THIS IS WHAT THEY DID TO THE LICH KING'S HELM! 9.2 Spoilers!
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The fabled Helm of Domination was 'transformed' into the Crown of Wills!
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The fabled Helm of Domination, the most iconic headgear in all of Warcraft history that dates all the way back to Warcraft 3: Frozen throne was just transformed in the Shadowlands into the very lame looking Crown of Wills.
This wouldn't be all that bad though but this is now no longer the helm of the Lich King but it is the crown of the Arbiter that was just recently introduced. Blizzard did actually in the Shadowlands give the most iconic helm in all of history to a very minor character that is Pelagos, in my opinion really damaging the legacy of Warcraft 3.
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I mean, all i can say is wow. Just wow. They could've transformed the helmet into anything, anything at all. At least something similar like a purified version of the Helm of Domination. Like a Helm of Salvation, or a helm of freedom, even a Helm of Valour. The crown of wills was trash, it's bland it's not even unique. It does nothing but show just how lazy blizzard is, and i'm more disappointed than mad atp. For they continue to ruin what was once iconic in not just Warcraft. But for the gaming genre itself
Seriously they should stop doing anything with story. This is so shitty that I kind have the doubt that they may be trolling us
Horrible, I didn't live long enough to see my childhood memory die like this
Blizzard made Pelagos the Arbiter and gave him a crown because he's their transman character. They've gone woke and inserted trans politics into WOW.
I dont even play anymore the lore is starting to horrible. To the point I don't care anymore
Ner'zhul, the ambitious grand shaman from Draenor that almost destroy his own planet only to see his goal fulfilled. Arthas, a young prince that trying hard to save his people, but fall into the very being he swore to destroy. Bolvar, the mighty general of humankind, leading countless war, survived gulag, and manage to absorb and utilize the power of red dragonflight to his own will, and sacrifice himself to be the lich king without expecting any admiration. and then there is Pelagos. a blue zoomer
Arthas should have been the arbitor
@@noneyabuizness No. He's lost. But what if......it were Thrall? He's already Orc Jesus.
@@Sorrowdusk if they would have written it so that Arthas has a redemption story becoming the arbiter. Instead of zuvool giving Sylvanas her soul Arthas does.
Or they could of had sylv die, and her missing soul frag that was the ranger general become the arbitor somehow.
Least that way sylv is dead but you can still visit a fan favourite character now and then when this shit pile of an expansion is over with
@@noneyabuizness naah. Don't expect Blizzard to write a good lore for male charas. Thrall, Bolvar, Malfurion, and many more were nerfed too far that they almost looks like demasculinized and can't do nothing but idling, or beaten to a pulp. So Thrall, or Arthas is out of the list
It is impressive how quickly they’ve run the game into the ground
Dude I know. They took 5 trucks and ran through it. If it wasn't finished enough they took a train and smashed it.. if that wasn't enough of an overkill they took the game and threw it into a barrel of acid to finish it off. LoL
they dont know what to do probably
From the thumbnail alone I’m just sad. Glad I quit before this shit storm. Whatever they turned the dom helm into looks retarded
I agree 100% and it's sad because I've been a player since 2008. A huge part of my life I feel has been wasted for nothing...
Tbf its been a decade of making it incrementally less good
Shadowlands had huge potential but ever since they started mass retconing the lore it all went to shit. At this point right now, they have literally destroyed warcraft lore and it's blasphemy at it's finnest. Shadowlands in non canon as far as I'm concerned.
Shadowlands in non canon as far as I'm concerned. I feel the same way
Hey its you!!!!
Don't forget that Zovaal is both the former Arbiter who was betrayed by his fellow eternal ones and jailed and the supreme being that has never known defeat and wants to turn the entire cosmos into a copy of the maw since that's his paradise. Also, since there is no prototype of him in the new raid he is both one of the eternal ones and not at the same time.
It feels we have a retcon of the big bad within the very same expansion.
