The thing that resonated the most with me about this entire cutscene was Velen's sigh at 2:35. You can see all the weight of 25,000+ years of turmoil, grief and responsibility just melt away. At long last, the Burrning Crusade is over. The force that came to his world, corrupted everything but a small fraction of what he knew is now gone. Velen and his people are finally "free".
Even within Azeroth, the scale of everything that followed from the Legion was incredible. They were the ultimate big bads of everything in Warcraft lore. The Sundering. The First and Second War. Gul'dan, Ner'zhul, Grom Hellscream. Arthas and the Lich King. The fall of Lordaeron and of Quel'thalas. The Forsaken and Sylvanas Windrunner. Kael'thas. The creation of the Dragon Soul. From the bones of Mannoroth in Orgrimmar to the twisted trees in Felwood to the pink stones of the Blasted Lands to the bones of the Path of Glory to the Black Temple to the spires of Icecrown. A hundred amazing stories, and many of them were just the tiniest blip of the Legion's grand design. You didn't even meet *one* eredar in Vanilla. You did a whole epic quest chain just to hear the voice of a single Dreadlord. Even the little stories. The sad lost ghosts of Kirin'var. Every quest NPC you ever found cut down by a Felguard. The chess match between Neeru Fireblade and Thrall. The sadism of Theolen Krastinov of Caer Darrow. Those poor little Oracles being dragged around by skeletons. Har'koa the Loa, betrayed by her children. All of them just collateral damage. There's a damn good reason the Warcraft story ends here for most people. The Legion was the connecting thread, the ultimate bad guys, and Warcraft died with Sargeras.
@@cranapple3367 Totally agree!!! For me, Legion ended wow and I've been playing wow since wotlk and stopped at the end of Legion. BfA and Shadowlands, well... I'd like to forget them.
If at the end of this cinematic it had faded to black and “thanks for playing” came up I wouldn’t have even minded, this felt like a really good stepping off point. Minus the whole sword in the world, the defeat of the legion and sargaras is such a powerful moment that is worthy of being the final instalment of the game and the rush to move on to the next big bad sort of squanders the moment, and that sigh from Velen is genuinely worth every subscription I’ve ever payed to blizzard, they captured the relief of a man who thought that this day would never come, that he could finally not worry that his people were under threat from the burning legion anymore. What a moment!
Back when when we started seeing the first expacs like BC and WotLK I always expected that the final expansion would be defeating the Burning Legion and Sargeras who is literally a god, its like the highest stakes ever. And yet after we got Horde vs Alliance conflict once again which the stakes pale in comparison to saving the entired world.
"Every sacrifice, every choice has lead me to this moment; to face _him_ once again." It should have ended with us facing Sargeras himself. It should have ended with us defeating him, and witnessing the birth of Azeroth the Titan.
Legion was a perfect expansion, 10/10, legitimately every SINGLE moment of the expansion was a banger UP UNTIL the VERY last boss. And Argus the Unmaker is one of the greatest fights they've ever made. But Legion up until that point felt like a swan song. A finale. We have been building for the Legions return since Warcraft 3, and it offered the perfect capstone to the events Cataclysm first brought about. That final boss should have been Sargeras. Followed by a "The End". Thanks for playing. We'll see you around for WoW 2/WarCraft 4. That would have taken nuts, and while I wished dearly this was the case, realistically that'd probably never happen for a billion different reasons.
it wasn't back in the day because back then it was relevant. They needed to do something with that Dead Zone. Hopefully we need to go there to do something now. Maybe it will be the kickoff or the end of the expansion.
The screen: Velen: "You... Will not be coming with us" My mind: Velen: "You... ARE NOT PREPARED" *grows wings and flies into the air with two glaives equipped and blasts away the demons with holy light laser eyes*
I stopped playing Wow quite some time ago, but I love the race to world firsts & cut scenes Tell me, how many expansions are left after this one? Surely it can't go on for much longer. Who's left to kill? A couple of the old golds, Azshara, Sargeras?
It's ironic how the holiest, most devoted follower of the light on Azeroth ended up becoming Illidan's only real friend. While Tyrande and Malfurion used him and threw him away, Velen appears to have legitimately cared for him.
Not really ironic. Velen is basically a saint of the light. Saints tend to not be judgemental pricks and befriend even those that other people consider scum of the earth.... so yea not really ironic.
"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one." - Mark Twain
Tyrande freed Illidan from his prison & went to the Broken Isles (in Frozen Throne) in order to try and basically save him from himself because that's what she thought was necessary (i.e. "you've become a monster"). With Furion it's more complicated because they're brothers. Furion obviously cares for his brother, but at the same time doesn't trust him and is constantly punishing him. This is partly deserved (Illidan betrayed them twice during the War of the Ancients -- once to the Legion and then another time by creating the Well of Eternity) and partly based on jealousy and the rivalry between the two of them. Tyrande and Furion's post-game take on him is really lame and weirdly negative but certainly Tyrande tried to help him. The fact that Legion wants to act like Illidan was always a noble misunderstood soul while he was amassing demonic power and murdering people doesn't change that. But I certainly don't think it's fair to say Tyrande & Furion didn't care about Illidan.
Aldrius if you read the older novels it was clear he always had the best intentions. But illidan was such a fuck up he got people killed and always did the wrong thing. Theres a reason theres a saying that goes "the path to evil is paved with the best intentions"
@@idhamfariz4132 Illidan legit made every choice in his characters story purely because that was the only way he saw that they could defeat the Legion. Unfortunately he made some morally wrong choices which had led to him being jailed, punished, and outcast for over 10,000 years. Imagine sitting in a jail cell for 10,000 years while even though your methods weren't the best at heart you were always trying to save the world. Finally being able to confront the cause for your miserable past millennia and see the end in sight is why he was looking forward to this moment.
@@idhamfariz4132 "At last... we shall have revenge..." - Demon hunter hero spawning from the Altar of Elders that "At last" can be an indirect reference to the demon hunter hero and the identity of demon hunters (and Illidan) for their desire to stop the burning legion
@Rudolf Hillard I think it’s reasonable to assume that he did harbour some personal hatred for Sargeras. Unless he wants to end up like farmer Boldwood from _Far from the Madding Crowd_ then he should just focus on something else instead of a woman who has no feelings for him :P
I'd really like if illidan can come back at some point, or get powered up and have a future helping the titans unfuck the cosmos. I loved Velen and Illidans bromance :D
nope, i loved more the face when Sargeras is infront of him, reminded me of independence day movie, "Hello boi, Iam baaaack" i was expecting Illidan said that XD
hello everyone that has come here after the mess that was ny'alotha ending, Have a seat > > > > > > > > > > > And you too shadowlands folks seat right here.
@@disgustingoozeling2476 alot aint happy about the final cinimatic for ny'alotha since we just Final flash N'zoth and thats it he blows up along with ny'alotha nothing is spoken and the cinimatic is 28 seconds long
@@Darkavenger2411 I saw it. Honestly it was uber quick action and looked copied from Game of Thrones. Fine the King of Night by all lore can't stand Valyrian steel. But how the hell old God just died from an axe in the forehead, that probably didn't even cut through skullbone. While champions cut and slice from similar weapons countless times, before some boss dies...
