{"id":189946,"date":"2024-09-04T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=189946"},"modified":"2024-09-03T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T04:40:10","slug":"war-within-story-experience-changed-attitude-playable-earthen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/09\/04\/war-within-story-experience-changed-attitude-playable-earthen\/","title":{"rendered":"How has The War Within story experience changed your attitude on playable Earthen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be honest — when we were first told that the Earthen would be an Allied Race<\/a> with\u00a0The War Within<\/em><\/a>, I was pretty whelmed. Sure, I love playing Dwarves, but the history of the Earthen prior to the expansion — while interesting<\/a> — wasn’t something that encouraged the idea of making them playable. While it was an exciting prospect to finally be able to play a Dwarf-ish race with the Horde, the Earthen weren’t even present on my list of desired Allied Races (Vrykul continue to occupy the top spot, in case you were wondering).<\/p>\n

All that said, I was willing to give the Earthen a chance. Even though the Earthen were established in the\u00a0Warcraft<\/em> lore it was revealed early on that those in Khaz Algar were different from the ones we’ve previously met so that encouraged me — I was hopeful that the new story would give us a reason to not only ally with them but also enkindle a desire to create a character of the race. Having completed the campaign and unlocked playable Earthen I can say that while I don’t feel they’re the best Allied Race added (that would be the Highmountain Tauren), they’re definitely up there.<\/p>\n

One of the main reasons is that we get two whole zones dedicated to the Earthen; I don’t think we’ve ever spent that much time with a race ever before unless you count the post-leveling campaigns alongside the Nightborne. But what really sold me on playable Earthen was how the game made an effort to create and examine a whole philosophy to their existence. We see that initially in the split between the Oathsworn and Unbound, but it’s in the smaller stories like “Hope, an Anomaly<\/a>” that really sells the faction. If I have any criticism of the experience, it’s that the unlock doesn’t require as many of the small questlines as it probably should — the Mourning Rise sequence that is<\/em> required does a fantastic job of examining Earthen existence as it currently stands, but I found Seven Soldiers<\/a> to also give us an interesting perspective on their lives as well.<\/p>\n

What about you, though? Did\u00a0The War Within<\/em> quests change your attitude on playable Earthen? Do you feel the game explored enough of their lives and motivations so that becoming a playable\/Allied Race makes sense to you, or are you still struggling to understand why they were added? Or were you on board with playable Earthen from the beginning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be honest — when we were first told that the Earthen would be an Allied Race with\u00a0The War Within, I was pretty whelmed. Sure, I love playing Dwarves, but the history of the Earthen prior to the expansion — while interesting — wasn’t something that encouraged the idea of making them playable. While it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":189947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,78456],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[12203,21066,30843,10083,9712,17813],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189956,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189946\/revisions\/189956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189946"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=189946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}