@@slavkoostojic2514 Absolutely agreed. Same case as sStar Wars, the entirety of the franchise becomes better if you just ignore that part.
Shadowlands is the Last Jedi of Warcraft. It's like if your dad walked in on you jerking it; everyone pretends it never happens and its never spoke of again.
Never before has an expansion killed all of my desire to play the game. What they've done to the Lich King should be a crime.
For the first time since I first started playing all them years ago I'm considering canceling my subscription my favourite side to the lore was the lich king and the scourge and theyve ruined it for me
True... they destroyed be best part of the game Lichking, dude when i saw how Sylvanas nuked Bolvar in that Cinematic fuck me i knew something like this would happen.
Think about the characters. Why would they bonor a symbol of oppression, death and suffering?
It is obvious, that they would reforge it something completely differently looking.
Not just a crime. A crime against humanity itself.
@@bigb5681 I cancelled my subscription for the first time since 2006, 7 months ago. I am happier with not having a single game to play, than i am playing WoW. Lore = trash, concept = trash and gameplay = trash. I mean i have studied game art for 4 months now, and i could have made a better looking crown in a couple of hours.
I’ve got to hand it to Blizzard: they’ve been very consistent in their mediocrity of late.
But really, how do you take one of the coolest and most iconic armors in the game and make it so utterly bland and generic?
Agreed. Looks like an green item u get from completing a quest.
I think saying mediocre is is giving them too much credit lol at least their consistent with just being mediocre lol
The same way you fuck up a Warcraft 3 re-release lmao
It looks like the fucking crown of friendship or sumn
Players: "This lore was good for decades, and you've ground it to dust in a matter of years."
Danuser: "Very dramatic, players. Give me the urn, and I'll make sure you unsub quickly."
Players: "The urn holds the lore's ashes, Steve! What, were you hoping to piss on them one last time before you left this game to rot?"
Danuser: *Chuckles* "I didn't know what it held. Nor does it matter. I'll take what I came for one way or another."
Players: "I dearly hope that there's a special place in hell waiting for you, Steve."
Danuser: "We may never know, players. I intend to write forever."
We know how the story ends ... The investors of Activision Blizz get to raid Blizzard HQ ... hopefully they do the 25 heroic one, would be great to see as a livestream
You spelled his name wrong. It's Steve The-Snoozer.
(He snorts the ashes and gets high off of them)
Is this an actual exchange with players? With how arrogant the Blizzard Devs and Staff has become, I really wouldn't doubt if it was.
@@AltarofMetal It wasn't, I was just paraphrasing the dialogue between Arthas and Uther at Andorhal when Arthas came to get the urn.
I remember Pelagos. He was the Dude that couldnt complete his Tasks alone
But he will judge souls %)
I don't remember him, none of my characters joined the Kyrian so I literally have no idea who is he or what are his qualifications to be the arbiter 💁🏽♀️
@@Jazy1993 That's the neat part. He has no qualifications to be the Arbiter, he didn't even manage to become a proper Kyrian. They only said he is pure of heart, which means a literal puppy could do his job just as well.
"I can't seem to judge these souls on my own!!! Can you help me!!!"
@@Mediados what are you talking about? Pelagos is their token Trans character they put in to pat themselves on the back. Pelagos has all the qualifications and I’m sure the trans community just loves that they stuck in some flavor text if you go out of your way to talk to Pelagos outside of quests (unless they added more beyond 9.0 I haven’t played since then).
imagine taking the coolest helmet in the history of fantasy and turning it into a childs toy
"Look how they massacred my boy"
I was hoping Zovall was a deathless being and could only be stopped with imprisonment. The Helm of Domination would be imbued with first one runes (same model just golden) and after weakening Zovall he would be bound to it like Ner'zhul was and the helm would be locked away. Bolvar would stay behind with a handful of the ebon blade to ensure it is kept in check.