@@marwansherif8965 Illidan should be all " I TOLD YOU SO " at Malfurion and Tyrande. IF he were here he'd pimpslap Sylvanas all the way to the Maelstrom.
@@VDA19 It depends. If bias for Sylvanas as a character is greater than for Illidan it would be Illidan who was "pimpslaped to Maelstrom". And I can assure you that they like Sylvanas more.
I wouldn't say that. Furion loved him but didn't really get him. Velen sacrificed far more than Illidan and so he was able to reach him. Illidan might not like Velen but he can't dispute that Velen fought the darkness for far longer
Illidan didn't do himself any favors. His original motives WERE Selfish until he saw the extent of Sargaras's evil and even then his refusal to explain kept him from making allies.
Without ist master's command, the restless Legion will become even a grater threat to this world. Control must be maintained. There must always be.... a Sargeras.
Elfezen well actually they work for the void lords. Sargeras found them out there in the void. The only reasons why the demons followed him was cause of his power, most already prisoners. Second, they had similar goal, being the chaotic nature of demons and sargeras goal of burning everything , so a win win.
demons were destroying planets even before Sargeras or Burning Legion was formed. I don't see Sargeras imprisonment would affect demons at all outside of losing their leader and become more disorganized.
@Irfan Alddin Mannoroth, Archimonde, Kel'thuzad, Kael'thas, Kil'jaeden, and Anub'arak being bosses more than 1 time each, C'thun being more powerful than Arthas lorewise, MMO gameplay, Gul'dan being 103 in WoD and dying at 113 in Legion, Alternate Moruzond being a dungeon fight instead of a raid fight (true Moruzond will be a raid boss), and City leaders I don't even have siblings so keep up with the fail trolling. and Raziel sucks
MARCH, ARMIES OF AHN'QIRAJ! March once more for our deathless master C'Thun! Enough hiding in the shadows, enough rebuilding our strength in secret, the time has come to swarm across these sands and conq- ...........what the HOLY SHI
You are a real piece of dog shit m8,to think you're that ignorant and bitter you'l go on the reply to multiple comment about your distaste for the lore,if you don't like it means you're too stupid to comprehend it.
characters questing in silithus during the first time of the defeat on each realm should see the sword comeing down the sky and be wiped from the account data...
@@mireiyu6623 Should've ended with Fyrakk corrupting Amirdrassil with the void energy that has slowly took over his mind or smt. Not something the complete opposite of World of Warcraft...
Watching this now, the dangerous-sounding music they play at the end of this when they show the sword sticking out of the ground was actually to signal the danger that was the coming of BFA as a piss poor expansion.
You should know by now that you're only supposed to play EVERY OTHER expansion. WotLK - Good Cata - Kinda crap MoP - Good WoD - Hella crap Legion - Good BfA - Crap
@@Minimeister317 TBC and WotLK was carry over from WC3 sooo they don't count because story already existed, it was just reworked to MMO format. After WotLK it was all new lore, and that is where Blizz needs an expansion between expansions to recover.
I enjoyed the cinematic for what it is but I agree that they could've done much better with Sargeras. This deep wound doesn't make any sense and something like Sargeras attempting to thrust but being pulled at the same time making him only "scar" with the edge of this sword, could've added a little more "action"/tension to the scene. I also didn't understand how someone could be relieved by having Sargeras taken away while a colossal sword is deep into the planet he lives on (talking about Prophet Velen and his sigh of relief).
To think we began with the Angrathar Wrath Gate cinematic and look at this one now. How far they've come with these cinematics it's incredible. I absolutely love them.
Insanely bad. Its amazing how players are not even mentioned in every big battle. In this SWTOR is vastly superior to WoW. Plus the story, ugh, WoW story is a mess since TBC, save a few moments. The crystal spaceship in the scene is so ridiculous it hurts.
Quality is okay...but the tension really just isn't there. It all feels like they took iconic parts of other films and just didn't nail them. Neither Illidan waiting for Sargeras, nor the way Sargeras gets pulled away from Azeroth nor his last attack or how the spaceship avoids his grip catch me at all. All those scenes have been ment to be thrilling but somehow remind me of Flash Gordon the movie... And that's not even the worst. The way Illidan walks away from Velen is downright hilarious...and the storyline itself is very questionable and the size of the sword is changing quite a bit here and there. To top it off this is the end of the legion. The biggest threat to Azeroth ever. Now compare your feelings with those after the defeat of the lich king...and then you know why this one falls a bit short.
It looks like Sargares is stabbing Azeroth with his sword, this is in fact however not the case. If you zoom in x100 you can see that Sargares in fact has his hand grasped around Saurfang, and Saurfang is holding the sword. Saurfang got mad at Silithus being the worst zone in the game, and decided to cleave it off the map. Sargeras was actually attempting to stop him since he liked that zone for some reason, and the only way he could was by actually trying to move Saurfang far enough away, but he was too late. The damage has been done and Saurfang is pleased, so he will be in Orgrimmar next time you look.
@@myatpyaepaing5790 You fool, Saurfang does not die. He's taking an extended nap because he got a sore back from carrying the Horde through like fifteen different wars.
I mean he had a whole patch to convince Velen and show him the futility in putting your entire being in another's hand. Which was a bit of Velen's one defined weakness.
Nah, have you listened to audiobook (it’s free on RUclips by WoW team)? Void shows all possible ways in the future, while Light shows the result in the future, but doesn’t show HOW it will happen. Velen saw that Sargeras will fail, but didn’t know how it will happen.
@@booll5571 "while Light shows the result in the future" that's not true. Light shows what it wants to be the future, not the actual future. (see: rejection of the gift)
The world in game definitely scales down to accommodate the players, so it definitely seems smaller I think in Canon it still goes up to space, but since we don't want to spend months traveling from Khaz Modan to Quel'danas, it makes sense for it to feel small
My man Illidan right here is what a true hero really is. He suffered through his mistakes, endured the consequences of those mistakes and then learned how to be better than all of that all for the sake of trying to save what he truly cared for, which was the world he lived in and the lives of those living there. There's no way to say if such a person can truly be forgiven for the mistakes of his past but damn it all, no one in the entire Warcraft universe can come close to him in his determination to save their world.
Well as you seen we Horde never took part of this exp pack so for us we just got a sword hitting Kalimdor because of actions the Alliance did on Argus.
Of course, there is going to be war because the Goblin trade princes are funding both sides of the war, and making lots of money from deadly robot sales. The Goblin World Order is among us.
I’m a year late for this reply but a friend of mine only played Warcraft 3 campaign and Dota I showed him this and fall of the lich king cinematic, he cried with joy and is now a weakling playing in a private server, damn him really
They did Velen really well in Legion ( his WoD version was also really cool and on point ). He gives Kil'Jaeden his blessing after KJ had hunted him and caused untold Draenei carnage for 25,000 years. He befriends Illidan, the guy everyone hates and misunderstands, and becomes pretty much his only friend. Then that sigh of utter relief as the Burning Crusade is finally over and his people are free.
I have a feeling for many devs this was in their eyes the final expansion to WoW. They went all in and actually gave a shit. Not saying its related, but Chris Metzen left right after Legion was released. There is hope for shadowlands to be an amazing expansion, but its looking pretty 50/50 atm which is actually pretty insane since expansions are normally really hyped.
