Honestly, both are kinda boring tbh. This one is less offensive, but neither are really good with any consideration to consistency of lore or tone. I think ideally the first one would've worked if the Bronze Dragon's main 'face' in the setting wasn't a dragon who tells jokes all the time, underlying how a Bronze Dragon is effectively complicit with every bad thing that happens in history because they don't allow themselves to change it. Rather than try to acknowledge their old identity and the seriousness of their job and highlight other Bronze Dragons, they would rather double down on Marvel Movie Jokes with Chromie and just avoid any uncomfortable situations they don't fit in. It's understandable, but extremely lazy imo.I honestly don't remember what the egg and Dun Algaz does in the main story? I don't know if it's even referenced in Day of the Dragon, the books these events were done in. But it has been years since i've read it. What exactly does the egg even do in the current story? I didn't think it was some secret that Alexstrasza was taken, or even that Grim Batol was the stronghold of the Dragonmaw at the time. It feels like the first version had the wrong dragon present to recognize how serious and taxing the job of a bronze dragon is, while this one just... doesn't really do anything logical? Why even keep the quest, what does this version really even do for us?
Time to rewrite the Kearnen one next, then.
This is much better than the previous version. Trying to force the player too be complict in the previous version was gross, tone deaf etc. It still boggles my mind it still got into the PTR the Version 1.
Definitely a good direction. A much better narrative to move into the role of ensuring her rescue than to ensure incarceration. And it also keeps the events accurate. Day of the dragon was my first Warcraft IP book and that story holds a special place in my brain.
I think it's a better version of the quest for sure. I think there might be a way to do the original one and have it work but the way they wrote it and having it come from Chromie just wasn't it for me, it also shouldn't be a daily, the kind of thing you're meant to repeat over and over as a quick throwaway for rep or whatever. I'd be curious to hear what Blizzard were thinking with the original version, if having Chromie make the player implicit in things like that or Kearnen's death whilst she bounces around merrily announcing she'll change whatever events she wants to to ensure Nozodrmu doesn't become corrupt.
I mean first of all, the original quest wasn't a "rape joke" that's way over the top. It was nothing more then a way to show the difficulties Alexstrasza had to go through before where she is now. Everyone is reading too far into it. If it weren't for this quest, how many people would have actually known this happened? Some maybe, but i had no idea. These are things that happen in real life, and in my opinion, having this in a game shows that everything isn't sunshine and rainbows, it adds a sense of reality to the game.
Reminder the horde happily took the dragonmaw in and still considers them valuable members
Seeing droves of rape apologists on wowhead wasnt in my bingo card today
