the transition quick and accurate enough, you will lose for sure.

France lost due to wrong tactics. England just never got good control/connection in their midfield, they just rely on long ball and individual brilliance, sure it works against certain team but if you always play like that, you are going to run out of gas soon. We are even worse than England because our players don't run much. It's also easy to see Carlo also got outplayed VS even Norway.

We need to give the coach support, let him decide the tactic, build up system, let everyone run and cover, not "build around a player".