I would be pleased if wow ended here and we got a warcraft 4 with confronting the void lords. In that scenario, Sargeras and illidan would also join the fight. Unfortunately we ended up with world of dramaqueens :(
I never paid enough attention to this, but when the Titans pull Sargeras back home they're actually summoning him back into his seat, the empty one between Golganneth and Norgannon. So for a brief moment, the Pantheon was actually made whole again. I found that pretty cool.
+Ulises Roldan Tirion's death was one of the most infuriatingly bullshit deaths Blizzard has ever pulled out of their asses. One of the coolest characters in the game, with all his progression through WoTLK, only to be lazily killed off by a random raid boss. smh
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м I was a Mage Fire back then without the bracer in the first patch, and I managed to clear all the CE content with just the DB helm. While I agree that "Legiondaries" sucked a bit, the expansion was miles better than BFA and Shadowlands. Actually Shadowlands systems are so bad that made quit from the game in 9.1, something that I never considered back in Legion.
@@warriorsworld4638 As far as the lore goes it is pretty fascinating (minus the incoming Sylvanas redemption arc) but there is a huge lack of content in Shadowlands so I can't agree with you yet.
Things I like about this cinematic: - Velen admiting to Illidan that fate, and by extension prophecies, had nothing to do with their survival, therefore meeting him halfway on their own beliefs, with Illidan having also seen the power of Velen's belief in the Light. It's a massive character growth for both, and Illidan's grin to Velen, as well as Velen's final blessing, clearly show that. - Velen's sigh of relief after seeing the Throne closing. You actually feel the ending of a struggle for survival that has pushed Velen to his limits, seen him abandon his homeworld, family and friends to Sargeras. That he didn't collapse of exhaustion right there and then is a testament to his fortitude. - The soundtrack, as always, is amazing in portraying the end of the Burning Crusade. The one thing I don't like: Illidan staying behind. I understand his reasoning, but it would be awesome that Velen made him see that his life would still have meaning, and that Azeroth would need defenders such as him in the future. After all, both are well aware of the threat of the Void and Old Gods. I started playing in Vanilla, and world exploration and its lore have always been part of my interest in this game, particularly the Titan's lore. This raid, and the ending, have been amazing to watch. Thanks Blizzard.
Can you imagine when the inevitable fight with the void lords comes, all the sudden Illidan comes riding in as the new commander of the burning legion to assist us?
The way I picture it is more like this... Voids Lords finally make their move. Azeroth finally awakens. Sargeras senses this and, after seeing that she isn't corrupted (as he had always feared), his own corruption is cleansed. Sargeras returns to us with Illidan riding on his shoulder and pulls his sword back out of Silithus, which then cleanses in his hands. Sargeras and Azeroth then fight the Void Lords alongside us.
With Metzen back I definitely think they will head in the right direction, after all this was his creation as one of the main founders.@@defaultname7685
This cinematic does many things. Closure for the expansion in a satisfying way. There's tension when Sargeras tries to grab the Vindicaar. And it sets up later plot in an interesting way that made me excited. What could the sword in the planet mean? There's also something to speculate about what Illidan does with the titans. Then two years later they shit out a laser going into N'zoth and then cut to the Heart chamber, as most of it is Magni saying "believe in yourself" like filler shit. Absolutely nothing to speculate on it anything that relates to the Shadowlands. What an absolute joke
@@brendolee4257 BFA and Shadowlands was a joke...Hope this comment ages well when I say Dragonflight breaks this shit cycle and becomes a genuine good expansion
Blizzard, I love you. Loved the expressions on Illidan and Velen's faces (little smile for Illidan, surprise for Velen, then this "at last" from Illidan is epic). And that Sargeras. Damn. Damn. DAmn. DAMN.
I will never forget the feeling I had when playing this for the first time. I've always been a fan of the lore more than the gameplay (I'm below average at best), but I was playing Legion almost every single day because everything about it just blew me away. When we transported to the Seat of the Pantheon, I truly felt like this was the crescendo, the climax of all of wow lore, where a fifteen year story was finally coming to an end. And when we hit the final blow and Argus went down, my whole body was in shock. Then the cinematic played, and Sargeras finally appeared, and seeing the demon who we had only ever mentioned or seen in art finally in full view in all his glory made shivers go down my spine. When Velen takes a breath finally knowing it's over, I felt that. I took my loot, exited the raid, and went to Orgimmar, which I realized I had barely stood in since the expansion had started. It's super geeky to say but I truly felt like I had just finished a long journey and was finally home. In my mind, this was the true ending of WOW's story, with BFA being the epilogue to tie up loose ends. I quit during Shadowlands because it flat out didn't feel like the same story and characters anymore, and unless the next expansion really takes my breath away, I don't think I'll be coming back. But I don't think I'll ever have a gaming experience quite like Legion.
You did yourself a massive favor skipping Shadowlands. They tried to claim the defeat of this current BBEG the jailor is the culmination of 20 years of storytelling and I've yet to see a single person that doesn't call this out as complete bullshit.
Shadowlands had POTENTIAL..... but it was sloppy in execution, and focused on the wrong things (Sylvanas) and didn't flesh out the world's enough to make us care about the cycle of life and death I appreciate what they ATTEMPTED, but the real life turmoil, scandals, crimes and others horrible things by Blizzard caused it to be rushed to a very painfully dissatisfactory ending
Not necessarily because we still had to deal with the 4th and last remaining Old God N'Zoth. While the writers really did him dirty, at least we've canonically defeated all the original threats to Azeroth by that point. While Shitlands is just, like the star wars sequels, made up as it went along hence why it just has such a shitty story and ending. So, story should've ended in BFA since the writers were too incompetent to flesh out N'Zoth more in a different expansion which is what we should've got instead of Shitlands.
I love how Velen's personality got changed slowly by Illidan... XD Velen used to be too obsessed with his faith (nearly superstitious which caused his people to suffer) And now: "our survival was never in fate's hands" Lol, so bad-ass XD
I love how Illidan smiles when Velen says that “our survival was never in fate’s hands”... because he knows it wasn’t. He played the biggest part in ensuring the downfall of the Legion. That’s why I love his character so much... there’s none of the posturing of his brother... Illidan did what he had to do. This is one of the few recent Blizzard storylines that did a character proper justice.
Honestly WoW should have ended with this. Sure the old gold threat was still a thing, but this expansion already felt as the penultimate battle for Azeroth, it would be weird if we had another great war of the world directly after this. But all the stuff with Sylvanas just felt, as a good side story to happen with the bigger picture. But Sargeras was responsible for the orc horde, the burning crusade itself and the lich king/the scourge. It felt like everything from warcraft to WoW let to this moment. They wrote themselves in a corner with how Legion felt like the ultimate fight for Azeroth and i could have only gone downhill from this expansion (which is indeed what happened) I feel so nostalgic for WoW but i know that the legacy servers as the normal game are just my nostalgia. It will no longer live up to how i felt first time entering the dark portal, or the first time going to Northrend or Pandaland. I will probably never get that feeling back with this game and it makes me kinda sad.
