Thread by @Portergauge

Trying to see it in game for myself before judging but uh

It's bugged entirely lmao. Ebyssian has no quest and the other two just aren't here

Okay I exited and changed phases, now I have the opposite issue lmao

Okay finally lol, these post-raid quests are always such a mess with encryption

I obviously chose wrathion lol

I like that we're going back into the raid and seeing our effects beyond just the require mechanical use of the instance.

Makes it feel more like it's actually present in the world and not just an excuse for boss fights.

I just... don't really get how this would change anything Wrathion didn't already think lol. He already had the idea of "I want to be the earth warder my father *should* have been, not what he was", and that would still be his goal after this

Kavia does a cute little salute through her dialogue, also they do have a reshowing of the cinematic (so I dont know why this isn't available for everyone already anyways???)

I'm glad this is an actual campaign at least, leading up to the cinematic.

Getting to see these two fight more is nice, Wrathion has little flame bursts in combat (and I think a shadowstep?)

Good show of Sabellian's line in the sand on morality on this, to follow up on the raid stuff

Well at least it's development... but none of this really seems like "wow I shouldn't be aspect" development so far? Just "I should be a better leader" for both of them

Bit of an extra dig at Wrathion's 10.0 Obsidian Citadel plan to boot lmao

Sabellian still errs a bit on the "oh you're one of the good ones" instead of actually addressing that flaw, but it's better than nothing

I like that the Blacktalon have seemingly adopted the slitherdrakes into their numbers. Sabellian clearly doesn't want them, and they're misfit creations of Neltharion that make them work so well to be with Wrathion.

These guys are called Blacktalon, but are weirdly marked for Sabellian instead of Wrathion

...please don't put Sabellian as a co-leader of the Blacktalon Blizz lol

If nothing else, I hope this revisiting of raid environments continues into future stories, it helps them feel like part of the world and like our excursion has an impact on the main plot

(would be nice if there were an open world version for folks to RP in post-completion too)

Glad they remembered the detail of dracthyr signets collected from their dead, that's nice

...well Blizzard certainly made me work for my disappointment lol

There's way too much to unpack here mid-quest so I'll just move on

"seeking power bad😔😔 good leaders shouldn't be ambitious" is just such a frustratingly cliche story and I don't get why that's the only leadership story WoW can *ever* tell

The two of them just awkwardly sitting in the corner behind him is very emblematic of this story lol

Post-campaign quest to give the lead-in to 10.2, I'll post the cinematic in the next reply

They're all very grateful for everything, at least

Very weird how nobody did this big fanfare for poor Merithra though lol

All the (non-Kalec because he has a quest) Aspects have post-campaign dialogue. Sabellian and Wrathion have nothing lol

First three have clear set-up for the world tree, dragonspawn, and 10.1.5 story respectively at least so that's nice

And with that, 10.1's main story is done.

Ho boy do I have a lot to say and think over that I won't do here. All I can say is that it's really jarring to see how similar this is to Shadowlands' writing compared to the rest of Dragonflight's quests, and I wish I liked it more.

Side note: Kind of funny that 2/5 Aspects have identical color-swapped models right now lol

I know they'll be getting unique ones once they become proper Aspects but it's amusing.