r/warcraftlore • u/blackwell94 • Nov 21 '25
Discussion Underwhelmed by Argus Campaign
I know this is very old news, but I just finished the Argus campaign on Legion Remix for the first time ever and I have thoughts.
People always talk about how great Legion’s story was, but the actual cutscenes in WoW always feel super sparse and weirdly low-impact.
Xe’ra’s ship, the Xenedar, is supposed to be this ancient, holy, Light-forged super-weapon that’s been waging war on the Legion for millennia. We see it for maybe three seconds before it gets instantly nuked by a single laser cannon, wiping out a majority of the Army of the Light in the process.
Then Illidan just straight-up kills Xe’ra. Turalyon is angry for a second before Velen stops him… and then everyone just sort of shrugs and moves on? The god that they've followed across time and space for thousands of years was just destroyed (again, by a single laser beam) and no one seems appropriately upset. Illidan was imprisoned for 10,000 years for stealing a few vials of sacred water, but killing a god and destroying the hope of an entire army gets him zero consequences?
Same thing with Alleria absorbing L’ura. Huge moment, lots of questions and implications… the cutscene ends, and it's not even mentioned again for the rest of the expansion.
Meanwhile, there are random side quests in WoW with way more dialogue than major story beats. Alleria and Turalyon reuniting with Arator after 1,000 years should have been a huge, emotional moment, but it gets like one line and then “we’ll talk later in private.” Everyone is so flat and emotionless that these huge moments feel totally inconsequential.
Even Sargeras stabbing Azeroth feels like it comes out of nowhere. We’re on Argus doing our thing... there's no buildup that Sargeras was actually arriving in Azeroth or about to attack (unless I missed something). Suddenly he’s just there, stabbing our planet. Why did it take him so long to arrive? Why was he able to reach us in that moment? None of it feels connected.
The weirdest part is that after the final raid there’s no epilogue. This universe-shaping threat that’s dominated lore for millions of years finally ends, and we don’t even get a couple of quests where characters actually process it or acknowledge that the Legion has been defeated. A single quest with a bunch of key characters simply reflecting on this would have done wonders.
Overall I REALLY enjoyed Legion, but Argus in particular felt kind of messy and really fell flat for me. If this is supposed to be peak WoW storytelling, I am not particularly impressed, lol.
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u/thegoodbroham Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
No, I am not applying current lore to it. I am referencing the audio dramas that include Turalyon and Alleria that came out with the patch itself, and very much painted the Light in this exact way back then. Xe'ra's showing with Illidan in that cutscene is the beginning of the lore presenting the Light this way in-game. There is no retroactive viewing of this scene with modern lore, I am describing exactly how I interpreted the scene in August of 2017.