Illidan didn’t stay to be the jailer of Sargeras, but to dodge BfA entirely. He knew once that sword went down there would be no hope for future expansions.
Love the Illidan and Velen "friendship" such an awesome duo
Quicksilver they can queue for 2v2
Is priest/dh a good comp?
Illidan lost a brother in Malfurion, but gained one in Velen.
Brothers in Sacrifice
The original odd couple
The thing that resonated the most with me about this entire cutscene was Velen's sigh at 2:35. You can see all the weight of 25,000+ years of turmoil, grief and responsibility just melt away. At long last, the Burrning Crusade is over. The force that came to his world, corrupted everything but a small fraction of what he knew is now gone.
Velen and his people are finally "free".
Even within Azeroth, the scale of everything that followed from the Legion was incredible. They were the ultimate big bads of everything in Warcraft lore.
The Sundering. The First and Second War. Gul'dan, Ner'zhul, Grom Hellscream. Arthas and the Lich King. The fall of Lordaeron and of Quel'thalas. The Forsaken and Sylvanas Windrunner. Kael'thas. The creation of the Dragon Soul. From the bones of Mannoroth in Orgrimmar to the twisted trees in Felwood to the pink stones of the Blasted Lands to the bones of the Path of Glory to the Black Temple to the spires of Icecrown. A hundred amazing stories, and many of them were just the tiniest blip of the Legion's grand design. You didn't even meet *one* eredar in Vanilla. You did a whole epic quest chain just to hear the voice of a single Dreadlord.
Even the little stories. The sad lost ghosts of Kirin'var. Every quest NPC you ever found cut down by a Felguard. The chess match between Neeru Fireblade and Thrall. The sadism of Theolen Krastinov of Caer Darrow. Those poor little Oracles being dragged around by skeletons. Har'koa the Loa, betrayed by her children. All of them just collateral damage.
There's a damn good reason the Warcraft story ends here for most people. The Legion was the connecting thread, the ultimate bad guys, and Warcraft died with Sargeras.
@@cranapple3367 Totally agree!!!
For me, Legion ended wow and I've been playing wow since wotlk and stopped at the end of Legion. BfA and Shadowlands, well... I'd like to forget them.
@@JefersonBaraldo The World Soul Saga looks interesting. I'm curious of the void lords
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But it was all done by The Jailer.
@@zaknelthepony7124 no it wasn't I don't care what blizz says
If at the end of this cinematic it had faded to black and “thanks for playing” came up I wouldn’t have even minded, this felt like a really good stepping off point. Minus the whole sword in the world, the defeat of the legion and sargaras is such a powerful moment that is worthy of being the final instalment of the game and the rush to move on to the next big bad sort of squanders the moment, and that sigh from Velen is genuinely worth every subscription I’ve ever payed to blizzard, they captured the relief of a man who thought that this day would never come, that he could finally not worry that his people were under threat from the burning legion anymore. What a moment!
Kinda hilarious because the very next cinematic expansion was about the children playing war again. lmao
Back when when we started seeing the first expacs like BC and WotLK I always expected that the final expansion would be defeating the Burning Legion and Sargeras who is literally a god, its like the highest stakes ever.
And yet after we got Horde vs Alliance conflict once again which the stakes pale in comparison to saving the entired world.
"Every sacrifice, every choice has lead me to this moment; to face _him_ once again."
It should have ended with us facing Sargeras himself. It should have ended with us defeating him, and witnessing the birth of Azeroth the Titan.
Legion was a perfect expansion, 10/10, legitimately every SINGLE moment of the expansion was a banger UP UNTIL the VERY last boss. And Argus the Unmaker is one of the greatest fights they've ever made. But Legion up until that point felt like a swan song. A finale. We have been building for the Legions return since Warcraft 3, and it offered the perfect capstone to the events Cataclysm first brought about. That final boss should have been Sargeras. Followed by a "The End". Thanks for playing. We'll see you around for WoW 2/WarCraft 4. That would have taken nuts, and while I wished dearly this was the case, realistically that'd probably never happen for a billion different reasons.
And boy did it go downhill from here
I would done the same, silithus is a terrible questing zone
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Best comment ever!, Sir you just make my day
it wasn't back in the day because back then it was relevant. They needed to do something with that Dead Zone. Hopefully we need to go there to do something now. Maybe it will be the kickoff or the end of the expansion.
well i fucking hated it back then too
you made my day ahahhahahahha
This was the real end of Warcraft III whole storyline.
Everyone don't worry it is just a splinter.
The true ending of WoW
Umm hell no
The screen: Velen: "You... Will not be coming with us"
My mind: Velen: "You... ARE NOT PREPARED" *grows wings and flies into the air with two glaives equipped and blasts away the demons with holy light laser eyes*
The last time this game was good boyz
It was all downhill from here.
music name???
Noooooo Illidan!, my fav!, Hope we'll hear Matt Mercer doing other roles, i loved Illidan voice acting from Mathew...
I stopped playing Wow quite some time ago, but I love the race to world firsts & cut scenes Tell me, how many expansions are left after this one? Surely it can't go on for much longer. Who's left to kill? A couple of the old golds, Azshara, Sargeras?
The Void Lords. Also, Blizzard can continuously add to the lore, leading to a never ending story.
When I face my estranged father.
It's ironic how the holiest, most devoted follower of the light on Azeroth ended up becoming Illidan's only real friend. While Tyrande and Malfurion used him and threw him away, Velen appears to have legitimately cared for him.
Not really ironic. Velen is basically a saint of the light. Saints tend to not be judgemental pricks and befriend even those that other people consider scum of the earth.... so yea not really ironic.
"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one." - Mark Twain
Tyrande freed Illidan from his prison & went to the Broken Isles (in Frozen Throne) in order to try and basically save him from himself because that's what she thought was necessary (i.e. "you've become a monster").
With Furion it's more complicated because they're brothers. Furion obviously cares for his brother, but at the same time doesn't trust him and is constantly punishing him. This is partly deserved (Illidan betrayed them twice during the War of the Ancients -- once to the Legion and then another time by creating the Well of Eternity) and partly based on jealousy and the rivalry between the two of them.
Tyrande and Furion's post-game take on him is really lame and weirdly negative but certainly Tyrande tried to help him. The fact that Legion wants to act like Illidan was always a noble misunderstood soul while he was amassing demonic power and murdering people doesn't change that. But I certainly don't think it's fair to say Tyrande & Furion didn't care about Illidan.
Velen was also one of the only friends of Orgrim and Durotan.
Aldrius if you read the older novels it was clear he always had the best intentions. But illidan was such a fuck up he got people killed and always did the wrong thing.
Theres a reason theres a saying that goes "the path to evil is paved with the best intentions"
i love how sincere velen's voice is when saying "light be with you" to illidan, you can tell he's honestly wishing the best for him.
Velen was more of a bro to Illidan than Malfurion ever was.
Years later. Maiev still searches for a way to reach the seat of the pantheon.
"Illidan is out there somewhere.."
One day she will reach and they can hug and kiss
everyone: "ugh, will you stop acting this arrogant and just admit you want to jump Illidan's bones already?..."
Those who know Illidan's story since Warcraft III really felt that "at last" he said.
