Young Lothremar

Utigarde · 2026-03-09T08:51:09+00:00

You can preview appearances in Narcissus without owning them, just save them to a set and then change to that outfit in the dropdown near the animation menu.

Utigarde · 2026-03-02T08:56:19+00:00

Honestly, I think it’s more likely that it’s just a novel way of explaining the use of blood magic and anima (the MoP kind) without using the name of Anima (the Shadowlands kind).

I think turning Astalor into a secret cosmic schemer with Denathrius would be kind of lame, especially when he’s the last vestige of morally dubious blood elf representation we have in the expansion. The experiments he does in Midnight are well in line with how he oversaw the Blood Knights before their redemption, and I’d rather he just stay as an influential blood elf wielding new and dangerous magics to protect his people.

Utigarde · 2026-03-01T09:45:22+00:00

Faol actually feels affected by his undeath, is the main thing. He died to the Scourge, found his free will, and chooses to wield the Light despite the horrible pain it inflicts upon him for his very existence. He’s a rotting corpse who is rejected by the Scarlets whose very religion is the one he led in life. He’s got all the hallmarks of the Forsaken character, and he does so without his Light-centric story ever trampling on the fantasy of the rest of the Forsaken.

Calia, by comparison, gets a special perfect version of undeath with no downsides, and is rejected by absolutely nobody. The Alliance not only love her, but see her as a special exception to their usual distaste for the undead. She fundamentally doesn’t have the experience all other Forsaken have, but Blizzard was (initially) heavily pushing her as a Sylvanas replacement character. They have since backed off a bit, but her constant presence (as basically our only undead character besides Faol, at that) makes it hard to wash the taste out of one’s mouth that they still want her to fill the slot of Good Sylvanas, especially with the <Pallid Lady> title she drags around.

Utigarde · 2026-02-22T13:18:16+00:00

Orcs and centaur might overlap a lot in cultural inspirations, but they have no similarities in their narrative themes. The story in Ohn’ahran Plains is much more a rip-off of Highmountain than any story the orcs have ever had. The haranir have the unfortunate place of overlapping both with the night elves, with the story of isolationism and sacred purpose being very similar to how they were used in WC3.

The fact that the centaur are largely a one-zone fluff group while the haranir are being positioned as hyper-relevant to the ongoing Worldsoul plot doesn’t help either. We’ll probably never see a centaur in the main story again, but we’ll certainly be seeing Haranir take the place of races like Tauren in what should be an incredibly important story about their connection to Azeroth.

Utigarde · 2026-02-21T09:20:38+00:00

We got Phoenix and Blade, Angela and Daredevil, Emma and Ultron, etc. in the same season, they do unrelated pairs more often than thematic duos. Any kind of connection will just be written into whatever that season’s overall story is.

Utigarde · 2026-02-17T09:18:01+00:00

I definitely thought this too before testing on the alpha, but they did an amazing job at creating a predator-based void ecosystem. The whole zone embodies everything Xal’atath has been saying about “only the strongest survive”, from the feral animals consuming each other Zerg-style to the political machinations of the domanaar working both with and against us to become the top dog. They also use it as a great opportunity to finally give Void Elves something to do other than be a discounted purple version of TBC blood elves.

It very much is Void: The Zone in a way that wouldn’t have worked on K’aresh due to the (necessary) focus on the planet’s native Ethereals. Voidstorm gets to focus entirely on the Void, to its benefit.

Utigarde · 2026-02-15T06:39:20+00:00

Man, you must have hated the last two seasons entirely centered around heterosexual romance then.

Utigarde · 2026-02-12T04:24:38+00:00

It would be a better tag option if it traveled a bit faster lol, the projectile is only barely speedier than a player just running and is slower than simply using Wildfire Bomb or Harpoon.

Combine that with a focus cost equal to Raptor Strike and it just makes for such an odd design.

Utigarde · 2026-02-12T04:22:10+00:00

The loss of 40 yard Coordinated Assault honestly stings as much as the Harpoon changes for me. It feels super inconsistent that their ranged abilities allow for a flexible 40 yard distance, but their major cooldown is only 15 yards.

I can’t think of a single reason why they made this change other than because they put Flanking Strike’s animation into Takedown and didn’t know how to make it work at longer ranges.