You should work for blizzard... or maybe not cause they don't like telling good stories. 🤣
Wow this sounds better lol
I love how some shmuck (no offense just tryna emphasize on the commonality of this) is able to come up with a story and solution to the Helm of Dominations part in this whole accursed story Blizzard has come up with, is able to make a conclusion that completely blows the stupid plot these actually writers at blizzard came up with. These people get payed to produce crap that is at most C tier compared to this guys single paragraph. Like come on
That would have been more awesome. And I honestly had pictured Arthas becoming the new Jailer/Lich King to keep Zovaal or his remains locked up too. Both as an eternal penance, and a chance to take his equally eternal revenge for Zovaal utterly ruining his life so much. And pretty much being the root reason for why his kingdom ultimately fell, so he would be avenging his people and family too at the same time.
With the Helm of Domination and the rest of the Plate of the Damned (or at least modified versions) helping bind Zovaal. And a properly reforged Frostmourne being used to server the sigils from Zovaal for good too. I even pictured an ending being a callback to the endings of Wrath of the Lich King and Warcraft 3 the Frozen Throne to tie up everything too. With a repentant Arthas pulling a Bolvar as another callback.
And like that you've made Shadowlands 1,000 times better than what old Steve danuser could ever come up with.
The original writting/lore/game design/development team/s must be crying both from laughing and from suffering at the same time.
The end of a realm.
The end of an era.
The end of a generation.
I will tell you, what disappoints me and makes me a little bit sad.
When I was younger, I was very invested in Warcraft lore. A friend of mine showed me the Arthas book and I started up on reading War of the Ancients and the other books.
Seeing Blizzard retcon almost everything, changing the meaning and the mystery of these galactic powers, starting new and just objectively badly written characters and stories is just destroying the legacy and everything I kind of held dear of the Warcraft lore.
Just disheartening.
I feel the same way and I feel most of the playbase does too
This could have been Arthas redemption. He who judged his people sick and killed them all, now forced to judge souls for eternity or something like that. but nope, nope, we got pelagos, the dude that couldn't even be a kyrian and if it was not for us, players, he would have never been a mawsworn. He is so WEAK that he could not control his doubts, yet he is strong enough to decide on the faith of souls??? get out of here, Uther was so quick to judge Arthas and throw him into the maw, he should have learned his lesson and now judge the worth of everysoul that comes to shadowlands
WoW went from an epic story to epic failure real quick in one single expac (not that BFA was better, but in comparison..) so much potential, and such a waste of the writers time
Arthas was more concerned about not letting the Scourge get any more undead to control, and was trying to give the infected a merciful death too. But I think having Arthas as the new Jailer to watch over the truly evil souls and Zolvaal, or at least his remains, and his truly loyal allies, to make sure they never escape the Maw. Having him pretty much having the same ending as Illidan would have done Arthas much more justice than this mess Shadowlands turned out to be.
Heres a fun theory. The writing staff is filled with people who used to work for games that got killed off by WoW. And this is their revenge....
I dont see why else they would do this
Considering the requirements to become a developer at Blizzard (I don’t know of other companies) I would not be surprised at all if that was the case
I think Pelagos becoming the arbiter might be my least favorite thing about the whole expansion-and that’s saying a lot. 100% I get the vibe that he was included in this expansion just so blizzard could throw the “he was a female during life” card somewhere. Now he’s the arbiter in charge of Oribos and where all souls go..? Plus, his new model is genuinely scary and I don’t like looking at it for long
"when you get accused of sexual harassment, just throw in a minority character to make it up for your crimes" - literally every megacorporate in the nutshell. I seriously wish people would stop treating them like meat shields against arguments and criticism.
@@RebelWvlf Literally!
You can make Playing Cards on "What Lore Decision Pissed You Off the Most in the Shadowlands". You got potentially the Sylvanas Redemption, Mystery Jailer with No Clear Motivations, Tyrande's useless story arc, Anduin getting yeeted in Stormwind with no resistance, Elune not knowing about her people drowning in the Maw, the Eternal Ones just being constructs, Baine being meme'd on, the First Ones obscurity, People Escaping the Maw despite Jailer saying "NO ONE ESCAPES THE MAW," and so much more!