Why
@@idhamfariz4132 Illidan legit made every choice in his characters story purely because that was the only way he saw that they could defeat the Legion. Unfortunately he made some morally wrong choices which had led to him being jailed, punished, and outcast for over 10,000 years. Imagine sitting in a jail cell for 10,000 years while even though your methods weren't the best at heart you were always trying to save the world. Finally being able to confront the cause for your miserable past millennia and see the end in sight is why he was looking forward to this moment.
@@idhamfariz4132 "At last... we shall have revenge..." - Demon hunter hero spawning from the Altar of Elders
that "At last" can be an indirect reference to the demon hunter hero and the identity of demon hunters (and Illidan) for their desire to stop the burning legion
There is also the repeat of his BC line to Maiev "The huntress is nothing without the hunt"
@Rudolf Hillard I think it’s reasonable to assume that he did harbour some personal hatred for Sargeras. Unless he wants to end up like farmer Boldwood from _Far from the Madding Crowd_ then he should just focus on something else instead of a woman who has no feelings for him :P
It was all good. But love Illidan and Velen's talk. The respect they now have for each other. And Illidan smiling to him for finally ignoring fate.
I'd really like if illidan can come back at some point, or get powered up and have a future helping the titans unfuck the cosmos. I loved Velen and Illidans bromance :D
nope, i loved more the face when Sargeras is infront of him, reminded me of independence day movie, "Hello boi, Iam baaaack" i was expecting Illidan said that XD
Illlidan: *Puffs on Cigar* "Fel, It's about damn time."
*inhales*
YOU WERE NOT PREPARED!
Korkrag Steelblood
Bad jokes
Ahahaha :D thanks for the Laugh
Oh man, haha. This one made me chuckle XD
Starcraft 2 refrence?
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What happened?
@@disgustingoozeling2476 alot aint happy about the final cinimatic for ny'alotha since we just Final flash N'zoth and thats it he blows up along with ny'alotha nothing is spoken and the cinimatic is 28 seconds long
@@Darkavenger2411 I saw it. Honestly it was uber quick action and looked copied from Game of Thrones. Fine the King of Night by all lore can't stand Valyrian steel. But how the hell old God just died from an axe in the forehead, that probably didn't even cut through skullbone. While champions cut and slice from similar weapons countless times, before some boss dies...
@@disgustingoozeling2476 He's talking about the final cinematic, not the wrathion cinematic lol
Aman'thul: Return home, fight each other, children of Azeroth.
Illidan must be watching us from above... Disappointed
@@marwansherif8965 Illidan should be all " I TOLD YOU SO " at Malfurion and Tyrande. IF he were here he'd pimpslap Sylvanas all the way to the Maelstrom.
Good Insan I wouldn’t say everybody was a child of azaroth some ate aliens some were made by the titan keepers so yea
@@marwansherif8965 Illidan: *facepalm* all my hardwork for nothing
@@VDA19 It depends. If bias for Sylvanas as a character is greater than for Illidan it would be Illidan who was "pimpslaped to Maelstrom".
And I can assure you that they like Sylvanas more.
Illidan: "at last, I'm the only one who can get the mount"
Does this mount drop from dying on the boss?
The only mount Illidan will ever have is Maiev.
@@axechop Bow chika bow wow?
Наз wanna bet?
"Illidan has disband the group."
Velen was more of a brother to Illidan than Malfurion could ever hope to be.
I wouldn't say that. Furion loved him but didn't really get him. Velen sacrificed far more than Illidan and so he was able to reach him. Illidan might not like Velen but he can't dispute that Velen fought the darkness for far longer
Illidan didn't do himself any favors. His original motives WERE Selfish until he saw the extent of Sargaras's evil and even then his refusal to explain kept him from making allies.
Without ist master's command, the restless Legion will become even a grater threat to this world.
Control must be maintained.
There must always be.... a Sargeras.
Goluz wrath of the lich king reference lol
But seriously we don't need another sargeras unless they made heroes/adventurous as the next sargeras
Elfezen well actually they work for the void lords. Sargeras found them out there in the void. The only reasons why the demons followed him was cause of his power, most already prisoners. Second, they had similar goal, being the chaotic nature of demons and sargeras goal of burning everything , so a win win.
demons were destroying planets even before Sargeras or Burning Legion was formed. I don't see Sargeras imprisonment would affect demons at all outside of losing their leader and become more disorganized.
sargeras isn't a lich king, and the burning legion was builded with a lot of races of demons that where slaved
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They messed this up. Illidan should have reminded Sargeras that he is not prepared.
Yeah if you mean Illidan should say "He is not prepared" to fight Sargeras that is, since Sargeras is fully prepared to fight Illidan. lol
@Irfan Alddin You mean his mark not his eyebeams? And don't act like a pure gameplay thing such as levels are a real thing in WC lore
@Irfan Alddin Mannoroth, Archimonde, Kel'thuzad, Kael'thas, Kil'jaeden, and Anub'arak being bosses more than 1 time each, C'thun being more powerful than Arthas lorewise, MMO gameplay, Gul'dan being 103 in WoD and dying at 113 in Legion, Alternate Moruzond being a dungeon fight instead of a raid fight (true Moruzond will be a raid boss), and City leaders
I don't even have siblings so keep up with the fail trolling. and Raziel sucks
"Fel Fel Fel, what do we have here...No, seriously, who are you, im blind."
@@devincampbell5007 Wow, you're definitely not prepared.
anyone here after watching the ending cinematic of BFA ? I see now , Sargeras wasn't trying to kill Azeroth but Blizzard instead.
Yup
Golden comment right here
Stabbed the wrong planet
Wrong hole!
God I wish this game ended here
Would've been an ending beyond perfect for the Warcraft franchise.
For me it did. Said goodbye to WoW after Legion ... Best gaming decision 😁
Yep! Legion was an awesome comeback after WoD and they should have ended it. BUT Blizzard (Activision) couldn't stop milking the cow.
@@rookiegamer404 Same thing man. Same thing and truly i am happy that i did it after more than 10 years of playing.
@@rookiegamer404 I couldn't have said it better I did the same.
Sup y'all I'm from the future. Can I come hang out here instead? The next two years aren't pretty. Enjoy this cinematic while you can.
Fuck blizzard and that undead queen bitch
@@blobber51 lmao
@@blobber51 The Emo Queen. 😆
I guess you could say that Sargeras's vision was clouded
Ba dum tss
clever
You need to stop
:v
Plus he was high (literally)
Being Voice Actor for Sargeras must be a hard job.
I bet that dramatic "noooooooooooooo" took a lot out of him.
NOOOOOO
Sounds alot like Orson Wells who voiced Unicron.
Actually he had a greater voice acting role during patch 7.2. cinematic, but nvm
Yup, that one word probably took a lot of work
Hunter weapon.
will we Hunters even have BAGSPACE for that weapon? xD
You can fit massive artifacts in a penny sack but god forbid you try to fit more than a couple tiny unique items.
MARCH, ARMIES OF AHN'QIRAJ! March once more for our deathless master C'Thun! Enough hiding in the shadows, enough rebuilding our strength in secret, the time has come to swarm across these sands and conq- ...........what the HOLY SHI
C'thun: *"You are already dead-"*
*sees giant sword*
C'thun: *"...I am already dead."*
@@archdruidbookwalter951 So much for being the "Deathless" master. Lol
HOW THE FUCK CAN AZEROTH SURVIVE THAT!?