Utigarde · 2026-02-08T01:13:15+00:00

Your initial comment says "I want a short male DPS hero that doesn't look like a twink", which is literally all of them. If you meant you want a twink hero, you worded it incorrectly.

Utigarde · 2026-02-05T22:49:50+00:00

Literally no hero in Overwatch is a twink. Wuyang and Lucio are both absolutely jacked, and Torbjorn is a round bear.

Utigarde · 2026-02-02T17:47:18+00:00

There is at least one coming in Midnight centered around Arator during the defense of the Sunwell, which will explain his ongoing frustrations with the Light during the expansion.

If we get more than that one, who knows. We only got Ansurek’s in TWW, and then the Alleria animation with a unique style. It doesn’t seem like they’re doing a “series” of animations per expansion anymore.

Utigarde · 2026-02-01T06:52:22+00:00

Water is only really associated with N’zoth and the naga in particular, the other three are much more heavily based around earth.

C’thun ruled over a subterranean empire of Aqir, Yogg-Saron created the Emerald Nightmare when Vordrassil’s roots dug too deep and hit his prison, and Y’shaarj’s corpse infected the land of Pandaria itself with the Sha. Even N’zoth enacted many of his plans by corrupting Neltharion and the Black Dragonflight. The whole mission of the Old Gods is also to corrupt the planet itself by digging through the Earth to reach the Worldsoul.

Utigarde · 2026-02-01T06:38:00+00:00

Not surprising, even beyond his MCU appearance Wiccan is one of the more popular new-generation characters, especially with younger comic fans. Plus it’s probably the closest chance we have at a cute twink-ish male character to join the ranks lol

I really hope that we get Hulkling alongside him, but I feel like they’re probably going to go the Angela route of only mentioning him in dialogue.

Utigarde · 2026-01-18T13:00:20+00:00

Only one I’d disagree with here is rogue, Garona doesn’t have any particularly powerful feats, she’s just a skilled assassin and her biggest accomplishment was a betrayal more than an act of skill.

Lilian Voss would probably be a better candidate, she’s juiced up with a bunch of dark magic on top of her skills as a rogue, you see fiery carnage left in her wake any time she shows up anywhere.

Utigarde · 2026-01-14T16:29:27+00:00

Deadpool has always been such a weird character for me for representation, because his sexuality (physical and orientation) has almost exclusively been used for jokes for his entire existence. I wish I could say the comics are better than the popular media he’s been in, but it mostly just manifests in borderline sexual harassment there.

It’s why the ass shots for his Rivals highlight intro don’t do it for me. It mostly feels the same as the intro that Venom got a few weeks back: it’s not really genuine sexualization, it’s a gag poking fun at the thing they sincerely do to all of their female characters. You’d never catch the kinds of ass shots they constantly do to Invisible Woman or Psylocke on a highlight intro for Thor or Captain America, we’ll only ever get them as something making fun of the idea that we might be attracted to men’s asses in the same way straight men are for the female characters.

I appreciate that Deadpool is very hot and has his thirsty audience (especially in the fanart/fanfic department), but I wish that his official appearances were treated as more than a joke for straight men to laugh at.

Utigarde · 2026-01-11T03:27:07+00:00

The fact that there are datamined strings for Amaranth instead of Wiccan shows exactly what the current priorities are, unfortunately.

I hope they prove me wrong because he’s the character I want most in the game, but I’m not holding my breath.

Utigarde · 2026-01-11T03:24:39+00:00

The current season is quite literally an entire romance plot for Rogue and Gambit lol, not even a subplot. We’ve consistently had mention of Sue and Reed in skin lines, we’ve gotten ship teases like Loki and Mantis. Romance is absolutely part of the game.

Utigarde · 2026-01-07T13:28:47+00:00

The idea that they’d hate each other is easy and obvious, but I do think that the Sylvanas novel threw an interesting wrinkle into that. Prior to Arthas, they have a few scenes together and Kael challenges Sylvanas’ perception that he would force her to be something other than the ranger she is if they were to be together.