Pelagos was literally the most useless character in the expansion. Why they made him the most important.. ugh it disgusts me
Yep. Pelagos was just a quota to get brownie points with the Twitter crowd lol.
They RUINED the best lore in the entire history of gaming with this one. Good job Blizzard.
Warcraft's story ended in legion for me. We defeated the burning legion and lived happily ever after.
I'm sorry, i haven't played wow for a while and i'm not very well versed in lore, but what about Scourge?
After WotLK helm was mainly used as form of control so they do not spill into rest of Azeroth, so what now that "crown" is in Afterlife?
Shhh, don't say it so laud. It will disturb the wow writers and they will go on a lore rampage again!
Basically they will just tell you with the Jailer's defeat, the scourge no longer disturb azeorath.
And they will literally just "TELL" you it is what it is, and in game scourge is still alive and kickin like nothing happened.
This is WOW now, things and lores they are lazy to make into games they will just literally put them in one or two lines of text and call it a day.
I mean after this shouldn’t death knights technically not be a thing anymore? Lmfao wtf
I’m pretty sure before we went into the Shadowlands the Scourge was rampaging across Azeroth. Which was one of the reasons we went into the Shadowlands
But apparently it was just fixed offscreen
RIP WOW
I have nothing against Pleagos but him becoming the Arbiter has got to be one of the most random and underwhelming occurances in this expansion. Its a brand new character that was struggling during the Kyrian campaign and has barley gotten any character development. It's like taking a background character that's had 3 minutes of screentime and make him the new captain of the ship.
I am sure we all know why he was picked. And its a petty poor one
I have many things against Pelagos. Mostly the fact that he doesn't evolve as a character. He started out weak, barely able to conduct the tasks he was given without our help or inevitably ending up flopping onto the floor. There has been no gradual development or change to this. And now a character who has the equivalent aptitude of a zoo animal being thrown into the wild, is now a God-like being whose whims define the fates of a near infinite amount of people? If this was a comedy it'd be a perfect setup, but it isn't.
@@Dogmelter42 i think its another reason too but then i will be called all the things in the world :p
Dont worry. Blizzard is working on releasing a book that explains everything after 9.2 :D
@@casplays2318 I think I know what you mean, and I agree. Wouldn't want to word it, either. Else, people would be throwing around labels.
Best word to describe it blasphemy
The dumbest thing is that they could've let us forge another helmet from some magical components we had to collect
Holly fuck, wow is beyond salvation now
and what about "there must always be a lich king" !?what about all the scourge at azeroth ?will not go feral without a lichking ?from a badass helm to a golden fairy crown!?i cant understand........ :(
What if there is a loch king, imagine Arthas taking the portal syllvanas opened for the jail or knowing the jailor will die just to rule once more.
No sword no crown, but we all know he don't need them, he was born a king, in the day he was born the forest itself was whispering the name "Arthas"
I was actually upset that we didn’t reforge the helm for a new lich king my hope is in the future they give death knights a heritage of their own to go after the abandoned armor of ner’zhul
Uther should wear the crown
It is offensive what they did to that helm... directly pissing on the most iconic item
The helm design between the two just says it all with the evolution of WoW. They try so hard to give a conclusion to the story that already did just fine.
The so called "Vessels of Domination" now are just some leveling greens u pick up to only destroy.... atleast Frostmourne is somehow preserved as an Artifact for the deathknights...
They could still have some new douchebag try to use them as Frostmourne 2.0? To try and become a new Lich King of sorts.
So the lore/story that Chris Metzen was building literally since mid 90s up until mid 2010s was all for nothing??Destroying the most iconic helmet and overall retconning alot of his story in just 1 expansion lol...thats unforgivable,i would really like to see what Metzen has to say to all this stuff..Pozdrav Srbiji
I get the feeling that Steve Danuser & the others running the current story have a grudge or dislike of Metzen. Not even joking, i feel like they're jealous of him and just trying to destroy everything he built out of spite.