Yeah, that would've blasted us into the next ice age
Charles C cus she thicc
In the hour of her third death. She will usher in our coming - Whispers of illgonoth
Demetrius Porter no she's EXTRA THICC XD
We just going to cauterize the wound by throwing our artifacts in there. Or something like that.
Imagine showing this to someone who has only played vanilla.
Indeed, how hard they would laugh (or cry) after seeing what they done to the story. The "spaceship" alone is pure lols.
defeating old gods as humans not? rofl.
You are a real piece of dog shit m8,to think you're that ignorant and bitter you'l go on the reply to multiple comment about your distaste for the lore,if you don't like it means you're too stupid to comprehend it.
I ONLY PLAYED VANILLA AND IM VERY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW
J.E F You forget that the Lich King killed us and was in the process of turning us into his slaves. We wouldnt have killed him without Tirion.
characters questing in silithus during the first time of the defeat on each realm should see the sword comeing down the sky and be wiped from the account data...
Xiu123 YES OMFGGGGGG
They would deserve it. I mean who quests in Silithus?
it's a good place to farm runecloth :(
People that want Loremaster.
*'You Died!'*
-Release Sprite
-Recap
Recap:
Sargeras- [Sword of Sargeras]- 999,999,999,999 Damage.
3rd expac in a row where the ending cinematic hasn’t come close to this one
I had to came back right after DF ending cinematic, to remind my self what wow was all about...
Sadness personified :c
the DF ending cinematic is like F.R.I.E.N.D.S
@@mireiyu6623 Should've ended with Fyrakk corrupting Amirdrassil with the void energy that has slowly took over his mind or smt. Not something the complete opposite of World of Warcraft...
maiev gonna be pissssssssssed
no shes gonna piss her self cuz now she has no one to piss on
You got that right, she's now out of a job.
Nick D damn I’m imaging her pissing on illidan right now
"a hunter is nothing without the hunt"
shes pissed about everything
stabbing the world like that would cause some kind of cataclysm...oh....wait....
UncleJackOnline NOT ANOTHER TERRIBLE EXPANSION
/nod
It did.....a cataclysm *ON OHR ARTIFACT WEAPONS!!!* #RipHati
#GoodbyeGoodThunderBoi
Cata was a decent expansion.
*Pain*
dont mind me, just rewatching this after the shitshow called "shadowlands end cinematic"
I swear, I'd be that unlucky asshole that would just so happen to be standing riiiight where that sword point landed.
So half the zone?^^
*looks up* "Aw fu--"
rekt
Or where he was leaning his hand while jamming the sword into silithus.
That's what you get for questing in Silithus!
Sargeras dropped his sword, and with that, began a full-scale war between the Alliance and Horde over who has more DKP.
MINUS 50 DKP
THATS A F****G 50 DKP MINUS!
Watching this now, the dangerous-sounding music they play at the end of this when they show the sword sticking out of the ground was actually to signal the danger that was the coming of BFA as a piss poor expansion.
You should know by now that you're only supposed to play EVERY OTHER expansion.
WotLK - Good
Cata - Kinda crap
MoP - Good
WoD - Hella crap
Legion - Good
BfA - Crap
@@arstulex you forgot TBC which was also a great expansion
@@Minimeister317 I didn't forget. I just didn't think it needed to be said.
@@Minimeister317 TBC and WotLK was carry over from WC3 sooo they don't count because story already existed, it was just reworked to MMO format. After WotLK it was all new lore, and that is where Blizz needs an expansion between expansions to recover.
Azerite is literally Sargeras's fault lore wise. He really screwed us bad.
Rest here traveller, from the horrors of the Shadowlands ending cinematic.
The quality of these cutscenes is getting insane
I enjoyed the cinematic for what it is but I agree that they could've done much better with Sargeras. This deep wound doesn't make any sense and something like Sargeras attempting to thrust but being pulled at the same time making him only "scar" with the edge of this sword, could've added a little more "action"/tension to the scene. I also didn't understand how someone could be relieved by having Sargeras taken away while a colossal sword is deep into the planet he lives on (talking about Prophet Velen and his sigh of relief).
To think we began with the Angrathar Wrath Gate cinematic and look at this one now. How far they've come with these cinematics it's incredible.
I absolutely love them.
Insanely bad. Its amazing how players are not even mentioned in every big battle. In this SWTOR is vastly superior to WoW. Plus the story, ugh, WoW story is a mess since TBC, save a few moments. The crystal spaceship in the scene is so ridiculous it hurts.
rossato are you just here to provide unstructured criticism? No one’s forcing you to be here.
Quality is okay...but the tension really just isn't there. It all feels like they took iconic parts of other films and just didn't nail them. Neither Illidan waiting for Sargeras, nor the way Sargeras gets pulled away from Azeroth nor his last attack or how the spaceship avoids his grip catch me at all. All those scenes have been ment to be thrilling but somehow remind me of Flash Gordon the movie...
And that's not even the worst. The way Illidan walks away from Velen is downright hilarious...and the storyline itself is very questionable and the size of the sword is changing quite a bit here and there.
To top it off this is the end of the legion. The biggest threat to Azeroth ever. Now compare your feelings with those after the defeat of the lich king...and then you know why this one falls a bit short.
It looks like Sargares is stabbing Azeroth with his sword, this is in fact however not the case. If you zoom in x100 you can see that Sargares in fact has his hand grasped around Saurfang, and Saurfang is holding the sword. Saurfang got mad at Silithus being the worst zone in the game, and decided to cleave it off the map. Sargeras was actually attempting to stop him since he liked that zone for some reason, and the only way he could was by actually trying to move Saurfang far enough away, but he was too late. The damage has been done and Saurfang is pleased, so he will be in Orgrimmar next time you look.
Sargeras did nothing wrong
*NoThInG gOoD eVeR cAmE oUt Of SiLiThUs!*
He's dead....Saurfang is dead..
"Nothing good has ever come from Silithus."
@@myatpyaepaing5790 You fool, Saurfang does not die. He's taking an extended nap because he got a sore back from carrying the Horde through like fifteen different wars.
The most interesting thing about this cinematic was how illidan was able to convince Velen, a prophet, that not everything can be left to fate alone.
I mean he had a whole patch to convince Velen and show him the futility in putting your entire being in another's hand. Which was a bit of Velen's one defined weakness.
Nah, have you listened to audiobook (it’s free on RUclips by WoW team)? Void shows all possible ways in the future, while Light shows the result in the future, but doesn’t show HOW it will happen. Velen saw that Sargeras will fail, but didn’t know how it will happen.
@@booll5571 "while Light shows the result in the future" that's not true. Light shows what it wants to be the future, not the actual future. (see: rejection of the gift)
Velen's sigh of relief at the end felt gooooood!
Ikr, a sigh of relief after being hunted by the Legion for over 20,000 years
I miss legion so much
Me too man, every day.
