Overall great campaign! 9/10
Some critique:
- Completed everything on Hard except Chapter 9. After you destroy the green night elven base it becomes next to impossible to lead an assault with all the dragons and you can't even attack the Naga or Legion bases. But for me the braking point was when I tried to counter the Legion since I thought - "Hey, they use flying barrages to transport their assault waves, what if I build 4 arcane wyrms to destroy the barrages and not having to fight Legion armies?" Well I did it, but guess what - the barrages were INVULNERABLE.
Then I tried to use only my heroes since I won't trigger Naga or Legion attacks then, but I only had 4 Legendary items, and Velinde and Magtheridon were too weak. After that I replayed the mission on normal with 'whosyourdaddy' to finish the first quest.
Chapter 9 is not fun, it's frustrating and has to be toned down. Interestingly, Chapter 10 was challenging as well, but doable. Even the Kill' Jaeden fight was fun even though I had to make like 10 saves.
- Velinde's Q deals next to no damage.
- As other people have pointed out, the corrupting of Furion happens way too abrupt \. The way he treats the Furbolgs, the Kelorian druid and Tyrande in Chapter 3 and 4 feels almost like some sort of a troll fan fiction - hilarious but way out of character. I understand that the fountains' powers are corrupting him, but it would make more sense for Furion to have a more noble justification other than "exterminating the weaklings", at least until Chapter 6.
What I liked:
- Highmistress's clone ability
- Clerics' revive
- Most of the gameplay and bosses - challenging on Hard, you are required to micromanage your Pouch and abilities during boss fights. A lot of rewarding side quests.
- Music
- The story is really immersive
Questions:
- Which of the path lines is the canon one in your Storyline?
- In Chapter 8 Medivh did a magical ritual. It was implied that it will protect the World Tree if Furion and Kil Jaeden enters it. But nothing really happens once they do eventually. Did I miss something?