When you reach the bottom of the barrel that is shadowlands, it's time to dig at the dirt under it! I hope after the expansion that this swept under the carpet.
If the helm is no longer a thing, and if there is no longer a lich king… where does that leave death knights? Obviously I know the lich king doesn’t have control of the playable death knights but isnt there some sort of link that gives them life after death? Am I missing something or does this screw up death knights lore wise
This whole xpac shredded up the lore for a lot of things. They retconned it into the ground and not much makes sense. Even the Titans aren't really much of a thing.
No the Death Knights are fine without the Lich King.
Completely fine. In fact not all death knights were even created by the lich king in the first place.
The real problem is without the Lich King the Scourge is fully unleashed. But Blizzard forgot about that. Because they are fucking idiots.
@@KingMidgardsormr thank you!& yea that’s true, wasn’t there a book or something involving bolvars 3 most trusted death knights before shadowlands where they were mentioning how active the scourge have become? It’s funny that they forget the shit they release. This is crazy to me, I’m super casual but this irritates me because since cata (I started and quit in cata I was spending wayyy to much time playing and not working) I’ve been into the lore and up until recently I’ve really enjoyed the lore (I’m an illidan fanboy lol)
@@Raumes513 yeah there was. I forget its name tho. It was a good read but the new story ruins it.
@@KingMidgardsormr yea I’m pretty sure I only know of it because nobbel87 did a video on it lol
i really hope in the end of the expansion we all wake up from nzoths corruption
I can't wait for you to reach 100k subs, you deserve it Doron! 💪
I cant belive this my childhood is ruined now famous icon of Lich Fucking KING is lvl 40 Paladin doing quest hunting wolves...
Blizzard has just spat on the face of everybody by doing this.
Killing the Jailer of the Shadowlands? We sure have come a long way from defeating a super weakened Ragnaros outside his realm.
Also, that Helm looks like something you get from a level 51 quest that you vendor the moment you get a better piece of gear at 52...
Helm of Domination is indeed a symbolic headpiece.
Symbolism of its transformation represents what World of Warcraft has been and what it became:
A bland piece of fool's gold...
What is it with film makers and game makers now in ruining past beloved stories?
They must be doing it out of spite.
how that Steve Danuser is keeping his job is above my head
I thought Arthus would have got to make up for his actions as the lich king. He's no longer under control anymore.
Arthas have nothing to make up for.
He only need to rise again and lead the scourge to its right full glory!
Man this entire...expansion and the time is like we got the Bad Ending.
Blizzard Turns Evil (or more accurately revealed to be evil)
Friends are lost
The innocent suffer
We get nothing
The World of Warcraft itself is falling apart beyond recognition
And if even after all that and we're still standing/playing WoW, we're doing it alone.
reminds me of how they screwed up GoT just to end it...:(
It really is crazy that the same people who made the tier set just 1 raid prior also made that helmet.
Sanctum of Domination has arguably the best designed gear the game has ever seen, and those same designers produced an onion.
Hey, so remember when Helm of Domination and by extension the Lich King were a necessary evil and the very reason why Bolvar sacrificed himself to keep in check a apocalyptic level threat that is the Scourge?
That someone had to wear it to make sure the nigh-endless hordes of undead would not just rampage through Azeroth?
And we just reforged this first and final line of defense against Plague of Undeath into a fancy hat for an NPC, rendering us lacking of any tool to prevent Azeroth getting bumrushed by undead like it's Black Friday?
Yeah, that sounds like a bit of an issue.
The Woke King Arbiter will use the new Tiara of Goodness to wish the Scourge away.
The Scourge better be a rampant threat when we return to Azeroth or I'm gonna flip shit.