As a pvp player I didnt like legion so
Comparing this to the new shadowlands ending...worlds apart, what has wow become
I love how the sword shrinks from "Reaching into outer space" huge, to "barely taller than the mountains"
@RobloxAfterSchool you dont
@RobloxAfterSchool forgive me my lord speaking without your consent /courtbow
Those aren't mountains those are the clouds Sargeras shrouded himself in.
The world in game definitely scales down to accommodate the players, so it definitely seems smaller
I think in Canon it still goes up to space, but since we don't want to spend months traveling from Khaz Modan to Quel'danas, it makes sense for it to feel small
Shout out to the incoming new comments about how dogshit the N'zoth final cinematic is
My man Illidan right here is what a true hero really is.
He suffered through his mistakes, endured the consequences of those mistakes and then learned how to be better than all of that all for the sake of trying to save what he truly cared for, which was the world he lived in and the lives of those living there.
There's no way to say if such a person can truly be forgiven for the mistakes of his past but damn it all, no one in the entire Warcraft universe can come close to him in his determination to save their world.
OH FUCK!!!!! THERE IS BIG ASS SWORD IN SILITHUS!!!!! better start a faction war~~~~ #logic
Well as you seen we Horde never took part of this exp pack so for us we just got a sword hitting Kalimdor because of actions the Alliance did on Argus.
"NO UBER BEING GONNA DESTROY US NOW?!?.. Let's fuck up for the shit they've done in .
It emits tremendous energy. Both sides want that = war.
Logic.
Of course, there is going to be war because the Goblin trade princes are funding both sides of the war, and making lots of money from deadly robot sales. The Goblin World Order is among us.
Eric Wang the war started because Teldrassil was set on fire, not because of Sargeras, at least from my understanding.
There should be a game like God of War but with Illidan as the protagonist.
Like Illidan and Sargeras doing a buddy cop series fighting the void
finally the great titan revealed in glorious HD, been waiting for this moment for soooo long :D
Samy David and his defeat kind off
nills thefunexpert not defeat just imprisonment
I like his artwork better. He was cool looking but he was tyical boss look in-game. Lackluster
You were not prepared.
I’m a year late for this reply but a friend of mine only played Warcraft 3 campaign and Dota
I showed him this and fall of the lich king cinematic, he cried with joy and is now a weakling playing in a private server, damn him really
They did Velen really well in Legion ( his WoD version was also really cool and on point ).
He gives Kil'Jaeden his blessing after KJ had hunted him and caused untold Draenei carnage for 25,000 years. He befriends Illidan, the guy everyone hates and misunderstands, and becomes pretty much his only friend. Then that sigh of utter relief as the Burning Crusade is finally over and his people are free.
1:10 - 1:20 is there a full version of this song?
we're into the second expansion since this happened and the sword still stuck in the planet
Just a flesh wound.
Next expansion, hes coming back to finish the job. Itll be called World of Warcraft: return of sargeras
@@Sol-rk1zg if it means getting away from this shit im so down
@@REFORMEDKING627 yeah im not liking this whole ancient spiritland BS.
Who is here after shitty BfA ending
tbh, if Warcraft had ended here, I wouldn't even be mad.
I have a feeling for many devs this was in their eyes the final expansion to WoW. They went all in and actually gave a shit. Not saying its related, but Chris Metzen left right after Legion was released. There is hope for shadowlands to be an amazing expansion, but its looking pretty 50/50 atm which is actually pretty insane since expansions are normally really hyped.
I would be pleased if wow ended here and we got a warcraft 4 with confronting the void lords. In that scenario, Sargeras and illidan would also join the fight. Unfortunately we ended up with world of dramaqueens :(
This did feel like a finale to the entire game back when I played WoW.
Light Be With You... Illidan Stormrage . I cri everitm
I never paid enough attention to this, but when the Titans pull Sargeras back home they're actually summoning him back into his seat, the empty one between Golganneth and Norgannon. So for a brief moment, the Pantheon was actually made whole again. I found that pretty cool.
May Varian and Vol jin rest in peace now
Paul BG And billions of other lives
Paul BG tirion:(
+Ulises Roldan Tirion's death was one of the most infuriatingly bullshit deaths Blizzard has ever pulled out of their asses. One of the coolest characters in the game, with all his progression through WoTLK, only to be lazily killed off by a random raid boss. smh
Blizzard is the best at giving honorable characters crappy ass deaths (rip cairne)
I loved it. FINALLY. that useless npc dies. I was hoping he would return as a Death Knight.
I've been playing since late LK and man this is by far the best Expansion, Lore and Gameplay both was Good.
I'll miss Legion days for sure.
I miss them. Bfa is so terrible.
I miss it too bro
It's ok, in 2031 Legion Classic will be available
(Being benched from high-end raiding because your leggo drops are crap)
Good gameplay,he said.
@@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м I was a Mage Fire back then without the bracer in the first patch, and I managed to clear all the CE content with just the DB helm.
While I agree that "Legiondaries" sucked a bit, the expansion was miles better than BFA and Shadowlands. Actually Shadowlands systems are so bad that made quit from the game in 9.1, something that I never considered back in Legion.
Dibs on the sword.
Enejaner can i roll need
Enejaner gotta roll for it first!
That's no 2-hander. It's a million-handed sword.
The loot council has determined, that it should go to the one who has been with the guild the longest. Post join dates.
/roll
[Megachickenfish rolls a 3]
_God damn it._
What sword?
MIND IF I ROLL NEEEEED?
on that sword?
TastyBrush i voted to destroy it
I'll just go stand in the Fire, over there.
Ima roll need too.
My warrior needs a hella big sword
@Cad Bane I did the same thing, since I'm a frequent Hearthstone player.
@Cad Bane Grim Patron and Emperor Thaurissan lol
What sword?
This is where WoW should have ended, and the final boss shouldn't have been Argus the Unmaker, but Sargeras himself.
Sargeras would’ve slaughtered us tf?
He is a titan. You cant just kill a titan.
@@11123fsdargus is also a titan. You can pull enough story strings to get there.
Amazing end to an amazing expansion. Possibly the last good expansion we'll ever get.
I was thinking the same..
Although not nearly as good, I think Shadowlands is doing pretty great.
@@warriorsworld4638 As far as the lore goes it is pretty fascinating (minus the incoming Sylvanas redemption arc) but there is a huge lack of content in Shadowlands so I can't agree with you yet.
@@mattieonutube273 We're just in 9.1 Lol
@@warriorsworld4638 yeah but it took 6 months for one content update. I mean that is pretty bad dont you think?
what sword?
The way Velen breathe out at the end, chills...
Things I like about this cinematic:
- Velen admiting to Illidan that fate, and by extension prophecies, had nothing to do with their survival, therefore meeting him halfway on their own beliefs, with Illidan having also seen the power of Velen's belief in the Light. It's a massive character growth for both, and Illidan's grin to Velen, as well as Velen's final blessing, clearly show that.
- Velen's sigh of relief after seeing the Throne closing. You actually feel the ending of a struggle for survival that has pushed Velen to his limits, seen him abandon his homeworld, family and friends to Sargeras. That he didn't collapse of exhaustion right there and then is a testament to his fortitude.
- The soundtrack, as always, is amazing in portraying the end of the Burning Crusade.
