WoW: The jailer is so brilliant that it’s just silly

How awesome is the dungeon master in World of Warcraft? Too awesome. So much so that it is silly – as one player now shows shockingly.

The jailer does not go down well with WoW players as a villain. Above all, the fact that he is supposed to be behind all the developments in the history of World of Warcraft bothers extremely many players who express their displeasure in the subreddit.

What’s happening? A contribution from “ComicalyLame” included in the subreddit of WoW get a lot of attention and is almost showered with awards. The text is of course exaggerated, but also shows in a striking way what bothers many about the story and the alleged genius of the jailer. Because if you break down “the big plan” into the individual steps, the whole procedure of the jailer seems involuntarily silly.

We have translated the text for you. You can see the English original in the WoW subreddit.

The important things first. Since we know that pretty much everything that happened in Warcraft originated from the jailer, let’s see what kind of “Galaxy Brain” the man needs to make it all happen.

Now that it has been confirmed, as it were, that the soul judge has been eliminated by Argus, who has just ge-no-scoped her – what had to happen for that to happen?

Imagine you’re the jailer (awful, I know, but try) and you’ve been locked up by the colleagues on your improvisation team. Now you have to convince one of the people who HAVE JUST BURNED YOU INTO SUPER HELL, that he is your friend now. You already know how prisoners convince the guards on the side and then they work for him – something like that.

Now your task is to convince the Guardian that he is creating the best espionage industry ever. One simple plan, Badabing, Badaboom, done. Now you are using this espionage system to trick beings of pure chaos and emptiness into raiding random planets. Then you use them to corrupt a being of pure righteousness. All simple stuff.

Here the jailer’s genius seems real. Make sure that your own army is now working for the tainted Titan and strong enough to destroy entire galaxies, except for this one random planet that for some reason has all the important things. Now make sure that this titan, who doesn’t know he’s working for you, is just outside the reach of fulfilling his plan – for several millennia.

Now the fun part begins. Use the spies to convince one of the Titan’s allies to create a zombie guy, with the express goal of having a special hat and killing / resuscitating a random elf that will be important later.

Make sure people win so the bad guys come back later and then let the hat guy die so the elf lady can foreseeably try to revive herself so she can see the tall, bald man. Make an offer that she can’t refuse and start controlling even more things from the background.

Now comes my favorite part. Make sure that this orc, who has some genocidal tendencies, goes completely insane and later faces trial in Pandaria. This is the moment when you obviously travel back in time to another dimension so that another random orc can come into the main dimension and summon the titan that you have on hand all along. Your super mega power death plan relies on interdimensional time travel.

With that once-dead orc back in the main timeline, make sure the titan guy gets to the planet he has more or less ignored for some reason and make sure his army is good enough at killing, but not good enough to win. Now expect these random people on the planet to make a series of strange decisions that will cause the main base of the bad guy to be transferred to their solar system. Because the base is right here, they can fight the literal titans of death and you have to hope they win.

Because they obviously won, the Death Titan destroys this random robot lady and the real game begins. All that other stuff was a breeze. Make the sleeper agent elf lady completely angry and inevitably see to it that she breaks the hat that you have left on this planet for EXACTLY this moment.

Congratulations, now you can drag a blonde boy into the DEAD ZONE and use him to get a shiny circle of a person and that’s it, mortals will give you the rest of it, don’t worry.

You managed. You have all the Lego pieces you need to find your super suit and reshape / destroy / undo / reshape / health reality.

That was a pretty easy plan when you think about it. It only took half an hour to write that down – the plan. I mean that was the plan. From the beginning.

ComicalyLame im WoW-Subreddit

Community celebrates the text: Although the text is of course quite cynical and sarcastic, it goes down very well on the subreddit. There were more than 3,500 upvotes and over 30 awards for the text, along with some additional comments, for example from Izaruu:

Don’t forget that he had to authorize a specific felguard to stab a specific troll to promote the Elven Sleeper Agent to Warchief so that she could start Sleeper Agent things and wars that would bring millions of souls to super hell.

What’s the problem anyway? A lot of players are bothered by the jailer, especially after it became known that he was behind most of the major incidents in the Warcraft universe. For many, this devalues ​​the last 20 years of the Warcraft series massively and ensures that characters like Arthas, Sargeras, Gul’dan or even Sylvanas lose more and more of their independence and personality. Since almost all characters have been manipulated in one way or another by the jailer, this throws a strange light on the past of these heroes and villains.

In addition, all the steps taken by the jailer are so numerous and sometimes absurd that it hardly makes sense what he has actually done. This only ensures that even more players long for the end of Shadowlands and with it the disappearance of the jailer.

What do you think of this portrayal of the jailer? Completely exaggerated? Or unfortunately very apt and exactly what the problem with WoW is?