@@Olkard they will be bltq zombies with woke agenders stealing paintings from Karazhan with boobies on them and replacing them with bowls of fruit because they where offended
Its fitting its called the Helm of Wills, because it killed my last remaining will to give a damn about WoW lore anymore lol.
poor naruto . He didn't become Hokage, but he became arbiter
But he did become hokage…
Imagine being someone that didn't play Bastion but any of the other 3 campaigns and is like "Palagos who?".
Well done Blizzard, consistent in butchering your own story.
That's me. I must have seen the transgender for no more than 5 minutes throughout the expansion. And now he will be the leader of the most important faction in sadoland? That's like firing Bob as president of Blizzard and putting the intern who makes the coffee to decide Blizzard's direction.
@@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740 That's funny though because the intern would definitely do a better job. It's impossible to do worse than Bob.
I didn't even remember who Pelagos was.... When I am thinking about who could be the new arbiter and wear this fancy crown I am stuck with three characters.
1. Bolvar: lived a righteous life, sacrificed himself to wear the helm of domination and slowed down the jailer by not giving him control.
2. Sylvanas: did some bad shit, now with her reunited soul, she knows what she has done und wants to make everything better and sacrifice herself blabla...
3. if they want a character who played a part in the storyline of shadowlands, why not Alexandros Mograine?
He lived a righeous life, fought the undead and is a legendary paladin. In death he rose up the the rank of Baron, was betrayed and locked up in the maw. You could say he has seen some shit. This is a character with a storyline, alsmost as old as Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination themselves, he has a deep connection to these items and he would be fit to wear this crown. But nevermind, give it to Pelagos a guy nobody cares about and a guy we will probably never see again.
Btw. why not make the crown of wills look like the Helm of Domination just a little bit more goldish or whatever, why does ist have to look like something a Marvel-Character would wear...
Not sure what the hell the helm designer is thinking, there are tons of good looking helms & crowns and he only able to come up with this shit?
I think it's a perfect parallel how they've butchered Warcraft's lore with the idiotic retcon "the Jailer did it".
The most iconic helm in Warcraft's lore, transformed into something that seems a drop from a random Burning Crusade's dungeon...
The dialogue was changed to Crown of Wills but I'm more prefer to call it "Crown of Liberation" it's a fitting name to call it
Helm of domination!
It is not a crown!
@@krivjeto That was when it was still the Lich King helm, when I reacted to it's unfinish cutscene it was Helm of Wills but then it got changed to Crown of Wills
I think "Helm of Resolves" might be a better name than "Crown of Wills", like another user suggested. But "Crown/Helm of Liberation" sounds not bad too.
Helm of Will would had been better for a lich king 2.0 and be worn by Bolvar who had his fire will keeping his sanity in check while he wore the helm as his time as the LK.
What the fuck. I was thinking bolvar was going to get the new helm as it feels a bit weird now, if I'm honest with bolvar feels bit out of place without his helm.
I get more fun from the rage on internet than from the game itself.
Like you said, I m not against Pelagos to become the new arbiter but if he's the new one, what about your soulbind with him for kyrian members? They are going to redcon this soulbind or just "well we don't see that but it's just for one patch and nobody will see it"?
Is being the Arbiter actually "a good thing"? Seems like a thankless 24/7 job you're literally enslaved to for all eternity. If so, isn't it much more of a sacrifice than a "promotion"? Or am I missing something?
He means it’s a significant position in the lore that’s critical to the function of the Warcraft universe, and the character that’s put in that spot is completely insignificant
The Lore, for all its decisions (many of which I don't agree with), would have at least been competent and easier to follow if we had the background of major NPCs fleshed out. If they don't elaborate on the history of the Arbiter (including the Jailer's role) in 9.2, I'm not sure what the point is for all these random twists & turns (e.g. Argus, Pelagos, etc)??
We might not like how a story turns out, but that doesn't make it a bad story. Bad writing (e.g. characters lacking motivation, conflicting messages, plot holes, major retcons, etc) makes it a bad story.