The one thing I don't like: Illidan staying behind. I understand his reasoning, but it would be awesome that Velen made him see that his life would still have meaning, and that Azeroth would need defenders such as him in the future. After all, both are well aware of the threat of the Void and Old Gods.
I started playing in Vanilla, and world exploration and its lore have always been part of my interest in this game, particularly the Titan's lore. This raid, and the ending, have been amazing to watch. Thanks Blizzard.
You just wrote a bible. i got to the third row.
Can you imagine when the inevitable fight with the void lords comes, all the sudden Illidan comes riding in as the new commander of the burning legion to assist us?
Everyone would probably be confused about why one of their greatest enemy (the burning legion) is helping them
The way I picture it is more like this...
Voids Lords finally make their move. Azeroth finally awakens. Sargeras senses this and, after seeing that she isn't corrupted (as he had always feared), his own corruption is cleansed. Sargeras returns to us with Illidan riding on his shoulder and pulls his sword back out of Silithus, which then cleanses in his hands.
Sargeras and Azeroth then fight the Void Lords alongside us.
No. This is as good of an ending as we’re going to get for Illidan with nuBlizz, don’t give them a chance to ruin him
With Metzen back I definitely think they will head in the right direction, after all this was his creation as one of the main founders.@@defaultname7685
This cinematic does many things. Closure for the expansion in a satisfying way. There's tension when Sargeras tries to grab the Vindicaar. And it sets up later plot in an interesting way that made me excited. What could the sword in the planet mean? There's also something to speculate about what Illidan does with the titans.
Then two years later they shit out a laser going into N'zoth and then cut to the Heart chamber, as most of it is Magni saying "believe in yourself" like filler shit.
Absolutely nothing to speculate on it anything that relates to the Shadowlands. What an absolute joke
Billizard is like up and down with each expansion follow, you know that bfa is down
Azeroth is free!
@@uclongnguyen8860 Well for the first time in wow history, they have managed to make 2 expansions in a row that are top-tier garbage.
@@brendolee4257 BFA and Shadowlands was a joke...Hope this comment ages well when I say Dragonflight breaks this shit cycle and becomes a genuine good expansion
"At last..."
Chills....
what sword?
Blizzard, I love you.
Loved the expressions on Illidan and Velen's faces (little smile for Illidan, surprise for Velen, then this "at last" from Illidan is epic).
And that Sargeras. Damn. Damn. DAmn. DAMN.
Legion> BFA Change my mind.
Ofc legion was 1000 times better
Lol easily bfa is dog shit
no ones changing your mind lmao
Why would we change your mind?
I was expecting velen to say "you are not prepared" instead of "you are not coming with us"
would have been so freakin awesome XD
That wouldn’t make sense since Illidan planned for it.
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE NAME OF THE OST IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS CINEMATIC ITS BEEN 4 YEARS AND I STILL DOINT HAVE IT.
ruclips.net/video/X_8Nh5XfRw0/видео.html Here you go
It'a unique version of the Vindicaar theme from the Argus patch, unreleased just like the Legion announcement trailer music t.t
I feel like it should have ended right here. Put the game in maintenance mode and move on to an MMO with a different IP (Starcraft?).
My favorite cinematic. This is what wrapping up a huge story arc should look like.
YOUR CRUSADE IS OVER
5 years later
"what sword?"
as of the 3rd of November 2023 they just remembered about it
I will never forget the feeling I had when playing this for the first time. I've always been a fan of the lore more than the gameplay (I'm below average at best), but I was playing Legion almost every single day because everything about it just blew me away. When we transported to the Seat of the Pantheon, I truly felt like this was the crescendo, the climax of all of wow lore, where a fifteen year story was finally coming to an end. And when we hit the final blow and Argus went down, my whole body was in shock. Then the cinematic played, and Sargeras finally appeared, and seeing the demon who we had only ever mentioned or seen in art finally in full view in all his glory made shivers go down my spine. When Velen takes a breath finally knowing it's over, I felt that. I took my loot, exited the raid, and went to Orgimmar, which I realized I had barely stood in since the expansion had started. It's super geeky to say but I truly felt like I had just finished a long journey and was finally home.
In my mind, this was the true ending of WOW's story, with BFA being the epilogue to tie up loose ends. I quit during Shadowlands because it flat out didn't feel like the same story and characters anymore, and unless the next expansion really takes my breath away, I don't think I'll be coming back. But I don't think I'll ever have a gaming experience quite like Legion.
You did yourself a massive favor skipping Shadowlands. They tried to claim the defeat of this current BBEG the jailor is the culmination of 20 years of storytelling and I've yet to see a single person that doesn't call this out as complete bullshit.
Shadowlands had POTENTIAL..... but it was sloppy in execution, and focused on the wrong things (Sylvanas) and didn't flesh out the world's enough to make us care about the cycle of life and death
I appreciate what they ATTEMPTED, but the real life turmoil, scandals, crimes and others horrible things by Blizzard caused it to be rushed to a very painfully dissatisfactory ending
See you in The Last Titan, Illidan Stormrage!
This scene would have deserved a real cinematic
1000ºC degree vs azeroth
The story should've ended here
Not necessarily because we still had to deal with the 4th and last remaining Old God N'Zoth. While the writers really did him dirty, at least we've canonically defeated all the original threats to Azeroth by that point. While Shitlands is just, like the star wars sequels, made up as it went along hence why it just has such a shitty story and ending. So, story should've ended in BFA since the writers were too incompetent to flesh out N'Zoth more in a different expansion which is what we should've got instead of Shitlands.
This is the end of WoW for me.
I love how Velen's personality got changed slowly by Illidan... XD
Velen used to be too obsessed with his faith (nearly superstitious which caused his people to suffer) And now: "our survival was never in fate's hands"
Lol, so bad-ass XD
Agreed!
I love how Illidan smiles when Velen says that “our survival was never in fate’s hands”... because he knows it wasn’t. He played the biggest part in ensuring the downfall of the Legion. That’s why I love his character so much... there’s none of the posturing of his brother... Illidan did what he had to do. This is one of the few recent Blizzard storylines that did a character proper justice.
This was the true "The End" moment. Everything after is fanfiction.
This was peak WoW.
"You're not coming with us? :((("
Honestly WoW should have ended with this. Sure the old gold threat was still a thing, but this expansion already felt as the penultimate battle for Azeroth, it would be weird if we had another great war of the world directly after this. But all the stuff with Sylvanas just felt, as a good side story to happen with the bigger picture. But Sargeras was responsible for the orc horde, the burning crusade itself and the lich king/the scourge. It felt like everything from warcraft to WoW let to this moment. They wrote themselves in a corner with how Legion felt like the ultimate fight for Azeroth and i could have only gone downhill from this expansion (which is indeed what happened) I feel so nostalgic for WoW but i know that the legacy servers as the normal game are just my nostalgia. It will no longer live up to how i felt first time entering the dark portal, or the first time going to Northrend or Pandaland. I will probably never get that feeling back with this game and it makes me kinda sad.
Much better than the Ny'alotha raid finale.
Illidan didn’t stay to be the jailer of Sargeras, but to dodge BfA entirely. He knew once that sword went down there would be no hope for future expansions.
He ain't stupid
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