They’re much more epic than what I’ve seen in WoTLK.
Epic moment #1 occurred when I was in Twilight Highlands. My pet wolf finally dinged to 85. I went to The Maul which has a bunch of Level 85 Elite tentacles.
This “maul” is actually a living being, called Isorath. The mission is to defeat its defensive .. things.
I started to get outnumbered. Shitload of red blobs closing in on me and I “died”.
Suddenly I get teleported back to The Maelstrom, with Thrall who says he saved me. I’m seeing Deathwing in the sky over the maelstrom.
He tells me I have to stop Deathwing, right here and right now, yet I can’t do shit. My mouse cursor doesn’t turn into a sword when hovering over him.
Plus, low on health too. There’s no way I can kill a boss.
Then Thrall tells me I failed, Deathwing has won, and the world is doomed. Then Deathwing flies over to me and Thrall, then suddenly he tells me to “Wake up!” and I find myself back inside Isorath in a protective bubble, and I’m told I have to kill the tentacles and the brain of the freak in here to escape.
I think what I just experienced was a bad dream, that I can relate to. The fact I don’t give a shit about gear, I doomed all of Azeroth. This might make me think twice about that, if the world depends on how good my gear is that is.
What I actually saw was a nightmare caused by Isorath from being devoured by it. A pretty scary one..
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The second, more Epic moment #2 is also in Twilight Highlands. An Ambassador from the Alliance wants me to help the red dragonflight (the not-so friendly brood) with the Twilight Hammer. The flight has a hard time trying to erase the past of what us mortals did. Though I was never a part of this. So I head there and when I enter the area where they are, a red drake takes me off my mount and grabs me with his claws, which is where I’m told when the dragon lands that “my allies” caused so much death trying to protect Grim Batol with their lives.
To make this cluster of dragons an ally with me and the Alliance, I have to help them. The only reason they didn’t bite my head off is because I helped at Wrymrest Temple.
Soon the reds see I’m an ally and help out by stopping the Twilight Hammer inside of Grim Batol, which is said where Deathwing currently is. However, I’m tasked of killing all the outside forces.
Soon I’m part of an ass-kicking Alliance team clearing the way to Grim Batol on foot while the reds take to the air. At the end, Alexstrasza in her true form awaits me. She makes a decree that Deathwing will die for what he did to our world, and wants me to assist her in doing so.
Next thing I know, the ultimate fight is about to commence. A cutscene starts with Alexstrasza and one of her sons named Calen fly in and they shift to human form right infront of me (so fucking epic..).
(During almost the entire length of this cutscene, my pet wolf keeps getting in the way of my view so I couldn’t get awesome screenshots.)
Then the queen of dragons summons the corrupted aspect Deathwing to her.
Alexstrasza says she will have to end him, … “as I have ended Malygos”. I’m thinking “OHHH FUCK!!! It’s OVER?! SHIT I wish I was there to see it!!”
After some speeches of Deathwing acting like Darth Vader “death is permanent. death is inevitable”, he tries to burn her alive but fails, then the two fly off to do battle.
You’re told to go there ASAP and take out the Twilight Hammer’s elite dragon guards. At this time I cannot find a proper battle music in Winamp that would match the sheer epicness going through my body.
So I take flight on a red dragon, and it’s similar to that of Wrymrest Temple. I kill these easy to kill twilight drakes. In the sky over Grim Batol you see the two powerful aspects battling it out. After killing 8 of the drakes, the two will tumble down the side of the mountain.
Alexstasza is badly injured and back in her human form, then you see Deathwing fall through the sky, then she says “it is done”, but it’s not. Deathwing somehow comes back up and tries a final blow with more Darth Vader talk. The scripted you is told to get you and the queen out of there while Calen shifts back into dragon form and tries to hold the dark aspect back.
After the black out, you see Calen survived the ordeal and hear the queen has been taken back to Wrymrest Temple to recover, and Deathwing, now badly injured, is back inside of Grim Batol. This may give us mortals an advantage of destroying him for good.
Because of your heroic deeds, you are to assist the reds in defeating Deathwing’s brood for good, all the way to killing the remaining broodmother to wipe the Black Dragonflight off the map.
So you take flight again. What makes this epic is you see a bunch of red dragons flying in sync with you, like a dragon squadron.
All of this is 50% more epic than rescuing that Mage in Borean Tundra. It even took me awhile to go to sleep with the epicness still going through my body.
Maybe the word “epic” is overused. I think I prefer to say something like “FUCKING AMAZING!!!” to explain everything I saw.
I still can’t get it out of my head. That’s why I wrote this blog entry.
But you know what would be even more awesome? Becoming a dragon to defeat Deathwing, and having a new Dragon Form spell that can be used anywhere.
That to me will be the best thing Blizzard has ever done.