It feels good to not have played shadowlands.
The Helm of domination will always rest upon Bolvar in my books.
I don't think the Primus created Frostmourne and the Helm by himself. He knew how to do it, and the Jailer, while knowing that, stole the recipe suckung it from his mind and passed it to his servants (the Dreadlords) to create them with the help of Kil'Jaeden.
I remember Pelagos only because he annoys the F out of me. You're telling me Pelagos the wimpy little bastard of Bastion who couldn't even finish his training is now worthy enough of all this? Dude can't even get his wings. WTF? I would seriously love to know what the hell the writers and producers of this game are smoking. It must be really strong stuff. I remember hearing at some point pre-expansion them promising they weren't going to mess with Arthas because of how important he was to the fans. I think I must have been dreaming. >_>"
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Sylvanas did not destroy hope. Daneuser and blizzard did single handedly in one expansion. Thanks for that.
Congrats in advance for reaching 100K subs.
This is the equivalent of big companies making rebrands that completely kills their logos in favor for something more "user friendly".
Yeah... I'm not exactly thrilled with this. I think it would've just been better to have left the helm alone or be or just use it to repair the rift above Icecrown. I don't mind the message of "No longer needing a Lich King" because that makes sense in the grand scheme of things but I don't think they needed to go this far with it.
This entire expansion feels like one big hate letter to Arthas and the Lich King from start to end.
Can we just talk about the fact that they set up a character from the very beginning of Shadowlands that would have been perfect to be the new Arbiter. Would have even made a ton of since to get the Crown of Domination (that new model is trash and I refuse to use the new name).
Uther would have been perfect. Taking the responsibility of Arthas. Throwing him in the Maw. Accepting that he passed judgment on him. He was ALWAYS about Justice and such. He would have made way more since and we would have an emotional connection to him.
Am I wrong?
Youve got a great point and i agree with you
0:07 Entire Gaming not just Warcraft
It's a very fitting symbol for the franchise itself.
Crown of Wills**
Please get the name right, it's SOOOOOOOOOOO amazing! (god this level of sarcasm is hard....why did they do this to the helm, why, please, blizzard WHY D:)
I agree with all of your points in this video and am similarly underwhelmed by Pelagos' new role as the Arbiter.
I use to love the lore of warcraft but now I could care less because of what they have done with all of this iconic characters and legendary items of the game. The writers from Disney's Star Wars must be writing for blizzard now.
Could have been dubbed the "Crown of Salvation", as it's meant to be a foil of the Helm of Domination.
the new helm literally looks like a green drop from bastion. i cant
This is the biggest middlefinger to every Warcraft fan ever lol
It sucks so much what they did to the lore they legit made the helm of domination into a sparkle crown 🤦♂️ I miss the days of wotlk when the scourge actually felt like a threat but those days are never coming back 😔
This is like GOT all over again. There are other characters more fit to get the crown, it is like giving the position to Bran. It is okay at least for me to give the Arbiter position to Pelagos, but the crown is special since it held meaning when Arthas was the one using it, I hope after reforging it, I thought it would be given to Anduin since he is a king with no crown, and a wielder of the light. Like Anduin after Shadowlands is the "reverse Arthas" king.
Blizzard needs to fire everyone involved in this and pull a "Bobby Ewing".
What do you mean? The helm is on Bolvar and never left his head. As it should be.
The only reason why I even remember who he is, is due to him being trans, and everyone making a big deal out of it. As a character this guy cannot stand on his own two legs. Unlike say Finn, for the last expansion.
Finn is gay yet he´s whole character doesn´t revolve around it, he was there most of the time during Kultiras questing and questing on Tides of Vengeance alliance side, has geniuenly funny moments with Shaw.
@@kallazjopatsu6846 Exactly.
I had no idea he was trans, nor do i even care. They should keep politics out of games. If i want tp be depressed i'd watch the news...