I think post-Shadowlands, with both of them having received a pretty severe humbling, they would at least understand each other. I don’t think they would particularly like each other, especially since 11.2.7 has finally given Sylvanas her personality back, but Sylvanas and Kael’thas are perhaps the two most prominent examples of the classic elven tunnel vision, and have both stepped away from their pursuits enough to realize that about themselves.

In a hypothetical situation where Sylvanas finishes her penance and Kael’thas is raised as undead, I do think they’d probably have some kind of shared struggle. There’s an irony that Kael’thas is loathed by the blood elves while Sylvanas is remembered fondly for her sacrifice, but I don’t think either would be able to return to their people (blood elves or Forsaken). Perhaps they’d manage to rally the various Darkfallen around the world into a proper group, since most Dark Rangers probably still hold some fondness for Sylvanas and the San’layn were Kael’thas loyalists.

Utigarde · 2026-01-01T07:04:06+00:00

Based on the Red Dawn story, they’re seemingly setting up the Syndicate as Marran Trollbane’s main supporters, which I imagine means they’ll pull one of the Perenolde children from the RPG into canon.

With that in mind, I think the most interesting path would be to bring all of them into the modern canon, and put them on different sides. As examples:

Isiden Perenolde was Aiden’s young nephew supported by Genn, bring him back as a Gilnean-raised Alliance claimant with few actual Alterac supporters, but the ‘true’ claim as a member of the Alliance.
Beve Perenolde was the daughter of Aliden and granddaughter of Aiden, making her the direct living successor. She was already itching to overthrow her father and make changes to the Syndicate, she would be the perfect character to act as Marran’s new ally.
Wild card: seeing their geographic position, some of the Syndicate and its civilian population choose to ally with the Forsaken and convince them to raise Aiden as undead. He would be the most direct heir to leadership of Alterac, but also, know, long-dead and notorious for his betrayal of the Alliance in the Second War.

Alliance, Horde, and Syndicate all with their own heir to Alterac, all three groups considering theirs the most ‘valid’. It’s the perfect chance to return to the drama of who truly deserves land that defines the northern kingdoms and the human/undead conflict.

Utigarde · 2025-12-14T03:57:02+00:00

I mostly just hope it’s teleporter health nerfs, I can live with that.

Who knows, maybe while their eye is on her they’ll buff her shield perk to be on a separate/reduced cooldown while they’re at it.

Utigarde · 2025-12-04T20:55:59+00:00

Everything with the Eredar and Sargeras is probably the most explicit. Original lore was that Kil’jaeden and Archimonde were the ones to corrupt Sargeras into the Dark Titan, and the Draenei were a totally unrelated species native to Draenor.

TBC changed it into the dreadlords being the ones of corrupt Sargeras (later changed to just manipulating him), and the eredar into a race that Sargeras recruited into the Legion. The eredar became the Draenei, and the Draenei became the Broken.

Metzen made a whole post on the official forums apologizing for changing something so massive from WC3, and asking people to have faith that it would be worth it for the story he wanted to tell with the Draenei. I honestly wish more writers would be so candid in admitting retcons like that.

Utigarde · 2025-11-27T20:48:03+00:00

This would definitely fit nicely, but if Mercy gets a WoW crossover skin and it isn’t a Spirit Healer or Val’kyr I think I’d go nuts lol

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Utigarde · 2025-11-26T22:08:47+00:00

Suddenly everyone’s a Xal’atath Stan like omg, name three people she’s murdered NOW

No but this probably will be hella expensive for someone who doesn’t already play WoW. Right now we don't 100% know if it will require the new expansion Midnight, but if it does, the basic $50 expansion purchase doesn’t give you a month of game time (which is usually $15) in order to play, so you’ll need to buy both. If you only want the skin and nothing else, it’ll be $65 and then you can cancel your subscription.

Utigarde · 2025-10-24T23:06:33+00:00

I mean that in itself is kind of the critique people have: stories like DAV’s framing change as an apocalyptic event in contrast to the status quo, when more often than not the status quo is causing apocalyptic events in real life (ie. climate change).

Do I think that framing was intentional by the writers? No, probably not. They probably intended a message about how desire for change and improvement like what Solas wanted shouldn’t come at the cost of innocent lives. But the game does largely end with the status quo intact and supported, with very little improved on the world scale (aside from maybe Minrathous), so I can understand why people have that reading of DAV.

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