Argus: Week 3

So… supposedly you’ve already played the campaign to the end and finished the dungeon :) If not yet, spoiler alert!

As with previous parts of the campaign, week 3 consists of 2 equal parts, almost unrelated to each other.

Part I: The Whining of a Geezer

The first part is the end of our trip to the past of draenei civilization and Velen’s issues. Although flashbacks were interesting enough – to see the events with our own eyes, I’ve got a bit tired of Velen’s whining throughout Argus campaign. Hopefully it’s gonna be the last we see of him for a long time.

The quests were boring: kill 12-15, visit three spots, and the worst thing is that it is repeated twice in a row. Then there is a satisfying encounter with Talgath, but it could touch the nerve more if we felt for Velen. By the time of encounter, I was so tired of the geezer’s whining that I was like: let’s get over with.

Strange thing: it seemed to me that they didn’t put an audio file in the scene of Talgath’s death. Velen makes a big silent pause before killing him – as if waiting for Talgath to speak, then after execution he tells us that Talgath unwillingly revealed the whereabouts of the Crest before death. But he didn’t! He was silent! Even stranger, Velen actually learned where the Crest is from flashback with Talgath and Kil’Jaeden a minute ago… That’s something really wrong happening. Grandpa needs a rest )

Thank gods, we go with Alleria further on.

Part II: The Void Adventures

Part 2 introduces us the threat of the Void. It’s definitely a preview of the new foe, as only lazy players don’t know yet that we’re done with the Legion once and for all next year.

Let’s say I liked the animation of the portals and corrupted Broken Draenei – it’s really awesome. All the pitch dark and stars, and tentacles. What is not awesome is the ethereals, wearing the same color palette as Suramar elves. Too bleak to my liking. If they’re gonna be soldiers of the Void, I’d prefer the Burning Crusade’s version of ethereals.

The story felt so out of place to me. Yes, the naaru in her dark period lures the void emissaries, it’s understandable. But surely not to Argus, the Legion’s homeworld! Let me remind you that Legion is still full in power, it still has endless armies of demons… and the Void are their ultimate enemies. Not Azeroth. The Void. In fact, they should have raided and burnt this area to the ground at the first hint of void emissaries. It’s Legion who should have been fighting them – not us. But no traces of the Legion.

Then there’s this blah-blah of duality of Light and Dark, Alleria finishes her learning with her mentor’s guidance, and becomes the Void Windrunner. Little is known of why she went to study void powers in the first place… Oh well.

Anyways, we got the Crest, and Velen turns our vessel in a beautiful… well, it’s definitely worth more now in goblin black market. Still, it didn’t make its move after upgrade – it didn’t breach the Antorus gate! Velen just left it as that and went to sleep. For two weeks – suck it.

The dungeon was moderately nice and surprisingly easy. I pioneered with Baisa the Hunter – wiped once at the third boss, because we didn’t kill all the trash before pull. Well, in fact, we assumed the boss was also the trash! See? They need to do something with ethereals and their colors. And I tanked it today with Anibell the Paladin. No worries at all. Bosses just popped, we downed each of them in less than minute. Trash is annoying – but only by quantity, not trouble. Of course it’s gonna be a quest run for every toon, and I’m done with it.

So, Argus campaign is complete now. I moderately liked the plot, the best parts being all of the Quoram quest chain, and also a living colossus cannon in the beginning. Everything could be worse considering it’s damn Argus :)

This week I will finish it on the rest of my toons, and routines begin again :) Dailies, dailies, dailies…

 

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