Okay they just hammered the last nail into the coffin.
Sylvanas being the arbitrator sounds better by comparison.
I think this is one of the cases where the headcanon it's more acceptable. I mean, despite the retcons they made until Legion, it still was far more acceptable than what we are getting now. Specially considering that Chronicles _was meant_ to be the official story (and facts) from Warcraft Universe.
For some, the story finished in Wotlk. For others, in Cata. For me, it all ended in Legion, and BFA it's just an aftermath, or epilogue (isn't the same thing? Correct me please). Now it's just bad fanfiction, with the exception of it being unfortunately written by Blizzard itself.
PS: Since it looks like Sylvannas is getting the Kerrigan treatment (redemption and all), why not make HER the new arbiter and get it over with this shit? I mean, for those who already shat themselves, what problem is in farting a little more, isn't? At least is, well, more, _acceptable_ (not the best choice tho), given the conditions of the lore of Shadowlands.
PS 2: I really thought that, well, I think most of us, thought, that shadowlands would give the same vibe as WOTLK did. I was specially anxious in seeing Krexus in action........just to see him killed in mid-campaign.
No wonder some people are migrating to the other many private servers, or trying others MMOs like Final Fantasy 14.
Naw they need to keep sylvanas around so they can shoehorn her into being center of attention for another 2-3 expansions
An aftermath is not the same as an epilogue. An aftermath doesn't bring closure to a narrative, as it is just the after-state of a world after an event. An epilogue is part of a narrative and brings closure to it.
If it was just a yellow repaint it’d look better. Also would uther be a good choose?
Because no one there has a grain of sand worth of creativity
i feel like a recolor of the helm of domination would've been better than the helm of wills that we got
Is this the crown of light that brings darkness??
I see you aint letting this go doron 😂 but yea they could have atleast made it look like the paladin helm from anturus the burning throne
There is no need to be angry at the story.
At the end they will be many candies and cakes!
I almost accepted we will get Sylvanas redemption story and now this?! Who the fck is Pelagos?
My guessing is that they will come up with something like an alternate timeline to compensate for what they did now.
If Blizz made the helm cooler and made Uther the new arbiter that would be hype
I haven't played shadowlands since it came out. I feel the wow lore is destroyed after shadowlands came out... Arthas as the lich king, was the most iconic character, and my favorite... They manage to run all that to the ground. That is why quitted retail and only play classic at the moment. Back when all was still a mistery :)
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Would like to know how long it took to make Helm of Domination versus this bijoux thingy. Obviously artist, not Primus. From concept to realization.
10 minutes. By the same janitor who made the hellscream cinimatic from shadowlands.
i thought sylvannas would wear the crown and be the new arbiter as part redemption and part punishment for her action... well sad
They put it on Cercei?
Moonberry had more character development than Pelagos.
No wonder Illidan left…
Can blitz just release another expansion and come back to this story later ?
CROWN OF WILLS
helm goes from mythic to raid finder.
I like Pelagos as the Arbitor. I enjoyed the PTR story, it made sense to me way more than fan-speculation of 'Let Sylvanas be the Arbitor'. His responses to the other Covenents perspective of the 'ideal arbitor' was pretty good. The more thought I put into it, the more certain I am that this is the type of person you would want judging souls.
However.
That said, as someone Pro-Pelagos...
The crown man. I wish they could have just had the Primus forge a new crown and left it separate from the Helm of Domination. I really would have rather them used the blueprints of the HoD to make this new one, as that story angle sounds good to me. And instead just reforging the HoD so that our Scourge could be contained on Azeroth.
Or did those few weeks of Scourge attacks count as them swarming the planet? Also, if we were afraid they would swarm the planet and destroy everything, why didn't we just mana bomb them? >.>
That honestly would be so much better. Using the original blueprints and repairing the helm, while using new materials and modified blueprints to make the new crown as it's brother. We need to keep the Scourge in check on Azeroth after all, it never just disappeared at all.