Oh no, the latest World of Warcraft patch forces us to force us with a bad cosmic empty being who has tried to kill us many times and will be definitely Break us later … But is you okay? Partly because we have no choice, but also because it is scorching and sarcastic?
I’m talking about Xal’atath. You know, this lady. Go, I intend to talk about the spoilers for World of Warcraft: The War as part of the events in Patch 11.2, Ghosts of K’aresh, which fell on Tuesday. If you haven’t started playing the patch yet and you don’t want to know what is going on, maybe don’t read more.
Even if you are an excluded World of Warcraft player, you can know this lady if you were immersed as World of Warcraft: Legion. Xal’atath appeared for the first time in this extension in the form of an artifact weapon of the dagger ruled by the shadows of priests, which sometimes whispered to them terrifying bad things about N’Zoth and the elderly gods and all this painter. Then, Some People rather liked their disturbing whispers, even tenderly calling her “knaifu”. The dagger, along with the rest of the weapons of the expansion, was used to eliminate the corruption from the giant sword, which Sargeras got stuck on the planet at the end of the expansion. Normal things.
Although we naively thought that we would never hear from Xal’atath again, what was once one weapon among a gigantic pile turned out to be extremely critical. Xal’atath was passed from place to place in ephemeral extensions, ultimately regaining its power and emerging from a high -elf dagger, the better, the better. For a moment Azeroth was uninteresting, manipulating the underground giant worm and some dragons, before she finally convinced herself as something called “Harbinger of Dimensius”, basically the herald of the super powerful emptiness of the Lord who destroyed reality. Normal things again.
At the beginning of our current expansion, the war inside Xal’atath seems to be the main villain. It opens the expansion, causing Dalaran’s destruction (again), and is responsible for the events that lead us to the fight of both Nerubians and Goblin Gallywix. She spent a lot of time jumping here and there and mocking our alleria alleria, almost kills Khadgar, and is obsessed with this empty artifact, which she wears, called the obscure heart, which she uses to spoil, strengthen and manipulation. All this is to do it, it seems quite bad to me! It serves emptiness and is clearly very interested in destroying us, our buddies and probably all Azeroth! Nothing she has done at all seems good!
Yet.
In patch 11.2, xal’atath joins us. A brief explanation is that in the past she betrayed Dimensius, but he returns and is probably pissed at her. If he appears, she finished. She tried to strengthen the obscure heart with a sense of self -presence stop His return instead of accelerating, and he was afraid with the Nirubian and Goblin to do so. But at the end of Patch 11.1 accidentally (and a little stupidly) loses a obscure heart, forcing it to cooperate with Alleria and the player as a support plan.
In practice, the Xal’atath follows us while searching, and sometimes suggests that we do things that sound terrible and unsafe, how they turned into the essence of energy and filling someone with empty energy so that they can hear how the planet sings (normal things!). But you know, we can’t stop Dimensius without her. He knows his weaknesses and is almost the only way to get closer to him to do something in violation. So a murderous knife appears.
The point is that Blizzard did such a wonderful job, writing Xal’atath, and Claudia Christian does a great job, expressing her that most players … enjoy her presence a bit. In the first days of the modern Laty last week, Subreddit was flooded with insolent, obsessive posts about Xal’atath. Sure, she is bad, but apart from being wonderful, she is also clever, comical, powerful and dare to say, a bit stuffy? Her chat with the player is sometimes almost flirted, referring to us again and again as “my master”, while reminding us that he can put out us under the influence of whim. Spends plot Time of the Alleria, Windrunner and, as Ve’nari, as they put it, “hovers and hovers sarcastic remarks.” And irritating enough, he also means the behavior and motivations of other people who claim that they are alleria allies (looking at you, locus-wwalker) and the ways in which they do not behave fairly.
Love for Xal’atath has reached such a point Someone even created a mod (add -on) for World of Warcraft This has the praise of the Xal’atath player every time they come out of the combat script … Although in particular in these messages Xal’atath calls himself “mummy”. So download it at your own risk.
Still, this lady is definitely I’m going to turn us on. And although many players enjoy her ephemeral loyalty and the opportunity to get to know her a little better, others (rightly!) They recognize that Xal’atath is definitely a scorching mess with which we will sooner or later regret the party:
This is an intriguing movement of Blizzard to build Xal’ATath, technically, five extensions, present it as seemingly A great evil of this, just to create an alliance of convenience in the last act of war with the promise that it will definitely be bad in future extensions. Thanks to the obscure and empty theme of Xal’atath, it seems likely that it can play an critical role in the next expansion, Midnight, which will be fully disclosed in Gamescom in just a few weeks. A long game in Blizzard here is particularly robust, considering that some of the other stories that similarly took several configuration extensions have not passed so well, for example Whatever happened with Sylvanas and prison.
In any case, trust Knaifu at your own risk and enjoy it while you can. Maniforge Omega, a modern raid, opens tomorrow and brings with it another chapter of the war in history, when we are approaching the disclosure at midnight, and what I can only assume that this is the inevitable re -equipment of Xal’atatha.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior Ign reporter. You can find her post on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.skyla. Do you have a hint with history? Send it to ralentine@ign.com.
